CONTENTS This chapter sums up the subject of the registry of Israel. The Levites are taken notice of. And particular mention is made of Saul and Jonathan's stock. 1 Chronicles 9:1 By all Israel being reckoned, must be meant all that were in this register. For the Reader will not, I hope, have over... [ Continue Reading ]
This forms a very interesting account in the history of the church, if it be remembered that this takes up the relation in the captives of Israel being now returned from Babylon. They found their temple, the beautiful temple of Solomon, destroyed. The people, therefore, had only a moveable tabernacl... [ Continue Reading ]
It is remarkable that these verses should be again inserted in this place, since we had them before in the preceding Chapter, from verse 29 to 38 (1 Chronicles 8:29). There it finished with the register of Benjamin, and here it is introductory to what follows, in the history of Saul.... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS It is impossible to read this Chapter, and connect with it, in our remembrance, that this opens a new history of the Church after the desolation of the Babylonish captivity, but with very interesting feelings. Let the Reader figure to himself the desolated view of Jerusalem and Zion plo... [ Continue Reading ]