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a Grace Notes course First Chronicles From Commentary on the Old Testament C. F. Keil and F. Delitzsch adapted for Grace Notes training by Warren Doud Grace Notes Web Site: http://www.gracenotes.info E-mail: [email protected] 1 Chronicles - Keil and Delitzsch Contents Introduction .................................................................................................................................................. 4 1 Chronicles 1 .............................................................................................................................................. 27 1 Chronicles 2 .............................................................................................................................................. 32 1 Chronicles 3 .............................................................................................................................................. 44 1 Chronicles 4 .............................................................................................................................................. 49 1 Chronicles 5 .............................................................................................................................................. 58 1 Chronicles 6 .............................................................................................................................................. 68 1 Chronicles 7 .............................................................................................................................................. 75 1 Chronicles 8 .............................................................................................................................................. 82 1 Chronicles 9 .............................................................................................................................................. 87 1 Chronicles 10 ............................................................................................................................................ 97 1 Chronicles 11 .......................................................................................................................................... 100 1 Chronicles 12 .......................................................................................................................................... 105 1 Chronicles 13 .......................................................................................................................................... 113 1 Chronicles 14 .......................................................................................................................................... 115 1 Chronicles 15 .......................................................................................................................................... 116 1 Chronicles 16 .......................................................................................................................................... 121 1 Chronicles 17 .......................................................................................................................................... 129 1 Chronicles 18-20 .................................................................................................................................... 133 1 Chronicles 21 .......................................................................................................................................... 136 1 Chronicles 22 .......................................................................................................................................... 142 1 Chronicles 23 .......................................................................................................................................... 146 1 Chronicles 24 .......................................................................................................................................... 153 1 Chronicles 25 .......................................................................................................................................... 157 1 Chronicles 26 .......................................................................................................................................... 160 1 Chronicles 27 .......................................................................................................................................... 166 1 Chronicles 28 .......................................................................................................................................... 170 1 Chronicles 29 .......................................................................................................................................... 174 The Authors Carl Friedrich Keil (26 February 1807 – 5 May 1888) was a conservative German Lutheran Old Testament commentator. He was born at Lauterbach near Oelsnitz, Kingdom of Saxony, and died at Rätz, Saxony. Franz Delitzsch (Leipzig, February 23, 1813 – Leipzig, March 4, 1890) was a German Lutheran theologian and Hebraist. Born in Leipzig, he held the professorship of theology at the University of Rostock from 1846 to 1850, at the University of Erlangen until 1867, and after that at the University of Leipzig until his death. Delitzsch wrote many commentaries on books of the Bible, Jewish antiquities, biblical psychology, a history of Jewish poetry, and Christian apologetics. Grace Notes Grace Notes is a Bible study ministry which began in 1994 using the Internet to distribute lessons and articles to people who are interested in God's Word. Thousands of Christians, in more than 110 countries around the world, have received Grace Notes lessons on the Internet, by E-mail and the World Wide Web. 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Delitzsch a Grace Notes study 1 Chronicles kingdom, after the death of Solomon, they contain only the history of the kingdom of Introduction Judah, with special reference to the Levitical Introduction to the Hagiographic Historical worship, to the exclusion of the history of the kingdom of the ten tribes. From a comparison Books of the Old Testament of the manner of representing the history in the Besides the prophetico-historic writings— Chronicles with that in the books of Samuel and Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings—which the Kings, we can clearly see that the chronicler describe from a prophetic point of view the did not purpose to portray the development of development of the kingdom of God established the Israelitic theocracy in general, nor the facts by means of the mediatorial office of Moses, and events which conditioned and constituted from the time of the bringing of the tribes of that development objectively, according to their Israel into the land promised to the fathers till general course. He has, on the contrary, so the Babylonian exile, the Old Testament connected the historical facts with the attitude contains five historical books,—Ruth, of the kings and the people to the Lord, and to Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther. These His law, that they teach how the Lord rewarded latter stand in the Hebrew canon among the fidelity to His covenant with blessing and i.e., in the hagiography, and are at once success both to people and kingdom, but ,כְּ תּובִ ים distinguished from the above-mentioned punished with calamity and judgments every prophetico-historic writings by this faithless revolt from His covenant ordinances. characteristic, that they treat only of single Now since Israel, as the people and parts of the history of the covenant people from congregation of Jahve, could openly show its individual points of view. The book of Ruth adherence to the covenant only by faithful gives a charming historical picture from the life observance of the covenant laws, particularly of of the ancestors of King David. The Chronicles, the ordinances for worship, the author of the indeed, extend over a very long period of the Chronicles has kept this side of the life of the historical development of the Israelite kingdom people especially in view, in order that he might of God, embrace the history from the death of hold up before his contemporaries as a mirror King Saul till the Babylonian exile, and go back the attitude of the fathers to the God-appointed in the genealogies which precede the narrative dwelling-place of His gracious presence in the of the history to Adam, the father of the human holy place of the congregation. He does this, race; yet neither in the genealogical part do that they might behold how the faithful they give a perfect review of the genealogical maintenance of communion