by Justin Marple | May 5, 2015 | Chronicles Commentary, Daniel, Ezra-Nehemiah, Chronicles, OT Writings Commentary, TEACHING
This post only covers the last two chapters of 1 Chronicles. These chapters finish the transition from David to Solomon narrated from 1 Chronicles 22-29. They serve to combine David and Solomon into a single unit — for they are the one major Messianic figure...
by Justin Marple | Apr 20, 2015 | Chronicles Commentary, Daniel, Ezra-Nehemiah, Chronicles, OT Writings Commentary, TEACHING
Chronicles is the reason that we think of King David as a larger-than-life kind of figure like Moses. He is thus responsible for the organization of the Temple and its Levites. But the path to choosing the Temple site is an interesting one. 1 Chronicles 21 1...
by Justin Marple | Mar 30, 2015 | Chronicles Commentary, Daniel, Ezra-Nehemiah, Chronicles, OT Writings Commentary, TEACHING
This article offers some comments on 1 Chronicles 9-12 which brings us to an end of the genealogical part of the book and the beginning of the story of David. Things don’t actually begin with David but with the death of King Saul and all his house. At that...
by Justin Marple | Mar 23, 2015 | Chronicles Commentary, Daniel, Ezra-Nehemiah, Chronicles, OT Writings Commentary, TEACHING
This post provides further evidence supporting the points made in the last one on Chronicles. I have made several of my own suggestions below for how to understand the outline of this material covering the tribes of Simeon, the trans-Jordan tribes, Levi, Isaachar,...
by Justin Marple | Mar 16, 2015 | Chronicles Commentary, Daniel, Ezra-Nehemiah, Chronicles, OT Writings Commentary, TEACHING
The genealogies of 1 Chronicles 1-9 serve to tie the people of Israel in the Chronicler’s own day to the past. Indeed, these genealogies serve to connect the people of Israel in the Chronicler’s own day all the way back to Adam. Since Genesis is the...
by Justin Marple | Mar 9, 2015 | Chronicles Commentary, Daniel, Ezra-Nehemiah, Chronicles, OT Writings Commentary, TEACHING
Saint Jerome said, “The book of Chronicles, the epitome of the old dispensation, is of such importance that without it anyone who claims to have a knowledge of the Scriptures makes himself a fool.” Yet like many of the Writings, the third section of the Hebrew...
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