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...
by Justin Marple | Mar 3, 2015 | Daniel, Ezra-Nehemiah, Chronicles, Ezra-Nehemiah Commentary, OT Writings Commentary, TEACHING
The second half of Ezra-Nehemiah is Nehemiah 7-13. These verses follow the same pattern as the first half: introduction (Neh. 7:1-7:73a), first step (Neh. 7:73b-8:18), second step (Neh. 9-10), climax (Neh. 11:1-13:3), subversion (Neh. 13:4-31). The setting for this...
by Justin Marple | Mar 3, 2015 | Daniel, Ezra-Nehemiah, Chronicles, Ezra-Nehemiah Commentary, OT Writings Commentary, TEACHING
After the second step dealing with the subtheme of Ezra’s spiritual wall, Nehemiah 1-6 turns us to the major theme of this half of Ezra-Nehemiah. This major theme is that of a physical wall around Jerusalem – Nehemiah’s wall. Of course, once this wall...
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