OLD AND FULL OF DAYS. Compare Abraham (Genesis 25:8), and Isaac (Genesis 35:29). David horn in 990. Now in his seventieth year. FULL OF. satisfied with. MADE SOLOMON HIS SON KING. During his lifetime. This was. common practice in those days; and these co-regnant kings explain many chronological pr... [ Continue Reading ]
THIRTY YEARS. According to Numbers 4:3; Numbers 4:23; Numbers 4:35; Numbers 4:47, Changed to twenty-five years by Jehovah (Numbers 8:24); and, by David's "last words", to twenty years (1 Chronicles 23:27). Compare Ezra 3:8. MAN. strong man. Hebrew. _geber._ App-14.... [ Continue Reading ]
SET FORWARD. oversee. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOUR THOUSAND.... PORTERS. In 1 Chronicles 2. we have the ninety-three chiefs. The 212 in 1 Chronicles 9:22 pertained to the Tabernacle, not to the Temple (1 Chronicles 9:21).... [ Continue Reading ]
COURSES: or classes. See note on 1 Chronicles 24:1, &c.... [ Continue Reading ]
AMRAM. Compare Exodus 6:20. AARON AND MOSES. See note on Exodus 6:20.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE MAN OF GOD. See Psalms 90, title. App-49. GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ (with Art.). the [true] God. App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
SHEBUEL. See note on Judges 18:30. The Chaldee paraphrase asserts that this name "Shebuel" (which means "he returned to _'El,_ the true God") was given to Jonathan after he had returned to the fear of the Lord. CHIEF. head.... [ Continue Reading ]
FIRST. head.... [ Continue Reading ]
BRETHREN: or kinsmen. TOOK: i.e. by lot.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE. these.... [ Continue Reading ]
OFFICE. station. IN. over.... [ Continue Reading ]
BOTH. And. See note above. MEAT OFFERING. meal offering. Hebrew. _minha._ App-43. MEASURE AND SIZE. The standards were committed to the Levites. Honesty in dealing is part of true religion. Compare Leviticus 19:36; Deuteronomy 25:15.Proverbs 11:1; Proverbs 16:11; Proverbs 20:23.Micah 6:11. If this... [ Continue Reading ]
OFFER. offer up. Hebrew. _'alah._ App-43. SET FEASTS. Compare Numbers 28 and Numbers 29.... [ Continue Reading ]
KEEP THE CHARGE. This is the idiom of the Pentateuch. Compare Genesis 26:5.Numbers 18:3. TABERNACLE. tent.... [ Continue Reading ]