CONTENTS The genealogy of families, from Adam to Abraham, forms the contents of this chapter, containing a period of nearly 2000 years. 1 Chronicles 1:1 I detain the Reader in the very opening of the Book of the Chronicles, to call his attention to that feature of it, for which the Chronicles the... [ Continue Reading ]
Observe how careful the sacred genealogy is, in its progress from Adam to Noah.... [ Continue Reading ]
The sons of Japheth, which gave rise to the Gentile church, are first mentioned, perhaps because, as in the after ages, they became interested in Christ, though not in the line of his genealogy; honorable mention is made of them in the record.... [ Continue Reading ]
The genealogy of Ham is also introduced before that of Shem, that, perhaps, the sacred Writer having dispatched the two sons of Noah and their race, from whom the Messiah was not to spring, he might carry on the genealogy in the line of Shem, the other son of Noah, from whom after the flesh the Mess... [ Continue Reading ]
It is truly interesting to observe, how faithfully the record of the genealogy from Adam to Abraham is preserved. What nation, beside the Jewish, can boast of so ancient and so correct a record? And Reader! think how lost to all sense of truth, as well as gratitude, must have been the Jews, who, wit... [ Continue Reading ]
I beg the Reader, to observe with me, that the great object in the Chronicles being to preserve in the mind the lineal descent from Adam to Christ, the sacred Writer, in this instance, as in the instance before in the race of Noah, first dismisses in a short way the stock of Abraham, after the ordin... [ Continue Reading ]
Here again, after mentioning the sons of Isaac, Esau, and Israel, the sacred Historian takes up in a short view Esau's posterity before that he enters upon that of Israel, and therefore reserves the history of the seed of Israel, for the subject of the next chapter. It is well worthy the earnest att... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS READER! pause over this chapter, and mark the several important instructions it contains. What a subject of wonder, of humiliation, and of praise, is here! What wonder is opened to our contemplation in the astonishing succession of so many generations! What multitudes have sprung from o... [ Continue Reading ]