CONTENTS
The history of the genealogy of Israel being finished, the book of
Chronicles now enters upon the history of Israel as a people. In this
Chapter we are carried back to that part of Saul' s history which
terminated with his death, with the events that followed, from the men
of Jabesh-gilead... [ Continue Reading ]
I shall desire the Reader once for all, while over going such parts in
the book of the Chronicles as we have already reviewed in the former
books of Samuel or the Kings, to consult what hath been already
offered in that part of our humble Commentary. It would swell this
little work unnecessarily to... [ Continue Reading ]
What an humbling lesson is here read to great men! The body of Saul,
the first king of Israel, and who had slain his thousands, as the Song
of Israel proclaimed, to be thus made a spectacle of derision to men,
and the subject of song himself to a contemptible dunghill god of the
Philistines!... [ Continue Reading ]
Observe, Reader! the melancholy close of Saul's history; and mark what
an awful lesson he holds forth to great sinners. Alas! that any man
should leave God to consult with the workers of darkness! The
Philistines make war upon me, said Saul. That would have been -
nothing: But when he added, and God... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS
WHO can read the history of Saul, and behold the dreadful end of such
men, but with trembling! How dark the night of so promising a morning!
But what must the termination of such conduct be, which in direct
defiance of better knowledge, against conscience, against all the
feelings of hon... [ Continue Reading ]