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A Spiritual Exposition of the Old Testament, Or, the Christian's Gospel Treasure
A Spiritual Exposition of the Old Testament Or the Christian's Gospel Treasure Author:John Allen General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1816 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: :piritual exposition OF THE FIRST BOOK OF THE CHRONICLES. SCRIPTURE KEY. two books of Chronicles' contain something con- cerning the sfnte of the church from the beginning of tbe workl till the Babylonish enplivify. The first nine chapters give an exact account of genealogies, especially of the church from Adam downwards, that it might certainly be known, that Christ, the promised scrd, was to be descended from the family of Abraham and David, nnd from the tribe of Judah : which the evangelist Matthew, but especially Luke, makes use of for this purpose. The Hebrews call these books, The words of days, which may be supposed to have been exceptions from ihe journals of the kings; the Grei ks, Pnraleipomma, tlint is, remaius, supplements, or additious: they contain some remarkable things concerning the church tor two thousand nine hundred and eighty-four years from Adam to David. The Hebrews think lhat Ezra was the penman of these books, who was a ready scribe in the law of ihe I. ii.', Ezra vii. 6 Some are of opinion tint he was not strictly the penman of them, but that they were wrote by the several prophets that lived in the reigns of the kings of Israel andJudah, each prophet writing the history of things that came to pass in the days he prophecied, and that Ezra collected these annals, or divine records, and settled them after the Babylonish captivity in the order we now have them. Here are several passages concerning the kings of Judah, that were omitted in the books of Samnel and the Kings, and some other passages explained. We have an account of David's great preparation for building the ...« less