PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
The Pulpit Commentary — 1 Chronicles
Philip Chapman Barker [d.1904] · 415,586 words · 458 reading sections
The Pulpit Commentary — 1 Chronicles — Section 421
Ver. 12.-.The pattern of the Spirit. We sometimes make " great mistake in neglecting to remark the presence and operation of God in the ordinary and secular affairs of life. The Hebrews were in this respect in advance of us; they justly attributed all wise and good works to that Spirit from whom all wisdom and goodness…
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e.qsurances to induce him to go forward with courage and with zeal. Jn these words we have- I. A VIEW OF LIFE AS PRACTICAL AND STRENUOUS SERVICE. There is work for all true and loyal hearts, for all willing, active bands. We are all, as Christians, builders in the house, the temple, of the most high God. The edifice o…
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stroke in the cause or the God he had served and of the people whom he loved. From tbis scene at the end we karn many lesson~. I. THAT A NOBLE LIFE IS CROWNED BY ONE SUPRBMR EFFORT AT THE LAST. 'l'hns <lid Moses crown bis illustrious career (Deut. xxxi.-xxxiii.). Thus did Joshua worthily close his honourable course…
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found interest, for it is one of deep and strong emotion. A father who feels that bis end is near is delivering an earnest charge t,, his son, who has, as he hopes, a brilliant course before him. 'l'here is everything to add solemnity and pathos to the scene. The aged king excited to one last painful effort, the assemb…
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the mind and Recording to the will of him who was to be worshipped in its "most holy place." \\Then we enter upon any great enterprise for God, whether we "arise and build,n or whether we go forth and preach, or whether we organize and establish we must seek to act according to Divine instructions. But we must not n…
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his ways. David goes into particulars as to how this is to be done. " Keep and seek for all the commandments of the Lord your God." The soul must hold fast to the truth, must treasure it up within the inmost recesses of its being. This is to ke,ep the truth, And it must "seek for" it---looking out for it in everything …
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Paul's solemn words to Timothy : "Take heed to thyself, and to the doctrine• continue in them: for in so doing thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear th'ee." 'fhe soul must be watched and kept, and then the doctrine will be sound. If we seek the Lord he will ever be found ; but if we tum our backs on him, …
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There is one truth more in this narrative. It is a very precious one. It is brought before us in the fourteenth verse,and again in eh. :nix. 2-5. "Gold for things of gold, and silver for things to be made of silver, brass for things of brass, iron for things of iron, and wood for things of wood." In other words, whatev…
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toil, and make easier the yoke of those who bear the burden and heat of the day.-R.T. Ver. 2.-God's eai·thly footstool. Using a striking poetical figure, David speaks of the ark a~ being" the footstool of our God;" regarding God as enthroned above it in the Shechinah-cloud. The figure is otherwise used in Scripture, i…
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words were, 'I charge you, keep and seek;' and some commentators suppose that they did so run originally." In view of the connections of this verse, the following per- suasions may be illustrated and enforced. Obedience to God's commands is man's natural duty; the duty that necessarily attends upon the dependent relati…
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Ver. 20.-Personal relations with God. "The Lord God, even my God." It is possible for us to have tho11ghts of God that keep him wholly external to us, and altogether unrelated to us. And it may be feared that such are the thoughts of God usually cherished by men. Though they may have a certain influence on us, the f…
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account or the youth of Solomon (repee.ted The simplest idea or the word is "heavy," from eh. xxii. 5) evidently pressed hee.vily thence precious, clear, rare (2 Sam. xii. 30 : on him. The e.dditional expression here is 1 King~ v. 31; vii. 9; x. 2; ell. xx. 2; i to be noticed, whom a.lone God he.th chosen. Chron. iii. …
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;;;ov1rcl.pa., and which would explain both the oomprisP.d vollllltary gifts from the most of Hebrew and the Septuagint words. An those mentioned in oh. xxviii. l ; and de- Indian site for Ophir would also well suit scribed in eh. xxvii. 16-31. For the rulers the mention of the ivory and the particular of the king's wo…
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oonfeaaion, dedication of o.11 the offerings, Genesis (Gen. vi. 5; viii. 21. See also our o.nd pro.yer buth for the whole people in book, eh. xxviii. 9; Deut. xxxi. 21). This genero.l, o.nd for Solomon in po.rticulo.r, in same word for "imagination" (,:t,'.) is found view of hie future position and responsi- in the .A.…
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Ver. 22.-Evident stress is laid upon the fore, have died in his seventy.first year. enti11g and drinking of that day as before That this is called here e. good old e.ge tbe Lord, and upon the anointing of Solomon shows that tbe length of human life had to the Lord. This latter expression is more now greatly subsided. I…
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HOMILETICS. Ver, 1.-Goa's choosing,. and man's right attitude in the presence of it. It is very evident that great anxiety pressed upon the mind of David whenever he thouaht of the youthfulness of Solomon side by side with the magnitude of the ent.erprise i; store for him. Nervousness, however, does not paralyze David…
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"When my <lim reason won hi demand Why that or this thou dost ordain, Dy some VBJ!t deep I seem to stand, Whose secrets I must uk in vaiu. "When doubts disturb my troubled bree.st, And all is dark as night to me, Here as on solid rock I rest- That so it seemeth good to thee. De this my joy, that evermore Thou …
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ment and waste would be to add an incalculable amount to the growth of goodnes~ and to the benefit of the world. And the pattern good for religious devotion exhibited to us here shows the following characteristics:- 1. IT BEEKS AN INDIVIDUAL OBJECT, The house to be bnilded for the Lord, the temple, is now the thoug…
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festation" be. The self-denial, the deep interest, the long labour of the humblest faithful !IE'rvant will be proclRimed before a kingdom and in a kingdom which shall have gathered Rll others int-0 itself, and by the King of kings himself. IV. IT GIVES OF ITS OWN SullSTANCE. The temptation is ~rent with some leaders…
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to the Divine Personag:e, is a picked, choice, word of the spiritual vocabulary that is open to e. creature e.pproe.ching the Creator. It is the word of highest and most refined effort. Human exclamation has done its best, has touched its highest note, when, having passed through thanks, gratitude, praise, glorifying, …
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belonging to them by which it might ripen. Their life, their home, themselves are all dependent just on mercy, and their hope.~ lie in infinite loving-kindness. .And' it was the same with their fathers before them. To such material and such a history merit cannot find where to attach. V. ITS UNFALTERING APPEAL TO C…
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be "for ever," may be "stablished," may be "kept." 2. How he asks that this per- petuity may be derived from deepest source, "the imagination of the thoughts of the heart; " " the stablished heart; " " the perfect heart." 3. How he invokes God by the titles that might by supposed most to move Deity, and most to call…
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Ver. 3.-.Affection for God's house. It would be absurd to compare David's attach- ment to the projected temple to a Christian's attachment to any material structure, The tabernacle and temple occupied under the old dispensation a position no building can now occupy. The true comparison is with the spiritual temple, the…
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for he has treated us with bounty, and he has given us bis Son to redeem us from iniquity and from destruction. We are for ever dependent upon him, who is our Lord and Judge; and, in giving nnto him, we do but give him his own. II. 'l'HE RESPONSE EXPECTED. 1. A willing respC\nse. In fact, there can be no unwill- ing r…
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Ver. 20.-Worship. David was a true leader; for he not only directed, he preceded bis subjects in the path of duty. If he called upon his soldiers to fight, he led them to the field; if he desired the princes to offer gifts, he first himself gave munificently.; and ifhe would have his people worship, he himself set t…
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III. THE WORSHIPPERS. David summoned "all the congregation " to worship, bless, and praise the Lord. 1. All men have abundant reasan to bless the Lord. He is "good unto a.II." His bounty, care, watchfulness, and long-suffering, have been experienced by all. No wonder that the psalmist in so many passages calls upon all…
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Ver. 28.-Solornon's accession. The book which bas been so largely occupied with tbe acts and the reign of David, closes with the accession of his son. It is an exempli- fication of the old saying, " One generation passeth away and another generation cometh." Each ,zeneration has its own work to do, and has then to make…
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command, to require, to enact, But be evidently feH that thil! was an occasion on which it was far better to persuade. After pleading the youthfulness of bis son (ver. 1), the sacredness of the work (ver. 1), the energy be himself bad shown in the matter (" With all my might," ver. 2), the affection be felt, and the…
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has pleasure in uprightness," we shall not venture to rejoice if we have not within us tl,at sense of spiritual rectitude which will allow us to say with David, "As for me, in the uprightness of my heart," etc.; with Paul," I have kept the faith;" with John, "If our _heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward…
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Lord. Solomon began his course as the chosen heir or the beloved kin"," ma"nifiecl exceedingly in the sight of all Israel," etc. (ver. 25), receiving the subjection° of all within the kingdom, from the court to the peasantry (ver. 24); he enil.ed his career with no little disapproval in the hearts of those who lamented…
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God. There are two ways of estimating greatnes!-ono that strikes the mere out- ward seuse, and one that looks at God. It may be that the building is only a hut but if it is to the Lord it is infinitely greater than the grandest building eve: erect.ed by the art of man. And because it was for the Lord, David had prep…
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Vers. 26-30.-David's death. Our book ends with David's death. He had rei!'.!ned forty years, viz. seven years and a half in Hebron (1 Kings ii. 11 ), and thirty-thre~ in Jerusalem. And the Spirit of God writes his obituary: "He died in a 0crood old a"e.'' Many an age is "old," but not "good." But David had set God befo…
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III. lN 00NNECTJON WITH IT, 'l'HE RELIGIOUS PROFESSION GETS ITS SEVEREST TESTINGS, I°: these days, w?en_ wealth is so suddenly acquired, we see. too often religious men fail, and become m,bfferent and worldly. Few can stand the 10crease of riches. Few indeed, care to pray Agur's prayer. When men make money, the impu…
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It is a. chnra.cteristic of David that ho makes constant a.ppeal to his co11.~cious integrity nud expects to gain Divine accepta.nce for his sincerity a.nd uprightness. But this, conflicts with the Christilm notion that a. ma.n ca.nnot be a.ccepted for anything in him- self, and eo it needs consideration a.nd explanati…
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checkered and so seriously marred with wilfulness, indulgence, and sin, we are reminded of the lines often quoted from our greatest national poet- " The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones;" and we :tsk-Are these lines, in any large and important sense, true; and must we so in…
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THEME PAG'R CHAPTER VIII. A Life and its Lessons 62 TREl[B PAOR General Truths from the Genealoo·ical 0 Readings between the Lines ... 110 Tables 63 Poor Mephibosheth I 111 Jebez: his History 63 Jabez's Prayer 65 CHAPTER IX. The Simeonites ... 67 "The Ruler of the House of God " 114 "Very Able Men" 115 CHAPT…
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TIIJ;:ME PAGP.: CHAPTER XVII. "S1tnctify yourselves n 237 THR:MB PAGE " Due Order" 237 The Purport and the Service of One How Little and how Much we mriy Individuo.l Life unfolded authori- do for God 237 tatively 271 Three Valuable Virtues: Rectification, A Just Considero.tion of One's Own Admonition, Obedience …
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TBEME PA.GB TREM"R PAG8 One Man's Work for God fits into, and The Acceptnbleness of Lowly Services 407 follows on, Another Man's 373 On dedicating Things; 408 Work for God must be done with Heart and Soul 373 CHAPTER XXVII. The Increase of Israel 412 CHAPTER XXIII. Earth's Produce ... 412 The Threefold Functions of…
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