11. 2 Ch 21' says ' J " would not destroy the house of David, be*\a\ise of the covenant,' etc. ; hut 2 K 819 says 'J" would not destroy .ludah for llavid his servant's sjike.'
12. i Ch 2'29 de8<;rihes Jehu's mmihr i.f Ahaziah thus : ' And he sought Ahaziah ; and they caught liini (for he was hid in Samaria) and brought him to Jehu : and when they had slain him, tliev buried him,' etc. ; hut according to 2 K it'-ifr Ahaziah drove out from Jezreel with Joram to meet Jelm, tli-d on discovering the trcacheri', and was killed in his flight, lie died at Uegiudo, was brought by fus servants to Jenisalem,
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13. i Ch 28 repreeents the overthrow of queen Athalifth thus : Jehoiwla and the captains of hundreds, and all the Levitea in the cities of Judah, and the heads of families of the people, making 'all the congregation,' were gathered at Jerus., — Atlialiah being ignorant of it,— but while i.s says 'all the con- gregation made a covenant with the king in the house of God,' v.« provides that only priests and ministering Levitea be allowed to enter the temple, and then the king is proclaimed, and Athaliah slain ; but 2 K 11, while agreeing as to the mam facts, represents a secret conspiracy between Jehoiada and the capuins of the foreign mercenaries who served as temple guard ; the meeting-place was the temple, into which the foreigners came and took their oath ; the Levites, trained singers, bumt- oflerings, law of Moses, etc, which appear in Oh, are all lacking
14. 2 Ch 241*, speaking of the collection for repairing the temple, under Jehoash of Judah, says, ' they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada, whereof were made vessels for J"'s house ' ; but 2 K 12i» says that no vessels were made for J"'b house out of the proceeds of the collection. . „ »l j
16. 2 Oh 24»- l"f- makes Joash reign righteously ' all the days of Jehoiada the priest,' and after Jehoiada's death apostatise ; but 2 K 122 says, 'And Jehoash did that which was right in the eyes of J" all his days, (namely) wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him,' and K tells us nothing of any apostasy or wickedness, only criticising (v.8), as in other cases, the non- removal of the high places.
16. 2 Oh 285-" describes slaughter and bondage inflicted on Judah by I'ekah of Israel in the reign of Ahaz, which is not only unknown to 2 K 16 and la 7, but is inconsistent with 2 K 16», Is 7'- *• '.
17. 2 Oh 28'8''- makes Ahaz send to the king(8) of Assyria for aid against the Edoniites and Philistines ; but 2 K 16' expressly says that it was against the kings of Aram and Israel.
18. 2 Oh 2820- aJ says that ' Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria came unto him, and distressed him, but strengthened iiim not,' and again : ' be helped him not." With this 2 K 169 is in contra- diction.
19. 2 Oh 8SJ1-19 represents Manasseh as humbled and changed in heart by captivity, and as a reformer in the latter part of his reign. 2 K 21 knows nothing of this, paints him in colours wholly dark, and makes the fall of Jems, a punishment specifi- cally for Mana:*seh's sins (ct. also Jer 15-*).
20. 2 Oh 34 represents Josiah'a reforms as accomplished in his i2th year (v. 3), and the law-book as discovered in his 18th year. 2 K 22. 23 represent the reforms as suggested and occasioned by the discovery of the law-book, and as occurring, like that discovery, in the 18th year of his reign.
E. One peculiarity of Ch, which involves some discrepancies with the earlier books, is a fondness for large numbers, e.g. 1 Ch 18* 19>* make David capture 7000 horsemen and slay 7000 chariotmen, over against 700 of each in 2 S 8* 10" ; according to 1 Ch 21=* David pays 600 shekels of gold for Oman's threshing-floor, according to 2 S 24--' only 50 shekels of silver ; 24 tribes, according to 1 Ch 5-', capture from the Hagrites 100,000 prisoners, 50,000 camels, 250,000 sheep, and 2000 asses ; 1 Ch 12 represents that 339,000 men came to make David king ; 1 Ch 22" says that David provided for the temple building 100,000 talents of gold ( =4,911,000 kilograms), and 1,000,000 talents of silver (=at least 33,660,000 kgs.) ; Shishak (2 Ch 2') came with 1200 chariots, 60,000 horsemen, and people without number ; 2 Ch 13'- " makes Abijali, with 400,000 men, figlit against Jeroboam with 800,000, and kill 500,000 of them; Asa (2 Ch 14») had 300,000 men of Judah and 280,000 of Benjamin; Zerah the Ethiopian, his opponent, had 1,000,000 men and 300 cliariots (2 Ch 14") ; Amaziah (2 Ch 25»-«) had 300,000 soldiers of his o\\'n, and liired 100,000 more from Israel ; Azariah (2 Ch 26i') h.ad an army of 307,500 men ; Pekah (2 Ch 28'- «) killed 120,000 Judoean warriors in one day, and carried oir 200,000 captives.
F. The conibination of these various peculiarities of the author gives a very diilerent aspect to the history from that found in the earlier books. The pre-royal time has only a genealogical interest for him. The beginning of the kingdom, the first reign, the attempts of Saul's dynasty to maintain itself, are no concern of his. Practically, David is his first kins. David and Solomon are kings of