The Pulpit Commentary — 1 Chronicles — Section 434

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.uthorized Version in Iso.. xxvi. 3, bilities. Ita utter repudio.tion of all idea "Whose mind is sto.yed," etc.; o.nd in Ps. oiii. of meritorionaness ia ,very striking, The 14; Iso.. xxix. 16; Ha.b. ii. 18; in the last traces o.re visible of what mo.y be co.lled three passages translated o.s " frame," ffll&tchea of memory on the po.rt of Do.vid " framed," and "wo:rk." from vo.rions religious odes of his own Ver. 19.-For the palace, see ver. 1. o.nthorship, aa well o.s from those of others Vere. 21-25.-These verses record "the still on record, o.s, for insto.noe, especially so.orifices o.nd drink offerings" by which all in vers. 14-17, compo.red with po.ssages in the service of this day was ratified o.s it were Ps. uiv. ; I. ; lxxxix. ; xxxix. ; xo.; cii. ; on the following do.y; o.lso the solemn oxliv. ; vii.; xvii.; and cxxxix. But the " anointing of Solomon to the Lord o.s eh ief unity of this service is o.bundo.ntly con- governor, and of Zadok as priest," with the spi11uous, o.nd every eentenoe aeema weighed visible enthronement of Solomon, and the and meo.sured for the occasion. The scene, submission to him "of o.11 Israel, of all reo.ching its climax in who.t ia recorded in the princes o.nd mighty men, and also of all ver. 20, niust ho.ve been one of the utmost the sons of Do.vid" (1 Kings i. 49-53). religious grandeur and impressiveness. It Ver. 21.-In this verse the distinction is is true that the very last clo.use, which to be noticed between the saoriftces of tho.n.k couples the reverence done on the po.rt of offerings (o•r:,~1); those of burnt offerings the assembled multitude to the king, with (o\~j,) ; and their drink offerings, i.e the tho.t done to J eilovah himself, strikes ns as drink offerings tho.t went with them (o;:i•.?;;,)). o.n unfortuno.te conjunction. It does not, indeed, need upon its merits o.ny viudioo.tion, For the first of these the more s pec\fic eonsidering the tenor of o.11 which ho.a pre- Hebrew word is o•r;i7q' (Lev. vii. 20; ix. 4) ceded ; but it may be felt o.n extenuation of or o•o~tl' n:ll (Lev. iii. l ; vii. 11, 13, 15; the form in whioh the expression occurs, if Numb'.' vi.L' 17). The breast and right we suppose (as we justly may) that the shoulder were the priest's she.re. All the people viewed their act in the light of po.rt rest belonged to the person who sncrificed, of their religious service at that particular and his friends, and must be eoten tho samo time. In l Kings i. 31 the same words or the next do.y (Lev. vii. 11-18, 29-3-!). express the reverence po.id to Do.vid, though Other particulo.rs may be found in Smith's in numerous other passages they mo.rk that • Bible Dictionary,' iii. 1470, 1471. The last offered to God (Exod. iv. 31; 2 Chron. xxix. olo.use of our verse tells us how nmple wns 80; Neh. viii. 6). the feo.st provided by these so.crifices on this Ver. 15.-0f the seven other clear ooco.sions ocm1sion, being in o.bnndo.nce for all Isro.el. of occurrence of the word here translated The bur11t offering is first mentioned in Gen. o.biding (i"1)R~). it bee.re three times the viii. 20; it is the only sacrifice tho.t thn meaning of "o. gathering together" o.s of Book of Genesis (see xv. 9, eto.; xxii. 2, wo.ters (Gen. i. 10; Exod. vii. 19; Lev. xi. etc.) knows, The offering (nr;,10) of Gen. 86). The other four times it is tro.nslnted in iv. 4 is somewho.t obscure, but does not the Authorized Version "hope," either in the o.ppeo.r to hnve been e. so.crilice of blood. abstract (Ezra x. 2), or in the persona.I object This sacrifice was one which wus wholly of it (Jer. xiv. 8; xvii. 13; I. 7), Probably consumed on the o.lto.r of fire, o.ncl sup- the word "abiding," o.s drawn from this posed to asce11d to heaven, The chief kinds Io.tter aspect of the word, expresses with of burnt offerings were (1) the do.ily (Exod. sufficient aoouro.oy the intended meo.ning xxix. 38-42; Numb. xxviii. 3-8); (2) the here. so.bbo.th (Numb. xxviii. 8-10); (3) that o.t Ver. 17.-It may very possibly be tho.t the new moon, the Do.y of Atonement, tile the stress with which David here saye, I three greo.t festivals o.nd the Feo.st of Trmn- know, had its special cause. The thought pets (Numb. xxviii. 11-xxix. 3li). Beside of God o.s one who "tried " the heo.rt is one these, there were the seveml kimls of free- often brought out in David's pso.lms, but will o.nd private burnt offerings. 'l'ho tirst, a strong conviction of it may ho.ve been seventh, and eighth oho.pters of Levitiens wrought in David's mind by Samuel's contuin full o.ccounts or the cercmoniul. rehearse.I of the lo.ngno.ge God used to him The drink offering iR spoken of ns early 11s o.t the very time of the election of Do.vid Gen. xxxv. 14; but those to which reference from amid o.11 the other of Jesse's sons is here mo.de o.s e.ppertnining to tho before- (1 So.m. xvi. 7). mentioned sncrillces ure more explicitly Ver. 18.-In the imo.gino.tion of the spoken of in such pe.ssngos ns Exod. xxix. thoughts of the bee.rt. We have here o.go.ln 40; Lev. xxiii. 13; Numb, vi.17; xv. a reminiscence of the early lo.ngua.go of 5--24; xxviii. 10-14.  TIIE FIRST BOOK OP THE CHRONICLES. ten. xx1:r. 1-30.