0 'Tlrn~HUTUB. calls aleo timely attention to The pa.Mllel mentions one thousand four EzPk. xx..-ii. IS. whero we read, "They hundred as the number of tho oba.riots (oh, bron,::hl. thee R prPMnt. horns of ivory anti i. 14), Both ap-ee in twelve thousRnd BI! ebnny" (Hebrew, Ohethiv, o•.i;i,y); Keri, the number of horaemen. Che.riot oitlea (1 D'P·J1 Jt M1l")j2). But no use of ''ebony" Kings ix. 19; eh. i. 14). Some of the horso hRppens to be mentioned in the connection e.nd cha.riot dep6ts were kept near the king, of our present p&asages or subject. Thus it but the rest in those specia.lly ohosen and will be seen that no little ingenuity has prepared cities, whioh might be nee.rest or been employed to hunt down this little fittest against time of war-need. word, though wi yet not quite successfully. Ver. 27,-The foundations of the evil of More may he seen in Smith's • Dictiona.ry of exceeding metropolite.u oentre.lization were the Bible,' i. 906. Apes ; Hebrew, tl'F?'i'· being too surely le.id now. Silver . , . ayoo- Conder (' Handbook to the Bible,' 2nd edit., more trees (see 1 Chron. xx:vii. 28; eh. t. 16). p. 390) says, •• This word is identical with the Ver. 28.-The pa.re.llel mentions horses name of the monlrcy in Tamil." Keil con- from Egypt only, but e.dds that" linen yarn" nects it with the SRnscrit kapi, but does not was brought. The all lands e.lluded to with believe, with Gesenius, that the animal came us, would manifestly include Armenia (Ezek. from India, but Ethiopia.. In a valuable xxvii. 14) and Arabie.. The parallel e.lso, in note in the• Speaker's Commentary' we read, its ver. 29, states the prices of e. cha.riot from "It is found" (not stated where) •• that the Egypt as "six hundred shekels [qu. beke.el word was an E!zylltian worJ, signifying a kind of silver" (i.e. a.bout either £90 or £45); and of monkey, in me in the time of Thoth- of e. horse for the cavalry, perhaps, not for ths mes II .. i.e. about the time of the Israelites' cha.riot, e.s " one hundred and fifty she1'e1,a exodus." (For Herodotus's testimony respect- [qu. bcka.s] of silver" (i.e. £22 10s. or £11 5t., in~ ivory and apes in North Africa., see his estimating the shekel e.s worth three shil- • Hist.,' iv. 91.) Pea.cocks; Hebrew, c•::;,;::i. lings with us). Other estimates (see eh. i. 17) would make the prices £70 and £17 (see Conder (' Handbook to the Bible,' p. 393) our Exposition, eh. i. 15-17). savs a Tamil word, tokei,, means '"pee.cock." Ver. 29.-Nathan the prophet.,. Ahijah Keil proposes to oonsider it one of the later the Shilonite . . . Iddo the seer. For these Romans' .luxurious deliCllcies, aves Numidi=, original authorities of the history, see our Intro- from Tucca, a town in Maurctania or Numi- duction (vol. i. p. viii. 2,and p. ix.3). The pre- dia. Some translate it "guinea-fowl," and sent quotation of the name of Ahije.h in con- some "parrots." The pee.cook did not be- nection with his work, and the brief allusion long to Africa, yet still it me.y have been to himself in our eh. x. 15, a.re the only purcha.seable at some port there. appearances of Ahije.h in Chronioles. He Vers. 22, 23.-All the kings of the earth; e.nd the import.a.nee of his work are clear i.e. of the land of tributary sovereignties, enough from 1 Kings xi. 28-40: xiv. 1-20. from Euphrates to the borders of Egypt, e.nd As the compiler of Ohronioles evide-ntly by to the P.h.ili.sti.nes (I Kings iv. 21; also note a law omits e.ny even reference to the defeo- Gen. xv. 18; Exod. xxiii. 31; Numb. llii. tion of Solomon, it is natural that the no.me 5; Josh. i. 4; 2 Sam. L 16). e.nd specie.I ministry of Ahijah should fall Ver. 24.-Everyman his present; Hebrew, into the shade with him. Uniformly it is iMl"l)!:) ; which word represents the tn'bute, observable in Chronicles that the personal is paid ·partly in money, partly in kind (2 Sam. not enlarged upon where it is not directly viii. 2; 2 Kinge xvii. 3, 4; and the parallel). e.nd indispensably ancillary to the eccle- A rate year by year; Hebrew, n;r-i:1;1; siastical and national history.. On the other which might be simply rendered, ·• a. yeariy hand, the writer of Kings does not once thing." mention Iddo the ,eer, whereas we ree.d of Ver. 25.-:Four thousand Bta.ll& Not forty him a.gain twice in Ohronioles (oh. xii. 15; thousand, e.s by error in I Kings iv. 26. xiii. 22).
HOMILETICS. Vers. 1-31.-A study in the matter of fame. The first twelve verses of this chapter-a chapter which otherwise offers little homiletic matter-put before us a very favourable instance of the legitimate operation of a great force in this world, the force called fame. It me.y sometimes be more pleasantly viewed under the description and title of an attraction but it is e. force under any circumstances, and often a very great one. The instance before us is a "favourable" one, because it is exhibited and it is occupied in matter which we are glad to think of, and to think of as availing itself of whatever advantage may lie within reach. And its "operation" is "legitimate," OH, 1x. 1-31.] 'l'BE SECOND BOOK OF THE CHRONICLES. 111