Scripture
1 Chronicles 3
4 passages from 3 books in the Christian Reader library reference 1 Chronicles 3.
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1. The order of Nature: as when the firstborn is put first. And thus David's sons are numbered according to their age; first, Amnon, then Daniel, the third Absalom, etc. 1 Chronicles 3.1, 2, 3. 2. The order of dignity, when as those are put in the first place, not which are the…
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Thou shalt call his name John The name was given, I think, to the Baptist in order to heighten the authority of his office. Yohanan, (1 Chronicles 3:15,) for which the Greeks employ Ioannes, signifies in Hebrew the grace of the Lord. Many suppose that the son of Zacharias was so…
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"Indocti;" — "quelques gens n'entendans pas le propos," — "some people not understanding the design." persons ventured to strike out the repetition of it as superfluous; which, he tells us, ought not to have been done, because Jehoiakim, the father of king Jehoiakim, had the nam…
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He wrote the book of Ezra; and he is supposed to have written the book of Chronicles, at least of compiling them, if he was not the author of the materials, or all the parts of these writings. That these books were written, or compiled and completed, after the captivity, the thi…
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