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tivity was the year of Nabonassar 150. See chap. xxiv, 12. Observe, too, that this 37th year of Jehoiachin's captivity would have been the 44th of Nebuchadnezzar's reign, had Nebuchadnezzar been alive and upon the throne at the time: since the 1st of Jehoiachin's captivity was the 8th of Nebuchadnezzar. (Chap. xxiv, 12). But this 37th year of Jehoiachin's captivity, being the 1st of Evilmerodach the successor of Nebuchadnezzar, was the year of Nebuchadnezzar's death, or the year next after it. Nebuchadnezzar therefore reigned 43 entire years, which is the time assigned to his reign in Ptolemy's The difference, which some have supposed, between the canon, and the reckoning of the sacred books on this point, is imaginary, and owes its birth to an erroneous computation.

canon.

-"on the seven and twentieth day of the month" Jer. lii, 31, "in the five and twentieth day of the month." The resolution was taken on the 25th, and executed two days after. See Bishop Patrick on the place.

I. CHRONICLES.

CHAP. XII, 19. " but they helped them not;" read, "but helped them not." David is the subject of the negation. The verb is singular in the original, and is rendered by a singular verb both by the LXX and Vulgate. The pronoun them' rehearses the Philistims. The reference is evidently to the fact narrated, 1 Sam. xxix.

CHAP. XIX, 7. See 2 Sam. x, 6.

CHAP. XXI, 25. See 2 Sam. xxiv.

CHAP. Xxiii, 11. "therefore they were in one reckoning." These two families had the service only of a single family allotted to them.

Verse 26. "And also unto the Levites: they shall no more carry❞— rather, "And for the Levites, there shall be no more occasion to carry," &c.

Verse 27. "For by the lats words," &c.; rather,

"Therefore by the last order of David there was a numbering of the Levites," &c. "there was,

, instead of . See Houbigant.

CHAP. XXIV, 3. "And David distributed them (now Zadok was of the sons of Eleazar, and Abimelech of the sons of Ithamar) according," &c.

Verse 6. " one principal houshold," &c. For

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, read, in the three places, ; " each principal houshold one by one for Eleazar, and one by one for Ithamar." See Houbigant.

CHAP. XXV, 1. "And David and the chiefs of the host made a division, according to service; of the sons of Asaph, of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who were to perform divine service [or to perform as prophets] upon the harps, psalteries, and cymbals : and the numbering of them was made by classing performers according to their services." That is, the method of the numeration was, to reckon up the performers in each part of the service. For instance,

prophesied according to the order of the king;" rather, "under the order of Asaph, who was a prophet in the king's service."

CHAP. XXVII, 2, 3. The order is disturbed. Read, "Over the first course the first month was Jashobeam the son of Zabdiel, of the children of Perez, chief of the captains of the host for the first month. And in his course were twenty-four thousand." See Houbigant.

CHAP. xxviii, 8. “Now therefore in the sight," &c. The words, or to that effect, must have been lost out of the text after y "Now therefore I charge you in the sight," &c. See Houbigant. Verse 18. " and gold for the pattern of the chariot of the cherubim." For an, I would read, and the pattern of the carriage of the

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cherubim of gold."

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II. CHRONICLES.

CHAP. I, 16, 17. See 1 Kings x, 28, 29.

CHAP. iii, 1.-" in mount Moriah, where," &c. The order of the words in the original is certainly perverted. Read thus,

המוריה במקום אשר נראה לדויד אביהו אשר הכין דויד בגרן ארנן היבוסי :

-" in mount Moriah, in the place which was shewn to David his father, which David had prepared, in the thrashing floor of Ornan the Jebusite." See Vulgate, Queen Elizabeth's Bible, and Houbigant.

Verse 3. "Now these are the things wherein Solomon was instructed for the building," &c. "Et hæc sunt fundamenta quæ jecit Solomon, ut ædifi"Now these are the principles which Solomon laid down for the building." To the same purpose Queen Elizabeth's Bible: "And these are the

caret."