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.

Xix,

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 D. 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

, read, in the three places, "A*; " 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,

Verse 2.-" under the hands of Asaph, which 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 ædificaret." "Now these are the principles which Solomon laid down for the building." To the same purpose Queen Elizabeth's Bible: "And these are the

[measures whereon] Solomon grounded to build." The dimensions of the principal parts are the principles or elements of a building, in the same sense in which the length of the transverse axis, the eccentricity, &c. are called the principles or elements of the orbit of a planet.

"after the first measure"- perhaps "according to the antient standard." Probably a change had taken place in the public measures of the Jewish people, between the days of Solomon and the compilation of these books.

Verse 4" an hundred and twenty"- Kennicott's MS., 80, omits the word ND and the prefix. ed to the next word wy. The Alexandrine LXX

has os xev sinoo, as if for

ing had been

ND the read

. The main body of the building was but 30 cubits high. What probability is there that the height of the porch was four times as much? See Houbigant.

CHAP. iv, 22. —" and the entry of the house"For л, read, with Capellus and Houbigant, as in the parallel place 1 Kings vii, 50, II.

-" and the hinges"- But in what follows, for

ולדלתי read ודלתי and for ; לדלתותיה read דלתותיו

CHAP. V, 14. -" with a cloud [even] the house"