425 So Bertheau, i. 1, slightly paraphrasing.

426 A.R.V., with Masoretic text, "the priests the Levites"; LXX., Vulg.

Syr., "the priests and the Levites." The former is more likely to be correct. The verse is partly an echo of Deut. xxvi. 15, so that the chronicler naturally uses the Deuteronomic phrase "the priests the Levites"; but he probably does so unconsciously, without intending to make any special claim for the Levites: hence I have omitted the word in the text.

427 x.x.xii. 2-8, peculiar to Chronicles.

428 x.x.xii. 30.

 

429 x.x.xiii. 11-19, peculiar to Chronicles.

430 So R.V.: A.V., "among the thorns"; R.V. marg., "with hooks", if so in a figurative sense. Others take the word as a proper name: Hohim.

431 Ezek. xviii. 20.

432 Peter iv. 18.

433 Ezek. xviii. 21-23.

434 Psalm cx.x.x. 4, probably belonging to about the same period as Chronicles.

435 1 Chron. xxiii. 26, peculiar to Chronicles.

436 2 Chron. vii. 5. The figures are peculiar to Chronicles; 1 Kings viii. 5 says that the victims could not be counted.

437 Jehoiachin. The ordinary reading in 2 Kings xxiv. makes him eighteen.

438 2 x.x.xvi. 6_b_, peculiar to Chronicles.

439 Mostly peculiar to Chronicles.

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