The Great Cloud of Witnesses · The Missionary Century
Albert Barnes
Wrote Bible notes for his own Sunday school class that ended up selling more than a million copies.
The life
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In their own words
“When they had left their gods there - The practice of carrying images of the gods to battle was common among the nations of antiquity, and arose from the belief that there was virtue in the images themselves, and that military success would be obtained by means of them.”
Notes on the Old and New Testaments · on the verse
“The narrative here given fills out a manifest defect in 2Sa 5:8 where something has evidently dropped out of the text. The prowess of Joab on this occasion, and the part which he took in the building of the city of David 1Ch 11:8, are known to us only from this passage of Chronicles.”
Notes on the Old and New Testaments · on the verse
“In Kings, a different conclusion takes the place of these verses. The document from which both writers copied contained the full prayer of dedication, which each givcs in a somewhat abbreviated form. 2Ch 6:41 Thy resting place - i. e., the holy of holies. Solomon follows closely the words of David his father, spoken probably when he brought the ark into Jerusalem. See the marginal references. 2Ch 6:42 Turn not away the face of thine anointed - i. e., make him not to hide his face through shame at having his prayers rejected (compare the 1Ki 2:16 note). The mercies of David - i. e., Gods mercies toward David.”
Notes on the Old and New Testaments · on the verse