Tag: 1 Chronicles

1 Chronicles 18 – 19 David’s reputation as a warrior caused some who he viewed as friends to distrust him. That distrust may have been enough reason for the Lord to choose another to build His house.

1 Chronicles 17 I wonder why the Lord chose to not allow David to build the temple? Was it after David had broken the commandments against killing and adultery? It doesn’t sound like it but the Lord could have refused the gift because He knew what was still to come.

1 Chronicles 15 – 16 It sounds like David built a new tabernacle for the ark of the covenant. It was a tent like the one that Moses had built except that they did not need to be able to move it from place to place.

1 Chronicles 13 – 14 I don’t really understand this story with Uzza steadying the ark. There is something to this story more than is apparent in this telling of it. I also wonder about David’s decision not to take the ark to his own bourse because of the death of Uzza. Why did David…

1 Chronicles 12 When the hosts of Israel came to David to make him king he told them that if they were on his side he would receive them as his own but if they were against him the Lord would judge them for being against an innocent man.

1 Chronicles 10 – 11 Perhaps it is my own opinion of suicide but I think Saul was a coward to ask someone to kill him and to take his own life. Perhaps in their culture there was some honor in it. If not, his armorbearer was a coward as well. I wonder why David…

1 Chronicles 9 It is interesting to hear what the different orders of service were for the Levites. Some opened the gates. Some kept the shewbread. Some made the ointments. Some were in charge of flour, wine, oil, frankincense, and spices. Some were singers.

1 Chronicles 7 – 8 This appears to be the last of the unadorned genealogy but I already understand why the books of Chronicles are not widely referenced and quoted.

1 Chronicles 5 – 6 It just occurred to me that the sanctuary cities were like prisons. If a person killed another person they could flee to a sanctuary city. If they did not stay in the city the person with the right of revenge could kill them. This is not complete with all the…

1 Chronicles 4 I wonder why these genealogies, generally devoid of any explanatory information, are included here. I’m confident that if the Old Testament had an editor the way Mormon culled the Nephite records to make the Book of Mormon that this would have been left on the cutting floor. Some places a genealogy is…