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Class Notes on Sacred History
Volume II: First Samuel through Nehemiah.
J. W. McGarvey (1893)
Table of Contents
- Part First. Genealogies of Israel and Kindred Tribes. 1 Chron. 1:1-9:44.
- Part Second. The Death of Saul and the Reign of David. 1 Chron. 10:1-29:30.
- Review of First Chronicles.
FIRST CHRONICLES.
PART FIRST.
GENEALOGIES OF ISRAEL AND KINDRED TRIBES.
i. 1-ix. 44.
§ I. THOSE OF THE SONS OF ABRAHAM AND ISAAC. i. 1-ii. 2.
1. From Adam to Noah and His Sons. i. 1-4, cf. Gen. v. 1-32.
2. The Sons of Japheth. 5-7, cf. Gen. x. 2-5.
3. The Sons of Ham. 8-16, cf. Gen. x. 6-20.
4. The Sons of Shem. 17-23, cf. Gen. x. 21-31; xi. 10-32.
5. The Sons of Ishmael. 29-31, cf. Gen. xxv. 12-18.
6. The Sons of Abraham of Keturah. 32, 33, cf. Gen. xxv. 1-4.
7. The Sons of Esau. 34-54, cf. Gen. xxxvi. 1-43.
8. The Sons of Israel. ii. 1, 2.
- What the author's source of information in this section?
- How does the copy compare with the original?
§ II. THE SONS OF JUDAH. ii. 3-iv. 23. 1. His Sons and Grandsons. ii. 3-8,
cf. Gen. xxxviii. 1-5, 28-30; xlvi. 12; Josh. vii. 24-26.
- Whence the writer's knowledge of those not mentioned in Genesis or Joshua?
2. His Sons through Hebron to David. 9-17, cf. Ruth, iv. 18-22; II. Sam. ii. 18. [35]
- What of Jesse's other son? 15, cf. I. Sam. xvi. 10, 11.
3. Other Descendants of Hezron. 18-55. 4. The Sons of David. iii. 1-24.
- How many of these generations were after the captivity? 19-24, cf. Neh. xii. 1.
- Sources? [Second Samuel, First and Second Kings].
5. Other Descendants of Judah. iv. 1-23. § III. DESCENDANTS OF THE OTHER SONS OF JACOB. iv. 24-viii. 40.
1. Those of Simeon. iv. 24-43.
- What comparison between them and Judah? 27.
- How long did they occupy the territory given them? 31.
- Whither did they move? 39, 40.
- What the valley?
- What disaster befell them? 41.
- Where the final settlement of the remnant? 42, 43.
2. Those of Reuben. v. 1-10.
- Reason for placing him after Simeon and Judah? 1, 2.
- How far their genealogy traced? 6.
3. Those of Gad. 11-17.
- When their genealogies last known? 17.
4. A War Waged by the Eastern Tribes. 18-22. 5. Those of East Manasseh. 23-26.
- What the source of information about the captivity of these tribes? II. Ki. xv. 19, 29.
6. Those of Levi. vi. 1-30. [36]
- From which son of Aaron was Zadok descended? 4-8.
- To what event is the list extended? 15.
7. The Levitical Choristers. 31-48.
- What house of the Lord? and when? 31, cf. 32.
- Who the leaders? and from whom descended? 33, 39, 44.
- Did they compose any psalms? See Ps. lxxiii-lxxxiii; lxxxix..
- Who the "sons of the Kohathites"? 33, cf. Ps. lxxxiv; lxxxv; lxxxvii; lxxxviii; et al.
8. The Ancestry of Zadok Repeated. 49-53, cf. 4-8.
- Why the repetition?
9. The Dwelling Places of the Levites. 54-81, cf. Josh. xxi. 1-45. 10. The Sons of Issachar. vii. 1-5.
11. The Sons of Benjamin. 6-12.
- Why only three of Benjamin's ten sons mentioned? 6, cf. Gen. xlvi. 21; Judg. xx. 46, 27.
- Who is Jediael? 6.
12. The Sons of Naphtali. 13, cf. Gen. xlvi. 24.
- Why not brought down like the others?
13. The Sons of West Manasseh. 14-19.
- Why so few?
14. The Sons of Ephraim and Their Cities. 20-29. 15. The Sons of Asher. 30-40.
16. A Fuller List of Benjamin's Sons. viii. 1-40.
- Why all so fragmentary? [37]
§ IV. BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE RETURNED CAPTIVES. ix. 1-44.
1. Those of Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim and Manasseh. ix. 1-9.
- Why "all Israel reckoned by genealogies"? 1.
- What the book of the kings? 1.
2. The Priests and Levites, Including the Porters and Singers. 10-34.
- Where did the porters lodge? 27.
- What exemption had the singers? 33.
3. The Gibeonites. Nine Generations. 35-38. 4. The Descendants of Saul. 39-44.
PART SECOND.
THE DEATH OF SAUL AND THE REIGN OF DAVID.
x. 1-xxix. 30.
§ I. DEATH OF SAUL AND ACCESSION OF DAVID. x. 1-xii. 40.
1. The Death of Saul. x. 1-14.
- What causes given for Saul's death? 13, 14.
2. David Acknowledged by All Israel and Jerusalem Taken. xi. 1-9.
- What piece of history omitted? See II. Sam. ii. 1-iv. 12.
3. David's Mighty Men. 10-47. 4. The Mighty Men Who Joined David While Persecuted by
Saul. xii. 1-22. [38]5. The Warriors of the Tribes Who Submitted to Him at
Hebron. 23-40.§ II. THE ARK BROUGHT INTO JERUSALEM, AND REGULAR
WORSHIP ESTABLISHED. xiii. 1-xvi. 43, cf. II. Sam. v. 11-vi. 23.
- Why the order of events in this section different from that in Second Samuel?
- Who, to conduct the worship before the ark? xvi. 4-7, 37-43.
- What distinction between this service, and that before the tabernacle at Gibeon? xvi. 37, cf. 39, 40.
- What, the musical instruments? xvi. 5.
§ III. DAVID'S DESIRE TO BUILD A TEMPLE. xvii. 1-27,
cf. II. Sam. vii. 1-29.§ IV. DAVID'S CONQUESTS. xviii. 1-17, cf. II. Sam. xviii. 1-15.
§ V. THE WAR AGAINST THE AMMONITES. xix. 1-xx. 3,
cf. II. Sam. x. 1-xii. 31.
- What omitted? II. Sam. xi. 2-xii. 25.
§ VI. KILLING THE FOUR GIANTS. xx. 4-8, cf. II. Sam. xxi. 8-22. § VII. THE NUMBERING AND THE PLAGUE. xxi. 1-xxii. 1,
cf. II. Sam. xxiv. 1-25.
- Whence the fire? xxi. 26.
- Meaning of remark in xxii. 1?
§ VIII. DAVID PREPARES MATERIAL FOR THE TEMPLE.
xxii. 2-19.1. Stones, Metals and Wood Prepared. xxii. 2-5.
- Why put the strangers at this work? 2.
- Why go so far for timber? 4 . [39]
2. A Charge to Solomon. 6-13.
- Did Israel then have the law of Moses? 13.
3. The Materials Prepared. 14-16.
- What of the figures in 14?
- Whence the money? xxvi. 26-28.
4. A Charge to the Princes of Israel. 17-19. § IX. ORGANIZATION OF THE PRIESTS AND LEVITES.
xxiii. 1-xxvi. 32.
- What separate services assigned the Levites? xxiii. 4, 5.
- Why divide them into courses? xxiii. 6.
- What service in the wilderness here recognized? 26.
- Into how many courses were the priests divided? xxiv. 1-19.
- What need for this?
- How were the singers divided? xxv. 1-5, 8-31.
- Who Jeduthun? 3, cf. xvi. 38.
- How were the doorkeepers divided? xxvi. 1-13.
- What their duties? 14-16.
- How was the sacred treasury managed? 20-32.
- When was this organization completed? 32.
§ X. THE ORGANIZATION OF THE MILITIA. xxvii. 1-34.
- What the divisions; and the terms of service? xxvii. 1-15.
- What government over the seven tribes? 16-24.
- What overseers of David's personal estate? 25-31.
- Who were the king's counselors? 32-34.
§ XI. FURTHER ORDERS ABOUT THE TEMPLE. xxviii. 1-xxix. 30. 1. An Address to the Princes and Captains. xxviii. 1-10.
- Design of this address?
- How could Solomon's kingdom be established for ever? 7. [40]
2. Patterns Delivered to Solomon. 11-21.
- Whence the patterns? 19.
- Why silver tables, candlesticks and bowls? 15-17.
3. Rehearsal of the Materials already Prepared, and a Call
for More. xxix. 1-9.
- What moved the princes and captains to give?
- Whence the word "darics"? 7.
- Value of a daric on our money?
4. David's Thanksgiving. 10-20. 5. Thank Offerings Presented. 21, 22.
6. Solomon Anointed a Second Time. 22-25.
- What omitted? I. Ki. i. 1-53.
7. David's Chronology, and His Biographers. 26-30. [41] [CNSH2 35-41]
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