Matthew Poole on Chronicles

dildaysc

Puritan Board Junior
Long before there was a King in Israel, Edom boasted mighty monarchs! It would be well for the present rulers of the world to consider, "Where are they now?"

Poole presents the line of the Kings...

 

dildaysc

Puritan Board Junior
No sooner do men begin to multiply upon the earth, than some men begin to attempt to control, to dominate, to oppress the multitude. As it was in the beginning, so it is now...

See "Nimrod the Mighty" in the "Comments" section...

 

dildaysc

Puritan Board Junior
No sooner do men begin to multiply upon the earth, than some men begin to attempt to control, to dominate, to oppress the multitude. As it was in the beginning, so it is now...

See "Nimrod the Mighty, Part 2" in the "Comments" section...

 

dildaysc

Puritan Board Junior
The evil influence of Mizraim/Egypt upon the Ludim is full of practical lessons. Let us spend our time with those that help us most in our spiritual pilgrimage.

See "The Sons of Ham, Part 7" in the "Comments".

 

dildaysc

Puritan Board Junior
Mizraim was the father of many peoples and nations, something that he and his offspring no doubt valued. Everywhere in the Scripture, God characterizes children as a blessing, but does our culture value children?

See "The Sons of Ham, Part 8"

 

dildaysc

Puritan Board Junior
For 500 years the people of God struggled with the Philistines, mighty enemies. The Christian pilgrimage remains a warfare. Let us improve the present battle, to prepare for future conflict...

See the Sermon, "The Philistines", in the "Comments".

 

dildaysc

Puritan Board Junior
In ancient times, the Canaanites were devoted by the Lord to destruction, for the glory of His justice. Is this just a history about a people in times past? or does it have lessons for the American people in present hour?

Sermon: "The Devoted Nations, Part 1" (in the Comments)

 

dildaysc

Puritan Board Junior
The modern world is not the first to think of placing constitutional limitations upon rulers. It appears that it occurred to the Edomites in the Fifteenth Century BC...

Poole explores...

 

dildaysc

Puritan Board Junior
The Bible is full of difficult things. There is much to learn when we take an unflinching look at these difficulties, seeking to explain...rather than explain away. One such difficulty: God's total war against the Canaanites. What can we learn?

See "The Devoted Nations, Part 2" in the Comments...

 

dildaysc

Puritan Board Junior
Where did the ancient myths come from? Euhemerus answered, that the myths were grounded in real history. Christian Euhemerists, from the first spread of Christianity into the world, asserted that the Bible provided the root history, but that the history was perverted by idolatry and linguistically at Babel. Can this idea be sustained? What are its implications?

See "Messenger of the Gods" in the Comments section...

 

dildaysc

Puritan Board Junior
After the Babylonian Captivity, one of the great questions for the returning Jews would have been, "Who has the right to rule?" Consequently, there is a lot of space given to the genealogy of Judah and the Davidic Kings in the early chapters of 1 Chronicles.

Poole provides an outline for 1 Chronicles 2...

 

dildaysc

Puritan Board Junior
The Hittites, and the Anakim in their midst, were giants, of such power and ferocity that the Israelites spies feared to face them in battle.

The enemies that currently face God's people are certainly no less powerful, fierce, and cunning. Will we be of those that advance against them in faith? or fall back in fear? May God be our help.

See the Sermon, "The Hittites", in the "Comments"...

 

dildaysc

Puritan Board Junior
Just as the physical battle with the Jebusites was protracted, with victories and set backs; so it is in our struggle against sin.

See the Sermon "The Devoted Nations, Part 6", in the "Comments"...

 

dildaysc

Puritan Board Junior
Let us continue our studies in 1 Chronicles with some consideration of the Amorites, their history, and some spiritual lessons gleaned...

See the Sermon, "The Devoted Nations, Part 4", in the "Comments"...

 

dildaysc

Puritan Board Junior
Nations and people groups rise and fall, but God's people abide by His grace and power...

See the Sermon: "Forgotten Tribes" (in the "Comments" section).

 

dildaysc

Puritan Board Junior
Who was Shem? and what lessons can we glean from his long life?

See the Sermon, "The Shem of History", in the "Comments"...

 

dildaysc

Puritan Board Junior
"The personal character of several of [the sons of Jacob] was none of the best, and yet the covenant was entailed on their seed; for it was of grace, free grace." -Matthew Henry

The Chronicler re-focuses his genealogy on the people of God...

 

dildaysc

Puritan Board Junior
The genealogy has been augmented with Poole's "Synopsis" on the Genesis account of the birth and naming of the sons of Israel (in the "Comments").

 

dildaysc

Puritan Board Junior
The genealogy narrows, to focus on the line of our blessed Jesus!

 
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