What the Bible Teaches- 1&2 Chronicles: Ritchie Old Testament Commentaries
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What the Bible Teaches- 1&2 Chronicles: Ritchie Old Testament Commentaries  -     By: J. Hay, W. Gustafson

What the Bible Teaches- 1&2 Chronicles: Ritchie Old Testament Commentaries

John Ritchie / 2022 / Paperback

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The Ritchie Old Testament Commentaries are being published as companions to the Series on the New Testament, which was widely appreciated and provided a much-needed resource for the Bible student interested in a clear and concise exposition of the Scriptures. This volume

The contributors are well known Bible teachers, competent in handling the Scriptures publicly and 'able to teach others also.' The style is both expository and practical and each commentary has been written specifically for the Series.

This commentary on 1 & 2 Chronicles, by J. Hay and W. Gustafson will prove to be helpful, practical and challenging to the believer who is interested to learn of God’s ways in the Old Testament.

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Title: What the Bible Teaches- 1&2 Chronicles: Ritchie Old Testament Commentaries
By: J. Hay, W. Gustafson
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 640
Vendor: John Ritchie
Publication Date: 2022
Dimensions: 9.4 X 6.50 X 1.50 (inches)
Weight: 2 pounds 10 ounces
ISBN: 1914273192
ISBN-13: 9781914273193
Stock No: WW273193

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The Ritchie Old Testament Commentaries are being published as companions to the Series on the New Testament, which was widely appreciated and provided a much-needed resource for the Bible student interested in a clear and concise exposition of the Scriptures. The contributors are well known Bible teachers, competent in handling the Scriptures publicly and 'able to teach others also.' The style is both expository and practical and each commentary has been written specifically for the Series. The commentaries are to be commended and will prove to be helpful, practical and challenging to the believer who is interested to learn of God's ways in the Old Testament.

Discussion Questions

Authorship The author of this book remains anonymous, although both Jewish and Christian traditions attribute it to Ezra. Scholars see his literary style in its pages. “There is not a garment in all Ezra’s wardrobe that does not fit the Chronicler exactly” (C. C. Torrey). It may have been that Ezra was the man who penned its pages, but keep in mind that, whoever the scribe, he was “moved by the Holy Ghost” (2 Pet 1.21). Some commentators like to discuss sources of information, but in a sense that is an irrelevance in light of divine inspiration. We do know that the writer lived after the Babylonian captivity, for in the latter part of chapter 3 he traces the descendants of David right through that period of Judah’s history. Later in the book there is a reference to the fact that “Judah was carried away captive to Babylon for their transgression” (9.1, RV). In the Hebrew Scriptures, the two books of Chronicles comprised one volume, and 2 Chronicles ends with a brief account of Cyrus encouraging a return to Judah. This section is replicated in the first few verses of Ezra, another pointer to the fact that he may have been the author. We are accustomed to thinking in terms of Malachi being the last book of the Old Testament, but in the Hebrew Scriptures, the combined book of Chronicles was placed at the end. Thus the Lord’s reference to Abel and Zacharias (Mt 23.35) encompasses the whole of what we call the Old Testament, Genesis to Chronicles in their case. It is interesting that this last book of the Hebrew Scriptures and the first book of the New Testament both contain significant genealogies of David’s line, the latter tracing it right to “Jesus, who is called Christ” (Mt 1.16). First Readers Whoever the Chronicler, the people who read the book first were people who, although back in their own land, were dominated by a foreign power, and were under threat from unsympathetic neighbours. Their social conditions were dire. It was a far cry from the military supremacy and national prosperity described in this history of their nation. They were now being pointed back to the pristine days of David’s kingdom, and the establishing of the God-ordained form of worship at Jerusalem. The implied challenge was to replicate that in days of recovery when Temple worship was being re-established, and to throw off the lethargy that at times left that recovery becalmed. The implied warning was to avoid a repeat of the circumstances that had given rise to the destruction of the first house with all its glory, the insidious advance of idolatry, a trend which had ousted Jehovah and incurred His wrath. Chronicles1_

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