{"id":928,"date":"2012-04-20T05:02:38","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T12:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teach4god.com\/OTS\/?p=928"},"modified":"2014-04-02T05:31:13","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T12:31:13","slug":"1-chronicles-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/2012\/04\/20\/1-chronicles-20\/","title":{"rendered":"1 Chronicles 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=1%20Chronicles%2020&amp;version=NASB\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; color: #0000ff;\">1 Chronicles 20<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS;\"> (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/2012\/04\/18\/2-samuel-11\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; color: #0000ff;\">see our study of 2 Samuel 11<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=2%20Samuel%2021.15-22&amp;version=NASB\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; color: #0000ff;\">2 Samuel 21.15-22<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS;\"> [study to come])<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This chapter is found within two chapters in 2 Samuel as is seen\u00a0above. The purpose of the Chronicles is to present a &#8220;cleaner&#8221; version of David to promote the kingdom as the exiles return to the land. This is clearly seen in this chapter with the omission of the incident between David and Bathsheba (see our studies of this account in <span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/2012\/04\/18\/2-samuel-11\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; color: #0000ff;\">2 Samuel 11<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/2012\/04\/19\/2-samuel-12\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; color: #0000ff;\">2 Samuel 12<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>)<span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>As we have studied 2 Samuel and 1 Chronicles differences are evident\u00a0(the number of soldiers, for instance). This chapter presents a difficulty as well as we compare it to the 2 Samuel 21 passage and others. An attempt to\u00a0harmonize them will be made here.<\/p>\n<p>Potential discrepancies:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2 Samuel has the place of battle as Gob, not Gezer.<\/li>\n<li>2 Samuel names the slain giant\u2019s son as Saph, not Sippai.<\/li>\n<li>Goliath\u2019s slain brother, Lahmi, is not given a name in 2 Samuel.<\/li>\n<li>Abishai\u2019s slaying of the giant Ishbi-benob is not given in 2 Chronicles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Possible solutions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gob was located\u00a0close to Gezer and may not have existed in the time of Ezra\u2019s writing of the Chronicles.<\/li>\n<li>Saph\u00a0and Sippai are variations of the same root name.<\/li>\n<li>The last two discrepancies merely reflect\u00a0the author\u2019s purpose or focus. The absence or inclusion of a name or place in one does not preclude it from occurring.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When this chapter is considered, we need to see that God is still at work in the repentant David. He conquers the foes, slays the giants, and has victory in his life. As we see in the chapters that follow, the consequences of his sin with Bathsheba will haunt him all the days of his life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When this chapter is considered, we need to see that God is still at work in the repentant David. He conquers the foes, slays the giants, and has victory in his life. As we see in the chapters that follow, the consequences of his sin with Bathsheba will haunt him all the days of his life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,5],"tags":[36,237,79],"class_list":["post-928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1-chronicles","category-daily-studies","tag-david","tag-giants","tag-samuel","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=928"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1878,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions\/1878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}