SOME COMPARISONS BETWEEN 1 KINGS AND 2 CHRONICLES (FROM CAC'S NOTES)

SOME COMPARISONS BETWEEN 1 KINGS AND 2 CHRONICLES (FROM CAC’S NOTES)

There is no overlaying of the house “with precious stones for beauty” in Kings as there is in Chronicles.

Huram was to send sandal-wood trees out of Lebanon. This is mentioned in Chronicles but not in Kings.

The upper chambers are mentioned in 2 Chronicles as being covered with gold.

In 2 Chronicles 3 the veil is described as of blue, purple, crimson and byssus with cherubim. There is no veil in Kings.

There is no brazen altar in 1 Kings except for the brief mention in 1 Kings 8: 64.

In 1 Kings 8 Solomon dwells on the promises to David and refers to the deliverance from Egypt and mentions Moses but not Aaron.

The altar represents in Kings, I apprehend, the measure of approach suitable to an earthly people. It is too small for the offerings of Solomon and for the people. It is “all Israel with him” in 1 Kings 8: 65.

In 1 Kings 8 Solomon blessed the whole congregation of Israel before his intercession and after. It is like Ephesians, or Paul’s farewell to the elders.

The sacrifices are particularly peace offerings. It is like the fatted calf, provision from God’s side according to His measure and what He has stored up as suitable for the communion proper to sons. Therefore I do not think that we have any offering at the brazen altar that comes up to the fatted calf. In Luke 14 it is “my supper”, “an offering and sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savour”, as is ^[p. 408] stated in Ephesians 5: 2.

It is what the king did and all Israel with him. If we think of Christ offering, it is illimitable; the earthly system, even the millennium, is too small. It has been observed that no brazen altar is described in Kings because it is not approach to God, but God dwelling, and His people dwelling, in His chambers. So there is no veil in Kings, nothing to indicate that conditions of distance and restriction exist.

Blessing the people answers to ministry.

The house was finished in the eighth month in Kings, but in 2 Chronicles 5 it is at the feast, that of the seventh month.