Tag: 1 Chronicles 21
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Questions for Reflection and Discussion – 1 Chronicles 17, 21
We are studying portions of 1 Chronicles 17 and 1 Chronicles 21 for Sunday, December 15. [A few notes on the text are here.] Here are some questions we might want to think about or to discuss in class: In verses 2 & 3, Nathan, a prophet, turns out to be mistaken about the course […]
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Study Notes – 1 Chronicles 17, 21
We are studying portions of 1 Chronicles 17 and 1 Chronicles 21 for Sunday, December 15. This is the account of David’s plan to build a temple as a permanent home for the Ark of God, God’s response (“thanks, but no thanks”), and then the final episode in the saga of David’s ill-conceived census that […]
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Exegetical Exercise – 1 Chronicles 21
Looking at 1 Chronicles 21, in light of material in Sara Japhet, The Ideology of the Book of Chronicles and Its Place in Biblical Thought (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2009). This chapter contains the story of David’s ordering a census of Israel, which is depicted as a sin, the ensuing plague, and the steps taken […]