Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible
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1 Chronicles
Book: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 9
Overview:
Genealogies.
- This
Chapter expresses that one
End of recording all these
genealogies was, to direct the Jews, when they returned out of
Captivity, with whom to unite, and where to reside. Here is an
account of the good state into which the affairs of religion
were
Put,
On the return from
Babylon. Every one knew his charge.
Work is likely to be done
Well when every one knows the duty of
his place, and makes a business of it.
God is the
God of order.
Thus was the
Temple a figure of the heavenly one, where they
Rest not
Day nor night from praising
God, Re 4:8. Blessed be
His name, believers there shall, not in turn, but all together,
without interruption, praise him night and
Day: may the
Lord
make each of us fit for the inheritance of the saints in
Light.