The Books of Chronicles ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ │ │ Transcriber’s Notes │ │ │ │ │ │ Punctuation has been standardized. │ │ │ │ Most of the non-common abbreviations used to save space in │ │ printing have been expanded to the non-abbreviated form for │ │ easier reading. │ │ │ │ Characters in small caps have been replaced by all caps. │ │ │ │ Non-printable characteristics have been given the following │ │ Italic text: --> _text_ │ │ bold text: --> =text=. │ │ │ │ This book was written in a period when many words had │ │ not become standardized in their spelling. Words may have │ │ multiple spelling variations or inconsistent hyphenation in │ │ the text. These have been left unchanged unless indicated │ │ with a Transcriber’s Note. │ │ │ │ Index references have not been checked for accuracy. │ │ │ │ The symbol ‘‡’ indicates the description in parenthesis has │ │ been added to an illustration. This may be needed if there │ │ is no caption or if the caption does not describe the image │ │ adequately. │ │ │ │ Footnotes are identified in the text with a superscript │ │ number and are shown immediately below the paragraph in which │ │ they appear. │ │ │ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ _THE CAMBRIDGE BIBLE FOR SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES_ GENERAL EDITOR FOR THE OLD TESTAMENT:―― A. F. KIRKPATRICK, D.D. DEAN OF ELY THE BOOKS OF CHRONICLES CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS C. F. CLAY, MANAGER =London=: FETTER LANE, E.C. =Edinburgh=: 100 PRINCES STREET Illustration: (‡ colophon)