409 So R.V. marg., with LXX., Targum, Syriac and Arabic versions, Talmud, Rashi, Kimchi, and some Hebrew manuscripts (Bertheau, i. 1). A.R.V., “had understanding in the visions” (R.V. vision) “of God.” The difference between the two Hebrew readings is very slight. Vv. 5-20, with the exception of the bare fact of the leprosy are peculiar to Chronicles. 410 Cf. Ezek. xxvi. 9. 411 Pliny, vii. 56 _apud_ Smith’s _Bible Dictionary_. 412 Num. xviii. 7; Exod. xxx. 7. 413 Kimchi interprets “those days” as meaning “after the death of Jotham.” 414 The reference to the wall of Ophel is peculiar to Chronicles: indeed, Ophel is only mentioned in Chronicles and Nehemiah; it was the southern spur of Mount Moriah (Neh. iii. 26, 27). Vv. 3_b_-7 are also peculiar to Chronicles. 415 This is usually understood as Nisan, the first month of the ecclesiastical year. 416 xxix. 3-xxxi. 21 (the cleansing of the Temple and accompanying feast, Passover, organisation of the priests and Levites) are substantially peculiar to Chronicles, though in a sense they expand 2 Kings xviii. 4-7, because they fulfil the commandments which Jehovah commanded Moses. 417 Exod. vi. 18, 22; Num. iii. 30, mention Elizaphan as a descendant of Kohath. 418 So Strack-Zockler, i. 1. 419 Lev. i. 6. 420 According to 2 Kings xviii. 10, Samaria was not taken till the sixth year of Hezekiah’s reign. It is not necessary for an expositor of Chronicles to attempt to harmonise the two accounts. 421 Cf xxx. 11, 18. 422 xxx. 14; cf. 2 Kings xviii. 4. The chronicler omits the statement that Hezekiah destroyed Moses’s brazen serpent, which the people had hitherto worshipped. His readers would not have understood how this corrupt worship survived the reforms of pious kings and priests who observed the law of Moses. 423 Cf. xxix. 34, xxx. 3. 424 Lev. xv. 31. 425 So Bertheau, i. 1, slightly paraphrasing. 426 A.R.V., with Masoretic text, “the priests the Levites”; LXX., Vulg. Syr., “the priests and the Levites.” The former is more likely to be correct. The verse is partly an echo of Deut. xxvi. 15, so that the chronicler naturally uses the Deuteronomic phrase “the priests the Levites”; but he probably does so unconsciously, without intending to make any special claim for the Levites: hence I have omitted the word in the text. 427 xxxii. 2-8, peculiar to Chronicles. 428 xxxii. 30. 429 xxxiii. 11-19, peculiar to Chronicles. 430 So R.V.: A.V., “among the thorns”; R.V. marg., “with hooks”, if so in a figurative sense. Others take the word as a proper name: Hohim. 431 Ezek. xviii. 20. 432 Peter iv. 18. 433 Ezek. xviii. 21-23. 434 Psalm cxxx. 4, probably belonging to about the same period as Chronicles. 435 1 Chron. xxiii. 26, peculiar to Chronicles.