In No. 6 the citation is peculiar : the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, did Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, write' (a Chron. xxvi. 22). One is inclined to believe that the mono graph of Isaiah was single and independent, espe cially as it is not found either in Isaiah's prophecies, in the canon, or in the historical appendix in Is. xxxvi.–xxxix.
In addition to the sources enumerated, the com piler mast have had others. Thus the lists of David's heroes (xi. 10-47), of those who came to him at Ziklag (xii. 1-22), of the captains, princes of he tribes, and officers of David's household (xxvii.), the number and distribution of the Levites, and the minute information given respecting Divine worship (xxiii. -xxvi.), must have been derived from written sources not included in the book of the Kings of Israel and yuclah.
Some documents are mentioned by the compiler which he did not arse. Thus a writing of Elijah addressed to Jehoram is spoken of in 2 Chron. xxi. 12; and a collection of lamentations, in which was an elegy composed by Jeremiah on Josiah's death (2 Chron. xxxv. 25).
In 1 Chron. i.-ix., we have only a few references to the origin of the genealogical lists. Throughout most of this portion the compiler relied on regis ters, which he carefully followed. But his infor mation respecting them is not definite.
It has been inquired, whether our present books of Samuel and Kings were one of the sources whence the Chronicle writer drew his materials ? The question is answered in the affirmative by De \Vette, Movers, and Bleek ; by Havernick and others in the negative. The first-named critic adduces three arguments in favour of the hypo thesis that the parallel accounts were derived from the earlier books, only one of which appears to us valid, viz., the certainty of the Chronist's having known the earlier books. After denying the vali dity of all his arguments, Keil proceeds to adduce some positive grounds against the hypothesis that the books of Kings and Samuel were used as sources.
1st, The circumstance that both narratives agree with one another, and have parallel sections only when they cite their sources. But no more than 15 verses appear after the last citation of sources in the Chronicles, in which the destruction of the Jewish state is described very briefly. It is pro
bable that the writer employed the Kings up to this time and not after.
2dly, The different arrangement of materials in both works. All the difference of arrangement that exists is not great, and is sufficiently explained by the use of other sources in addition to the indepen dence of the writer.
idly, The many historical additions which the Chronicles have in the parallel sections. These are accounted for like the last.
4thly, The apparent contradictions in the parallel sections. These are explained by the use of other sources besides, on which the writer may have some times relied more than on the accounts in Kings.
The considerations adduced by Keil are singu larly wanting in validity. If the compiler of Chro nicles knew the canonical books, why should it be thought that he abstained from using them ? They would have facilitated his work. The most con vincing proof that he both knew and used them is furnished by parallels, which are often verbal. Thus in 2 Chron. i. 14-17, there is a paragraph almost verbally coinciding with 1 Kings x. 26-29. Again, r Chron. xvii. and xviii. are in many places verbally parallel with 2 Sam. vii. and viii. Com pare also i Chron. xix. 1-xx. 1, with 2 Sam. x.-xi. ; 2 Chron. x. I-xi. 4, with i Kings xii. Chron. xv. 16-18, with Kings xv. 13-15 ; 2 Chron. xxv. 1-4, 17-28, with 2 Kings xiv. 1-6, 8-20 ' • 2 Chron. xxxiii. 1-9, with 2 Kings xxi. 1-9 ; 2 Chron. xxxiii. 21-25, with 2 Kings xxi. 19-26. The deviations, however, are often the best index of the author's use of the earlier books, because they shew design.
The genealogies in chapters i.-ii. 2, relating to the ante-Mosaic period, are all contained in the book of Genesis, though they are compressed as much as possible, as the following table will shew.
(a) 1 Chron. i. 1-4 from Genesis v.
i. 5-23 from Genesis x. 2-4, 6-8, 13-18, 22-29.
„ i. 24-27 from Genesis xi. io-z6.
„ 29-33 from Genesis xxv. 12-16, 1-4.
from Genesis xxxvi. 23 26, and xlvi. 8, etc.
Again, a number of names and families met with in earlier historical books occur in Chronicles in a different genealogical connection, or at the head of longer lists peculiar to these books (b) as I Chron. ii. io-12, the ancestors of David ; comp. Ruth iv. 19-22, etc., etc.