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1-xx. 8 with 2 Sam. 7, 8, 10 and 12. ) Often he introduces in these 124 THE OLD TESTAMENT extracts, or appends to them, notes of his own, which would in almost all cases be certainly recognizable on internal evidence even if we had not the text of Kings before us. In a few places he condenses or abridges the narrative of Kings, as in 2 Chron. Xxxii. 1-23 compared with 2 Kgs. Xviii. 13-xix. 37. Of alterations, or, from the author's own point of view, corrections, of the older history several exa...mples have been given above. One more, of a striking character, may be cited, viz. 2 Chron. Xxii. 10-xxiii. 21 compared with 2 Kgs. 11. The Carian mercenaries of the guard in the sacred precincts of the temple (2 Kgs. Xi. 4) were a plain profanation, of which the pious chief priest could not have been guilty. The Chronicler accordingly rewrites the story, substituting the levites (note 2 Chron. Xxiii. 6) for the obnoxious heathen. Finally, he sometimes freely expands on his text, as in the building of Solomon's temple (2 Chron.
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