2Ch 17:7-9, Neh 3:1, 5, 1Ti 6:17-18 | TSK | STEP | A.M. 3092. B.C. 912. he sent.In these verse we have an account of a remarkable itinerant ministry established by Jehoshaphat, in which three classes of men were employed: 1. the Princes; 2. the Levites; 3. the Priests. We may presume that the Princes instructed the people in the nature of the civil law and constitution of the kingdom; that the Levites instructed them in every thing that appertained to the temple service, and ritual law; and that the Priests instructed them in the nature and design of their religion. Thus the nation became thoroughly instructed in their duty to God, to the king, and to each other; they therefore became as one man; and against a people thus united, on such principles, no enemy could be successful. to teach.

2 Chronicles 17:7-9

A.M. 3092. B.C. 912. he sent.In these verse we have an account of a remarkable itinerant ministry established by Jehoshaphat, in which three classes of men were employed: 1. the Princes; 2. the Levites; 3. the Priests. We may presume that the Princes instructed the people in the nature of the civil law and constitution of the kingdom; that the Levites instructed them in every thing that appertained to the temple service, and ritual law; and that the Priests instructed them in the nature and design of their religion. Thus the nation became thoroughly instructed in their duty to God, to the king, and to each other; they therefore became as one man; and against a people thus united, on such principles, no enemy could be successful.

De 4:5; Ps 34:11; 51:13; Ec 1:12; 12:9,10; Isa 49:23

to teach.

15:3; 30:22; 35:3; De 33:10; Ne 8:7,8,13,14; 9:3; Mt 4:23; Mr 4:2

Lu 4:43,44; Ac 1:1

priests.

Ezr 7:1-6; Mal 2:7

they taught.

35:3; Ne 8:7

the book.

De 6:6-9; 31:11-13; Jos 1:7,8; Isa 8:20; Mt 15:2-9; 28:19,20

Lu 4:17-19; Joh 5:39,46; Ac 13:15; 15:21; 28:23; Ro 3:2; 1Pe 4:11

throughout.

Mt 10:23; 11:1; Ac 8:40

Nehemiah 3:1

1 The names and order of them that built the wall.

Eliashib.

12:10; 13:28

the sheep gate.This gate is supposed to have immediately communicated with the temple, and to have been called the sheep gate, because the sheep intended for sacrifice passed through it. But, after all which learned men have written on this subject, which is but of little interest, we scarcely know any thing about these gates: what they were, why called by these names, or in what part of the wall they were situated, beyond what may be learned from the parallel passages.

12:39; Joh 5:2

sanctified it.

12:30; De 20:5; Ps 30:1; *title

Pr 3:6,9

the tower.

12:39; Jer 31:38; Zec 14:10