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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 2 of 5
1 Chronicles 10:1-14
From now on, the Chronicles are going to take up again the history of David and his successors, from the death of Saul. But the account will present many points of difference from what we have in the books of Samuel and Kings. Certain facts are added; others are passed over in silence. Each of these variations corresponds appropriately with the purpose which God had in mind in writing this new account from another angle: that of His sovereign grace. For the same reason, He has given us four times, in the four gospels, the history of His Son, in order that we may consider Him in His different glories.
Thus we should not be tired of reading again the accounts with which we are familiar, but we should seek rather to notice what the Spirit adds, and what He purposely omits. Let us not be in the least discouraged, but rather let us rejoice to hear repeatedly that God has finished with man in the flesh. Saul with his family is the type of this. He falls by the hand of the Philistines, and he is stripped of everything on the mount of Gilboa. His downfall is accomplished and his death is recorded before David appears on the scene, and David is the man who answers to the divine counsels, the true picture of the Lord Jesus.
