1 Crônicas 13

1 Crônicas 13

MacArthur observes that "Two basic principles...prevail throughout the OT, namely, obedience brings blessing, disobedience brings judgment." If you compare the parallel passages in 2 Samuel 6, you will notice that the writer adds 2Sa 6:12-23, passages not found in First Chronicles 13. You might ask why is that? The answer is that the purpose of the Chronicles was to encourage the Israelites who had returned to their land after the 70 year Babylonian exile and for this reason (to be encouraging), the writer tended to leave out negative aspects, so that for example, the Chronicles make no mention of David's sin with Bathsheba. I think of the Chronicles as generally tending to "accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative" so that the returning exiles would be encouraged (they had a lot to discourage them - no king, no temple, no dominant nation, etc, etc).