In The Pulpit Commentary, edited by Dean Spence and the
Rev. Joseph S. Exell (Kegan Paul and Co.), we have the Second Book of Kings. Canon Rawlinson contributes the Commentary. He allows, we see, that it is "difficult to reconcile the account of Ahaziah's (of Judah) death as given in Kings with that of the Chronicles," but, he says, not "wholly impossible." The suggestion—the only one made—that "perhaps the Chronicles meant by ' Samaria ' the Kingdom, not the town," is not worth much. That defiance rather than fascination was the object of Jezebel when she accosted John, seems tolerably plain. Surely " Zimri " could not have been an "honorific appellation." Nothing could have been a word of worse omen to a rebellious General. The Homilies are contributed by Mr. C. H. Irwin and Drs. J. Orr and D. Thomas.
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