CURRENT LITERATURE.
The new volume of The Pulpit Commentary, edited by the Very Rev. H. D. M. Spence, and the Rev. Joseph S. Ezell (Kogan Paul, Trench, and Co.), is Chronicles II., the Exposition and Homiletics by Rev. Philip C. Barker, the Homilies by Rev. W. Clarkson and Rev. T. Whitelaw. It seems a pity that the Homilist has not had the courage to discard the very strained " reconciliation " of 2 Chron. xxii., 9, and 2 Kings ix., 27. " Ahaziah, in first escaping, fled to Samaria [surely a most unlikely place], and was afterwards found there by Jehu's servants, who brought him to Jehu, at whose command he was shot while in his chariot at Gur, beside Ibleam, and that once more escaping (!), though this time mortally wounded, he reached Megiddo, and perished there."
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