Christ in All the Scriptures by A.M. Hodgkin

• Title Page
• Introduction
• Christ in the Pentateuch
• Christ in the Historical Books
  • Joshua
  • Judges
  • Ruth
  • The Six Books of Kings
  • 1 Samuel
  • 2 Samuel
  • 1 Kings
  • 2 Kings
  • 1 Chronicles
  • 2 Chronicles
  • Ezra
  • Nehemiah
  • Esther
• Christ in the Poetical Books
• Christ in the Prophets
• Christ in His Life on Earth
• Christ in Resurrection Power
• Christ in Future Glory

Chariots of Fire. Elisha lived in the calm sense of God’s immediate presence. This was the secret of his power. When he and his servant were surrounded in the city of Dothan with the army of Syria, “a great host,” and the servant said, “Alas, Master! how shall we do?” Elisha said, “Fear not; for they that be with us are more than they that be with them. And Elisha prayed, and said, Lord I pray Thee, open his eyes, that he may see, And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.” If we lived continually in the sense of God’s protecting presence what calm power there would be in our lives!

Witnessing. The four lepers who carried the good tidings of the plentiful supply in the deserted camp of the Syrians to the starving people of Samaria, are an example for us as Christians. If we have discovered the riches of Christ for ourselves, “we do not well to hold our peace.” We should make the same resolve they did: “Now therefore come, that we may go and tell the King’s household.”

Loyalty.  “Is thine heart right?” said Jehu to Jehonadab the son of Rechab, “Is thine heart right, as my heart is with thy heart?” And Jehonadab answered, “It is.” “If it be, give me thine hand. And he gave him his hand; and he took him up with him into his chariot.” Our King sees us toiling along life’s journey, and He puts to us this question: “Is thy heart right towards Me? Lovest thou Me more than these?” If we can reply, “It is. Thou knowest that I love Thee,” our King, as it were, stretches out His hand and draws us up and seats us with Himself in heavenly places, and makes us to ride in His chariot of power. We have the same thought in the Book of Chronicles: “The eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong on the behalf of those whose heart is perfect toward Him.”

The history of Judah is so bound up with the history of the Temple that it will be better for us to study it as a whole, in the Book of Chronicles. Those books, as we have already seen, are written from the Temple standpoint.

I Chronicles

These books cover the same period as I and II Kings, but they deal exclusively with the Kingdom of Judah and with the