2 Chronicles 9:29 - Exposition

Nathan the prophet … Ahijah the Shilonite … Iddo the seer . For these original authorities of the history, see our Introduction. The present quotation of the name of Ahijah in connection with his work, and the brief allusion to himself in our 2 Chronicles 10:15 , are the only appearances of Ahijah in Chronicles. He and the importance of his work are clear enough from 1 Kings 11:28-40 ; 1 Kings 14:1-20 . As the compiler of Chronicles evidently by a law omits any even reference to the defection of Solomon, it is natural that the name and special ministry of Ahijah should fall into the shade with him. Uniformly it is observable in Chronicles that the personal is not enlarged upon where it is not directly and indispensably ancillary to the ecclesiastical and national history. On the other hand, the writer of Kings does not once mention Iddo the seer, whereas we read of him again twice in Chronicles ( 2 Chronicles 12:15 ; 2 Chronicles 13:22 ).