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a visit from Bro. Fisher. What an earnest worker in the missionary cause he is. I wish I was more like him; God bless and prosper him. In reading the twenty first and second chapters of 2d Chronicles I notice that it says (XXI, 20.) "Thirty and two years old was he (Jehoram) when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years." - And (XXII, 2) "Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem." Now, if Ahaziah ascended the throne immediately after the death of Jehoram he was two years older than his father, Jehoram being only forty years old when he died; ergo, Ahaziah was born two years before his father. Surely here must be some mistake. Was there an unclear between the death of Jehoram and the crowning of Ahaziah? I look at the margin, and it says Jehoram reigned 889 years B.C.; and Joash, the son of Ahaziah was seven years old when he began to reign, which, according Chap. XXIII, 1, was about seven years after the death of his father - in the margin, 878, B.C. The chronology of the margin must be erroneous; for there are only eight years between the death of Jehoram and the beginning of Joash's reign, which is not sufficient to reconcile the statement of the chronology with the verses quoted. In turning to 2d. unclear, VIII, 26, I find it recorded