First and last. — The former and the latter. The chronicler adds his usual formula.
Behold, are they not written. — The Hebrew is faulty here. “Behold, they are written” is the customary phrase in the Chronicles (2 Chronicles 20:34; 2 Chronicles 24:27); “are they not written” being that of Kings. In the Hebrew text here the two phrases are blended. Some- MSS., and the Syriac, Vulg., and Arabic read, “Behold, they are written.” But it is possible that hinnâm (“behold they”) is here a corruption of hçm (“they”); and that the reading of Kings should be followed, with other Hebrew MSS. and the Targum.