Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries

Volume 11

General Editor: Donald J. Wiseman

2 Chronicles

An Introduction and Commentary

Martin J. Selman

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© Martin J. Selman 1994

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First published 1994

Reprinted in this format 2008

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

UK ISBN 978-1-84474-266-0

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Selman, Martin J., 1947–.

2 Chronicles: an introduction and commentary / Martin J. Selman.

p. cm.—(Tyndale Old Testament commentaries; v. 11)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-8308-4211-7 (pbk.: alk. paper)

1. Bible. O.T. Chronicles, 2nd—Commentaries. I. Title.

BS1345.53.S46 2008

222/.6407—dc22

2008031513

US ISBN: 978-0-8308-4211-7

CONTENTS

General preface

Chief abbreviations

Analysis

Commentary

Note: The introduction to 1 and 2 Chronicles is to be found in the companion volume, 1 Chronicles, p. 19

GENERAL PREFACE

The aim of this series of Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries, as it was in the companion volumes on the New Testament, is to provide the student of the Bible with a handy, up-to-date commentary on each book, with the primary emphasis on exegesis. Major critical questions are discussed in the introductions and additional notes, while undue technicalities have been avoided.

In this series individual authors are, of course, free to make their own distinct contributions and express their own point of view on all debated issues. Within the necessary limits of space they frequently draw attention to interpretations ...