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I Chronicles 1–9: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

Who were the Israelites? Was Israel’s first king, Saul, a hero or a disaster? Was David a gifted and accomplished leader or a murderer and a cheat? Did Solomon preside over the most glorious epoch in Israelite history or did he lead the nation into a fateful decline? In I Chronicles 1–9, the distinguished scholar Gary Knoppers addresses these questions through a thoughtful and exacting reading...

death (1 Chr 11:1–3). This acclamation is followed by the conquest of Jerusalem (11:4–9), the mention of assorted warriors who strengthened David’s position (11:10–47), and the rallies of Benjaminites, Gadites, Judahites, and Benjaminites to David at various locales (12:1–19). It would seem that the Davidic kingdom only grows stronger with such defections. But a close reading of 1 Chr 11–12 reveals that those defections occurred earlier in David’s career, either before he became king (e.g., at his
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