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John Mark Hicks has given us a clear vision of God's desire for his people through the eyes of the Chronicler. The message repeated again and again throughout Chronicles and this commentary is, “God seeks those who seek him; God forsakes those who forsake him.” Just as the Chronicler applied the meaning of God's promises to his own context, so Hicks challenges us to apply the meaning of these...

temple of the LORD. Solomon built a temple, prayed, sacrificed, and celebrated. Chronicles provides a “programmatic” divine response (DILLARD 58). Second Chronicles 7:12b–15 has no parallel in 1 Kings. It is the heart of Chronicles’s theology and provides the principle that is worked out in the coming narrative (2 Chr 10–36; cf. ALLEN, 238; WILLIAMSON, 225–226). Second Chronicles 7:14 is probably the most well-known verse in Chronicles (SELMAN, 2:337–340). It has
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