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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...

and Ammon descended from Abraham’s nephew Lot (Gen 19:30–38) and Edom from Abraham through Esau (Gen 25:19–26). Will God permit these usurpers to tear away Israel’s rightful inheritance? The lament justifies God’s judgment against the nations. This is a just war. In response to this unrighteous invasion, Jehoshaphat calls for divine justice (Good, 392–396). Kline (154–171) calls it an intrusion of God’s eschatological judgment into history where God destroys the unrighteous as a prefigurement of
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