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Mark J. Boda makes reference to the point that from a literary and historical standpoint, the books of Chronicles have been ignored and even criticized in Biblical studies. Boda argues that even though Chronicles covers the “whole of sacred history,” the greatest part of its history is included in 1 Chronicles 1–9, although those chapters are filled with genealogical lists where 1 Chronicles 10...

Josiah’s Death (35:20–25). With such high praise heaped upon Josiah at the close of the Chronicler’s account of the Passover (35:18), it is quite surprising that he presented this final tragic chapter of Josiah’s reign (609 BC). The Chronicler expanded his account of Josiah’s death from what he found in his source in 2 Kings 23:28–30 by incorporating direct speeches by Neco (35:21) and the dying Josiah (35:23), as well as commentary in 35:22, 25. The description of Josiah’s death in Chronicles
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