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The Expositor’s Bible Commentary, Volume 4: 1 & 2 Kings, 1 & 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Job is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Gold Medallion Award-winning Expositor’s Bible Commentary is a major contribution to the study and understanding of the Scriptures. Providing pastors and Bible students with a comprehensive and scholarly tool for the exposition of the Scriptures and the teaching and proclamation of their message, this 12-volume reference work has become a staple of seminary and college libraries and pastors’...

Islamic scriptures). Reading in the ancient world was done aloud (Acts 8:28; cf. G. Hendricksson, “Ancient Reading,” Classical Journal 25 [1929–30]: 182–96, W.P. Clark, “Ancient Reading,” Classical Journal 26 [1930–31]: 698–700). “Making it clear” (mep̱ōrāš) translates the Pual participle of the verb pāraš, a form that occurs only here (cf. the Aramaic Pael passive participle mep̱āraš in Ezra 4:18). Many would derive its meaning from the sense “to separate,” “to determine,” hence “to make
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