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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’...

B. Job Tested (1:6–2:13) 1. Satan’s accusations of Job (1:6–12) 6–12 There are two scenes in heaven, each depicting the divine council (1:6–12 and 2:1–6). Each is followed by a series of events that result from the encounter between the Lord and Satan. The divine council (v.6) is made up of the benê hāʾelōhîm (“the sons of God” [NIV, “angels”], which here [but probably not in Gen 6:2] refers to these supernatural beings who are above men but created by God [Ps 8:5]). The heathen nations used
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