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Designed for the pastor and Bible teacher, the Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the Old Testament features today’s top Old Testament scholars and brings together commentary features rarely gathered together in one volume. With careful discourse analysis and interpretation of the Hebrew text, the authors trace the flow of argument in each Old Testament book, showing that how a biblical author...

YHWH in 2:18–27. However, this introductory phrase likely functions as a sequential indicator, which would suggest that the events mentioned in 3:1–5[2:28–32] follow the restoration of 2:18–27.4 The gift of material restoration is then the first stage, which YHWH then supplements with the outpouring of his spirit. Other occurrences of אַחֲרֵי־כֵן (“after this”) signify temporal sequence (Gen 41:31; 1 Sam 24:9[8]; 2 Sam 2:1; 2 Chr 20:35; Jer 16:16; 34:11).5 A similar introduction is found in Isa
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