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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...

two words by suggesting YHWH will send rain in accordance with his own righteousness.45 Rainfall reflects YHWH’s righteousness as part of his answer to how Israel turned to him in 2:12–17. This suggestion resonates with passages where the gift of rain represents covenant blessing (Lev 26:3–4; Deut 11:13–15), while the lack of rainfall represents covenant sanction (Lev 26:18–20; Deut 28:23–24; 1 Kgs 8:35–36).46 According to this reading, YHWH’s gift of rain is part of the zeal and compassion that
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