JETS 50:3 (September 2007) p. 455 edged that the Chronicler does not consistently distance Yahweh from evil.25 It is also possible that it reflects the Chronicler’s interest in divine intermediaries.26 Whatever the Chronicler’s reasons for replacing the reference to Yahweh with a reference to Satan, by doing so, he introduces the same ambivalence between divine and satanic causation that we saw in the prologue of Job. If he was consciously modifying what he found in 2 Sam 24:1 in the light of the