More specifically, Israelite confidence in YHWH was founded on an official orthodoxy that rested on four immutable propositions, four pillars of divine promise: YHWH’s irrevocable and eternal entitlement of Abraham and his descendants to the land of Canaan, YHWH’s irrevocability and eternal covenant with Israel (Sinai), YHWH’s irrevocable and eternal covenant with David, and YHWH’s irrevocable and eternal commitment to Jerusalem/Zion as his earthly residence (Fig. 1.2). The nearer Nebuchadnezzar’s
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