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This volume completes Ralph Klein’s magisterial commentary on 1 and 2 Chronicles. Klein incorporates the breakthroughs of the last half-century of research. He shows that the Chronicler used a text of Kings significantly different from the Masoretic Text; argues that the Chronicler’s departures from the historical picture of Kings result from a distinctive theological agenda for fourth-century...

in Chronicles for a prophet to give a last warning before punishment is exercised. The rage (זעף) displayed by the Israelites in killing their Judean kin suggests that personal animosity played a major role in their war against the south, and they did not consider themselves agents only of Yahweh’s anger. In noting that their rage reached heaven,40 the Chronicler is commenting on the magnitude of the wrath, as well as indicating that it had come to Yahweh’s attention. Rage is used in Chronicles only
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