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Let Us Be Like the Nations: A Commentary on the Books of 1 and 2 Samuel is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this commentary Ghana Robinson interprets the text of 1 and 2 Samuel in its religio-cultural context, highlighting the dangers involved in a conformist approach to life, approaching the text from the perspective of justice for the poor and oppressed, and offering a new explanation of the Hebrew word dābhar.

from all other people that are upon the face of the earth?” (Exod. 33:15ff.). So the LORD moved about with them all through their journeys (cf. Exod. 40:34ff.). “Tent” (2 Sam. 7:6) means “the tent of meeting” (Exod. 33:7–11). The ark was kept in this tent (cf. Exod. 26:33ff.). The messenger formula “thus says the LORD” in 2 Sam. 7:8 indicates that here a new oracle begins. David was called “from the pasture, from following the sheep,” that is, from a condition of
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