This narrative then is under no obligation to provide a full account of the “factual data,” but assumes that the curious reader can check that out in the library. Thus our text is not “history.” It is, rather, an interpretive commentary upon that royal history or, as we might say, it is a “theology of history,” an attempt to understand the vagaries of lived public experience in that world with particular reference to YHWH, the God of Israel. This God is seen to be an active and decisive player in