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This work deals with 1 and 2 Kings as a unified whole, nestled within its canonical context. This canon presumes the reader has prior knowledge of the entire story of Israel and infers the prophetic and New Testament writings. It is examined here as narrative literature with historic and geographic intent, designed to teach its readers about God and the ways of God. The author masterfully draws...

abstract, intellectually detached way, but so that they should learn from it. This is most clearly signalled in the opening section of David’s parting speech to Solomon, in 1 Kgs 2:1–4. Like God’s words to Joshua upon his ‘succession’ to the leadership of Israel after Moses’ death (Josh. 1:6–9), David’s words to Solomon open with an injunction to ‘be strong’ (the language of warriorship, cf. 1 Sam. 4:9 for the conjunction of ‘be strong and be/show yourself a man’), before moving on immediately to
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