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1 Chronicles: An Introduction and Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Chronicler wrote as a pastoral theologian. The congregation he addressed was an Israel separated from its former days of blessing by a season of judgment. The books of 1 and 2 Chronicles address a divine word of healing and reaffirm the hope of restoration to a nation that needed to regain its footing in God’s promises and to reshape its life before God. The Chronicler expounds the Bible as...

the Nile,26 to Labo of Hamath (Lebo Hamath, NIV, REB, NEB, NRSV; ‘the entrance of Hamath’, RSV), probably modern Lebweh at the watershed of the Beqa‘ valley. This extended Israel is based on Joshua’s vision of the Promised Land, and David here is the one who turned hope into reality (cf. Josh. 13:2–5).27 Baalah, on the Judean-Philistine border, where the ark had been abandoned (= Baale-Judah, 2 Sam. 6:2), seems to be understood as an alternative name for Kiriath Jearim, on the basis of Joshua 15:9
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