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2 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...

translate ‘that is, even’ before Korahites). It is not clear whether they represent the Levites in general, among whom they provided the gatekeepers (cf. 1 Chr. 9:19; 26:19), or the musicians in particular (Heman, Asaph’s contemporary, was a Kohathite, 1 Chr. 6:33–38). . As the army complies with God’s instructions (v. 20), two significant events take place. Firstly, Jehoshaphat makes a call to faith (v. 20), apparently in fulfilment of the priest’s role in Deuteronomy
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