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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...

(especially 1 Kgs 11:1–40), but to emphasize that God blessed him and his people in spite of them. 8:1—cf. 1 Kings 9:10 8:4a—cf. 1 Kings 9:18b 8:5b—cf. 1 Kings 9:17b 8:6a—cf. 1 Kings 9:18a, 19 Solomon’s empire is described briefly, in similar vein to David’s imperial achievements (1 Chr. 18:1–13). Emphasis falls on his building work, the verb ‘to build’ (often translated as rebuilt), occurring six times (vv. 1, 2, 4, 4, 5, 6). The whole land is included (v.
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