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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...

probably chosen because Judah was better defended further west (cf. 11:5–10).50 The vast army (v. 2; ‘great multitude’, NRSV, RSV; also vv. 12, 15, 24) is one of a number of terms in the chapter from the tradition of ‘Yahweh’s war’ (also in 2 Chr. 13:8; 14:10; 32:7). In view of Jehoshaphat’s own military statistics (cf. 17:12–19), the description is a little surprising, but comparison is impossible since no figures are provided for the coalition forces. The Judeans clearly believed they were outnumbered,
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