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This set of detailed commentaries provides valuable exegetical, historical, cultural, and linguistic information on the original text. Over the years this series has been instrumental in shedding light on the Scriptures so that translators all over the world could complete the important task of putting God's Word into the many languages spoken in the world today. Over the years church leaders...

In many languages it will be better to identify the prophet by name, as his name has not been mentioned since 1:7 (as in GECL). 7:2 Now the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech and their men: The main problems in this verse lie in the interpretation of the proper names. The word order in Hebrew is “sent Bethel Sharezer and Regem-melech,” which can be understood in several ways. RSV and TEV take “Bethel” as the name of a town, standing for the inhabitants of the town. They make it the
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