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    1 & 2 Chronicles
    1 & 2 Chronicles
    1 & 2 Chronicles
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    1 & 2 Chronicles

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    Remember God’s Faithfulness
    “Does God even care about us?” After being driven out of their homeland, the Israelites weren’t sure anymore. Amid their doubts, the stories of 1 and 2 Chronicles reminded them of God’s faithfulness. Remembering God’s work in the past would help renew their faith for the present. As you study 1 and 2 Chronicles, the stories will also help you move beyond forgetfulness to see God’s faithfulness in your own life.

    LifeChange
    LifeChange Bible studies will help you grow in Christlikeness through a life-changing encounter with God’s Word. Filled with a wealth of ideas for going deeper so you can return to this study again and again.

    Features
    • Cover the books of 1 & 2 Chronicles in 12 lessons
    • Equip yourself to lead a Bible study
    • Imagine the Bible’s historical world
    • Study word origins and definitions
    • Explore thoughtful questions on key themes
    • Go deeper with optional projects
    • Find the flexibility to fit the time you have
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTyndale House Publishers
    Release dateDec 18, 2014
    ISBN9781612917986
    1 & 2 Chronicles

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      Structure:The "Cornerstone Biblical Commentary" brings together a wealth of scholarship in a clearly presented and highly accessible format. Each larger section of text gets its own introductory section. Then each textual unit, usually of a chapter or two in length, gets its own separate treatment. The full text from the New Living Translation opens the section, then footnotes to the text, and detailed notes follow. The commentary section is next and covers sources used by the Chronicler, the structure and content of the section - which is where the primary exegesis happens, and then a concluding section titled "significance" where the author brings home the main themes from the text.Features:A detailed introduction to the books of Chronicles opens the work, and enumerates the setting, author, date, and audience. The canonicity and textual history of Chronicles are detailed, and literary and theological concerns are addressed. Space is also devoted to the major themes of the books of Chronicles, of which the author finds covenant relationship, an emphasis on renewing the present through remembering the past, and the prophetic office as key. And while the Chronicler emphasizes Judah's history, he repeatedly refers to "all Israel," Boda sees in this a concern for the fulfillment of a truly united Israel "comprised of inhabitants from both north and south united around the Temple, King, and Jerusalem" (p. 18). And intriguingly, he argues that "The omission of the history of the northern kingdom throughout the account is not intended as a slight against these tribes, but rather is used to play down the schism and to include them in `all Israel'" (p. 18). The introduction also includes a detailed outline of the books of Chronicles.Other features of the commentary include a proprietary numbering system from Tyndale for the Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek words - similar to Strong's numbers, but coded to other reference works from Tyndale. Some numbers are also provided that key to Zondervan resources as well. A detailed list is also provided of key textual witnesses to 1 and 2 Chronicles, and the Old and New Testaments as a whole. Also included is an extensive explanation of the transliteration and numbering system employed in the commentary. Throughout the volume, charts, maps, chiastic structures, and timelines are provided, but all in black and white. The commentary makes thorough use of end notes after every section and introduction, as well. This allows it to remain highly technical but also more accessible to the average reader.Evaluation:This commentary over and again proves faithful to a high view of Scripture. Yet it is also extremely helpful in sorting out the techincal details in the text and catching the underlying theological vision of the Chronicler. Some of my readers may not be aware of how very different the books of Chronicles are from the books of Kings, and this commentary helps underscore and interpret these differences as being loaded with theological import rather than evidence against the divine ispiration of both groups of books. The books of Chronicles are full of lists and genealogies, and the technical bent of this commentary proves helpful in catpuring what is being communicated theologically by the Chronicler. The material is presented in a clear way and remains accessible to a wide variety of readers. I recommend this book for anyone who desires to study the books of Chronicles. I'm confident that it will prove helpful and steer you right.Disclaimer:This book was provided by Tyndale House Publishers. I was under no obligation to offer a favorable review.

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    1 & 2 Chronicles - The Navigators

    Introduction

    THE BOOKS OF 1 AND 2 CHRONICLES

    A Chosen Nation, a Privileged Mission

    What do you do when life isn’t turning out the way you expected it would? What if there seems to be a disconnect between the life the Bible promises and the life you actually have? You’re struggling with confusion and disappointment, and trying to hold onto faith. This is the situation the books of 1 and 2 Chronicles were written to address.

    A disappointed nation

    In 450-400 BC, a fragile community of Jews lives in the southern part of the Promised Land. Judah isn’t a free nation but an insignificant backwater ruled by the Persian Empire. The Jews have a temple in Jerusalem, but it is a poor shadow of the magnificent temple that stood there for centuries before the Babylonians turned it to rubble. That catastrophe is 150 years in the past now, a distant legend, but the Jews are still trying to make sense of it.

    The prophets wrote that after God let the Babylonians destroy Jerusalem and take the Jews into exile, He would restore Israel to its former glory. Yet the great-grandparents of today’s Jews returned from exile a hundred years ago, and it would be laughable to call their little nation glorious. Harvests are sometimes terrible. Persia demands taxes to fund its wars with Greece. Those two superpowers have impressive, well-funded religions that overshadow Judah’s worship of her God. Just north of Judah, the Samaritans practice an odious religion that mixes the old faith of Israel with paganism. And to cap it all off, the Jews themselves are constantly squabbling with one another.

    They wonder, where is God? Is He greater than the gods of the superpowers? Are the Jews truly heirs to God’s promises? How should they worship? Is there any hope of a king descended from the great King David?

    A pastor’s heart

    An educated Jew, a member of the priestly tribe of Levi, and possibly a priest himself, has a pastor’s heart to respond to such questions. He is steeped in the Bible from Genesis through Kings, and he sees God’s hand in the whole history of his people. This pastor wants them to step back from their day-to-day frustrations and see the big story they are part of. We don’t know his name; we call him simply the Chronicler. He writes an account of God and His people from Adam to the exile, to help the people of his generation understand who God is and what He is up

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