2 Chronicles, Volume 15 (15) (Word Biblical Commentary)

✍ Scribed by Raymond B. Dillard, David Allen Hubbard (editor), Glenn W. Barker (editor)

• Publisher: Zondervan Academic
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 348
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The Word Biblical Commentary delivers the best in biblical scholarship, from the leading scholars of our day who share a commitment to Scripture as divine revelation. This series emphasizes a thorough analysis of textual, linguistic, structural, and theological evidence. The result is judicious and balanced insight into the meanings of the text in the framework of biblical theology. These widely acclaimed commentaries serve as exceptional resources for the professional theologian and instructor, the seminary or university student, the working minister, and everyone concerned with building theological understanding from a solid base of biblical scholarship.

Overview of Commentary Organization

• Introduction—covers issues pertaining to the whole book, including context, date, authorship, composition, interpretive issues, purpose, and theology.
• Each section of the commentary includes:
• Pericope Bibliography—a helpful resource containing the most important works that pertain to each particular pericope.
• Translation—the author’s own translation of the biblical text, reflecting the end result of exegesis and attending to Hebrew and Greek idiomatic usage of words, phrases, and tenses, yet in reasonably good English.
• Notes—the author’s notes to the translation that address any textual variants, grammatical forms, syntactical constructions, basic meanings of words, and problems of translation.
• Form/Structure/Setting—a discussion of redaction, genre, sources, and tradition as they concern the origin of the pericope, its canonical form, and its relation to the biblical and extra-biblical contexts in order to illuminate the structure and character of the pericope. Rhetorical or compositional features important to understanding the passage are also introduced here.
• Comment—verse-by-verse interpretation of the text and dialogue with other interpreters, engaging with current opinion and scholarly research.
• Explanation—brings together all the results of the discussion in previous sections to expose the meaning and intention of the text at several levels: (1) within the context of the book itself; (2) its meaning in the OT or NT; (3) its place in the entire canon; (4) theological relevance to broader OT or NT issues.
  • General Bibliography—occurring at the end of each volume, this extensive bibliographycontains all sources used anywhere in the commentary.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright page
Dedication
Contents
Author’s Preface
Editorial Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
Main Bibliography
Text and Commentary
The Chronicler’s Solomon (2 Chr 1–9)
Solomon’s Request for Wisdom (1:1–17)
Solomon Arranges for Materials and Workmen (1:18–2:17 [2:1–18])
The Temple Building (3:1–17)
The Temple Furnishings (4:1–5:1)
The Installation of the Ark (5:2–14)
The Dedicatory Speeches (6:1–42)
Dedicatory Festival and Divine Response (7:1–22)
Solomonic Miscellany: More Dealings With Hiram, Building Projects, Cultic Observances (8:1–18)
More On Solomon’s Wealth and Wisdom; His Death (9:1–31)
Reward and Punishment In Chronicles: The Theology of Immediate Retribution (2 Chr 10–36)
The Schism (10:1–19)
The Reign of Rehoboam, 931–913 B.C. (11:1–12:16)
The Reign of Abijah, 913–911/10 B.C. (13:1–23 [14:1])
The Reign of Asa, 911/10–870/69 B.C. (14:1[2]–16:14)
The Chronicler’s Jehoshaphat, 872–848 B.C. (2 Chr 17–20)
Jehoshaphat, Faithful and Blessed (17:1–19)
Jehoshaphat’s Involvement With Ahab (18:1–19:3)
Jehoshaphat’s Judicial Reform (19:4–11)
Jehoshaphat’s Battle Near Tekoa; His Death (20:1–21:1)
The Reign of Jehoram, 853–841 B.C. (21:2–20)
The Reign of Ahaziah, 841 B.C. (22:1–9)
The Reign of Athaliah, 841–835 B.C.; Jehoiada’s Coup (22:10–23:21)
The Reign of Joash, 835–796 B.C. (25:1–28)
The Reign of Amaziah, 796–767 B.C. (25:1–28)
The Reign of Uzziah, 792/91–740/39 B.C. (26:1–23)
The Reign of Jotham, 750–732/31 B.C. (27:1–9)
The Reign of Ahaz, 735–716/15 B.C. (28:1–27)
The Chronicler’s Hezekiah, 716/15–687/86 B.C. (2 Chr 29–32)
Hezekiah Cleanses the Temple (29:1–36)
Hezekiah’s Passover (30:1–27)
Hezekiah’s Provision for the Temple and Its Personnel (31:1–21)
Hezekiah’s Victory and Illness (32:1–33)
Manasseh, 697/96–643/42, and Amon, 643/42–641/40 (33:1–25)
Josiah, 641–609 B.C.: His Reform (34:1–33)
Josiah’s Passover; His Death (35:1–36:1)
The Last Kings of Judah, 609–598 B.C.; Cyrus’s Decree (36:2–23)
Indexes
Index of Authors Cited
Index of Principal Subjects
Index of Biblical Texts