The Nation Chronicles: Book Two (The Nation Chronicles Trilogy 2)

✍ Scribed by Wendell Sweet

• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 119 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ASIN: B089FXL8F9

✦ Synopsis

Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Chronicles 1: Israel's Place within the Human Family; 1 Chronicles 2.1-2: Preview of 1 Chronicles 2-8; 1 Chronicles 2.3-4.23: Judah and the House of David; 1 Chronicles 4.24-5.2: Simeon; 1 Chronicles 5.3-26: The East Bank Tribes: Reuben, Gad and Half-Manasseh; 1 Chronicles 6: Levi; 1 Chronicles 7-9: The West Bank Tribes and Jerusalem; 1 Chronicles 7.1-5: Issachar; 1 Chronicles 7.6-13: Benjamin (1) with Naphtali; 1 Chronicles 7.14-19: Manasseh; 1 Chronicles 7.20-29: Ephraim; 1 Chronicles 7.30-40: Asher; 1 Chronicles 8: Benjamin (2).;This two-part commentary argues that Chronicles, placed as it is among the 'historical books' in the traditional Old Testament of the Christian church, is much misunderstood. Restored to its proper position as the final book in the canon as arranged in the order of the Hebrew Bible, it is rather to be understood as a work of theology essentially directed towards the future. The Chronicler begins his work with the problem facing the whole human race in Adam-the forfeiture of the ideal of perfect oneness with God's purpose. He explores the possibility of the restoration of that ideal through Isr.