1 Kings 12-22 - Concordia Commentary

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(9 11 13 1)>Continue your study of 1 Kings with Rev. Dr. Walter A. Maier III's second volume.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(9 11 13 1)>David implores his son Solomon to keep the charge of the Lord your God walking in his ways and keeping his statutes. [1 Kings 2:3] This wisdom proves to be a struggle for the subsequent kings of Israel as chronicled in 1 Kings. Nonetheless the glimpses of these kings are selective as Maier argues that 1 Kings was written more for the sake of its theology than its history. He notes the emphasis given to themes of Jerusalem as political and religious center of God's covenant with Israel and of each ruler's relation to God. Maier focuses especially on the issues of syncretism presented in 1 Kings considering its disastrous effects on Israel and its dangers to the church even today.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(9 11 13 1)>Features</span></p><ul><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(9 11 13 1)>A chronology of kings</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(9 11 13 1)>Christological lenses of prophet priest and king in 1 Kings</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(9 11 13 1)>Extra-biblical texts as evidence of the events in 1 Kings</span></li></ul><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(9 11 13 1)>About the Series</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(9 11 13 1)>The Concordia Commentary Series: A Theological Exposition of Sacred Scripture is written to enable pastors and teachers of the Word to proclaim the Gospel with greater insight clarity and faithfulness to the divine intent of the Biblical text.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(9 11 13 1)>The series will cover all the canonical books of the Old and New Testament with an original translation and meticulous grammatical analysis of the Hebrew Aramaic or Greek of each text. The foremost interpretive lens centers on the unified proclamation of the person and work of Christ across every Scriptural book.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(9 11 13 1)>The Commentary fully affirms the divine inspiration inerrancy and authority of Scripture; Each passage bears witness to the confession that God has reconciled the world to Himself through the incarnation ministry death resurrection and ascension of Christ His Son.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(9 11 13 1)>Authors expose the rich treasury of language imagery and thematic content of the Scripture while supplementing their work with additional research in archaeology history and extrabiblical literature. Throughout God's Word emanates from authors careful attention and inculcates the ongoing life of the Church in Word Sacrament and daily confession.</span></p><p></p><p></p>