{1 Ch[ronicles] 22: 8-11}[21st March 1990]

[Redbook7:97][19900321:1732]{1 Ch[ronicles] 22: 8-11}[21st March 1990]

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1 Ch[ronicles] marks a literary* turning-point in the O[ld] T[estament]** history of Israel: David is credited with believing that he is not to build the Temple because (Yahweh has told him): ‘You have shed much blood and fought great wars; it is not for you to build a house for my name, since you have shed much blood in my sight on earth’. The Temple is to be built by Solomon, for ‘He will be a man of peace’ says Yahweh.***

([The] N[ew] J[erusalem] B[ible] suggests that Chronicles was written at about the beginning of the Greek period, before c300BC[E]: in that historical sense, it is presumably not such a turning-point!)

*[Word inserted contemporaneously; underlining inserted subsequently]

**[Underlining inserted subsequently]

***1 Ch[ronicles] 22:8-11 (N[ew] J[erusalem] B[ible])

****N[ew] J[erusalem] B[ible].506

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