By William Johnstone
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Again a word is used that is of central significance in C's presentation: 'storehouses'. It is the storehouses in the Temple that provide the index of Israel's fulfilment of its obligations towards God (cf. 1 Chron. 26); the royal storehouses can be held to discharge an analogous function with regard to the people's fulfilment of their obligations towards God's representative on earth, the Davidic king (cf. 1 Chron. 25). The weapons listed are 'shields and spears', the basic items of the infantryman's defensive and offensive armour (cf.
But, laid up in Temple and palace as the tribute and tokens of recognition paid by the leaders of the nations of the world to Solomon, they acknowledge God's status as the overlord of the nations of the world and their status as his vassals; the shields become the symbols of the peace on earth imposed by the LORD as the sovereign over all. Their 2 Chronicles 10-12 45 removal thus symbolizes the rejection of this claim to sovereignty, subordination and the taking over of this claim by the gods of the victorious Egyptians.
41, one of the key passages on ma'al: it marks the first step on the costly road back towards rehabilitation (see 2 Chronicles 10-12 43 on 2 Chron. 14). The sentence is only mitigated: 'I will not destroy them' uses the techical term for God's punitive action in the 'negative Passover' after David's presumptuous census in 1 Chron. 12, 15; 'I will allow a few of them to survive as a remnant'. What that few is, is defined in the next phrase, 'my fury will not be poured out on Jerusalem' (though ultimately it will be, 2 Chron.