Even though I’ve signed off on statements that include some form of the word “inerrant” I nevertheless feel no great compulsion to invest much effort into defending it. It was your word, not mine. Yet even so --I’ll just give this brief reply: I like what I heard from others recently about the bible being true in all that it affirms. So that leaves us to determine what all we should be expected to learn from the Chronicles. Apparently all the nitpicky factoids to cross-check against other books did not make the cut. Sorry. It is very illustrative, however, about how the divine perspective can overlay some of the less charitable accounts of the same things seen in less flattering ways – a contrast that surely would not have been lost on the original Hebrew authors even if it is now lost on you. It could be very instructive for us today to about what we should or should not be trying to get out of O.T. works.
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