Now the Books of Kings have a great commentary. Never has Kings been served as well as most other OT books. Especially that is the case with good conservative commentaries. We’ve had the NAC volume and not much else. Now this volume goes straight from the printing press to pride of place with a bullet.

The Introduction is a masterpiece. I’ve reviewed several commentaries and I’d say it’s barely one out of thirty that so unravels the idea of the book as Oswalt did. The trees are fine here, but the forest is exquisite. There’s no section on structure per se, but the biblical theology is so apropos that you get the best that a discussion of structure could ever provide. I love it not because I agree with it, though I do, but because it’s so masterfully explained. You can feel the excitement and only love Kings better.

The commentary is obviously the work of a master. Can you believe all the time that’s passed since his beloved Isaiah came out? There’s no rust; just excellent exegesis. If you forced me to list a negative feature, maybe a few of the passages are a bit too brief, but it’s not enough to lower it’s high rating.

I love Kings. The Elijah/Elisha section is spectacular. Oswalt doesn’t miss that section’s prominence in the design of Kings either.

For me, this one is a treat. It’s no gamble to say you’ll think the same thing.

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