... telling people to destroy fruit trees. These violations wouldn't have been inserted by the writer of Kings unless he was quoting from some other material. It is too out of character for the writer. This pericope was written very consistently and well, even if there is doubt as to when and how it came to be. It is a very well laid ... the paragraphs should be made, with divisions at verses 5b, 8, 15,19b, and 25. Finally, this passage was never quoted directly in either the rest of the Old Testament or in the New Testament. (Archer, nowhere) It was alluded to once in Luke 4:27 where Jesus...

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