From the moment a king crosses the borders of the land of Israel, he leaves the orbit of the Chronicler’s interest. Even Jehoiachin’s favourable fortune and his rehabilitation in Babylon (II Kings 25.27–30) are of no interest to the Chronicler. This consistent line of adaptation, executed with different techniques and with a varying degree of intervention in his source material, is a telling expression of the centrality of the land in the Chronicler’s overall view of history: the arena of the history of Israel is the land of Israel; whatever happens outside it is beyond the Chronicler’s
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