Rather, the description reflects a peculiar Chronistic view of the vicissitudes of the Lord’s worship, which diverges considerably from that of the Deuteronomist. Its leading principle is that of the mutual exclusivity of idolatry and the worship of the Lord, and entails the complete cancellation of the one during the prevalence of the other (cf. also on II Chron. 24.7, and Japhet, Ideology, 203–16). The accounts of the closing down of the Temple in Ahaz’ time and its reopening, purification and the restoration of the Lord’s service in Hezekiah’s time are all the work of the Chronicler, their
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