Listening Notes by Ralph W. Klein

Josianic DTR: 15aα She declared to them…15b Tell the man who sent you to me: 18aβb Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel [regarding] the words that you have heard….

Hypothetical original form of oracle: "obey, it is of God."

20b They took the message back to the king.

Revision--Royal focus: 19 because your heart was penitent, and you humbled yourself before the LORD, when you heard how I spoke against this place, and against its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and because you have torn your clothes and wept before me, I also have heard you, says the LORD. 20 Therefore, I will gather you to your ancestors, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace; your eyes shall not see all the disaster that I will bring on this place.

Revision-National focus: 16 Thus says the LORD, I will indeed bring disaster on this place and on its inhabitants--all the words of the book that the king of Judah has read. 17 Because they have abandoned me and have made offerings to other gods, so that they have provoked me to anger with all the work of their hands, therefore my wrath will be kindled against this place, and it will not be quenched. 18 But as to the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD, thus you shall say to him

Late Dtr revision: 15aβ Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel

Pattern A Extension of the Prophetic Record from Jehu to Hoshea

Pattern B Hezekian King List (Rehoboam to Hezekiah): [1 Kgs 14:21a, 22a, 23aα, 25-28, 31 (Rehoboam); 15:3a., 8 (Abijam), 11-12a. 14a, 24 (Asa); 22:43, 50 (Jehoshaphat); 2 Kgs 8:18, 20-22 (?), 24 (Joram), 27 (Ahaziah), 12:2-3, 20-21 (Joash), 14:3-5, 19-21 ((Amaziah),), 15:3-5, 7 (Azariah), 34-35a, 37-38 (Jotham), 16:2b-3a, 5-9, 20 (Ahaz); 18:3-5a, 7-8 (Hezekiah)]

Pattern C Northern kings within the Prophetic Record, from Jeroboam I to Joram (p. 33); the pattern itself comes from the Josianic Deuteronomistic Historian (p. 324)

Pattern B/C Manasseh, Amon, and Josiah

Pattern D last four kings of Judah

Elements in Patterns C (Jeroboam I to Joram) and A (Jehu to Hoshea)

1. king did evil in the sight of the LORD
2. In the manner of Jeroboam
3. Who made Israel to sin
4. Reference to this king's sins
5. The king did not depart from these sins (Pattern A and last king in Pattern C)
6. The king walked in the way of or in the sins of a predecessor (five or six kings in Pattern C, but also one king in Pattern A)
7. More evil than all who were before him
8. Which he sinned or in his sin (absent in Pattern A and in last three kings in Pattern C)
9. To provoke to anger (absent in Pattern A and with last king in Pattern C)

1 Kgs 14:15-16 exilic national focus document (1)

1 Kgs 15:30; 16:13, 19, 33b exilic royal focus document (4)

1 Kgs 15:26, 34; 16:25-26; 22:53-54; 2 Kgs 3:2-3 Josianic Deuteronomistic History (4)

Pattern B for Rehoboam to Hezekiah—non removal of high places

Pattern B/C for polar opposites Manasseh-Amon vs. Josiah

Pattern D post Josiah—no mention of high places since Josiah had finally eliminated them.

Pattern C (Jeroboam I to Joram) and A (Jehu to Hoshea) in north refer to sins of Jeroboam; changes in second half of northern monarchy begin with Joram twice and with Ahab once.