1 and 2 Chronicles

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MITCHEL MODINE is an ordained Elder in the Church of the Nazarene. He has taught Old Testament at Asia-Pacific Nazarene Theological Seminary since 2008. He is the author of several scholarly and popular articles, along with three books, including Jeremiah 26-52, also in the New Beacon Bible Commentary series.