1 Samuel-2 Chronicles : English Standard Version

Designed to strengthen the global church with a widely accessible, theologically sound, and pastorally wise resource for understanding and applying the overarching storyline of the Bible, this commentary series features the full text of the ESV Bible passage by passage, with crisp and theologically rich exposition and application. Editors Iain M. Duguid, James M. Hamilton Jr., and Jay Sklar have gathered a team of experienced pastor-theologians to provide a new generation of pastors and other teachers of the Bible around the world with a globally minded commentary series rich in biblical theology and broadly Reformed doctrine, making the message of redemption found in all of Scripture clear and available to all.

Contributors to this volume include:

John L. Mackay
Gary Millar
John Olley

• Features passage-by-passage commentary on the books of John and Acts, taking a biblical-theological and broadly Reformed approach to interpreting and applying the text
• Contributions by John L. Mackay (1–2 Samuel), Gary Millar (1–2 Kings), and John Olley (1–2 Chronicles)
• Includes introductions to each book, featuring an outline, key themes, author and date information, literary features, relationship to the rest of the Bible, and interpretive challenges
• Characterized by sound exegesis, biblical theology, global awareness, accessible application, and pastoral usefulness 
• Bound with durable, high-quality simulated leather stretched over board

Iain M. Duguid (PhD, University of Cambridge) is professor of Old Testament and dean of online learning at Westminster Theological Seminary. He is the author of numerous commentaries and articles, including Turning the World Upside Down. In addition to his academic work, he has been a pastor and church planter for over thirty years, having planted churches in England, California, and Pennsylvania.

James M. Hamilton Jr. (PhD, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) is professor of biblical theology at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and preaching pastor at Kenwood Baptist Church.

Jay Sklar (PhD, University of Gloucestershire) is professor of Old Testament at Covenant Theological Seminary. For 25 years, he has been writing and teaching on the Bible’s first five books. 

John L. Mackay (1948–2018) was principal emeritus and professor of Hebrew and Old Testament Studies at Edinburgh Theological Seminary. He was also an ordained minister in the Free Church of Scotland.

Gary Millar (DPhil, Oxford) is principal of Queensland Theological College in Australia. He also served as a pastor in Ireland for seventeen years. He has written several books, including Now Choose Life: Theology and Ethics in Deuteronomy, and contributed to the ESV Men’s Study Bible and the ESV Expository Commentary series.