2 Chronicles 17:7

THE LAW OF JEHOVAH; THE TORAH, (GENESIS; EXODUS; LEVITICUS; NUMBERS; AND DEUTERONOMY) WAS TAUGHT BY THE PRINCES TO ALL JUDAH

"Also in the third year of his reign he sent his princes, even Ben-hail, and Obadiah, and Zechariah, and Nethanel, and Micaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah; and with them the Levites, even Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, and Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Sheminamoth, and Jehonathan, and Adonijah, and Tobijah, and Tob-adonijah the Levites; and with them Elishama, and Jehoram the priests. And they taught in Judah HAVING THE BOOK OF THE LAW OF JEHOVAH WITH THEM; and they went about through all the cities of Judah, and taught among the people."

Because of the clause which we have capitalized, this is one of the most important passages in Chronicles. Right here is the reason radical critics have extended themselves so unreasonably in their efforts to discredit Chronicles. Here is dependable, historical proof of the continued existence of the Torah from the days of Moses throughout the history of Israel. As Keil stated it, "The book of the law of Jehovah is the Pentateuch, not merely a collection of Mosaic laws, since in Jehoshaphat's time the Mosaic Book of the Law (the Pentateuch) had been long in existence."[1] We shall not take the space to repeat the vociferous denials of critics, except to cite one knee-jerk remark that characterizes all of them, "Such action was not taken in Jehoshaphat's time."[2] What is the basis of such a blatant denial of what God's Word states as a fact? even giving the very names of the royal princes who did the teaching. THERE IS NONE. No matter what unbelievers say, this chapter IS the historical record of what happened in the reign of Jehoshaphat; and those who live two and one half millenniums afterward have nothing of value by which they may challenge it. Then why do men deny it? The false theories they have invented are here contradicted, forcing them either to give up their false theories, or to deny the Sacred Scriptures that contradict them.