"There is an unholy mixture of God, sex, and violence in the whole environment
that the book describes. It is intriguing, therefore, to read that in the author's own
turning to God in the midst of the horror of it all, he not only took comfort in the
Psalms as a pathway to the God of love but also ... The two loves—of God and of
neighbor—are bound up with each other, ... God of repression is bound up with
repression of one human bei ..."
1 and 2 Kings (Understanding the Bible Commentary Series) by IainW. Provan 320 Pages, Published 2012 by Baker Books ISBN-13: 978-1-4412-3830-6, ISBN: 1-4412-3830-1