Doctrine Analysis: 2 Chronicles (English → French)

Purpose

This is the full-book doctrine matrix for the 2 Chronicles curriculum, required by PRD Phase 1 to span every chapter, first to last, so that no chapter’s doctrinal or terminological content is silently omitted. The core passage (7:11–22) is the theological anchor of the curriculum, not its scope boundary. Risk tiers, doctrine names, and review routing are locked to assets/doctrine_risk_registry.json and must not be altered here; this document exists to show, chapter by chapter, where each registry doctrine is load-bearing across the whole book, and to explicitly log chapters that carry no new doctrinal or terminological weight.

Sixteen doctrines are tracked, matching the registry exactly:

#	Doctrine	Risk
1	Temple Worship and God’s Presence	Critical
2	Conditional Blessing and National Repentance	Critical
3	Faithful and Unfaithful Kings	High
4	Reform under Hezekiah and Josiah	High
5	The Exile as Covenant Consequence	High
6	Idolatry and Covenant Betrayal	High
7	Passover and National Renewal	High
8	Hope of Restoration	Medium
9	Divine Choice of the Temple / Sovereign Election of Worship Site	Medium
10	Davidic Covenant (Dynastic Continuity)	Medium
11	Priesthood and Levitical Service	Medium
12	Prayer and Temple Intercession	Medium
13	Providence over the Nations	Medium
14	The Name Theology	Medium
15	Prophetic Warning and Accountability	Medium
16	Wisdom and Godly Rule	Low

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Chapter-by-Chapter Doctrine Matrix

Chapters 1 (Solomon’s Wisdom at Gibeon)

Doctrine	Supporting Passages	Risk	Translation Risk Note	Review Routing
Wisdom and Godly Rule	1:7-12	Low	”Sagesse” stable; ensure it reads as divine gift, not innate cleverness.	Automated review
Divine Choice of the Temple (precursor)	1:3-6 (Gibeon “high place,” legitimate pre-temple worship)	Medium	Gibeon’s “bamah” is legitimate here — glossary flags the semantic shift to illegitimate rival worship from ch. 14 onward; must not retroactively read this occurrence as apostasy.	Native speaker review

Chapters 2–4 (Temple Preparation and Architecture)

Doctrine	Supporting Passages	Risk	Translation Risk Note	Review Routing
Temple Worship and God’s Presence	2:4; 3:1-17; 4:1-22	Critical	”A house for my name” (2:4) introduces the Name theology; cherubim, veil, Most Holy Place terminology (ch. 3) must avoid unglossed Catholic devotional overtones (“Saint des Saints”).	Human theologian
The Name Theology	2:4	Medium	Guard against “nom” reading as bare label rather than covenantal self-commitment.	Native speaker review

Chapter 5 (Ark Brought In; Glory Fills the Temple)

Doctrine	Supporting Passages	Risk	Translation Risk Note	Review Routing
Temple Worship and God’s Presence	5:1-14	Critical	”Cloud” (la nuée) and “glory” (gloire) must read as theophanic divine presence, not meteorological/metaphorical description. Ark of the covenant term flagged for colloquial “Noah’s ark” confusion risk in isolated teaching text.	Human theologian

Chapter 6 (Solomon’s Dedication Speech and Prayer)

Doctrine	Supporting Passages	Risk	Translation Risk Note	Review Routing
Davidic Covenant	6:14-17	Medium	Earthly, historical throne promise; must not be collapsed directly into the fulfilled Christological “Messie” without typological framing the text does not yet supply.	Native speaker review
Prayer and Temple Intercession	6:19-40	Medium	Direct, unmediated divine hearing “from heaven”; must be distinguished from Catholic saints’ intercession devotional practice.	Native speaker review
Conditional Blessing and National Repentance (literary precursor to 7:14)	6:24-39 (sin, turning, confession, forgiveness pattern)	Critical	Same shuv/salach vocabulary as 7:14; render consistently with the core-passage rendering established for ch. 7.	Human theologian

Chapter 7 (Dedication, Fire from Heaven, God’s Appearance to Solomon) — CORE PASSAGE

Doctrine	Supporting Passages	Risk	Translation Risk Note	Review Routing
Temple Worship and God’s Presence	7:1-3, 7, 16	Critical	Fire from heaven, glory filling the temple, burnt offerings (“sacrifice entièrement consumé,” never “holocauste”).	Human theologian
Conditional Blessing and National Repentance	7:13-14	Critical	The book’s theological hinge; “s’humilier,” “se détourner de,” “pardonner,” “guérir leur pays” must each carry the exact senses fixed in 08_core_glossary.md Table 2.	Human theologian
Davidic Covenant	7:18	Medium	”Descendance de David” — throne promise conditioned on obedience (7:17-18).	Native speaker review
The Exile as Covenant Consequence	7:19-22	High	”Se détourner” (negative valence) must be visibly distinguished from its positive-valence use two verses earlier (7:14); this is the book’s earliest statement of the exile doctrine, in advance of its narrative fulfillment (ch. 36).	Human theologian
The Name Theology	7:16	Medium	”Mon nom là pour toujours” — covenantal, not nominal, presence.	Native speaker review
Divine Choice of the Temple	7:12, 16	Medium	”Choisi et sanctifié” — sovereign designation of place; keep distinct from baseline’s “élection” (of persons) controversy while preserving sovereign-not-merit logic.	Native speaker review
Passover and National Renewal	7:8-10 (Feast of Tabernacles at dedication establishes festival vocabulary reused at Passover)	High	Festival vocabulary set here is reused at 30:1-27 and 35:1-19; consistency required.	Human theologian

Chapter 8 (Solomon’s Building Projects and Administration)

Reviewed — no new doctrinal or terminological content. Administrative and building-project material (fortified cities, forced labor policy, Solomon’s fleet). No registry doctrine is newly load-bearing here beyond established Table 1 baseline terms (e.g., incidental references to burnt offerings at 8:12-13, already covered under Temple Worship and God’s Presence). No new translation risk introduced.

Chapter 9 (Queen of Sheba; Solomon’s Wealth and Glory)

Doctrine	Supporting Passages	Risk	Translation Risk Note	Review Routing
Wisdom and Godly Rule	9:1-8, 22-24	Low	Solomon’s wisdom as God-given standard.	Automated review
Temple Worship and God’s Presence (glory-distinction cross-reference)	9:1-8 (Solomon’s derivative “gloire”)	High	Human/royal “gloire” (splendor, wealth) must be visibly distinguished in teaching notes from divine presence-glory (ch. 5, 7) — same French word, different referent; flagged per 08_core_glossary.md Table 2 #22.	Human theologian

Chapters 10–12 (Division of the Kingdom; Rehoboam)

Doctrine	Supporting Passages	Risk	Translation Risk Note	Review Routing
Faithful and Unfaithful Kings	10:1-19; 11:1-4, 13-17; 12:1	High	Political rebellion (מָרַד) framed as providentially permitted judgment, not mere political history.	Human theologian
Idolatry and Covenant Betrayal	12:1 (“forsook the law of the LORD”)	High	”Abandonner” must carry covenant-betrayal weight, not mere neglect.	Human theologian
Conditional Blessing and National Repentance	12:6-7, 12 (Rehoboam and princes humble themselves; partial judgment averted)	Critical	First narrative enactment of the 7:14 pattern; “s’humilier” must render identically to ch. 7’s usage for thematic traceability.	Human theologian

Chapters 13–16 (Abijah; Asa)

Doctrine	Supporting Passages	Risk	Translation Risk Note	Review Routing
Faithful and Unfaithful Kings	13:4-12; 14:2-8; 16:7-9	High	Asa’s reliance on Ben-Hadad instead of the LORD (16:7-9) is the paradigm case of “s’appuyer sur” (rely on) misdirected trust.	Human theologian
Davidic Covenant	13:5, 8	Medium	”Descendance de David” reused identically.	Native speaker review
Idolatry and Covenant Betrayal	14:3-5 (Asa removes idols and Asherah poles)	High	”Ashéra” retained as named technical term, not generic “idole.”	Human theologian

Chapters 17–20 (Jehoshaphat)

Doctrine	Supporting Passages	Risk	Translation Risk Note	Review Routing
Faithful and Unfaithful Kings	17:3-6; 19:1-3	High	”Chercher l’Éternel” (17:4) rendered identically across all book occurrences.	Human theologian
Prophetic Warning and Accountability	18:1-27 (Micaiah vs. false prophets)	Medium	Avoid “voyant” for the seer-title vocabulary; true/false prophecy contrast must remain clear.	Native speaker review
Prayer and Temple Intercession	20:5-12	Medium	Jehoshaphat’s temple-court prayer, answered directly; distinguish from saint-intercession devotional practice.	Native speaker review
Wisdom and Godly Rule	17:3-6 (walk in the ways of David)	Low	”Marcher devant” idiom.	Automated review

Chapters 21–22 (Jehoram; Ahaziah)

Doctrine	Supporting Passages	Risk	Translation Risk Note	Review Routing
Faithful and Unfaithful Kings	21:6, 12-15; 22:3-4	High	Marriage alliance with Ahab’s house drives apostasy; “infidélité” (ma’al)-level breach, not generic sin.	Human theologian
Idolatry and Covenant Betrayal	21:11 (high places), 22:3 (counsel to do evil)	High	”Haut lieu” here is illegitimate (post-ch.14 sense); gloss the shift for students.	Human theologian
Davidic Covenant	21:7	Medium	God preserves the Davidic line despite the king’s unfaithfulness — the covenant’s unilateral, promise-keeping dimension.	Native speaker review

Chapters 23–24 (Joash)

Doctrine	Supporting Passages	Risk	Translation Risk Note	Review Routing
Faithful and Unfaithful Kings	23:1-21; 24:1-2, 17-22	High	Joash’s anointing (23:11) uses “l’oint,” never “le Messie”; his later apostasy after Jehoiada’s death is a full ma’al-level reversal.	Human theologian
Temple Worship and God’s Presence	24:4-14 (temple repair)	Critical	Temple restoration language reuses ch. 29’s vocabulary register; keep consistent.	Human theologian
Prophetic Warning and Accountability	24:19-22 (murder of Zechariah the prophet)	Medium	Must retain the gravity of killing a prophet within the temple courts; do not soften “stoned” or the location.	Native speaker review

Chapter 25 (Amaziah)

Doctrine	Supporting Passages	Risk	Translation Risk Note	Review Routing
Faithful and Unfaithful Kings	25:1-2, 14-16, 27	High	Mixed reign; partial obedience followed by idolatry (worship of Edom’s gods) — must not read as wholly faithful.	Human theologian
Idolatry and Covenant Betrayal	25:14-16	High	Direct causal link drawn between idolatry and subsequent military defeat; preserve the causal “therefore.”	Human theologian
Prophetic Warning and Accountability	25:7-9, 15-16	Medium	Unnamed prophet’s warning rejected; “prophète” not “voyant.”	Native speaker review

Chapter 26 (Uzziah)

Doctrine	Supporting Passages	Risk	Translation Risk Note	Review Routing
Faithful and Unfaithful Kings	26:4-5, 16	High	”Infidélité” (ma’al, 26:16) at the hinge of the chapter — pride leading to covenant-trust violation, not generic wrongdoing.	Human theologian
Priesthood and Levitical Service	26:16-18 (unauthorized incense offering)	Medium	”Encens” — priest-restricted offering; the who-may-approach-God boundary is the doctrinal point, not incense per se.	Native speaker review

Chapter 27 (Jotham)

Doctrine	Supporting Passages	Risk	Translation Risk Note	Review Routing
Faithful and Unfaithful Kings	27:1-6	High	Brief faithful reign; note that “the people still did corruptly” (27:2) — faithfulness of king does not automatically transfer to the nation.	Human theologian

Chapter 28 (Ahaz)

Doctrine	Supporting Passages	Risk	Translation Risk Note	Review Routing
Idolatry and Covenant Betrayal	28:1-4, 22-25	High	28:3’s child-sacrifice (“faire passer par le feu”) must retain its specific, horrifying referent; do not paraphrase vaguely.	Human theologian
Faithful and Unfaithful Kings	28:19, 22	High	”Infidélité” explicitly named twice in this chapter (מָעַל) — the Chronicler’s clearest statement of the technical term.	Human theologian
The Exile as Covenant Consequence (precursor)	28:5-8 (mass deportation by Israel/Aram as a foretaste)	High	Smaller-scale deportation prefigures ch. 36; keep judgment-framing explicit.	Human theologian

Chapters 29–32 (Hezekiah)

Doctrine	Supporting Passages	Risk	Translation Risk Note	Review Routing
Reform under Hezekiah and Josiah	29:1-36; 30:1-27; 31:1-21	High	”Consacrer/purifier” (temple cleansing, ch. 29); “dîme” (tithe, ch. 31) requires Ancien-Régime-avoidance gloss.	Human theologian
Temple Worship and God’s Presence	29:1-36	Critical	Every burnt-offering occurrence (29:7, 18, 24, 27-29, 32-35) must use “sacrifice entièrement consumé,” never “holocauste.”	Human theologian
Passover and National Renewal	30:1-27	High	”La Pâque,” never “Pâques”; invitation extended to the fallen northern kingdom’s remnant — unity theme must not be lost.	Human theologian
Priesthood and Levitical Service	31:2-19	Medium	Tithe and priestly divisions; distinguish from Catholic ecclesiastical-tax connotation.	Native speaker review
Prayer and Temple Intercession	32:20-24	Medium	Hezekiah’s prayer against Sennacherib, answered directly by God; his personal healing (32:24) is the individual-healing sense distinct from “heal the land” (7:14, national).	Native speaker review
Conditional Blessing and National Repentance	32:26 (Hezekiah humbles himself; wrath averted)	Critical	”S’humilier” rendered identically to 7:14 and 12:6-7.	Human theologian
Faithful and Unfaithful Kings	32:1, 24-31	High	Hezekiah’s pride episode (32:25-26) shows even a faithful king is not immune; nuance required.	Human theologian

Chapter 33 (Manasseh; Amon)

Doctrine	Supporting Passages	Risk	Translation Risk Note	Review Routing
Idolatry and Covenant Betrayal	33:1-9	High	Child sacrifice recurs (33:6); mediums and sorcery vocabulary must retain specific referents.	Human theologian
Conditional Blessing and National Repentance	33:12-13, 19, 23	Critical	Manasseh’s individual-scale humbling and restoration after captivity is the clearest small-scale enactment of the 7:14 pattern outside ch. 7 itself; contrast explicitly with Amon’s refusal to humble himself (33:23).	Human theologian
Faithful and Unfaithful Kings	33:21-25 (Amon)	High	Amon repeats Manasseh’s early apostasy without any repentance arc — a deliberate narrative foil.	Human theologian

Chapters 34–35 (Josiah)

Doctrine	Supporting Passages	Risk	Translation Risk Note	Review Routing
Reform under Hezekiah and Josiah	34:1-33; 35:1-19	High	”Le livre de la Loi” rediscovery (34:14-19) is the narrative climax of the reform doctrine; “Loi” capitalized per Table 1 convention.	Human theologian
Temple Worship and God’s Presence	34:8-13 (temple repair funding and execution)	Critical	Reuse ch. 29’s consecration/repair register for consistency.	Human theologian
Passover and National Renewal	35:1-19	High	”La Pâque,” never “Pâques”; largest Passover celebration in the book — festival vocabulary from 7:8-10 and 30:1-27 reused.	Human theologian
Conditional Blessing and National Repentance	34:27 (Josiah humbles himself on hearing the Law)	Critical	”S’humilier” rendered identically to all prior occurrences.	Human theologian

Chapter 36 (Last Kings; Fall of Jerusalem; Exile; Cyrus’s Decree)

Doctrine	Supporting Passages	Risk	Translation Risk Note	Review Routing
Faithful and Unfaithful Kings	36:1-16	High	Four kings in rapid, uniform decline — the doctrine’s darkest closing statement; “infidélité” and “abandonner” both recur (36:12, 14, 22 [cross-reference]).	Human theologian
Idolatry and Covenant Betrayal	36:14	High	Priests and people alike named as unfaithful — corporate, not merely royal, guilt.	Human theologian
The Exile as Covenant Consequence	36:11-21	High	”Exil/captivité” must retain covenant-judgment force, not read as neutral political relocation; explicit fulfillment of 7:19-22’s warning — cross-reference required.	Human theologian
Hope of Restoration	36:21-23	Medium	Land’s sabbath-rest terminus (36:21) and Cyrus’s decree (36:22-23) end the book on open, forward-looking hope; “providence” must not read as deist abstraction.	Native speaker review
Providence over the Nations	36:22-23	Medium	”L’Éternel réveilla l’esprit de Cyrus” — personal governance even over a pagan king’s will.	Native speaker review
Prophetic Warning and Accountability	36:12, 15-16, 21 (Jeremiah’s word fulfilled)	Medium	Fulfillment-of-prophecy framing links back to inspiration-of-Scripture doctrine in the baseline Romans package.	Native speaker review

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Consolidated Doctrine Summary (Full-Book Cross-Reference)

Doctrine	Risk	All Primary Chapters	Review Routing
Temple Worship and God’s Presence	Critical	2–5, 7–9, 24, 29, 31–32, 34–35	Human theologian
Conditional Blessing and National Repentance	Critical	6–7, 12, 30, 32–34, 36	Human theologian
Faithful and Unfaithful Kings	High	7, 9–14, 16–17, 19, 21–36 (nearly every regnal narrative)	Human theologian
Reform under Hezekiah and Josiah	High	29–31, 34–35	Human theologian
The Exile as Covenant Consequence	High	7, 28, 36	Human theologian
Idolatry and Covenant Betrayal	High	7, 12, 14, 21–22, 25, 28, 33, 36	Human theologian
Passover and National Renewal	High	7, 30, 35	Human theologian
Hope of Restoration	Medium	7, 36	Native speaker review
Divine Choice of the Temple / Sovereign Election of Worship Site	Medium	1, 7	Native speaker review
Davidic Covenant (Dynastic Continuity)	Medium	6–7, 13, 21, 23	Native speaker review
Priesthood and Levitical Service	Medium	8, 23, 26, 31	Native speaker review
Prayer and Temple Intercession	Medium	6–7, 20, 32	Native speaker review
Providence over the Nations	Medium	36	Native speaker review
The Name Theology	Medium	2, 6–7	Native speaker review
Prophetic Warning and Accountability	Medium	12, 18, 24–25, 36	Native speaker review
Wisdom and Godly Rule	Low	1, 9, 17	Automated review

Risk summary (matches doctrine_risk_registry.json exactly): Critical: 2 · High: 5 · Medium: 8 · Low: 1 · Total requiring theologian review: 7 · Total requiring native speaker review: 8 · Total automated-only: 1.

Full-book coverage confirmation: Every chapter of 2 Chronicles (1–36) has been reviewed above. Chapter 8 is explicitly logged as reviewed with no new doctrinal or terminological content beyond established baseline terms already covered elsewhere.

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This document extends, and does not contradict, assets/doctrine_risk_registry.json and analysis/08_core_glossary.md. It must be reloaded alongside those files and 12_ai_translation_requirements.md before any Phase 2 translation of 2 Chronicles content.

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Critical Risk Doctrines

Temple Worship and God’s Presence

French name: le culte au temple et la présence de Dieu
Key terms: burnt offering, glory, consecrate, ark of the covenant, the Name, cloud, Most Holy Place
Review routing: Human theologian

CRITICAL, France-specific: this doctrine’s central sacrificial term, עוֹלָה (‘burnt offering’), has traditionally been rendered ‘holocauste’ in French Bible translation, but that word is now overwhelmingly associated with the Shoah in contemporary French cultural memory. Teaching the temple’s sacrificial worship system while using ‘holocauste’ risks producing genuine distress or an involuntary, painful conflation for readers, especially given France’s significant Jewish community and WWII deportation history — a collision severe enough to defeat the doctrine’s intended meaning if not corrected. Secondary compounding risk: ‘consacrer’ and ‘Saint des Saints’ carry Catholic sacramental/Eucharistic overtones that can blur the architectural, one-time-dedication sense intended here.

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Conditional Blessing and National Repentance

French name: la bénédiction conditionnelle et la repentance nationale
Key terms: humble oneself, turn/repent, seek my face, forgive, heal the land, called by my name
Review routing: Human theologian

CRITICAL: this is the core-passage doctrine (7:14) and the book’s theological hinge, tested repeatedly across every subsequent king narrative. Three compounding France-specific risks converge here: (1) ‘s’humilier’ can be misread as a passive experience of being humiliated rather than the intended voluntary self-abasement before God; (2) ‘se convertir’ (a natural-seeming rendering of shuv) imports Catholic sacramental-confession mechanics (a formal, priest-mediated conversion event) into a text depicting unmediated corporate turning; (3) ‘pardonner’ here depicts direct divine forgiveness with no priestly mediator named, paralleling the baseline’s Critical Trent-versus-Reformation tension on grace and justification. Any of these three mistranslations would materially alter the doctrine’s unmediated, conditional-covenant structure.

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High Risk Doctrines

Faithful and Unfaithful Kings

French name: rois fidèles et infidèles
Key terms: walk before me, seek the LORD, unfaithfulness (ma’al), forsake, anointed one, rely on
Review routing: Human theologian

HIGH: this doctrine’s structural spine is the recurring technical term מָעַל (‘ma’al’), a covenant-trust-violation term distinct from ordinary sin, which if flattened to bare ‘péché’ loses the specific breach-of-trust weight the Chronicler intends across every negative king narrative. A second, distinct collision risk: the recurring royal title מָשִׁיחַ (‘l’oint’, of the reigning Davidic king) must not be rendered or read as ‘le Messie’, which the baseline reserves as the Critical-risk, capitalized title for the fulfilled Christ; conflating the two would import New Testament Christological weight into a dynastic-office narrative.

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Reform under Hezekiah and Josiah

French name: la réforme sous Ézéchias et Josias
Key terms: consecrate, cleanse, tithe, Passover, book of the Law, high place
Review routing: Human theologian

HIGH, two independent France-specific collisions converge in these reform chapters: (1) ‘la dîme’ (tithe, ch. 31) carries strong historical association with the compulsory ecclesiastical tax of the Ancien Régime, abolished in the 1789 Revolution and linked to feudal clerical grievance, which is foreign to the voluntary covenant-support concept in the text; (2) the reinstituted festival at the heart of both reforms is פֶּסַח, which MUST be rendered ‘la Pâque’ (no final ‘s’) and never ‘Pâques’ (with a final ‘s’, denoting Christian Easter) — a single-letter orthographic error changes the referent of the entire festival being taught.

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The Exile as Covenant Consequence

French name: l’exil comme conséquence de l’alliance
Key terms: exile/captivity, forsake, unfaithfulness (ma’al), pluck up by the roots, byword among the nations
Review routing: Human theologian

HIGH: modern French ‘exil’ carries strong contemporary connotations of political refuge or voluntary displacement (‘exilés politiques’) that risk softening the deliberate covenant-judgment force 7:19-22 and 36:17-21 intend; without explicit judgment-framing in teaching material, French readers may read the Babylonian deportation as a politically neutral relocation rather than the direct, predicted consequence of covenant unfaithfulness (מָעַל/forsaking) the text asserts.

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Idolatry and Covenant Betrayal

French name: l’idolâtrie et la trahison de l’alliance
Key terms: serve other gods, Asherah/sacred pillars, pass through the fire, turn away (shuv, negative valence)
Review routing: Human theologian

HIGH: the same Hebrew root (שׁוּב) used positively for repentance in 7:14 is used negatively for apostasy in 7:19 (‘turn away’ from God); French ‘se détourner de’ applied to both without explicit directional objects risks blurring the doctrine’s positive and negative poles into indistinguishable statements. A further risk: 28:3’s child-sacrifice language (‘pass through the fire’) must retain its specific, horrifying referent — a vague paraphrase would understate the moral extremity the doctrine requires readers to register before the subsequent reforms make sense.

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Passover and National Renewal

French name: la Pâque et le renouveau national
Key terms: Passover, Feast of Tabernacles, invite the remnant
Review routing: Human theologian

HIGH, France-specific orthographic trap: French ‘la Pâque’ (Jewish Passover, no final ‘s’) versus ‘Pâques’ (Christian Easter, with a final ‘s’) differ by a single letter but denote two entirely different religious observances. Given that Passover celebrations function in this book as the concrete enactment of national unity and restoration hope (30:1-27’s invitation to the fallen northern kingdom’s remnant), a single orthographic slip would misrepresent both the historical festival and the unity theme it carries.

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Medium Risk Doctrines

Hope of Restoration

French name: l’espérance de la restauration
Key terms: sabbath of the land, stirred the spirit of Cyrus, decree, heal the land
Review routing: Native speaker review

MEDIUM: the exile’s fixed terminus is explicitly tied to the land’s owed sabbatical rest (36:21), and its ending to God’s personal stirring of a pagan king’s will (36:22); French ‘la providence’ carries Enlightenment-deist connotations of an impersonal benevolent order that could flatten this into an abstract historical process rather than the personally interventionist divine governance the text depicts, even through a non-covenant king.

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Divine Choice of the Temple / Sovereign Election of Worship Site

French name: le choix divin du lieu de culte
Key terms: chosen and sanctified, house of sacrifice
Review routing: Native speaker review

MEDIUM: God’s sovereign designation of the temple site (בָּחַר, ‘choisir’) echoes the baseline’s caution on ‘élection’ (High risk in Romans for its political/democratic-election collision) but is here applied to a place rather than a person; teaching notes should preserve the sovereign-choice-not-merit logic without importing the full baseline election controversy, since the referent differs.

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Davidic Covenant (Dynastic Continuity)

French name: l’alliance davidique
Key terms: throne of your kingdom, seed of David, covenant with David
Review routing: Native speaker review

MEDIUM: this is the immediate dynastic-continuity promise, background to (but not identical with) the baseline’s fulfilled Christological ‘Messie’; French readers with low Old Testament literacy risk collapsing this earthly, historical throne promise directly into the eschatological Messiah without the typological framing the text itself does not yet supply.

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Priesthood and Levitical Service

French name: le sacerdoce et le service lévitique
Key terms: tithe, divisions/courses, incense
Review routing: Native speaker review

MEDIUM: the restricted-access boundary (only consecrated priests may offer incense, ch. 26) and the material-support system (tithe, ch. 31) both carry French-specific historical resonances (Catholic liturgical incense use; the Ancien Régime’s ‘dîme’ tax) that can distract from the text’s own organizational and access-boundary logic if left unglossed.

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Prayer and Temple Intercession

French name: la prière et l’intercession au temple
Key terms: hear from heaven, prayer made in this place, Hezekiah’s prayer
Review routing: Native speaker review

MEDIUM: prayer directed toward the temple, and answered directly by God from heaven with no named intermediary, must be distinguished in teaching contexts from the Catholic devotional practice of intercession of the saints, a distinction the baseline already flags as Medium risk for the New Testament material and which recurs here in an Old Testament, temple-focused form.

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Providence over the Nations

French name: la providence sur les nations
Key terms: stirred the spirit of Cyrus, decree of Cyrus
Review routing: Native speaker review

MEDIUM: God’s governance extending even over a pagan foreign king’s will is a providence text directly paralleling the baseline’s caution against Enlightenment-deist ‘la Providence’ as an impersonal benevolent order; here the personal, interventionist nature of that governance must be preserved even as it acts through a non-covenant ruler.

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The Name Theology (Divine Presence via the Name)

French name: la théologie du Nom
Key terms: a house for my name, my name there forever
Review routing: Native speaker review

MEDIUM: ‘le nom’ risks being read as a bare label rather than the mode of God’s own covenantal self-commitment to localized presence; requires teaching-note support to preserve the doctrine’s full theological weight.

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Prophetic Warning and Accountability

French name: l’avertissement prophétique et la responsabilité
Key terms: prophet, seer, prophecy
Review routing: Native speaker review

MEDIUM: the recurring Old Testament seer-titles (חֹזֶה/רֹאֶה) risk being rendered by the traditional French ‘voyant’, which the baseline already rejects for ‘prophet’ generally due to its fortune-teller/occult connotation; consistent avoidance of ‘voyant’ is required so this curriculum does not introduce a drift risk the baseline deliberately closed off.

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Low Risk Doctrines

Wisdom and Godly Rule

French name: la sagesse et le gouvernement selon Dieu
Key terms: wisdom, walk before me
Review routing: Automated review

LOW: ‘sagesse’ is a stable, unambiguous term in French Bible tradition for God-given governing discernment; minimal risk beyond ensuring it is not read as innate human cleverness rather than a divine gift.