According to the ESV the phrase "breach of faith" or "broke faith" only occurs outside the Pentatuach in Joshua with the sin of Achan, in the introduction to Chronicles, and then in Ezra 10. Chronicles begins with four breaches of faith:
- Achan's breach of faith in not devoting to destruction the goods of Jericho (2:7)
- The breach of faith of the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh in whoring after other gods, which led to their exile by the Assyrians (5:25).
- Judah's breach of faith which lead to their exile by the Babylonians (9:1)
- And finally, Saul's breach of faith in not devoting to destruction the goods of the Amalekites (10:13)
I guess this is a chiasm. The difficult thing to do is work out what it means.
It is interesting also that Ezra (which traditionally has been held to be written by the same person as Chronicles) takes up the phrase in connection with the returned exiles marrying foreign women (Ezra 10).
What do you make of all that?
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