Guide to 2 Chronicles
Summary
The book of 2 Chronicles continues the story of the Davidic line. Again running parallel to the books of 1 and 2 Kings, 2 Chronicles tells the narratives of (1) Solomon’s reign and the construction of the temple (2 Chronicles 1–9) and (2) the history of the Davidic monarchy, ending with the Babylonian captivity and Cyrus’s decree to rebuild Jerusalem (2 Chronicles 10–36). Details not found in 1 and 2 Kings are employed by the Chronicler as he wrote this history. Unlike the books of Kings, 2 Chronicles focuses almost exclusively on the southern kingdom.
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Historical Settings
Time
*All Dates Are Approximate, according to the narrative of the Bible. These dates may reflect literary significance as opposed to the precise dates of history.
See Biblical Chronology- 967–609 B.C.*
Further Reading
Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, Dana M. Pike, and David Rolph Seely, Jehovah and the World of the Old Testament: An Illustrated Reference for Latter-day Saints (Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book, 2009), 190–227, 246–336.
David Rolph Seely, “Kings and Chronicles,” in Studies in Scripture, vol. 4: 1 Kings to Malachi, ed. Kent P. Jackson (Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book, 1993), 4–11.
David Rolph Seely and Robert D. Hunt, “Dramatis Personae: The World of Lehi (ca. 700–592 BC),” in Glimpses of Lehi’s Jerusalem, ed. John W. Welch, David Rolph Seely, and Jo Ann H. Seely (Provo, UT: FARMS, 2004), 41–64.
Andrew C. Skinner, “Kings and Prophets in Divided Israel (1 Kings 12–2 Kings 10; 2 Chronicles 23–28),” in Studies in Scripture, vol. 4: 1 Kings to Malachi, ed. Kent P. Jackson (Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book, 1993), 20–32.
Andrew C, Skinner, “Israel and Judah in the Ninth and Eighth Centuries Before Christ (2 Kings 11–17; 2 Chronicles 23–28),” in Studies in Scripture, vol. 4: 1 Kings to Malachi, ed. Kent P. Jackson (Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book, 1993), 33–45.
Terrence L. Szink, “The Reign of Solomon (1 Kings 1–11, 2 Chronicles 1–9),” in Studies in Scripture, vol. 4: 1 Kings to Malachi, ed. Kent P. Jackson (Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book, 1993), 12–19.