INTRODUCTION   

            The Books of 1-2 Chronicles were originally one book in the Hebrew Bible.  The division of Chronicles into two books was made by the translators of the LXX in the second century B.C.E.  The Hebrew title of the book is dibrê hayy~mîm, an expression meaning "the events of the days."  In the LXX the book is called Paraleipomena, "the things omitted."  This title was interpreted to mean that Chronicles includes supplemental material omitted by the other historical books, mainly Samuel and Kings.  The English title "Chronicles" goes back to the Vulgate; Jerome called the book "a chronicle of the whole divine history."

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