God commanded who was to sing, who was to play, and what instruments were to be used, as seen in 2 Chronicles 29: 25 – 29.

The Jewish ordering of the canon suggests that Chronicles is a summary of the entire span of history to the time it was written.

Martin Noth was of the opinion that it dated from the 3rd century BCE, and Gary Knoppers, while acknowledging that Chronicles theoretically could be written anywhere between 500 and 250 BCE, tends to see it as probably dating between 325 and 275 BCE.

According to the Babylonian Chronicles, published by Donald Wiseman in 1956, it was established that Nebuchadnezzar captured Jerusalem the first time on 2 Adar ( 16 March ) 597 BC.

These are during 853 – 841 BC when Jerusalem was invaded by Philistines and Arabs during the reign of Jehoram ( recorded in 2 Kings 8: 20-22 and 2 Chronicles 21: 8-20 in the Christian Old Testament ) and 605 – 586 BC when Jerusalem was attacked by King Nebuchadnezzer of Babylon, which led to the Babylonian exile of Israel ( recorded in Psalm 137 ).

First Comics published The Chronicles of Corum, a twelve issue limited series ( Jan. 1986-Dec. 1988 ) that adapted the " Swords Trilogy ", and was followed by the four issue limited series Corum: The Bull and the Spear ( Jan .-July ( bi-monthly ) 1989 ), which adapted the first book in the second trilogy.

The second trilogy was titled The Prince with the Silver Hand ( United Kingdom ) and The Chronicles of Corum ( United States ) respectively.

According to tradition, Ezra was the writer of the Books of Chronicles.

The first chapter of the Nihongi (" Chronicles of Japan ") describes the ancient Japanese belief that the world was flat and that dry land floated " like oil " on water:

In the last regular Eighth Doctor novel, The Gallifrey Chronicles by Lance Parkin, it is revealed that while Gallifrey was destroyed, the Time Lords were not erased from history.

In the PBS miniseries The Adams Chronicles ( 1976 ), he was portrayed by David Birney, William Daniels, Marcel Trenchard, Stephen Austin, Steven Grover and Mark Winkworth.

* In the fourth chapter of Chronicles: Volume One, Bob Dylan says he knew Blow, and that it was Blow who introduced Dylan to the rap genre of the time ( mentioning contemporary artists like Ice-T, N. W. A.

Best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 ( 1953 ) and for the science fiction and horror stories gathered together as The Martian Chronicles ( 1950 ) and The Illustrated Man ( 1951 ), Bradbury was one of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers.

Yitzakh Magen argues that the version of Chronicles is perhaps closer to the historical truth, and that the Assyrian settlement was unsuccessful, a notable population remained in Samaria, part of which, following the conquest of Judah, fled south and settled there as refugees.

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles was de facto developed by Square Enix's Product Development Division-2.

Square merged with Enix and formed Square Enix while Crystal Chronicles was in development.

The bass synthesizer music eventually replaced the original standard sitcom music by Jep Epstein when it was played again after the first broadcast " The Seinfeld Chronicles ".

According to the Eighth Doctor Adventures novel The Gallifrey Chronicles by Lance Parkin, it previously belonged to a Time Lord named Marnal, who was, like the Doctor, something of a renegade.

* In Stephen Donaldson's Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, The One Tree ( or Tree of Life ) is the tree from which the Staff of Law was produced.

Zhao Huanting ( 趙煥亭 ), who wrote Chronicles of the Loyal Knights-Errant ( 奇俠精忠傳, serialised 1923 – 27 ), was another well-known wuxia writer who was based in Shanghai.

However, it was eliminated from the 2006 William Morrow / Harper Collins, and the 2001 DoubleDay Science Fiction reprinting of The Martian Chronicles.

**" the Jebusite ", offspring of Canaan, a tribe that lived around Jerusalem, that was formerly known as Jebus according to the Books of Chronicles.

* Dominic Cifarelli ( born 1979 ), guitarist for The Chronicles of Israfel ( formerly of Pulse Ultra )

As a result, abbreviations have changed ; for instance, in Palladium Books ' Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles RPG, references that would formerly have been made to the RDF or Robotech Expeditional Force ( REF ) are now made to the UEDF or UEEF.

Chronicles formerly believed to have been of the 13th century are now mainly regarded as forgeries.

Bimbakyan ( Chronicles of Bimb or Bhim ), presumed to have been written in 1139, and referred to by J Gerson da Cunha in his work, The Origin of Bombay, records that Raja Bhimdev established his capital at Mahikawati ( Mahim ).

The use in C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia of a lion named Aslan is known to represent Jesus Christ.

These represent Lady Wulfrun often regarded as the founder of what is now the City of Wolverhampton in AD circa 980 ( a settlement described as Wulfruna's Heantun in the Saxon Chronicles ) and Thomas Telford the renowned Engineer who, in 1787 became surveyor of public works for Shropshire and whose works and structures can be seen across the Region and the Nation and after whom the Shropshire New Town was named.

In Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, the episode entitled " The Good Wound ", exterior shots of the older LAC + USC facility to represent the hospital where Riley was being held.

Hebrew versions of the tale in the Megillat Antiochus and the Chronicles of Jerahmeel identify " Holoferenes " as Nicanor whence the name " Holofernes " in the Greek version would be a deliberately cryptic name similar to the use of " Nebuchadnezzar " for Antiochus.

It is mentioned many times in the Tanakh ( Joshua 15: 39, 2 Samuel 14: 9 and 23: 26, 1 Chronicles 11: 28 ).

David, in fear, carried the Ark aside into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite, instead of carrying it on to Zion, and there it stayed three months ( 2 Samuel 6: 1-11 ; 1 Chronicles 13: 1-13 ).

The Ark is first mentioned in the Book of Exodus, and then numerous times in Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, I Samuel, II Samuel, I Kings, I Chronicles, II Chronicles, Psalms and Jeremiah.

She became the mother of one of David's sons, who is listed in the Book of Chronicles under the name Daniel, in the Masoretic Text of the Books of Samuel as Chileab, and in the Septuagint text of 2 Samuel 3: 3 as Δαλουια, Dalouia.

In the spirit of ecumenism more recent Catholic translations ( e. g. the New American Bible, Jerusalem Bible, and ecumenical translations used by Catholics, such as the RSV-CE ) use the same " standardized " ( King James Version ) spellings and names as Protestant Bibles ( e. g. 1 Chronicles as opposed to the Douaic 1 Paralipomenon, 1-2 Samuel and 1-2 Kings instead of 1-4 Kings ) in those books which are universally considered canonical, the protocanonicals.

Chronicles largely parallels the Davidic narratives in the Books of Samuel and the Books of Kings.

In all Christian canons of the Old Testament ( Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant ), it is divided into two parts, 1 & 2 Chronicles — immediately following 1 & 2 Samuel and 1 & 2 Kings — as a summary of them with minor details sometimes added.

Jerome, in the introduction to his Latin translation of the books of Samuel and Kings ( part of the Vulgate ), referred to the book as a chronikon (" Chronicles " in English ).

For example, the text of the Chronicles, and the texts found in the books of Samuel and Kings exhibit forty parallels.

As compared with Samuel and Kings, the Book of Chronicles omits many particulars there recorded and includes many things not found in the other two documents.

The Books of Samuel, 1 Kings, and 1 Chronicles are the only sources of information on David, although the Tel Dan stele records " House of David ", which some take as confirmation of the existence in the mid-9th century BCE of a Judean royal dynasty called the " House of David ".

The following table shows the arrangement of the holy books in the Jewish Bible and the Old Testament ( Jewish bibles count 24 books, as shown here, but Christian bibles divide Samuel, Kings, Chronicles, Ezra-Nehemiah and the Minor Prophets, bringing the total to 39 ; books additional to the Hebrew Bible in italics ):

Solomon ( Šlomo ;, also colloquially: ; Solomōn ), according to the Book of Kings and the Book of Chronicles, a King of Israel and according to the Talmud one of the 48 prophets, is identified as the son of David, also called Jedidiah ( Hebrew ) in 2 Samuel 12: 25, and is described as the third king of the United Monarchy, and the final king before the northern Kingdom of Israel and the southern Kingdom of Judah split ; following the split his patrilineal descendants ruled over Judah alone.

In the Book of Chronicles, Samuel is described as a Levite, rectifying this situation ; however textual scholars widely see the Book of Chronicles as an attempt to redact the Book ( s ) of Samuel and of Kings to conform to later religious sensibilities.

Since many of the Mitzvot themselves are thought to postdate the Book ( s ) of Samuel ( according to the documentary hypothesis ), Chronicles is probably making its claim based on religious bias.

The Tanakh consists of twenty-four books: it counts as one book each Samuel, Kings, Chronicles and Ezra-Nehemiah and counts Trei Asar ( תרי עשר, the Twelve Prophets ; literally " twelve ") as a single book.

Most versions of the Christian Old Testament count Samuel, Kings, Chronicles and Ezra-Nehemiah as two books each, and the " Twelve Prophets " ( or the minor prophets ) as 12 books, giving rise to a count of 39 books for the Old Testament.