Revised by Nicholas Schaser (10/24)
The earlier history in SamuelThe judge who anointed the first two kings of Israel. More and Kings addressed the questions of those who had experienced the fall of Jerusalem to the Babylonian king NebuchadnezzarBabylonian king who conquered Jerusalem, destroyed the Temple, and exiled the people. More II (586 BCE), the destruction of the TempleThe Jerusalem temple, unlike the tabernacle, was a permanent structure, although (like the tabernacle) it was a place of worship and religious activity. On one occasion Jesus felt such activity was unacceptable and, as reported in all four Gospels, drove from the temple those engaged… More, the end of Davidic rule, and deportation to Babylon. Chronicles, however, speaks to the postexilic restoration community that had returned from Babylon to worship in the rebuilt Jerusalem Temple as a result of the Persian defeat of the Babylonians in 539 BCE Whereas Samuel and Kings tried to explain why the exile had taken place, Chronicles tries to explain what it means to be part of the postexilic community whose roots go back to the united monarchy of DavidSecond king of Israel, David united the northern and southern kingdoms. More and SolomonThird king of Israel who was known for wisdom and building the first Temple. More. This message is especially important for the Chronicler because the community, which now lived under the political auspices of the Persian Empire, required a unifying narrative built on the legacy of the original Davidic kingdom.
