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# 📖 2 Chronicles
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> [[#📖 Summary of Book]]
> [[#📚 Genre]]
> [[#🙋♂️ Who is the Author]]
> [[#⌛️ When Was it Written]]
> [[#🧭 Theme Verse]]
> [[#🧭 Major Themes]]
> [[#📅 Outline of Book]]
> **[[#✍️ Chapter-by-Chapter Notes]]**
> [[#🙏 Devotional Reflections]]
> [[#📚 Further Study / Interesting Insights]]
## 📖 Summary of Book
> The Book of 2 Chronicles continues Israel’s history from the reign of Solomon to the fall of Jerusalem and the Babylonian exile. It focuses primarily on the kings of Judah, highlighting how their spiritual choices shaped the nation’s future. Faithful kings who sought the Lord experienced blessing and restoration, while unfaithful rulers led the nation into decline. Written for the post-exilic community, the book calls God’s people to renewed obedience, worship, and covenant faithfulness.
#### 📚 Genre
- Historical Narrative
- Theological History
#### 🙋♂️ Who is the Author
- Unknown (traditionally attributed to Ezra the scribe)
#### ⌛️ When Was it Written
- Approximately 450–430 BC (after the Babylonian Exile)
## 🧭 Theme Verse
> 2 Chronicles 7:14 (NET)
“If my people, who belong to me, humble themselves, pray, seek to please me, and repudiate their sinful practices, then I will respond from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.”
## 🧭 Major Themes
• Repentance and restoration
• Worship and the temple
• God’s faithfulness
• Leadership accountability
• Blessing and judgment
• Seeking the Lord
• Spiritual revival
• Covenant obedience
• God’s mercy
• National responsibility
## 📅 Outline of Book
- 1:1–9:31 — Solomon’s Reign and Temple
- Solomon’s wisdom
- Temple construction
- Dedication and prayer
- National prosperity
- 10:1–28:27 — Kingdom Divided and Declining
- Rehoboam’s failure
- Early Judah kings
- Alternating faithfulness and compromise
- 29:1–32:33 — Hezekiah’s Reforms
- Temple cleansing
- Passover restoration
- Deliverance from Assyria
- 33:1–36:23 — Final Kings and Exile
- Manasseh’s repentance
- Josiah’s revival
- Fall of Jerusalem
- Decree of Cyrus
## ✍️ Chapter-by-Chapter Notes
- [[2 Chronicles 01]]
- [[2 Chronicles 02]]
- [[2 Chronicles 03]]
- [[2 Chronicles 04]]
- [[2 Chronicles 05]]
- [[2 Chronicles 06]]
- [[2 Chronicles 07]]
- [[2 Chronicles 08]]
- [[2 Chronicles 09]]
- [[2 Chronicles 10]]
- [[2 Chronicles 11]]
- [[2 Chronicles 12]]
- [[2 Chronicles 13]]
- [[2 Chronicles 14]]
- [[2 Chronicles 15]]
- [[2 Chronicles 16]]
- [[2 Chronicles 17]]
- [[2 Chronicles 18]]
- [[2 Chronicles 19]]
- [[2 Chronicles 20]]
- [[2 Chronicles 21]]
- [[2 Chronicles 22]]
- [[2 Chronicles 23]]
- [[2 Chronicles 24]]
- [[2 Chronicles 25]]
- [[2 Chronicles 26]]
- [[2 Chronicles 27]]
- [[2 Chronicles 28]]
- [[2 Chronicles 29]]
- [[2 Chronicles 30]]
- [[2 Chronicles 31]]
- [[2 Chronicles 32]]
- [[2 Chronicles 33]]
- [[2 Chronicles 34]]
- [[2 Chronicles 35]]
- [[2 Chronicles 36]]
## 🙏 Devotional Reflections
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## 📚 Further Study / Interesting Insights
**Further Study**.
1. Andrew E. Hill, 1 & 2 Chronicles (NIV Application Commentary)
2. H. G. M. Williamson, 1 and 2 Chronicles (New Century Bible Commentary)
3. Raymond B. Dillard, 2 Chronicles (Word Biblical Commentary)
**Interesting Insights**.
1. 2 Chronicles focuses almost exclusively on Judah, not Israel.
2. Solomon’s temple dedication prayer is recorded in detail.
3. Manasseh’s repentance is recorded here but not in Kings.
4. Hezekiah reinstituted national Passover worship.
5. Josiah rediscovered the Book of the Law in the temple.
6. The book emphasizes immediate consequences for obedience and sin.
7. Many prophetic messages appear only in Chronicles.
8. The final verse connects directly to the beginning of Ezra.
9. Revival and reform are central to the book’s message.
10. The exile is presented as both judgment and opportunity for renewal.
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