Both Kings and Chronicles are God-inspired books that tell the same story, but the purposes are to a certain extent different. Kings tells the history of Israel from Solomon becoming a king to the fall of Judah (623). If Noth and DH scholars are correct, then these books are simply a part of a larger work that starts in Deuteronomy and ends with 2 Kings (623). Our text describes the aim of the author was to explain how the narrative arose out of a series of connected, past events (624). It was a summary of this time period at its conclusion. Chronicles, on the other hand, is a more selective picture of the history of Israel. More selective because the text is believed to have been written during the Babylonian exile (161). The books
