Literary Devices in 1 Chronicles
Symbolism, Imagery, Allegory
Setting
1 Chronicles covers a long time span. It starts with the beginning of Earth itself and the first man—Adam—and goes up to end of the Babylonian captivity in 538 BCE. That's a lot of ground to co...
Genre
What's Up With the Title?
Back in the day, 1 Chronicles and 2 Chronicles were one book and they went under the Hebrew name Divrei Hayamin, which means something like "the events of the days." Later, Greek translators rename...
What's Up With the Ending?
1 Chronicles ends with the death of David and the start of Solomon's rule. You need to flip over to 2 Chronicles to find out exactly what happened after Israel's greatest king passed the torch. All...
Trivia
In a standard deck of playing cards, the King of Spades is sometimes called King David. This dark-haired king has a sword in his hand, but is sometimes portrayed with a harp instead. These accessor...
Sex Drugs And Violence Rating
The Chronicler has gone to a lot of trouble to scrub lots of the sex and violence from the story of Israel's kings, but he can't edit it out altogether. Our tale features some pretty gruesome passa...
Allusions
The Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriDante runs into Solomon up in Heaven. Guess he turned out to be a pretty decent king after all.God Knows by Joseph HellerIn this 1984 novel, David rete...