The great Christian scholar St. Jerome said that in First and Second Chronicles we find 'the meaning of the whole of sacred history.'

Yet these two Old Testament books are not popular and are seldom studied or preached upon in Christian churches.

Steven Tuell shows how the books of Chronicles present the revelation of God's plan and purposes through the story of Israel, emphasising the important place that King David and his line play within that story. Using up-to-date scholarship, Tuell focuses on the theological message of these books - that the purpose of life is to seek God in the words of Scripture and in the worship of the temple, that those who seek and find God's will and purpose for their lives, and live accordingly, experience blessing; and that God's presence and activity are found in the events of ordinary life.