daily bible readings

Thomson’s NAC commentary on 1 and 2 Chronicles reveals a nice summary of Chronicles in the Hebrew and English Bibles. “In the Christian canon of Scripture, Chronicles has been divided into two books. In the Hebrew Bible it is called “words [or events] of the days,” although in the Hebrew canon the two books were counted as one. The division into two books was made when the Hebrew text was translated into Greek in pre-Christian times. One reason for this may have been that in Hebrew only the consonants are written (the vowels are implied) whereas in Greek both consonants and vowels are written. Hence in Greek there are approximately double the number of characters to be recorded. As a result the Greek Chronicles came to be spread over two scrolls.