<Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> <P> In the Christian Bible, the two Books of Chronicles (commonly referred to as 1 Chronicles and 2 Chronicles, or First Chronicles and Second Chronicles) generally follow the two Books of Kings and precede Ezra--Nehemiah, thus concluding the history - oriented books of the Old Testament, often referred to as the Deuteronomistic history . </P> <P> In the Hebrew Bible, Chronicles is a single book, called Diḇrê Hayyāmîm (Hebrew: דִּבְרֵי ־ הַיָּמִים ‬, "The Matters (of) the Days"), and is the final book of Ketuvim, the third and last part of the Tanakh . Chronicles was divided into two books in the Septuagint and called I and II Paralipoménōn (Greek: Παραλειπομένων, "things left on one side"). The English name comes from the Latin name chronikon, which was given to the text by scholar Jerome in the 5th century . </P>

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