some time but also promised that a moment would come when enough was enough. With the rise of Persia that moment came. The people for whom Chronicles was written were thus not people who needed to face their responsibility for the collapse of their state. They were people who did need not to fall into similar traps to the ones that had brought down their ancestors but who also needed to see the greatness of what God had done for them and to respond by living lives of trust and obedience to God. We