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1 Chronicles: The Faithfulness of God to His Word Illustrated in the Lives of the People of Judah is unavailable, but you can change that!

The books of Chronicles have had a checkered past. Neglected for many years under the unfortunate name paraleipomenon or “things omitted,” meant that they occupied a subordinate position in the scriptures until the fourth century A.D. when the title “A Chronicle of the whole of Sacred History” was suggested instead. This has since been shortened to Chronicles and the rest is, literally, history. ...

for what Saul had done for them. And having become ceremonially defiled, they fast for seven days. The chronicler now gives his readers the reasons for Saul’s death. So Saul died for his (ma’al) trespass that he had trespassed against Yahweh, against the word of the Lord and also for asking of a medium to inquire [by her or it]; and did not inquire of Yahweh; so He killed him and turned the kingdom over to David the son of Jesse. Three trespasses are cited: Saul
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