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Definition of I chronicles
1. Noun. The first of two Old Testament books telling the history of Judah and Israel until the return from the Babylonian Captivity in 536 BC.
Generic synonyms: Book
Group relationships: Paralipomenon, Old Testament, Hagiographa, Ketubim, Writings
Lexicographical Neighbors of I Chronicles
Literary usage of I chronicles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology by Thomas Paine (1896)
"To prove this, we have only to look into i Chronicles iii. 15, where the writer,
in giving the genealogy of the descendants of David, mentions Zedekiah ..."
2. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1890)
"... 357 pages; i Sam. xviii.-i Kings xiii. and xiv. ; i Kings xv.-i Chronicles
ix., 360 pages ; i Chronicles х.-з Chronicles xx., 364 pages. " My life-work. ..."