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First Edition: LukivPress Online (Quesnel, BC), 2012. Revised Edition: LukivPress (Victoria, BC), 2022. Introduction With Solomon, the king who chooses wisdom and knowledge of his God over riches and honour from men, Second Chronicles begins (1037 BCE). His rule of 40 years, generally of peace (although marred by apostasy), ends with his death in 997 BCE. His foolish son Rehoboam, lacking consideration for his fellow Hebrews' day to day challenges, invites revolt. In 997 the kingdom splits. Ten tribes sever ties to the new king, setting up a northern kingdom. Only the tribes of Judah and Benjamin (forming a southern kingdom) remain loyal to Solomon's son. But apostasy stains his rule. In fact, it also characterizes the (northern) ten-tribe kingdom, which Jehovah allows Assyria to overturn in 740 BCE. Then, in 607 BCE, he allows Babylon to overturn the southern kingdom of Judah and Benjamin. Surviving Israelites transported to Babylon (in 607 BCE) eventually lose much knowledge of their dramatic past. Second Chronicles, completed by Ezra in 460 BCE, vividly details events of the Davidic lineage, in essence resurrecting Jewish heritage and history. The book highlights the blessings of obedience versus the results of disobedience to Jehovah, covers 500 years, and ends with the repatriation of Jews from Babylon to Jerusalem (537 BCE). An excerpt Chapter 20 Ammon, push that red Button called thermonuclear Death; Moab of Chemosh That ate children, gather Gold not yours; Mount Seir, with eyes Like Esau, pretend that Your god does not look A lot like you: Such sons of Abraham, Travel wide roads that Rome would have carved Into the young earth If the madness of lead that Sweetened its wine had not Spawned idiots, And search for rest in green Meadows where images of Sodom do not Stick in your dreams, like Thorns or thistles not in the paws Of a beast. The author Dan Lukiv, published in