_Name._ The Hebrew title is _Dibhrē Hayyāmīm_, literally _The Acts_ (or _Sayings_) _of the Days_. In the Greek Version (the Septuagint) Chronicles was regarded as supplementary to Samuel and Kings, and so received the title “[Books of] the Omitted Acts” παραλειπομένων or “the Omitted Acts of the Kings (_or_ Reigns) of Judah.” This name, moreover, passed into the Latin Vulgate, “(_Libri_) _Paralipomenōn_.” The title _Chronicles_ seems to be due to a remark made by St Jerome, who, in commenting on the Hebrew title, wrote that the book might more appropriately be styled the “Chronicle of the whole of sacred history” (_Prologus in Libros Regum_, edited by Vallarsi, ix. 458). The use of the phrase is also suggested by a similar expression (literally “the book of the Acts of the Days of...”) found some twenty times in Kings, and commonly rendered “the book of the chronicles of...” e.g. 1 Kings xiv. 19. On the whole, _Chronicles_ is a satisfactory title¹. ¹ It is, however, open to the objection that an inexperienced reader may make the mistake of supposing that these references in Kings to “the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel [Judah]” are references to the canonical Chronicles. _Division._ The division of Chronicles into two books (as in the English Versions) probably originated in the Septuagint (LXX.); the MSS. A and B both mark the division. It entered the English Version through the Latin Vulgate. On the other hand, Rabbinical evidence (Talmud, _Baba Bathra_ 15a; and the Masōrah) and the Christian Fathers testify that among the Hebrews the book was undivided: so Origen (_apud_ Eusebius _Church History_ vi. 25, 2) and Jerome (_Domnioni et Rogatiano_). _Position in Canon._ In the English Version Chronicles stands next after Kings, the Historical Books being grouped together. This arrangement was derived from the Septuagint through the Latin Vulgate. The order of the Hebrew Bible is different. There the books are arranged in three sections, of which the first contains the Books of the Pentateuch, the second includes the Historical Books from Joshua to Kings, while the third (Hebrew “Kĕthūbhīm”) contains Chronicles. The books of this third section seem to have been the last to receive Canonical Authority among the Jews. Kings thus appears to have been taken into the Canon before Chronicles.