Chronicles דברי הימים

Chronicles closes the Tanakh and begins with the word "Adam": its first nine chapters are unbroken genealogy, from the first man through the tribes to those who returned from Babylon. For a generation rebuilding a country this was not tedium but documentation—who belonged where, who was a kohen, who a Levite.

It then retells the history of the kings, but differently from Shmuel and Melachim. The northern kingdom is almost absent, while everything touching the Temple is detailed: how David gathered materials and arranged the Levites' watches, how they sang, how Chizkiyahu and Yoshiyahu purified the house. Episodes damaging to David's line are omitted; the book looks at history as continuity rather than judgment.

The Tanakh ends mid-sentence, with Cyrus's decree: "whoever is among you of all His people—let him go up".