More than a recounting of a great season in Israel's history, 2 Chronicles 31 gives us a window into the sacrificial nature of uninhibited worship.
Though we often worship corporately, our individual choices are also an act of worship (2 Chronicles 31:2-3).
Klein points out that we have little information on how the psalms were used in ancient Israelite worship but that the citation of psalms in the narratives of 1 Chronicles 16 and
2 Chronicles 6 may provide some information on their use in postexilic times.
His last years were plagued by unwinnable wars (
2 Chronicles 16).
Roughly two centuries after the completion of the Deuteronomistic History, the author of 1 and
2 Chronicles, known as the Chronicler, recorded his own versions of David's last words.