These Books are called by the Greek interpreters, Paralipomenon, that
is, of things left out, or omitted; because they are a kind of a
supplement of such things as were passed over in the books of the
Kings. The Hebrews call them Dibre Haijamim, that is, The words of the
days, or The Chronicles.—Not that they are the books which are so often
quoted in the Kings, under the title of the words of the days of the
kings of Israel, and of the kings of Juda: for the books of
Paralipomenon were written after the books of Kings: but because in all
probability they have been abridged from those ancient words of the
days, by Esdras or some other sacred writer.