10:1–36:23 Review · The Post-Solomonic Accounts: With 2 Chronicles 10 the Chronicler’s positive ideal of the Davidic-Solomonic kingdom becomes the exemplar against which all future generations will be evaluated. In general the tone is negative, although there are several key positive examples that approximate the earlier ideal, especially Hezekiah (chaps. 29–32) and Josiah (chaps. 34–35). The northern kingdom is largely ignored as a political entity in the post-Solomonic account, although those northern Israelites who join the South are affirmed. While the accounts of Athaliah and especially Ahaz constitute the nadir of the post-Solomonic account, it is especially Hezekiah and secondarily Josiah who represent its high points. Ironically, though, after Josiah the nation enters a different …