While accepting that in Chronicles' account of the history of the people of YHWH retribution is a determinant of the future, it is here argued that through the foundational work of David and Solomon Chronicles promotes, in notably non-retributional terms, wholehearted devotion to God articulated in a temple-centred religious praxis as matrix for an idyllic relationship with YHWH. The key elements in this Utopian foundation become, in 2 Chron. 7.13-15, a programme for future revival of the people, when religious decline of the kind all too soon to become manifest in the post-Solomonic era is first envisaged.
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