Abstract
ABSTRACT This article argues that the genre of prayer in Chronicles possesses a unique rhetorical impetus. It invites readers to join in the prayer and persuades them to follow the prayer’s messages, which ultimately enables readers to transform their identity in accordance with the Chronicler’s desired future. This article focuses on David’s prayer in particular. David’s prayer and its related context could serve to shape the members of the Yehud community as supplicants by p ortraying David as a model petitioner. The prayer persuades readers to perceive the specific aspects that David’s penitential prayer communicates: 1) sin results in negative consequences, and 2) repentance should include a sacrifice since the external ritu al reverses Yhwh’s anger and sym bolizes an offerer’s devoted worship. The prayer functions to warn the post exilic members, as active supplicants, to be aware of their sinful situation and encourage s them to stand as sincere worshipers before Yhwh.
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