When we turn to a study of ancient Hebrew narrative, most readers prefer the engaging and artful narratives of Samuel and Kings to the seemingly plodding and pedantic narrative of Chronicles. Recently, however, Chronicles has enjoyed a minor surge of interest. As plodding and pedantic as Chronicles may be, perhaps as boring as Chronicles may be, it is plodding, pedantic, and boring for interesting reasons. It may be instructive to compare the narrative of Chronicles to the narrative of Xenophon’s Cyropaedia, also known as ‘one of the most tedious books to have survived classical antiquity’ (Gera 1993, vii). In this essay, I propose to do exactly that.