Day 152 (2 Chronicles 1, Psalm 72) - Year 8
6/1/20265 min
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[intro music] Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara-Leigh Cobble, and I'm your host for The Bible Recap. [intro music] Today we start the book of 2 Chronicles. And just like we talked about with 1 Chronicles, this account will usually have less detail and sometimes different detail than the stories we're reading in the accounts of 1 and 2 Kings. Those books are the docuseries, and Chronicles is kind of like the news report. Chronicles almost certainly started out as one book that had to be divided in half because of its length. It wouldn't fit easily onto one scroll. Today, the news report is recounting Solomon making sacrifices before God. Then God asks him what he wants, and he makes a request for wisdom. We saw this in the docuseries yesterday, except with a few additional details. Today I noticed that God praised Solomon for not asking for the lives of his enemies. This felt like a bit of a callback to his father David, who asked for his enemies' lives on his deathbed. And at the end of 2 Chronicles 1, we see it emphasized again that despite his newly granted wisdom, he starts hoarding wealth and horses against God's commands in Deuteronomy 17. Then we moved over to Psalm 72. First of all, is this psalm by Solomon like it says at the start, or by David like it says at the end? That's super confusing, right? So here's the case for each option. If it's by Solomon, then the first line that says, "Of Solomon," is telling us the author's name, and the last line that says, "The prayers of David, the son of Jesse, are ended,"