Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble, and I'm your host for the Bible recap.

Today we start the book of Second Chronicles, and just like we talked about with First Chronicles,

this account will usually have less detail and sometimes different detail than the stories

we're reading in the accounts of First and Second 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 notice 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 Second Chronicles I, 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

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