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 docuaries, 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 docu series 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 Second 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 song 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, is prophesying David's death.

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