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 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 enemy's 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 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, is prophesying David's death. But if it's

written by David, then the first line that says, of Solomon, is telling us it's about Solomon,

not by him. And the last line that says, the prayers of David, the son of Jesse are ended,

is giving us David's final sign-off before he dies.

No one really knows, and absolutely zero about my faith hinges on it, so I'm not sweating it too much.

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