Hey, this is Shelby and Scott.

We're walking through Second Chronicles 10 through 12 today.

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Scott, in these chapters today, we saw the death of Solomon yesterday. And we know,

because we're in a book that is retelling things that we've already walked through,

that after Solomon's death comes the division into two kingdoms here. And so you've said that Chronicles is a positive retelling,

but it seems like it's going to be hard to spin this one positively.

So I guess I'm curious if you can tell us,

how does Chronicles handle this?

And is it positive?

Yeah, sure.

Okay, first thing I'll say is that I want to point out another really big difference

between Chronicles and Kings here because we're, so in Kings, after the kingdom splits, what you

basically have is this kind of going back and forth between the Kings and the Southern Kingdom

of Judah, the Kings and the northern kingdom of Israel.

Chronicles, though, really just focuses in on the southern kingdom.

It doesn't do the back and forth.

And it's not that the northern kings are never mentioned, but when they do appear,

it's generally because it's absolutely necessary to the story of the southern kingdom.

And the reason for that is the southern kingdom is where David's throne was, where the Temple was too. And so the Southern Kingdom is especially important in God's plans for his people and ultimately for the world.

And so, like, this is the place where God is to be worshipped.

This is the throne. God has promised to establish forever.

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