My dad flew in from California last night, and the Bible was very accommodating about not interrupting our plans with a lengthy and detailed reading. The first nine chapters of Chronicles are just GENEALOGY with no narrative! We start with Adam and work our way up through all the wacky kings, excluding no one as far as I can tell.
Chronicles seems to be a companion piece to Kings, simply recapping some of the stories and including more details in other places. Our one narrative chapter sparsely retells the story of Saul's suicide. According to the footnotes, the first book of Chronicles is mostly about David, so our favorite badass will be returning tomorrow. For the time being, however... Take a day off!
I'm glad today was such an easy read! I have been neglecting homework to read the bible... oops...
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