2 Chronicles — Book Overview
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
When a new administration takes over, what is the first order of business? In our day, it is a flurry of executive orders, a press conference to manage the narrative, and a strategic plan for the first one hundred days. When the Scriptures give us the biography of a man, particularly a king, they do not do so in the way that modern, sentimental biographers do. Our age loves to either whitewash or tear down. A man is either a plaster saint, suitable for a stained-glass window, or he is a demon, suitable for nothing but cancellation. The book of 2 Chronicles ends in what appears to be catastrophic failure. The city of God is a pile of rubble. The glorious temple of Solomon has been looted and burned. The Davidic king is a captive, and the people of God have been hauled off to Babylon.
This overview explores the whole book. Read the explanations sampled in this summary: