Day 130: February 16, 2026 – II Chronicles 6-10 and Psalm 30

There is a bit of a whiplash in Chronicles as it takes us to the nations of Israel and Judah who both go into exile at the hand of the Babylonians, and then it goes back into time and gives us the death of Saul and his son Jonathan, the beloved of David. There is no real rhyme of reason for the going back and forth in time from when Solomon took over and built the temple to going back to after the reign of Solomon, to then before the reign of his father, David. Maybe we needed to see that Solomon had surely been established as the king and that the kingship had been taken out of the hands of Saul’s family and into David’s family. Yeah, maybe that’s it.