Is it okay to skip 1st and 2nd Chronicles?

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Is it okay to skip 1st and 2nd Chronicles? Christanon 06/20/18 (Wed) 04:22:59 7aa9ee No.663453

I'm through the Old Testament for the first time and, after skimming through 1st and 2nd Chronicles, it just seems to be telling the same events as Samuel and Kings, except for the very end of 2nd Chronicles. Is it okay to skip to the beginning of Zedekiah's reign?

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Christanon 06/20/18 (Wed) 04:25:32 88d7d3 No.663455

>>663453

No. Read the whole Bible. Skip nothing, even the genealogies which are actually very important.

Christanon 06/20/18 (Wed) 06:10:54 0ed5c6 No.663476

No. Try reading some of the Wisdom or Prophets if you can't go straight from 4 Kingdoms (2 Kings) to 1 Chronicles. That's what I ended up doing on my full reading of the Bible.

Christanon 06/20/18 (Wed) 07:01:24 ef769f No.663491

>>663455

>even the genealogies which are actually very important.

Could you explain why? I don't doubt that you're right, but I have no idea what I should be looking for in terms of meaning. My eyes just end up glazing over and by the end it's like I never read them at all.

Christanon 06/20/18 (Wed) 13:25:10 2cfa9a No.663572

1&2 Chronicles actually tell untold stories about David, Salomon and Kings of Judah.

But first nine chapter really are eye sore for they are basically strings of names. But they are not that bad if you:

>Fallows the lines of David (Christ) and Aaron (John the Baptist)

>In 3:1-9 (and in 2 Chron 11:18) there are sons of David, whose names are prophetic

>There is nice prayer in 4:10

Also, you can read it alongside some commentary, such as Haydock's

Christanon 06/20/18 (Wed) 19:08:45 380b0b No.663682

>>663453

Skip it temporarely, on first reading. Forcing yourself may make you distracted to what is important and bored.

Return to it later, though.

Christanon 06/21/18 (Thu) 20:35:18 60485a No.664021

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>>663453

>it just seems to be telling the same events as Samuel and Kings, except for the very end of 2nd Chronicles.

Samuel+Kings are written according to the ideology of the preexilic prophetic schools. Chronicles are written according to the ideology of the postexilic priests. While the events are the same, the content is very different. Samuel+King correspond more closely to the actual historical events, while Chronicles shows the way postexilic people imagined and expounded the glory and the disgrace of the past. In Samuel+King one has to be loyal to God. In Chronicles one has to observe the Law of God.

>>663455

>No. Read the whole Bible. Skip nothing, even the genealogies which are actually very important.

I'd say skip the genealogies if you want, you can return later when you know better. Don't be bothered by things you don't understand, unless you want to become like are Krishna monk reading his mantra or like a muslim chanting the Kuran in Arabic while not knowing Arabic.