It is interesting to note that the Queen of Sheba went from doubting Solomon’s famed wisdom to praising the Lord in one short visit.
For the Queen, it was apparently hard for to believe the extent to which Solomon had wisdom:
She said to the king, “The report I heard in my own country about your achievements [...]

In order to deal with a difficult situation, King Rehoboam takes two actions:

He consulted the elders.
He consulted the young men, his peers.

From the elders (2 Chr 10:7):
They replied, “If you will be kind to these people and please them and give them a favorable answer, they will always be your servants.”
From the youth (2 Chr [...]

Solomon brought Pharaoh’s daughter up from the City of David to the palace he had built for her, for he said, “My wife must not live in the palace of David king of Israel, because the places the ark of the LORD has entered are holy.” (2 Chr 8:11)
It is no secret that Solomon had [...]

When all the Israelites saw the fire coming down and the glory of the LORD above the temple, they knelt on the pavement with their faces to the ground, and they worshiped and gave thanks to the LORD, saying, “He is good; his love endures forever.” (2 Chr 7:3)
The priests took their positions, as did [...]

One of the things that I think is hard to imagine today is the extent to which animals were sacrificed in the Old Testament.
…and King Solomon and the entire assembly of Israel that had gathered about him were before the ark, sacrificing so many sheep and cattle that they could not be recorded or counted. [...]

Before the building of the temple, the components that became identified as being parts of a whole were not always together. At the opening of 2 Chronicles, just such a scenario exists (2 Chr 1:4–6):
Now David had brought up the ark of God from Kiriath Jearim to the place he had prepared for it, because [...]

David, together with the commanders of the army, set apart some of the sons of Asaph, Heman and Jeduthun for the ministry of prophesying, accompanied by harps, lyres and cymbals. Here is the list of the men who performed this service:
From the sons of Asaph: Zaccur, Joseph, Nethaniah and Asarelah. The sons of Asaph were [...]

1 Chronicles 22 describes an interesting moment of parenthood on the part of David. In 1 Chr 22:5:
David said, “My son Solomon is young and inexperienced, and the house to be built for the LORD should be of great magnificence and fame and splendor in the sight of all the nations. Therefore I will make [...]

Then David said, “The house of the LORD God is to be here, and also the altar of burnt offering for Israel.” (1 Chr 22:1)
I hadn’t noticed before that David talks about the house of the Lord as separate from the altar of burnt offering. I guess I didn’t realize that there was a possibility [...]

As I was reading through 1 Chr 21, I had a lot more questions than I had answers. The primary one: “Why was Israel punished for the census?”
I wrestled through this question and tried to remember some of the answers I had heard before. For example, I remember hearing at some point that the punishment [...]