You may have noticed that today’s verse is repeated from yesterday’s reading, repetition is a prominent tool in Jewish literature.  It is used to highlight something important about an event or character, it gives more creditability to the account, and it can look at the same situation from different viewpoints.  We can see the need for all these things in Chronicles.  The people who were exiled needed to be reminded of the character of God.  They had lived in foreign nations among other religions for many years and they needed to find the credibility in themselves as the people of God again.  The accounts given in Samuel and Kings were under very different circumstances.  The Kingdom of Israel was at its height with David or his son on the throne united under God and strong.  The view from the ground was very different now, Jerusalem was broken and the temple lay in ruins.  

In today’s verse Solomon calls on God not to forget the house of David.  This is a reminder of God’s covenant to bring hope to his people through the family of David.  The people were again challenged to place their trust in God who would be sending a new King, to rescue his people.  In the desolation of what lay around them they were challenged to fix their gaze on the coming Messiah.   Perhaps, today we need to have those words repeated and affirmed again in our own lives.  In all that we face today and every day, let us keep our eyes firmly fixed on the risen, conquering and returning Messiah.