2 Chronicles - At A Glance

Theme: This is a commentary on Israel from the reign of Solomon to the Babylonian captivity. Solomon built the temple, a symbol of God's presence and a place of prayer and worship. While Solomon and his descendants were faithful to God, they experienced success. After Solomon died the kingdom was divided and finally conquered.

2 Chronicles 1
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1-5_Solomon, David's son, established himself securely over the kingdom and the LORD God was with him. God's tent of meeting was in Gibeon and Solomon went with the people and the commanders to the tent of meeting. David had moved the ark but the bronze alter had remained in Gibeon and Solomon and Israel sought it out.

__6-10_Solomon went before the LORD to the bronze altar and offered a thousand burnt offerings. In the night God appeared to Solomon and said, what shall I give you? Solomon answered, your people are numerous. Give me wisdom and knowledge that I may know how to rule this great people.

__11-13_And God said to Solomon, because you have not asked for riches, honor, or the lives of those who hate you and neither have you asked for long life, I will grant your request for wisdom and knowledge. And I will add to these riches and honor such as none have had before you. So Solomon went back to Jerusalem to reign over Israel.

__14-17_Solomon amassed chariots and horsemen. He imported horses from Egypt and Kue. He imported chariots from Egypt and sold them to the Hittites and the kings of Aram. He made silver and gold as plentiful as stones in Jerusalem. He also made cedars plentiful.

2 Chronicles 2
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1-3_Solomon decided to build a house for the name of the LORD as well as a royal palace for himself. He assigned 70,000 men to carry loads and 80,000 men to quarry stone in the mountains. He assigned 3,600 supervisors. Solomon also sent word to Huram king of Tyre asking that he be kind to him like he had been to his father David.

__4-6_I am about to build a house to the name of the LORD. It will be to burn incense before the LORD and to do all the other things required by Him forever in Israel. It will be a great house for He is greater than all other gods. But who can build a house for Him, for the highest heavens cannot contain Him.

__7-8_Send me a skilled workman able to work gold, silver, brass and iron. Also purple, crimson and violet fabrics. He needs to be able to do engravings and work with the skilled men I have whom my father David provided. Send me cedar, cypress and algum timber from Lebanon. My servants will work with your servants.

__9-12_Timber needs to be prepared in abundance, for the house I will build will be great and wonderful. I will provide your servants with crushed wheat and barley, wine and oil.

Huram king of Tyre wrote a letter saying, Bless the LORD, the God of Israel, who has made heaven and earth, and endowed you with wisdom.

__13-18_Huram's letter continued, I am sending a skilled man endowed with understanding. He is the son of a Danite woman and his father is from Tyre. He knows how to do the work you require. We will cut whatever timber you need and raft it to you by sea to Joppa. Then you can take it to Jerusalem.

Solomon used the aliens in Israel for the work.

2 Chronicles 3
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1-4_So Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in the place where the LORD had appeared to his father David, on Ornan the Jebusites's threshing floor. The foundation for the house was sixty cubits (ninety feet) long, and twenty cubits (thirty feet) wide. The porch on the front ran the full width and was overlaid with pure gold.

__5-9_The main room was overlaid with cypress and fine gold over that. There were engravings of palm trees and chains. And there were well placed precious stones and carved cherubim on the walls. The Holy of Holies was twenty cubits by twenty cubits (30 feet by 30 feet) and overlaid with six hundred talents of fine gold. And there were upper rooms.

__10-14_He made two sculptured cherubims in the Holy of Holies, each one was overlaid with pure gold. Their wings together stretched from wall to wall (30 feet), each being seven and one half feet. They stood facing each other. He made the veil of violet, purple and crimson. There was fine linen with cherubim embroidered on it.

__15-17_He made two pillars thirty five cubits tall with capitals five cubits high for the front of the house (60 feet high in all). He made pomegranates of gold to hang from chains of gold. These he placed in the inner sanctuary on the tops of the pillars. The two pillars in front of the sanctuary he named Jachin on the right and Boaz on the left.

2 Chronicles 4
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1-5_Solomon made a bronze altar thirty feet wide, thirty feet long and fifteen feet high. He cast the metal sea fifteen feet in diameter and seven and one half feet high. Figures of twelve oxen were cast in one piece to support it. Three faced each of four directions. The sea was a handbreadth thick and held 17,700 gallons.

__6-17_He also made basins for washing but the sea was for the priests.

He made ten golden lamp stands, five were placed on each side of the temple. He made ten tables, five for each side of the temple. He made bowls, pails and shovels. All these Huram-Abi made of polished bronze on the plain of the Jordan in the clay.

__18-22_Solomon made all these in great quantity. No one knows the total weight. Everything was made according to the plans provided by David and inspired by God. Much was made of gold and the rest was made of bronze.

2 Chronicles 5
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1-6_Solomon finished all the work on the house of the LORD. He brought in the things his father David had dedicated for the services. He assembled the elders and the heads of tribes in order to bring the Ark of the Covenant of the LORD to the temple. They sacrificed so many sheep and oxen they lost count.

__7-10_Then the priests brought the Ark of the Covenant of the LORD to the inner sanctuary, in the Holy of Holies and placing it under the wings of the cherubim. There was nothing in the Ark except the two tables of stone on which God had written the commandments and Moses then placed in the ark at Horeb when the LORD made the covenant with the children of Israel.

__11-14_The priests came forth from the holy place, and all the Levitical singers, musicians and one hundred and twenty priests blowing trumpets glorified God, praising Him saying, He is good, His loving kindness is everlasting. Then the house was filled with a cloud and the priests could not stand before the glory of the LORD.

2 Chronicles 6
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1-5_Then Solomon spoke, saying, the LORD said that He would dwell in a thick cloud. I have built a lofty house to be His dwelling place forever. Turning to the people, he said, blessed be the LORD Who has brought to pass all that He said to David. Ever since coming out of Egypt Israel has had no king.

__6-11_God chose Israel for His own and David as His king. David wanted to build a house for the LORD. The LORD said that David's intentions were good but he must not build this house for he was a man of war. His son should be the one to build it. I have done this and have set the Ark of the Covenant in it.

__12-14_Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the assembly of Israel. Spreading out his hands he knelt before the LORD prayed thus: O Lord there is none like You in heaven or earth. You keep Your covenant and show loving kindness to those who walk before You With all their heart.

__15-21_You have kept Your promise to Your servant David. May there always be a son of David on the throne of Israel. Behold, the highest heaven cannot contain You. Thank You for having regard for this house. And may it be that when someone prays toward this house, You will hear from Your dwelling place in heaven.

__22-25_If a man sins against his neighbor and takes an oath before Your altar in this house, then hear and judge Your servants, punishing the one who is wrong and justifying the righteous. If Israel is defeated by its enemy because they have sinned, and they return to You confessing their sin, then hear them from heaven and forgive.

__26-31_When no rain has fallen because they have sinned, and they pray to this place and confess Your name and turn from their sin, hear in heaven and forgive. Teach them the good way to walk and send rain. If there is a famine, pestilence or any plague, hear from heaven their prayer of supplication and forgive and render justice.

__32-35_And when the foreigner who has heard of You and comes from a far country and prays toward this place, hear from heaven and answer his prayer. When the people go out to battle against their enemies, hear their prayer from heaven and maintain their cause.

__36-39_When they sin against You, for we all sin, and You are angry with them and deliver them to their enemy, and if they are taken to a far off land, if they admit their sin and return to You with heart and soul, and they pray toward the land You gave their fathers, then hear from heaven and forgive their sin.

__40-42_Now O Lord, please listen to this prayer. Let Your priests be clothed with salvation that those who follow You may rejoice. O Lord, do not turn away Your face from Your anointed. Remember Your loving kindness to Your servant David.

2 Chronicles 7
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1-3_When Solomon had finished praying fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the glory of the LORD filled the house. The priests could not enter the house because of the glory. All the children of Israel bowed with their faces to the pavement as they worshiped and said, truly His loving kindness is everlasting.

__4-9_All the people offered sacrifices. King Solomon offered 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. Then he consecrated the middle court that was before the house of the LORD. Solomon and all the people who had come from everywhere observed the feast at that time for seven days. On the eighth day they dedicated the altar.

__10-11_On the twenty third day of the seventh month Solomon sent the people home rejoicing because of the goodness that the LORD had shown David and Solomon and His people Israel. Thus Solomon finished the house of the LORD and his own palace.

__12-14_Then the LORD appeared to Solomon at night and said to him, I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for Myself. If I shut up the heaven and there is no rain, or if I send pestilence and My people humble themselves and seek Me, then I will hear them from heaven, forgive their sin and heal their land.

__15-18_Now My eyes shall be open and My ears attentive to the prayer offered in this place. I have consecrated this house that My name may be there forever. And as for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, to do all that I have commanded, then I will establish your royal throne forever as I promised David.

__19-22_If you turn away and forsake My commandments, and worship other gods, then I will uproot you from My land which I have given you. And the house I have consecrated for Myself I will cast out of My sight. Those passing by will say, they forsook the LORD Who brought them up from Egypt and this is the result.

2 Chronicles 8
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1-6_After twenty years during which Solomon had built the house of God and his own house, he built cities which Huram had given him and he settled children of Israel there. Then he captured Hamath-Zobah. He built Tadmor in the wilderness and all the storage cities which he built in Hamath.

__7-11_Solomon continued to use those who were left of the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites as forced labor. He did not use any of the children of Israel as slaves. Solomon had two hundred and fifty chief officers to rule over the people. And he built a house for Pharaoh' daughter to live in.

__12-15_Then Solomon offered burnt offerings to the LORD according to the commandment of Moses for Sabbaths, new moons, the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks and the Feast of Booths. He appointed the divisions of the priests and the Levites just as David had outlined. Everyone was faithful to his work.

__16-18_Thus all the work of Solomon was carried out and the house of the LORD was completed. Then he went to Ezion-Gerber and Eloth on the seashore of Edom. Huram sent him ships and servants who knew the sea. They went with Solomon's servants to Ophir and brought back to Solomon four hundred and fifty talents of gold.

2 Chronicles 9
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1-2_The queen of Sheba heard of Solomon's fame and came to Jerusalem to test him with difficult questions. She came with camels carrying spices and a large amount of gold and precious stones. She spoke with him about everything on her heart and he answered all her questions.

__3-7_After seeing his wisdom and the house he had built, the food on his table, his ministers, their attire, and the stairway by which he went to the house of the LORD, it took her breath away. She said to him, everything I heard is true but only half was told to me. Your people are blessed to be able to serve you.

__8-9_Blessed be your God who delighted in you and has made you king to do justice and righteousness. Then she gave Solomon one hundred and twenty talents of gold and a very great amount of spices and precious stones. There has never been spice like what was given to King Solomon by the Queen of Sheba.

__10-11_The servants of Huram and Solomon also brought gold from Ophir and algum trees and precious stones. It was from the algum trees that Solomon made the steps for the house of the LORD and his own palace. He even had harps and lyres made from it. Nothing like this had been seen before in Judah.

__12-18_King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba anything she asked for in return for what she brought and she went home.

The weight of the gold which came to Solomon in one year was 666 talents. He had shields made of beaten gold. He made a great throne of ivory overlaid with gold. It had six steps up to it and a lion beside each arm.

__19-21_Twelve lions stood on the six steps.

All of Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold. Silver was not considered valuable in the days of Solomon. He had ships which went to Tarshish once every three years with the servants of Huram. They came back with gold, silver, ivory, apes and peacocks.

__22-24_King Solomon was greater in riches and wisdom than all the kings of the earth. They came seeking to just be in his presence and hear the wisdom which God had given to him. Each one brought gifts of silver, gold, garments, weapons, spices, horses and mules.

__25-28_Solomon had 4,000 stalls for horses and 12,000 horseman. His rule extended from the Euphrates River to the border of Egypt. He made silver as common as stones in Jerusalem, and he made cedars as plentiful as the sycamore trees in the lowland. Horses were brought from Egypt and all other countries.

__29-31_All the rest of the acts of Solomon are recorded by Nathan the prophet, Ahijah and Iddo. Solomon reigned forty years and slept with his fathers. He was buried in Jerusalem and his son Rehoboam reigned in his place.

2 Chronicles 10
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1-5_Rehoboam went to Shechem where all Israel had come to make him king. Jeroboam had fled to Egypt from Solomon. He now returned for the coronation. Jeroboam and all Israel spoke to Rehoboam saying, your father's yoke was heavy. Lighten this yoke and we will serve you. Rehoboam said give me three days and then come back.

__6-11_Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon. They counseled him to be kind to the people and do as they asked and they would be his servants forever. Then he consulted with the younger men and they advised him to tell the people he would make their yoke even heavier.

__12-15_So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day and he gave them a harsh answer. He said, my father made your yoke heavy but I will add to it. He disciplined you with whips. I will discipline you with scorpions. So the king did not listen to the people and it was a turn of events for the kingdom.

__16-19_When Israel saw that the king would not listen to them they said, what portion do we have in David? Every man to his own tent. King Rehoboam is now on his own. So Rehoboam reigned over just Judah. When he sent Hadoram who was in charge of forced labor, Israel stoned him to death. So Israel remained in rebellion against Rehoboam.

2 Chronicles 11
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1-4_Rehoboam went back to Jerusalem and assembled 180,000 warriors from Judah and Benjamin, planning to restore the kingdom. The word of the LORD came to Shemaiah the man of God. He relayed the LORD's message to Rehoboam. Do not fight against your relatives. This thing is from Me. Go home. So they did not go against Jeroboam.

__5-12_Rehoboam lived in Jerusalem and built thirteen cities for the defense of Judah. In them he stored food, oil and wine besides spears and shields. He placed officers in them and strengthened them greatly. In this way he held on to Judah and Benjamin.

__13-16_The priests and Levites in Israel all came to Judah because Jeroboam had excluded them from serving as priests to the LORD. He set up priests of his own for the high places and the calves he had made for worship. Those of Israel who remained true to the faith went to Jerusalem to sacrifice to the LORD God of their fathers.

__17-22_This strengthened Rehoboam and they walked in the way of the LORD for three years. Rehoboam took wives and they bore him sons. Eventually he took eighteen wives and sixty concubines. He fathered twenty eight sons and sixty daughters. He loved Maacah, Absalom's daughter the best intending to make her son king in his place.

__23_He acted wisely distributing some of his sons through all the territories of Judah and Benjamin. He placed them in the fortified cities, gave them food in abundance and sought many wives for them.

2 Chronicles 12
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1-4_When Rehoboam's kingdom was established he and all Israel turned their backs on the law of the LORD. In Rehoboam's fifth year the LORD sent Shishak king of Egypt against Jerusalem with 1,200 chariots and 60,000 horseman. They captured the fortified cities and then came to Jerusalem.

__5-7_Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and the princes of Judah who had gathered at Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them, thus says the LORD, you have turned your backs on Me, so I have given you over to Shishak. The king and the princes humbled themselves and the LORD told Shemaiah, I will not completely destroy them.

__8-9_Nevertheless, they shall become Shishak's slaves that they may learn the difference between serving Me and serving other countries. So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem and carried off the treasure from the house of the LORD and the king's palace. He even took the gold shields Solomon had made.

__10-13_Then King Rehoboam made bronze shields to replace the gold ones that were taken. When he humbled himself the anger of the LORD was turned away so that he was not completely destroyed. Conditions became good in Judah and Rehoboam continued to strengthen himself in Jerusalem. He was forty one when he began to reign and he reigned seventeen years.

__14-16_In spite of all of these things, Rehoboam did not set his heart to seek the LORD.

Rehoboam's acts are all written in the records of Shemaiah the prophet and Iddo the seer. There was continual war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam. And Rehoboam slept with his fathers and was buried. And Abijah his son became king in his place.

2 Chronicles 13
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1-3_In the eighteenth year of King Rehoboam, Abijah became king over Judah. He reigned three years in Jerusalem. There was war between Abijah and Jeroboam. Abijah brought to battle 400,000 valiant warriors and Jeroboam came against him with 800,000 valiant warriors.

__4-7_Abijah stood on Mount Zemaraim and made a speech to Jeroboam and all Israel. He said, the LORD God covenanted to give the rule of Israel to David and his sons forever. Jeroboam rebelled against his master. Worthless men gathered about him and he proved too strong for Rehoboam because he was young and timid.

__8-9_Now do you intend to resist the kingdom of the LORD led by the sons of David because you are a great multitude and have the golden calves made for you by Jeroboam to be your gods? You have even driven out the sons of Aaron and the Levites. Anyone can be priest of your gods if he has a young bull and seven rams.

__10-11_As for us, the LORD is our God and we have not forsaken Him. The sons of Aaron are ministering to the LORD as priests and the Levites attend to their work. Morning and evening they burn a sacrifice to the LORD. The showbread is set on the clean table and the gold lampstand burns every evening. We keep the charge of the LORD.

__12-14_Behold, God is with us at our head. His priests will sound the trumpet against you, O children of Israel. Do not fight against the LORD God of your fathers. You will not succeed.

Jeroboam had set an ambush to come up behind Judah. When Judah saw that they were being attacked from the front and the rear, they cried to the LORD.

__15-18_Then the men of Judah raised the war cry, and God routed Jeroboam and all Israel. They fled before Judah and God gave Israel into their hand. Judah defeated them with a great slaughter. 500,000 chosen men of Israel were slain. Thus Israel was subdued at that time because Judah trusted in the LORD God of their fathers.

__19-22_Abijah captured several cities and their villages from Jeroboam, such as Bethel, Jeshanah and Ephron. Jeroboam never recovered his strength in the days of Abijah. The LORD struck him and he died. Abijah became powerful. The rest of his acts are written in the treatise of the prophet Iddo.

2 Chronicles 14
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1-3_Abijah slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David. His son Asa became king in his place. The land had peace for ten years. Asa did what was right in the sight of the LORD his God. He removed the foreign altars and high places. He tore down the sacred pillars and cut down the Asherim.

__4-8_He commanded Judah to seek the LORD God of their fathers and observe His commandments and law. He built fortified cities during the time of peace, surrounding them with walls and towers, gates and bars. Asa had an army of 300,000 from Judah and 280,000 from Benjamin. They had shields and bows and were valiant warriors.

__9-11_Then Zerah the Ethiopian came against Judah with an army of a million men. He had 300 chariots and came to Mareshah. Asa went out to meet him and they drew up in battle formation. Asa called to the LORD his God, saying, there is no one besides You O Lord, to help in battle. Help us O Lord. We trust in You. You are our God.

__12-15_So the LORD routed the Ethiopians before Judah. Judah pursued them as far as Gerar. So many Ethiopians fell that they could not recover. They were shattered before the LORD. Judah carried away a great deal of plunder, destroying cities around Gerar. They returned to Jerusalem with many sheep and camels.

2 Chronicles 15
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1-4_The Spirit of God came on Azariah with a message for Asa, Judah and Benjamin. The LORD is with you when you are with Him. If you seek Him He will let you find Him. If you forsake Him He will forsake you. There have been many times when Israel did not do this. But when they turned to God and looked for Him, He could be found.

__5-8_When they did not seek Him there was much trouble in the land. Nation against nation, city by city, God gave them every kind of distress. Be strong and do not lose courage. There is a reward for your work. Asa heard God's words from Azariah. He removed the abominable idols from the land. And he restored the altar of the LORD.

__9-15_He gathered all Judah and Benjamin and those from Israel who had defected to Judah because they saw the LORD was with Asa. They sacrificed 700 oxen and 7,000 sheep to the LORD and entered into a covenant to seek the LORD with all their heart and soul. They made an oath to the LORD with great joy and the LORD gave them rest.

__16-19_They removed Maacah, Asa's mother, from being queen because she made an image to Asherah. They cut the image down and burned it. But the high places were not removed. Still, Asa's heart was blameless all his days. He restored the dedicated things to the house of God. There was no war until the thirty fifth year of Asa's reign.

2 Chronicles 16
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1-3_In the thirty sixth year of Asa's reign Baasha king of Israel came against Judah and fortified Ramah. Asa sent silver and gold to Benhadad, king of Aram. He sent treasure from the house of the LORD and from his own house. He proposed that they form an alliance and that Benhadad break his alliance with Baasha.

__4-7_So Benhadad did as Asa asked and went against the cities of Israel, Ijon, Dan, Abelmaim and cities in Naphtali. Baasha stopped fortifying Ramah. Asa used the materials to fortify Geba and Mizpah. At this time Hanani the prophet came to Asa and said the LORD is unhappy with you for relying on Damascus instead of Him.

__8-9_When the Ethiopians and the Lubim came against you with an immense army the LORD delivered them into your hand. The eyes of the LORD keep watch throughout the earth and He strongly supports those whose hearts belong completely to Him. You have acted foolishly. From now on you will surely have wars.

__10-12_This made Asa very angry and he put the prophet in prison. He also oppressed some of the people. The rest of Asa's acts are written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel. In the thirty ninth year of his reign his feet became severely diseased. And he consulted the physicians instead of God.

__13-14_So Asa slept with his fathers having died in the forty first year of his reign. They buried him in a tomb he had carved for himself in the city of David. His resting place was filled with various kinds of blended spices.

2 Chronicles 17
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1-4_Jehoshaphat his son then became king in his place. He made his position over Israel firm, placing troops in all the fortified cities of Judah and in the cities of Ephraim which Asa had captured. The LORD was with him because he followed David's example. He did not seek the Baals, but followed God and His commandments.

__5-9_So The LORD established Jehoshaphat's kingdom. All Judah brought him tribute and he had great honor and riches. He removed the high places and the Asherim from Judah.

In the third year of his reign he sent officials and Levites throughout the cities of Judah to teach the people from the book of the law.

__10-13_The dread of the LORD was on all the kingdoms around Judah. None of them made war with Jehoshaphat. Some of the Philistines brought gifts and silver as tribute. The Arabs brought flocks, 7,700 rams and 7,700 male goats. He had many supplies in the cities of Judah and many valiant men in Jerusalem.

__14-18_The muster of valiant men was as follows:
300,000 valiant warriors led by Adnah,
280,000 commanded by Johanan,
200,000 valiant warriors commanded by Amasiah,
200,000 from Benjamin armed with bow and shield commanded by Eliada,
180,000 led by Jehozabad.

__19_These served the king in addition to those he had placed in the fortified cities throughout Judah.

2 Chronicles 18
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1-3_Jehoshaphat had great riches and honor. He allied himself with Ahab through marriage. Some years later he visited Ahab in Samaria. Ahab slaughtered many sheep and oxen for him and the people. Then he induced Jehoshaphat to go with him against Ramoth-Gilead. Jehoshaphat said, I and my people will be with you in battle.

__4-7_Jehoshaphat wanted to inquire of the LORD before going to battle. So Ahab assembled his prophets and they advised him to go against Ramoth-Gilead. Then Jehoshaphat asked if there was a prophet of the LORD to ask? Ahab said there is one. I hate him because he always prophesies evil. His name is Micaiah.

__8-14_So Ahab called for Micaiah and while they waited, Ahab's prophets were prophesying how he would defeat Ramoth-Gilead. When Ahab's messenger approached Micaiah he was asked to speak favorably to the king. Micaiah said, I will only say what the LORD says. When he stood before the king said, go and succeed against Ramoth-Gilead.

__15-17_Ahab said, I have told you that you must prophesy only the truth. So Micaiah said, I saw Israel scattered on the mountains like sheep without a shepherd. And the LORD said, they have no master. Let each man return to his house in peace. Then Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, didn't I tell you he only prophesies evil?

__18-21_The Micaiah said, hear the word of the LORD. I saw Him sitting on his throne and asking those around Him, who will entice Ahab to go and fall at Ramoth-Gilead? There were several suggestions. Finally a spirit came forward and standing before the LORD said, I will go and be a deceiving spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.

__22-24_So you see that the LORD has put a deceiving spirit in the mouth of your prophets for the LORD has proclaimed disaster against you. Zedekiah, the king's prophet, came over and struck Micaiah on the cheek. How, he asked, did the spirit of the LORD pass from me to you? Micaiah relied, you will see on the day you are hiding.

__25-29_Then Ahab had Micaiah place in prison and fed only bread and water until he should return safely. Micaiah said, if you return safely then the LORD has not spoken through me.

So Ahab and Jehoshaphat went up against Ramoth-Gilead. Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself while you wear your king's robes.

__30-32_Now the king of Aram had told the captains of his chariots to fight with no one but the king of Israel. So when they saw King Jehoshaphat they turned aside to fight against him but he cried out to the LORD and the LORD diverted them from him. Then the men of Aram saw that he was not Ahab and left him alone.

__33-34_Then a certain man shot an arrow and quite by accident struck Ahab in a joint of his armor. Ahab told his driver to get him away from the fight for he was severely wounded. He watched the battle rage that day until evening and at sunset he died.

2 Chronicles 19
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1-3_So Jehoshaphat returned in safety to his house in Jerusalem. Jehu the seer came to him and said, should you help the wicked and love those who hate the LORD? In doing this you bring wrath on yourself from the LORD. But there is some good in you for you have removed idols from the land set your heart to seek God.

__4-7_So Jehoshaphat lived in Jerusalem and went out among the people from Beersheba to the hill country of Ephraim bringing them back to the LORD, the God of their fathers. He appointed judges in all the fortified cities. He instructed the judges to render fair judgment and to let the fear of the LORD direct them.

__8-11_He also appointed some of the Levites as judges to handle disputes in Jerusalem. He charged them to judge according to the law and the commandments, warning the people lest they be guilty before the LORD. He set Amariah the chief priest over them and said, act resolutely and the LORD be with the upright.

2 Chronicles 20
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1-6_It was after this that Moab, Ammon and some of the Meunites came to make war against Jehoshaphat. When he learned of this he was afraid. He turned to the LORD and proclaimed a fast throughout Judea asking everyone to seek the LORD. Standing in the assembly of Judah he prayed to God saying, O God, you are ruler over all nations.

__7-9_You drove out the inhabitants of this land before we arrived here. You gave it to your friend Abraham. Your people lived here and built a sanctuary in Your name. You said that if evil should come upon us we can come and stand before this house and call on Your name and You will hear and deliver us.

__10-13_Now we see the sons of Ammon and Moab coming to drive us out of our possession which You gave us as an inheritance. O Lord, will You not judge, for we are powerless before this great multitude. Our eyes are upon You. All Judah stood before the LORD. They had with them their wives, their infants and their little ones.

__14-16_Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jahaziel in the midst of the assembly. He said, listen, all Judah, thus says the LORD to you. Do not be afraid of this great multitude. The battle is not yours but God's. Tomorrow you will go down against them and find them at the end of the valley in front of the wilderness of Jeruel.

__17-19_You do not need to fight the battle. Stand watch the LORD's salvation working on your behalf. Do not be afraid, for the LORD is with you. Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground and all the people fell down and worshipped the LORD. Then the Levite choir, that is the sons of Korah, praised the LORD with a very loud voice.

__20-23_The next morning they got up early and went to the wilderness of Tekoa. Jehoshaphat reminded them to put their trust in the LORD. He had appointed singers to give thanks to the LORD. When they began singing, the LORD set ambushes against the sons of Ammon and Moab and they were routed. They ended up destroying each other.

__24-30_When Judah looked down they saw corpses lying everywhere. None had escaped. Judah carried away spoil for three days. On the fourth day they assembled to praise the LORD with much joy as they played harps, lyres and trumpets. The dread of God was on all the kingdoms around them and God gave them peace on every side.

__31-34_Jehoshaphat was thirty five when he became king and he reigned over Judah for twenty five years. He did right in the sight of the LORD. The high places, however, had not been removed. The rest of Jehoshaphat acts are written in Jehu's record of the kings of Israel.

__35-37_After this Jehoshaphat allied himself with Ahaziah king of Israel to make ships to go to Tarshish. In this he acted wickedly. Eliezer prophesied against him saying, because you have allied yourself with Ahaziah, the LORD has destroyed your works. So the ships were broken and could not go to Tarshish.

2 Chronicles 21
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1-4_Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David. His son Jehoram became king in his place. Jehoshaphat had many other sons who he gave gifts to but he gave the kingdom to Jehoram because he was his firstborn. Jehoram made the kingdom secure by killing all his brothers and some of the rulers of Israel.

__5-7_Jehoram was thirty two years old when he became king and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. He walked in the ways of Ahab for Ahab's daughter was his wife. The LORD was not happy with him. Yet the LORD was not willing to destroy the house of David because He had promised to give a lamp to him and his sons forever.

__8-10_It was in Jehoram's days that Edom revolted against the rule of Judah and set up their own king. Jehoram took his commanders and chariots and struck down the Edomites. Edom was always in revolt after this. Then Libnah also revolted against his rule because he had forsaken the LORD God of his fathers.

__11-13_Jehoram made high places in the mountains of Judah and caused Judah to worship idols. Elijah the prophet sent him a letter saying, because you have not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat your father but have instead chosen to walk in the ways of the kings of Israel, and caused Judah to play the harlot and kill your brothers,

__14-17_the LORD is going to strike you, your sons, your wives and all your possessions with a great calamity. You will suffer a severe disease of your bowels. Then the LORD stirred up the Philistines and the Arabs against Judah. They invaded Judah and carried away all the possessions of the king, his sons and his wives. They left only Jehoahaz.

__18-20_After this the LORD smote Jehoram in his bowels with an incurable sickness. In the course of two years his bowels came out and he died in great pain. He was thirty two years old when he became king and he reigned eight years. No one was sorry to see him go. He was buried in Jerusalem but not with the kings.

2 Chronicles 22
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1-12_Then the inhabitants of Jerusalem made his son Ahaziah king. He was twenty two when he became king and he reigned one year. He was wicked and God destroyed him. Jehu then killed all his sons. Athaliah, seeing that her son was dead, destroyed all the royal offspring of Judah except for Joash who had been hidden in the house of God.

2 Chronicles 23
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1-11_In the seventh year Jehoiada, the high priest informed the captains of hundred and the Levites throughout the land in order to prepare for the king's protection. They brought out the king's son and put the crown on him and made him king, as they anointed him and said, long live the king!

__12-13_When Athaliah heard the noise of people running and praising the king she came to the house of the LORD where the people were. There she saw the boy king standing by the pillar being guarded by the captains. She began shouting, Treason! Treason!

__14-17_Jehoiada the priest told the captains to take her away from the LORD's house and put her to death.

Jehoiada made a covenant with the people and the king to remain the LORD's people. Then the people went to the house of Baal and tore it down. They broke up its images and killed it priest.

__18-21_Then Jehoiada reorganized the Levites and gave them authority over the LORD's house according to the assignments David had made among the Levites. They placed the king on the royal throne and all the people rejoiced. The city was quiet.

2 Chronicles 24
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1-3_Joash was seven years old when he became king. He reigned forty years in Jerusalem. While Jehoiada lived he did right in the sight of the LORD. Jehoiada took two wives for Joash and he had sons and daughters.

__4-6_After this Joash decided to restore the house of the LORD. He asked the priests and Levites to go out to all the cities and gather money for this project. But they did not go quickly to do this as the king had asked. Then he asked Jehoiada why he had not required the Levites to gather the money to fix the LORD's house?

__7-9_The sons of wicked Athaliah had stolen holy things from the house of the LORD to use for the Baals. So the king commanded that they build a chest to set outside the gate to the house of the LORD. Then he made a proclamation to the people to bring in the levy fixed by Moses.

__10-14_Everyone rejoiced to be able to drop their levies through the slot into the chest. The money was regularly collected and the king and Jehoiada paid those restoring the house of the LORD. In this way the house was restored and the extra money was used to make utensils. They offered burnt offerings all the days of Jehoiada.

__15-19_Jehoiada died at the ripe old age of one hundred and thirty years. He was buried among the kings because he had done well for God and His house. After Jehoiada's death the people abandoned God's house and worshipped the Asherim. So God's wrath came upon Jerusalem. Yet God still sent prophets to bring them back to Him.

__20-22_The Spirit of God rested on Zechariah and he asked the people why they had forsaken the LORD? They conspired to stone him and Joash encouraged them. Joash forgot the kindness of Jehoiada and murdered Jehoiada's son.

__23-24_The next year the Arameans came against Joash and destroyed all the officials and took much spoil back to Damascus. They had only a few men and the LORD delivered Judah into their hands because they had forsaken the Him.

__25-27_After they left, Joash became very sick. His own servants conspired against him because he had murdered Jehoiada's son. He was murdered on his own bed and buried in the city of David but not in the tombs of the kings. Everything that he did is written in the book of the kings. And Amaziah his son became king in his place.

2 Chronicles 25
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1-4_Amaziah was twenty five years old when he became king. He reigned twenty nine years in Jerusalem and did right in the LORD's sight but not with his whole heart. As soon as the kingdom was firmly established he killed those who had killed his father the king. He followed the law of Moses by not putting the children of these men to death.

__5-8_Amaziah assembled Judah to organize his army. Taking a census he found 300,000 choice men twenty and older. He then hired 100,000 warriors from Israel for one hundred talents of silver. A man of God came to him advising him not take the men of Israel to war. The LORD is not with Israel. God can help or hurt you.

__9-10_Amaziah said to the man of God, what shall come from the one hundred talents of silver I gave these men? The man said, the LORD has much more for you than this. So Amaziah sent the men of Israel home. This made them very angry with Judah.

__11-13_So Amaziah strengthened himself and led his army to the Valley of Salt striking down 10,000 sons of Edom. They captured another 10,000 and threw them from the top of a cliff dashing them to pieces. While they were gone the troops from Israel raided the cities of Judah from Samaria to Bethhoron killing 3,000 and taking much spoil.

__14-16_Amaziah came from the slaughter of Edom and brought their gods and set them up and worshiped them. The LORD was angry with him and sent a prophet to ask him, why are you worshiping the gods that could not deliver their own people from you? I know that God is planning to destroy you because you have not listened to His counsel.

__17-20_Then Amaziah sent word to Joash king of Israel saying, come. Let us face each other. Joash said, your heart is proud because you have defeated Edom. Stay home, for why should you bring trouble on Judah? But he would not listen for God planned to deliver Amaziah into the hand of Joash because he had sought the gods of Edom.

__21-23_So Joash king of Israel went up against Amaziah king of Judah at Bethshemesh and Judah was defeated by Israel. Joash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, and brought him to Jerusalem. He tore down the wall of Jerusalem from the Gate Of Ephraim to the Corner Gate, four hundred cubits.

__24-26_And he took all the gold and silver and the utensils from the house of God. He also took the treasures from the king's house and hostages. These he took to Samaria. Amaziah lived fifteen years after the death of Joash. The rest of his acts are written in the Book of the Kings of Judah.

__27-28_From the time that Amaziah turned away from following the LORD his men conspired against him in Jerusalem. He fled to Lachish and they followed him there and killed him and brought him back and buried him with his fathers in Judah.

2 Chronicles 26
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1-5_All the people of Judah made Uzziah king when he was sixteen years old and he reigned fifty two years. He built Eloth restoring it to Judah. He did right like his father Amaziah had done. He continued to seek God in the days of Zechariah who had visions from God. As long as Uzziah sought the LORD, God prospered him.

__6-8_He went to war with the Philistines and broke down the walls of Gath, Jabneh and Ashdod, and he built cities in the area of Ashdod. God helped him against the Philistines, the Arabs and the Meunites. The Ammonites gave tribute to Uzziah. His fame extended to the boarder of Egypt for he became very strong.

__9-10_He built and fortified towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate and at the corner buttress. He also built towers in the wilderness and hewed many cisterns because he had so much livestock. He also had plowman and vinedressers in the hill country and on the fertile plains. Uzziah loved the soil.

__11-15_Besides this Uzziah had an army ready for battle. They could go into battle by divisions. His army of 307,500 was well organized. They had shields, spears, helmets, body armor, bows and slings for casting stones. His skillful men invented engines of war that could shoot arrows and great stones. His fame spread everywhere.

__16-18_But when he became strong his heart was proud and his success corrupted him making him unfaithful to the LORD. He entered the temple to burn incense to the LORD on the alter of incense. Azariah the priest came in after him followed by eighty priests of the LORD, all valiant men. They told him only sons of Aaron could do this.

__19-21_This enraged Uzziah. Immediately leprosy broke out on his forehead as he stood before the priests with the censor in his hand. They hurried him out of the temple before the LORD should put him to death. He remained a leper living in a separate house until his death. Jotham his son was over the king's house judging the people.

__22-23_The rest of Uzziah's acts have been recorded by Isaiah the prophet. He slept with his fathers and Jotham his son became king.

2 Chronicles 27
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1-4_Jotham was twenty five years old when he became king. He reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem doing right in God's sight like his father Uzziah. He did not enter the temple. The people continued to act corruptly. Jotham built the upper gate in the house of the LORD and he built cities and fortresses in the hill country.

__5-7_He fought with the Ammonites and prevailed so that they gave him one hundred talents of silver each year as well as sixty thousand bushels of wheat and the same of barley. The Ammonites did this for three years. Jotham became mighty because he followed the LORD. The rest of his acts are written in the Book of the Kings.

__8-9_Jotham slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David. Ahaz his son became king in his place.

2 Chronicles 28
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1-4_Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king. He reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem and he did not do right in the sight of the LORD. He walked in the ways of the kings of Israel making images for the Baals. He burned incense to them and burned his sons in the fire. And he burned incense in the high places on the hills.

__5-7_So the LORD delivered him into the hand of the king of Aram. Great numbers were carried away captive to Damascus. Israel also inflicted heavy casualties on him. One hundred and twenty thousand were slain because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers. His son Maaseiah was slain as was Azrikam, the second in command.

__8-9_Israel carried away captive 200,000 women, sons and daughters. They also took a great amount of spoil to Samaria. Oded, a prophet of the LORD came out to meet the army coming to Samaria. He said to them, the LORD was angry with Judah and delivered them into your hand. You have slain with rage and it has reached to heaven.

__10-13_Now you are proposing to subjugate people of Judah. Surely you have your own transgressions against the LORD. Listen to me and return the captives for the anger of the LORD is burning against you. And some of the leaders rose up against those coming from the battle saying, you must not bring guilt on us by keeping these captives.

__14-15_So the armed men left the captives and the spoil with the officers of the assembly. Designated men clothed the naked with the spoil. They gave them food and drink and anointed them with oil. They put the feeble ones on donkeys and took them all back to Jericho and then returned to Samaria.

__16-21_At that time Ahaz sent to Assyria for help because Edom and the Philistines were attacking. The LORD was humbling Ahaz because of Judah's unfaithfulness to the LORD. So Tilgath-Pilneser came against him instead of helping him. Ahaz took things from the house of the LORD and from his house to give to him, but it did not help him.

__22-24_In his distress King Ahaz became even more unfaithful to the LORD. He sacrificed to the gods of Damascus which had defeated him, reasoning that these gods were stronger. This was his downfall. He cut in pieces the utensils of the house of God and closed its doors. He then made alters for himself in every corner of Jerusalem.

__25-27_In every city of Judah he made high places to burn incense to other gods and provoked the LORD to anger. The rest of his acts are written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel. Ahaz slept with his fathers and was buried in Jerusalem. They did not bring him into the tombs of the kings. His son Hezekiah reigned in his place.

2 Chronicles 29
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1-5_Hezekiah became king when he was twenty five years old and reigned twenty nine years in Jerusalem. He did right in the LORD's sight. In the first year of his reign he opened the doors of the LORD's house and brought in the priests and the Levites. He asked them to consecrate themselves and His house by cleaning it up.

__6-11_He said, our fathers have been unfaithful and turned their backs on the LORD and His wrath has been against Judah and Jerusalem. Many fell by the sword and many more are in captivity because of this. Let us make a covenant with the LORD that His anger be turned away. Be diligent to minister before Him.

__12-19_The Levites arose and assembled their brothers and consecrated themselves. They cleaned every part of the house of the LORD and carried the trash to the Kidron valley. They started on the first day of the month and finished by the sixteenth day. They reported to Hezekiah everything they had done.

__20-21_Then King Hezekiah got up early, assembled the princes of the city and went to the house of the LORD. They brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs and seven male goats for a sin offering for the kingdom, the sanctuary and Judah. They offered these on the altar of the LORD.

__22-28_So they slaughtered the animals and purged the altar to atone for all Israel. Levites were stationed in the house of the LORD with musical instruments just as David had commanded and the LORD had commanded through His prophets. While the whole assembly worshiped the singers sang and the trumpets sounded.

__29-31_When the sacrifices had been completed the king and all who were present bowed down and worshiped. Then the Levites sang more praises. Then Hezekiah said, now that you have consecrated yourselves, come near and bring your sacrifices to the LORD. And they brought sacrifices and thank offerings.

__32-36_The assembly brought 70 bulls, 100 rams and 200 lambs as burnt offerings. The consecrated things were 600 bulls and 3,000 sheep. There were not enough priests to skin all the burnt offerings so the Levites helped them. The Levites were more conscientious than the priests. So the service of the house of the LORD was established.

2 Chronicles 30
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1-6_Hezekiah invited all Israel including Ephraim and Manasseh to celebrate the Passover at the LORD's house in Jerusalem. Couriers went throughout all Israel and Judah with letters from the king saying, O children of Israel, return to the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, that the LORD may return to you who escaped Assyria.

__7-10_Do not be like your fathers and brothers who were unfaithful to God. Yield to the LORD and enter his sanctuary and serve Him that His anger may be turned away from you. Then He will have compassion on those who were led away captive. The couriers passed from city to city but were scorned and laughed at.

__11-13_Nevertheless, some men of Asher, Manasseh and Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem. And God gave Judah one mind to do as the king and the princes had commanded by the word of the LORD. Many people gathered in Jerusalem to celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread.

__14-19_They threw the incense altars that were in Jerusalem into the Kidron brook. Then they slaughtered the Passover lambs. The priests and Levites consecrated themselves and brought burnt offering to the house of the LORD. Some from outlying areas ate the Passover lamb without purifying themselves. Hezekiah asked the LORD to pardon them.

__20-24_The LORD heard Hezekiah and healed the people. Everyone presented themselves with great joy. And Hezekiah encouraged the Levites. Everyone gave thanks to the LORD God of their fathers. Then the whole assembly decided to celebrate the feast for another seven days. Hezekiah and the princes contributed many more bulls and sheep.

__25_Everyone from Judah and Israel rejoiced together so there was great joy in Jerusalem. Nothing like this had happened since the days of Solomon. Then the Levitical priests arose and blessed the people. And their prayers were heard by God in the holy place and in heaven.

2 Chronicles 31
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1-2_When all the sacrificing was finished, those still present went out of the cities and broke down all the high places and the altars in Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim and Manasseh. Hezekiah appointed the divisions of the priests and the Levites for burnt offerings and peace offerings.

__3-6_He appointed the king's portion of his goods for the burnt offerings and the morning and the evening offerings according to the book of the law. He commanded that the portion due the priests and Levites be given to them. As soon as the word spread the people brought abundantly of their First Fruits and the tithe of everything.

__7-11_They heaped up the offerings from the third month until the seventh month. Hezekiah questioned the priests and the Levites and they said since the people have been contributing there has been plenty with some left over. So they made rooms in the house of the LORD where they could place the tithes and offerings.

__12-21_The tithes and offerings were managed by Conaniah the Levite who was the officer in charge. All the Levites were cared for according to the genealogical enrollment. Thus Hezekiah made sure everything throughout Judah was done correctly before the LORD God. He did all this from his heart and he prospered.

2 Chronicles 32
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1-4_After this time of faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria invaded Judah. When Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib intended to make war on Jerusalem he cut off the water supply from the springs outside the city. They stopped up all the springs so the Assyrians would not find abundant water.

__5-8_He took courage and rebuilt the wall that had fallen down and erected towers on the wall. He even built another outside wall and made a great number of weapons and shields. He appointed military officers and encouraged them to be strong saying that their connection with God made them stronger than the Assyrians.

__9-15_While Sennacherib was besieging Lachish he sent word to Jerusalem, saying, what are you trusting in? Hezekiah is misleading you to trust in your God. Do you not know what I have done everywhere I have gone? None of the gods of those nations could deliver them from my hand. Your God cannot deliver you from me.

__16-19_Sennacherib servants continued to speak against the LORD God and Hezekiah. He wrote letters to insult the LORD God of Israel saying He could not deliver them from Sennacherib. They spoke to the people of Judah in their own language and tried to discourage them. They compared the God of Jerusalem to gods made with hands.

__20-21_But King Hezekiah and Isaiah the prophet prayed about this and the LORD sent an angel to destroy every mighty warrior, commander and officer in the camp of the Assyrians. So Sennacherib returned home in shame to his own land. When he entered the temple of his god some of his own children killed him with the sword.

__22-23_So the LORD saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from Sennacherib the king of Assyria. After that many brought gifts to the LORD at Jerusalem and choice presents to Hezekiah king of Judah and he was exalted in the sight of all nations.

__24-29_In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill and he prayed to the LORD who spoke to him and gave him a sign. Then Hezekiah became proud and brought trouble on Jerusalem after his days. Hezekiah became extremely rich. He made treasuries for his great wealth. He had flocks and herds in abundance for God had been with him.

__30-31_It was Hezekiah who redirected the waters of Gihon to the west side of Jerusalem. He prospered in all that he did. Even when the envoy from Babylon came to see all that God had done for him, God left him alone to test him that He might know all that was in his heart.

__32-33_The rest of Hezekiah's acts are written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel. And Hezekiah slept with his fathers. They buried him in the tombs of the sons of David. All Judah honored him and Manasseh became king in his place.

2 Chronicles 33
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1-3_Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king. He reigned fifty five years. He did evil in God's sight following after the abominations of the nations God had dispossessed from before Israel. He rebuilt the high places Hezekiah had torn down and erected altars for the Baals. He made Asherim and worshiped the host of heaven.

__4-8_He built altars for the hosts of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD. He made his sons pass through the fire and practiced witchcraft, divination and sorcery. He dealt with mediums. He put the carved image of the idol in the house of the LORD. The LORD God was provoked to anger because they did not follow what Moses had taught.

__9-11_Thus Manasseh led Judah astray so that they were more evil then the nations God had driven out before them. The LORD spoke to the people and to Manasseh but they paid no attention to Him. So the LORD brought Assyria against them. They captured Manasseh and placed hooks in him. They bound him in brass chains and took him to Babylon.

__12-14_After that he humbled himself and entreated the LORD God of his fathers. And God was moved by his pleading and brought him back to Jerusalem. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD was God. After this he built the outer wall of the city of David on the west side of Gihon all the way to the Fish Gate.

__15-17_He removed the foreign gods and idols from the house of the LORD and the altars which he had built outside the temple. He set up the altar of the LORD and sacrificed peace offerings and ordered Israel to serve the LORD God of Israel. Yet the people still sacrificed in the high places, although only to the LORD their God.

__18-20_The rest of the acts of Manasseh, including his apostasies, his prayer to God and the words that the prophets of God spoke to him, are among the records of the kings of Israel. Manasseh slept with his fathers and they buried him in his house and Amon his son became king in his place.

__21-24_Amon was twenty two years old when he became king. He reigned two years in Jerusalem and he did evil just as his father Manasseh had done against the LORD. He did not humble himself like his father had. Finally his servants conspired against him and killed him in his own house.

__25_The people of the land killed King Amon's conspirators and made Josiah his son king in his place.

2 Chronicles 34
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1-3_Josiah was eight years old when he became king and he reigned thirty one years in Jerusalem. He did right like his father David. In the eighth year of his reign while still a youth he began to seek the God of his father David. In the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places and the Asherim.

__4-7_He tore down the altars of the Baals, the incense altars of the high places and the Asherim and other molten images. He broke them down and ground them to powder, scattering the powder over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them. He burned the bones of their priests on their altars and cleaned up all the cities.

__8-13_In the eighteenth year of his reign he began to repair the house of the LORD his God. He had money brought to the high priest so that workman might repair the house of the LORD. Timber and stone were purchased and the workman faithfully worked on the LORD's house.

__14-21_During this time they found the book of the law given by the LORD to Moses. They brought the book to Josiah and reported that the work was progressing. Then they read the book to the king. When he heard the words of the book he tore his clothes and commanded Hilkiah to inquire of the LORD because of their transgressions.

__22-25_So Hilkiah went to Huldah the prophetess for word from God and she told them that God said He would bring evil on this place because of the curses written in the book, for the people have forsaken Me and burned incense to other gods. My wrath shall be poured out on this place and it shall not be quenched.

__26-28_But to the king of Judah who sent you to inquire of the LORD you shall say that because he humbled himself before Me, and tore his clothes and wept before Me, I have heard him. He will go to his grave in peace and he will not see all the evil I will bring on this place. So they brought this message back to the king.

__29-31_Then the king gathered all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem and went to the house of the LORD. They also brought everyone they could get from the people. Then in their hearing the book that had been found was read. Then the king stood and made a covenant with the LORD to keep His commandments and follow the words of the book.

__32-33_Then Josiah made them all stand with him and promise to do according to the covenant of the God of their fathers. And Josiah removed all the abominations from the land made all Israel to serve the LORD throughout his lifetime.

2 Chronicles 35
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1-6_Josiah celebrated the Passover to the LORD in Jerusalem. They slaughtered the Passover animals on the fourteenth day of the month. He encouraged the priests and Levites to do everything in an orderly way just as David and Solomon had organized everything and according to the word of the LORD by Moses.

__7-12_Josiah contributed 30,000 lambs and kids and 3,000 bulls for the sacrifices. His officers also contributed freewill offerings. So the service was prepared and the priests stood at their stations and the Levites by their divisions. Animals were slaughtered and blood was sprinkled. All was done according to the book of Moses.

__13-15_They roasted the Passover animals and boiled the other sacrifices for all the people to eat. They worked all day and last of all prepared for the priests and Levites. The singers were at their stations as David had commanded. Each one did his part so that nothing was left undone.

__16-19_The children of Israel were present to celebrated the Passover on that day and the Feast of Unleavened Bread for the next seven days. There had not been a Passover celebrated like this since the days of Samuel the prophet. It was in the eighth year of Josiah's reign that this took place.

__20-21_After Josiah had set the temple in order Neco king of Egypt came to make war on Carchemish on the Euphrates and Josiah went out to meet him. Neco sent word to Josiah saying, I am doing God's bidding. Turn back. I have nothing against you. Turn back so that I will not destroy you.

__22-24_But Josiah did not turn back. He disguised himself and went to make war with Neco on the plain of Megiddo. Neco's archers shot Josiah and wounded him badly. So his servants took him in another chariot back to Jerusalem where he died and was buried with his fathers. All Judah and Jerusalem mourned for him.

__25-27_Then Jeremiah chanted a lament for Josiah that was placed in the book of Lamentations. The rest of Josiah's acts are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah.

2 Chronicles 36
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1-4_The people took Joahaz the son of Josiah and made him king. He was twenty three years old and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. Then the king of Egypt deposed him and imposed a fine of one hundred talents of silver and one talent of gold. Then he made Eliakim his brother king in his place and renamed him Jehoiakim.

__5-7_Jehoiakim was twenty five when he became king and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. He did evil in the LORD's sight. Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against him and took him captive to Babylon. He also took some of the articles from the house of the LORD back to Babylon to be placed in the temple of his god.

__8-9_The rest of the acts of Jehoiakim and his abominations are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah. Jehoiachin his son became king in his place. He was eighteen years old at the time and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem. And he did evil in the sight of the LORD.

__10-12_At the beginning of the year Nebuchadnezzar took Jehoiachin to Babylon as well as more articles from the house of the LORD. And he made his kinsman Zedekiah king over Judah. He was twenty one years old when he became king and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. He did evil in the LORD's sight and did not humble himself before God.

__13-14_Nebuchadnezzar had made him swear his allegiance by God. But he then rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar and hardened his heart toward the LORD God of Israel. Besides this the officials of the priests and the people were unfaithful. They followed the abominations of other nations and defiled the house of the LORD.

__15-18_In His compassion God sent word to them over and over by His messengers. They responded by mocking the messengers until there was no remedy left. As a result of their continued attitude, God sent Nebuchadnezzar to slay their people without compassion. And every article was removed from the house of God and taken to Babylon.

__19-20_Then the house of God was burned and the wall around Jerusalem was broken down. Its fortified buildings were burned and everything of value destroyed. Those who escaped the sword were carried to Babylon and they remained his servants until the rule of Persia.

__21-23_This fulfilled the word of the LORD by Jeremiah who said that the land would enjoy it's Sabbaths and rest for seventy years. So in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia the LORD impressed him to put the following in writing: All those of you from Judah go and build a house to the LORD in Jerusalem. I will provide the funds.

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