2 Chronicles 6:5-6
6:5 He told David,
‘Since the day I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from all the tribes of Israel to build a temple in which to live.
Nor did I choose a man as leader of my people Israel.
6:6 But now I have chosen Jerusalem as a place to live,
and I have chosen David to lead my people Israel.’
2 Chronicles 6:20
6:20 Night and day may you watch over this temple, the place where you promised you would live.
May you answer your servant’s prayer for this place.
2 Chronicles 33:4-7
33:4 He built altars in the
Lord’s temple, about which the
Lord had said, “Jerusalem will be my permanent home.”
33:5 In the two courtyards of the
Lord’s temple he built altars for all the stars in the sky.
33:6 He passed his sons through the fire
in the Valley of Ben-Hinnom and practiced divination, omen reading, and sorcery. He set up a ritual pit to conjure up underworld spirits and appointed magicians to supervise it.
He did a great amount of evil in the sight of the
Lord and angered him.
33:7 He put an idolatrous image he had made in God’s temple, about which God had said to David and to his son Solomon, “This temple in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will be my permanent home.
2 Chronicles 33:1
Manasseh’s Reign
33:1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned for fifty-five years in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 8:1
Building Projects and Commercial Efforts
8:1 After twenty years, during which Solomon built the Lord’s temple and his royal palace,
2 Chronicles 9:3
9:3 When the queen of Sheba saw for herself Solomon’s extensive wisdom,
the palace
he had built,
2 Chronicles 9:2
9:2 Solomon answered all her questions; there was no question too complex for the king.
2 Chronicles 21:4
21:4 Jehoram took control of his father’s kingdom and became powerful. Then he killed all his brothers, as well as some of the officials of Israel.
2 Chronicles 21:7-8
21:7 But the
Lord was unwilling to destroy David’s dynasty
because of the promise
he had made to give David a perpetual dynasty.
21:8 During Jehoram’s reign Edom freed themselves from Judah’s control and set up their own king.