the pure gold flower-shaped ornaments, lamps, and tongs,

That night God appeared to Solomon and said to him, “Tell me what I should give you.”

All the men of Israel assembled before the king during the festival in the seventh month.

Micaiah replied, “Look, you will see in the day when you go into an inner room to hide.”

Later King Jehoshaphat of Judah made an alliance with King Ahaziah of Israel, who did evil.

He followed in the footsteps of Ahab’s dynasty, for his mother gave him evil advice.

Uzziah built up Elat and restored it to Judah after King Amaziah had passed away.

He built the Upper Gate to the Lord’s temple and did a lot of work on the wall in the area known as Ophel.

At that time King Ahaz asked the king of Assyria for help.

During his time of trouble King Ahaz was even more unfaithful to the Lord.

In the first month of the first year of his reign, he opened the doors of the Lord’s temple and repaired them.

He did not humble himself before the Lord as his father Manasseh had done. Amon was guilty of great sin.

He looked for Ahaziah, who was captured while hiding in Samaria. They brought him to Jehu and then executed him. They did give him a burial, for they reasoned, “He is the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought the Lord with his whole heart.” There was no one in Ahaziah’s family strong enough to rule in his place.

When Azariah the high priest and the other priests looked at him, there was a skin disease on his forehead. They hurried him out of there; even the king himself wanted to leave quickly because the Lord had afflicted him.

But you will not build the temple; your very own son will build the temple for my honor.’

When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard the news, he was still in Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon. Jeroboam returned from Egypt.

That day the Israelites were defeated; the men of Judah prevailed because they relied on the Lord God of their ancestors.

At that time they sacrificed to the Lord some of the plunder they had brought back, including 700 head of cattle and 7,000 sheep.

Asa was so angry at the prophet, he put him in jail. Asa also oppressed some of the people at that time.

While the battle raged throughout the day, the king stood propped up in his chariot opposite the Syrians. He died in the evening as the sun was setting.