But Jehoshaphat asked, “Is there not a prophet of the Lord still here, that we may ask him?”

Jehoshaphat was afraid, so he decided to seek the Lord’s advice. He decreed that all Judah should observe a fast.

The people of Judah assembled to ask for the Lord’s help; they came from all the cities of Judah to ask for the Lord’s help.

The Lord stirred up against Jehoram the Philistines and the Arabs who lived beside the Cushites.

All the people of the land celebrated, for the city had rest now that they had killed Athaliah.

Joash was determined to repair the Lord’s temple.

His body was carried back by horses, and he was buried in Jerusalem with his ancestors in the City of David.

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.

Jotham passed away and was buried in the City of David. His son Ahaz replaced him as king.

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

They assembled their brothers and consecrated themselves. Then they went in to purify the Lord’s temple, just as the king had ordered, in accordance with the word of the Lord.

Early the next morning King Hezekiah assembled the city officials and went up to the Lord’s temple.

Finally they brought the goats for the sin offering before the king and the assembly, and they placed their hands on them.

They made disbursements to the priests listed in the genealogical records by their families, and to the Levites twenty years old and up, according to their duties as assigned to their divisions,

he consulted with his advisers and military officers about stopping up the springs outside the city, and they supported him.

In his pain Manasseh asked the Lord his God for mercy and truly humbled himself before the God of his ancestors.

The people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and made him king in his father’s place in Jerusalem.

The king of Egypt prevented him from ruling in Jerusalem and imposed on the land a special tax of one hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.

Then the local people began to discourage the people of Judah and to dishearten them from building.