When Athaliah heard the royal guard shout, she joined the crowd at the Lord’s temple.

They seized her and took her into the precincts of the royal palace through the horses’ entrance. There she was executed.

It was handed over to the foremen who used it to repair the Lord’s temple.

(The silver collected in conjunction with reparation offerings and sin offerings was not brought to the Lord’s temple; it belonged to the priests.)

His servants conspired against him and murdered Joash at Beth-Millo, on the road that goes down to Silla.

When King Hezekiah heard this, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and went to the Lord’s temple.

Those who remain in Judah will take root in the ground and bear fruit.

He built altars in the Lord’s temple, about which the Lord had said, “Jerusalem will be my home.”

In the two courtyards of the Lord’s temple he built altars for all the stars in the sky.

including craftsmen, builders, and masons, and should buy wood and chiseled stone for the repair work.

These who are named above were the leaders of their clans. Their extended families increased greatly in numbers.

Their relatives, listed according to their families, included Michael, Meshullam, Sheba, Jorai, Jacan, Zia, and Eber – seven in all.

These are the men David put in charge of music in the Lord’s sanctuary, after the ark was placed there.

The rest of their fellow Levites were assigned to perform the remaining tasks at God’s sanctuary.

There were 20,200 family leaders and warriors listed in their genealogical records.

They would spend the night in their posts all around God’s sanctuary, for they were assigned to guard it and would open it with the key every morning.

along with Zadok, a young warrior, and twenty-two leaders from his family.

David constructed buildings in the City of David; he then prepared a place for the ark of God and pitched a tent for it.

He will build me a house, and I will make his dynasty permanent.

I will put him in permanent charge of my house and my kingdom; his dynasty will be permanent.”’”