David then said, “This is the place where the temple of the Lord God will be, along with the altar for burnt sacrifices for Israel.”

The first lot went to Asaph’s son Joseph and his relatives and sons – twelve in all, the second to Gedaliah and his relatives and sons – twelve in all,

Benaiah was the leader of the thirty warriors and his division; his son was Ammizabad.

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.

From the Levites: Jozabad, Shimei, Kelaiah (also known as Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.

Shallum son of Hallohesh, head of a half-district of Jerusalem, worked on the section adjacent to him, assisted by his daughters.

And the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah, who together with his colleagues was in charge of the songs of thanksgiving.

On that same day the number of those killed in Susa the citadel was brought to the king’s attention.

Job took a shard of broken pottery to scrape himself with while he was sitting among the ashes.

That day – let it be darkness; let not God on high regard it, nor let light shine on it!