He did what the Lord approved, just as his father Uzziah had done. (He did not, however, have the audacity to enter the temple.) Yet the people were still sinning.

He wholeheartedly and successfully reinstituted service in God’s temple and obedience to the law, in order to follow his God.

He decorated the temple with precious stones; the gold he used came from Parvaim.

Abijah ascended Mount Zemaraim, in the Ephraimite hill country, and said: “Listen to me, Jeroboam and all Israel!

He did what the Lord approved and followed in his ancestor David’s footsteps; he did not deviate to the right or the left.

But they mocked God’s messengers, despised his warnings, and ridiculed his prophets. Finally the Lord got very angry at his people and there was no one who could prevent his judgment.

This took place to fulfill the Lord’s message delivered through Jeremiah. The land experienced its sabbatical years; it remained desolate for seventy years, as prophesied.

They worked hard and made the repairs. They followed the measurements specified for God’s temple and restored it.

Solomon left the meeting tent at the worship center in Gibeon and went to Jerusalem, where he reigned over Israel.

After Solomon finished building the Lord’s temple and the royal palace, and accomplished all his plans for the Lord’s temple and his royal palace,

She said to the king, “The report I heard in my own country about your wise sayings and insight was true!

I did not believe these things until I came and saw them with my own eyes. Indeed, I didn’t hear even half the story! Your wisdom surpasses what was reported to me.

One nation was crushed by another, and one city by another, for God caused them to be in great turmoil.

He commanded them: “Carry out your duties with respect for the Lord, with honesty, and with pure motives.

During Jehoram’s reign Edom freed themselves from Judah’s control and set up their own king.

He remained in hiding in God’s temple for six years, while Athaliah was ruling over the land.

Hezekiah ordered that storerooms be prepared in the Lord’s temple. When this was done,

So when the envoys arrived from the Babylonian officials to visit him and inquire about the sign that occurred in the land, God left him alone to test him, in order to know his true motives.

When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he summoned 180,000 skilled warriors from Judah and Benjamin to attack Israel and restore the kingdom to Rehoboam.

Now the messenger who went to summon Micaiah said to him, “Look, the prophets are in complete agreement that the king will succeed. Your words must agree with theirs; you must predict success!”