Joash was determined to repair the Lord’s temple.

The king ordered a chest to be made and placed outside the gate of the Lord’s temple.

He was buried in the City of David with the kings, because he had accomplished good in Israel and for God and his temple.

They plotted against him and by royal decree stoned him to death in the courtyard of the Lord’s temple.

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.

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.

There was a large number of burnt sacrifices, as well as fat from the peace offerings and drink offerings that accompanied the burnt sacrifices. So the service of the Lord’s temple was reinstituted.

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

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

Manasseh passed away and was buried in his palace. His son Amon replaced him as king.

In the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, as far as Naphtali, and in the ruins around them,

Prepare yourselves by your families according to your divisions, as instructed by King David of Israel and his son Solomon.

Nebuchadnezzar took some of the items in the Lord’s temple to Babylon and put them in his palace there.

Of course, who can really build a temple for him, since the sky and the highest heavens cannot contain him? Who am I that I should build him a temple! It will really be only a place to offer sacrifices before him.

Huram also said, “Worthy of praise is the Lord God of Israel, who made the sky and the earth! He has given David a wise son who has discernment and insight and will build a temple for the Lord, as well as a royal palace for himself.

He made the most holy place; its length was 30 feet, corresponding to the width of the temple, and its width 30 feet. He plated it with 600 talents of fine gold.

When Solomon had finished constructing the Lord’s temple, he put the holy items that belonged to his father David (the silver, gold, and all the other articles) in the treasuries of God’s temple.