Now let my lord send to his servants the wheat, barley, olive oil, and wine he has promised;

But as for us, the Lord is our God and we have not rejected him. Aaron’s descendants serve as the Lord’s priests and the Levites assist them with the work.

He assembled all Judah and Benjamin, as well as the settlers from Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon who had come to live with them. Many people from Israel had come there to live when they saw that the Lord his God was with him.

When they began to shout and praise, the Lord suddenly attacked the Ammonites, Moabites, and men from Mount Seir who were invading Judah, and they were defeated.

Hezekiah said, “Now you have consecrated yourselves to the Lord. Come and bring sacrifices and thank offerings to the Lord’s temple.” So the assembly brought sacrifices and thank offerings, and whoever desired to do so brought burnt sacrifices.

The priests left the holy place. All the priests who participated had consecrated themselves, no matter which division they represented.

“Your father made us work too hard! Now if you lighten the demands he made and don’t make us work as hard, we will serve you.”

Say, ‘This is what the king says: “Put this man in prison. Give him only a little bread and water until I return safely.”’”

Nevertheless you have done some good things; you removed the Asherah poles from the land and you were determined to follow the Lord.”

Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother was Jehoaddan, who was from Jerusalem.

Uzziah was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jecholiah, who was from Jerusalem.

Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem. He did not do what pleased the Lord, in contrast to his ancestor David.

Solomon acquired his horses from Egypt and from Que; the king’s traders purchased them from Que.

Uzziah built and fortified towers in Jerusalem at the Corner Gate, Valley Gate, and at the Angle.

So the soldiers released the captives and the plunder before the officials and the entire assembly.

In the third month they began piling their contributions in heaps and finished in the seventh month.

Jehoiada chose two wives for him who gave him sons and daughters.

The proposal seemed appropriate to the king and the entire assembly.

But respond favorably to your servant’s prayer and his request for help, O Lord my God. Answer the desperate prayer your servant is presenting to you.

the Lord appeared to Solomon at night and said to him: “I have answered your prayer and chosen this place to be my temple where sacrifices are to be made.