At the beginning of the year King Nebuchadnezzar ordered him to be brought to Babylon, along with the valuable items in the Lord’s temple. In his place he made his relative Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.

“Now send me a man who is skilled in working with gold, silver, bronze, and iron, as well as purple, crimson, and violet colored fabrics, and who knows how to engrave. He will work with my skilled craftsmen here in Jerusalem and Judah, whom my father David provided.

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

Asa took all the silver and gold that was left in the treasuries of the Lord’s temple and of the royal palace and sent it to King Ben Hadad of Syria, ruler in Damascus, along with this message:

The Philistines had raided the cities of Judah in the lowlands and the Negev. They captured and settled in Beth Shemesh, Aijalon, Gederoth, Soco and its surrounding villages, Timnah and its surrounding villages, and Gimzo and its surrounding villages.

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

He stood before the altar of the Lord in front of the entire assembly of Israel and spread out his hands.

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

The rest of the events of Abijah’s reign, including his deeds and sayings, are recorded in the writings of the prophet Iddo.

The events of Asa’s reign, from start to finish, are recorded in the Scroll of the Kings of Judah and Israel.

In his pain Manasseh asked the Lord his God for mercy and truly humbled himself before the God of his ancestors.

He appointed the priests to fulfill their duties and encouraged them to carry out their service in the Lord’s temple.

He ordered the people living in Jerusalem to contribute the portion prescribed for the priests and Levites so they might be obedient to the law of the Lord.

In every city throughout Judah he set up high places to offer sacrifices to other gods. He angered the Lord God of his ancestors.

The Lord was with Jehoshaphat because he followed in his ancestor David’s footsteps at the beginning of his reign. He did not seek the Baals,

He put an idolatrous image he had made in God’s temple, about which God had said to David and to his son Solomon, “This temple in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will be my permanent home.

Asa was so angry at the prophet, he put him in jail. Asa also oppressed some of the people at that time.

He made ten gold lampstands according to specifications and put them in the temple, five on the right and five on the left.

He posted guards at the gates of the Lord’s temple, so no one who was ceremonially unclean in any way could enter.

Josiah observed a Passover festival for the Lord in Jerusalem. They slaughtered the Passover lambs on the fourteenth day of the first month.