Furthermore, Solomon has assumed the royal throne.

Each stand had four bronze wheels with bronze axles and four supports. Under the basin the supports were fashioned on each side with wreaths.

Baalath, Tadmor in the wilderness,

Jeroboam then thought to himself: “Now the Davidic dynasty could regain the kingdom.

The king then said to the prophet, “Come home with me and have something to eat. I’d like to give a present.”

The Lord will raise up a king over Israel who will cut off Jeroboam’s dynasty. It is ready to happen!

When Baasha heard the news, he stopped fortifying Ramah and settled down in Tirzah.

Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah with this warning, “May the gods judge me severely if by this time tomorrow I do not take your life as you did theirs!”

Elijah replied to the captain, “If I am indeed a prophet, may fire come down from the sky and consume you and your fifty soldiers!” Fire then came down from the sky and consumed him and his fifty soldiers.

and he said, “This is what the Lord says, ‘Make many cisterns in this valley,’

She said to her husband, “Look, I’m sure that the man who regularly passes through here is a very special prophet.

So the king told Hazael, “Take a gift and go visit the prophet. Request from him an oracle from the Lord. Ask him, ‘Will I recover from this sickness?’”

Elisha just stared at him until Hazael became uncomfortable. Then the prophet started crying.

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

He hid out with his nurse in the Lord’s temple for six years, while Athaliah was ruling over the land.

Throughout his lifetime Jehoash did what the Lord approved, just as Jehoiada the priest taught him.

The priests should receive the silver they need from the treasurers and repair any damage to the temple they discover.”

as well as masons and stonecutters. They bought wood and chiseled stone to repair the damage to the Lord’s temple and also paid for all the other expenses.

When King Hezekiah heard this, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and went to the Lord’s temple.

The Babylonians broke the two bronze pillars in the Lord’s temple, as well as the movable stands and the big bronze basin called the “The Sea.” They took the bronze to Babylon.