The Ammonites and Moabites attacked the men from Mount Seir<n id="1" /> and annihilated them.<n id="2" /> When they had finished off the men<n id="3" /> of Seir, they attacked and destroyed one another.<n id="4" />

O <sc>Lordsc>,<n id="1" /> I have built a lofty temple for you, a place where you can live permanently.&#8221;

(Rehoboam continued to rule over the Israelites who lived in the cities of Judah.)

<t /><p class="bodytext">Rehoboam lived in Jerusalem;<n id="1" /> he built up these fortified cities throughout Judah:

They settled down in it and built in it a temple<n id="1" /> to honor you,<n id="2" /> saying,

God helped him in his campaigns<n id="1" /> against the Philistines, the Arabs living in Gur Baal, and the Meunites.

He ordered<n id="1" /> the people living in Jerusalem<n id="2" /> to contribute the portion prescribed for the priests and Levites so they might be obedient<n id="3" /> to the law of the <sc>Lordsc>.

&#8220;This is what King Sennacherib of Assyria says: &#8216;Why are you so confident that you remain in Jerusalem while it is under siege?<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">Now the king of Israel and King Jehoshaphat of Judah were sitting on their respective thrones, dressed in their royal robes, at the threshing floor at<n id="1" /> the entrance of the gate of Samaria. All the prophets were prophesying before them.

then listen from your heavenly dwelling place to their prayers for help,<n id="1" /> vindicate them,<n id="2" /> and forgive your sinful people.p>

Solomon rebuilt the cities that Huram<n id="1" /> had given him and settled Israelites there.

There were six steps leading up to the throne, and a gold footstool was attached to the throne.<n id="1" /> The throne had two armrests with a statue of a lion standing on each side.<n id="2" />

In those days<n id="1" /> no one could travel safely,<n id="2" /> for total chaos had overtaken all the people of the surrounding lands.<n id="3" />

Asa took all the silver and gold that was left in the treasuries of the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple and of the royal palace and sent it to King Ben Hadad of Syria, ruler in Damascus, along with this message:

Micaiah<n id="1" /> said, &#8220;That being the case, hear the word of the <sc>Lordsc>: I saw the <sc>Lordsc> sitting on his throne, with all the heavenly assembly standing on his right and on his left.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Jehoshaphat lived in Jerusalem.<n id="1" /> He went out among the people from Beer Sheba to the hill country of Ephraim and encouraged them to follow<n id="2" /> the <sc>Lordsc> God of their ancestors.<n id="3" />

Our God, you drove out<n id="1" /> the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel and gave it as a permanent possession<n id="2" /> to the descendants of your friend<n id="3" /> Abraham.

<p class="bodytext">Jehoshaphat bowed down with his face toward the ground, and all the people of Judah<n id="1" /> and the residents of Jerusalem fell down before the <sc>Lordsc> and worshiped him.<n id="2" />

He also built high places on the hills of Judah; he encouraged the residents of Jerusalem to be unfaithful to the <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> and led Judah away from the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="2" />p>

You defeated Edom<n id="1" /> and it has gone to your head.<n id="2" /> Gloat over your success,<n id="3" /> but stay in your palace. Why bring calamity on yourself? Why bring down yourself and Judah along with you?&#8221;<n id="4" />p>