The poles were so long their ends extending out from the ark were visible from in front of the inner sanctuary, but they could not be seen from beyond that point.<n id="1" /> They have remained there to this very day.

<p class="bodytext">That night God appeared<n id="1" /> to Solomon and said to him, &#8220;Tell me<n id="2" /> what I should give you.&#8221;

When the queen of Sheba saw for herself Solomon&#8217;s extensive wisdom,<n id="1" /> the palace<n id="2" /> he had built,

Micaiah replied, &#8220;Look, you will see in the day when you go into an inner room to hide.&#8221;

When the chariot commanders realized he was not the king of Israel, they turned away from him.

When Hezekiah and the officials came and saw the heaps, they praised the <sc>Lordsc> and pronounced blessings on his people Israel.<n id="1" />p>

When Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had invaded and intended to attack Jerusalem,<n id="1" />

the <sc>Lordsc> appeared to Solomon at night and said to him: &#8220;I have answered<n id="1" /> your prayer and chosen this place to be my temple where sacrifices are to be made.<n id="2" />

Asa was so angry at the prophet, he put him in jail.<n id="1" /> Asa also oppressed some of the people at that time.p>

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.

He told the judges, &#8220;Be careful what you do,<n id="1" /> for you are not judging for men, but for the <sc>Lordsc>, who will be with you when you make judicial decisions.

<t /><p class="bodytext">When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she was determined to destroy the entire royal line<n id="1" /> of Judah.<n id="2" />

King Joash disregarded<n id="1" /> the loyalty his father Jehoiada had shown him and killed Jehoiada&#8217;s<n id="2" /> son. As Zechariah<n id="3" /> was dying, he said, &#8220;May the <sc>Lordsc> take notice and seek vengeance!&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

<p class="bodytext">After King Amaziah of Judah consulted with his advisers,<n id="1" /> he sent this message to the king of Israel, Joash son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, &#8220;Come, face me on the battlefield.&#8221;<n id="2" />

So King Joash of Israel attacked. He and King Amaziah of Judah faced each other on the battlefield<n id="1" /> in Beth Shemesh of Judah.

He followed<n id="1" /> God during the lifetime of<n id="2" /> Zechariah, who taught him how to honor God. As long as he followed<n id="3" /> the <sc>Lordsc>, God caused him to succeed.<n id="4" />p>

The <sc>Lordsc> was angry at Judah and Jerusalem and made them an appalling object of horror at which people hiss out their scorn,<n id="1" /> as you can see with your own eyes.

Don&#8217;t be like your fathers and brothers who were unfaithful to the <sc>Lordsc> God of their ancestors,<n id="1" /> provoking him to destroy them,<n id="2" /> as you can see.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Solomon began building the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple in Jerusalem<n id="1" /> on Mount Moriah, where the <sc>Lordsc> had appeared to his father David. This was the place that David prepared at the threshing floor of Ornan<n id="2" /> the Jebusite.

When all the Israelites saw the fire come down and the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s splendor over the temple, they got on their knees with their faces downward toward the pavement. They worshiped and gave thanks to the <sc>Lordsc>, saying,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Certainly he is good; certainly his loyal love endures!&#8221;p>