the big bronze basin called “The Sea” with its twelve bulls underneath,

<t /><p class="bodytext">His son Jehoshaphat replaced him as king and solidified his rule over Israel.<n id="1" />

Solomon replied to God, &#8220;You demonstrated<n id="1" /> great loyalty to my father David and have made me king in his place.

Then Solomon passed away<n id="1" /> and was buried in the city of his father David. His son Rehoboam replaced him as king.p>

Then Rehoboam passed away<n id="1" /> and was buried in the City of David.<n id="2" /> His son Abijah replaced him as king.p>

<p class="bodytext">During Jehoram&#8217;s<n id="1" /> reign Edom freed themselves from Judah&#8217;s control and set up their own king.<n id="2" />

Jotham passed away<n id="1" /> and was buried in the City of David.<n id="2" /> His son Ahaz replaced him as king.p>

He offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.p>

Manasseh passed away<n id="1" /> and was buried in his palace. His son Amon replaced him as king.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">The people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and made him king in his father&#8217;s place in Jerusalem.<n id="1" />

So Edom has remained free from Judah&#8217;s control to this very day.<n id="1" /> At that same time Libnah also rebelled and freed themselves from Judah&#8217;s control<n id="2" /> because Jehoram<n id="3" /> rejected the <sc>Lordsc> God of his ancestors.

<p class="bodytext">The priests brought the ark of the covenant of the <sc>Lordsc> to its assigned<n id="1" /> place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, in the most holy place under the wings of the cherubs.

King Rehoboam made bronze shields to replace them and assigned them to the officers of the royal guard<n id="1" /> who protected the entrance to the royal palace.

<p class="bodytext">Jehoshaphat passed away<n id="1" /> and was buried with his ancestors<n id="2" /> in the City of David.<n id="3" /> His son Jehoram<n id="4" /> replaced him as king.p>

<p class="bodytext">The list of Joash&#8217;s<n id="1" /> sons, the many prophetic oracles pertaining to him, and the account of his building project on God&#8217;s temple are included in the record of the Scroll of the Kings.<n id="2" /> His son Amaziah replaced him as king.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">All the people of Judah took Uzziah,<n id="1" /> who was sixteen years old, and made him king in his father Amaziah&#8217;s place.

Ahaz passed away<n id="1" /> and was buried in the City of David;<n id="2" /> they did not bring him to the tombs of the kings of Israel. His son Hezekiah replaced him as king.p>

The people of the land executed all who had conspired against King Amon, and they<n id="1" /> made his son Josiah king in his place.p>

This will happen because they have abandoned me and offered sacrifices<n id="1" /> to other gods, angering me with all the idols they have made.<n id="2" /> My anger will ignite against this place and will not be extinguished!&#8217;&#8221;

Images of bulls were under it all the way around, ten every eighteen inches<n id="1" /> all the way around. The bulls were in two rows and had been cast with &#8220;The Sea.&#8221;