There was a great celebration in Jerusalem, unlike anything that had occurred in Jerusalem since the time of King Solomon son of David of Israel.<n id="1" />

Solomon ruled over all Israel from Jerusalem<n id="1" /> for forty years.

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

But now I have chosen Jerusalem as a place to live,<n id="1" /> and I have chosen David to lead my people Israel.&#8217;

He had many supplies stored in the cities of Judah and an army of skilled warriors stationed in Jerusalem.<n id="1" />

Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king and he reigned for eight years in Jerusalem.<n id="1" />

He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem.

The king, his officials, and the entire assembly in Jerusalem decided to observe the Passover in the second month.

&#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" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned for fifty-five years in Jerusalem.<n id="1" />

He built altars in the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple, about which the <sc>Lordsc> had said, &#8220;Jerusalem will be my permanent home.&#8221;<n id="1" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned for two years in Jerusalem.<n id="1" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned for thirty-one years in Jerusalem.<n id="1" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Josiah observed a Passover festival for the <sc>Lordsc> in Jerusalem.<n id="1" /> They slaughtered the Passover lambs on the fourteenth day of the first month.

<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" />

Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.

The king of Egypt prevented him from ruling in Jerusalem and imposed on the land a special tax<n id="1" /> of one hundred talents<n id="2" /> of silver and a talent of gold.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he ruled for eleven years in Jerusalem.<n id="1" />

(Now David had brought up the ark of God from Kiriath Jearim to the place he had prepared for it, for he had pitched a tent for it in Jerusalem.<n id="1" />

The king made silver and gold as plentiful<n id="1" /> in Jerusalem as stones; cedar was<n id="2" /> as plentiful as sycamore fig trees are in the lowlands.<n id="3" />