<p class="bodytext">All of King Solomon&#8217;s cups were made of gold, and all the household items in the Palace of the Lebanon Forest were made of pure gold. There were no silver items, for silver was not considered very valuable in Solomon&#8217;s time.<n id="1" />

So the king of Israel assembled 400 prophets and asked them, &#8220;Should we attack Ramoth Gilead or not?&#8221;<n id="1" /> They said, &#8220;Attack! God<n id="2" /> will hand it over to the king.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">Micaiah<n id="1" /> came before the king and the king asked him, &#8220;Micaiah, should we attack Ramoth Gilead or not?&#8221; He answered him, &#8220;Attack! You will succeed; they will be handed over to you.&#8221;<n id="2" />

When the chariot commanders saw Jehoshaphat, they said, &#8220;He must be the king of Israel!&#8221; So they turned and attacked him, but Jehoshaphat cried out. The <sc>Lordsc> helped him; God lured them away from him.

Our God, will you not judge them? For we are powerless against this huge army that attacks us! We don&#8217;t know what we should do; we look to you for help.&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">When they began to shout and praise, the <sc>Lordsc> suddenly attacked<n id="1" /> the Ammonites, Moabites, and men from Mount Seir<n id="2" /> who were invading Judah, and they were defeated.

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" />

<p class="bodytext">God brought about Ahaziah&#8217;s downfall through his visit to Joram.<n id="1" /> When Ahaziah<n id="2" /> arrived, he went out with Joram to meet Jehu son of Nimshi, whom the <sc>Lordsc> had commissioned<n id="3" /> to wipe out Ahab&#8217;s family.<n id="4" />

<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" />

Because many in the assembly had not consecrated themselves, the Levites slaughtered<n id="1" /> the Passover lambs of all who were ceremonially unclean and could not consecrate their sacrifice to the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="2" />

He wholeheartedly and successfully reinstituted service in God&#8217;s temple and obedience to the law, in order to follow his God.<n id="1" />p>

He has with him mere human strength,<n id="1" /> but the <sc>Lordsc> our God is with us to help us and fight our battles!&#8221; The army<n id="2" /> was encouraged by the words of King Hezekiah of Judah.p>

<p class="bodytext">Hezekiah dammed up the source of the waters of the Upper Gihon and directed them down to the west side of the City of David.<n id="1" /> Hezekiah succeeded in all that he did.

He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he set up altars for the Baals and made Asherah poles. He bowed down to all the stars in the sky<n id="1" /> and worshiped<n id="2" /> them.

<p class="bodytext">When they took out the silver that had been brought to the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple, Hilkiah the priest found the law scroll the <sc>Lordsc> had given to Moses.

<p class="bodytext">From his own royal flocks and herds, Josiah supplied the people with 30,000 lambs and goats for the Passover sacrifice, as well as 3,000 cattle.<n id="1" />

Afterward they made preparations for themselves and for the priests, because the priests, the descendants of Aaron, were offering burnt sacrifices and fat portions until evening. The Levites made preparations for themselves and for the priests, the descendants of Aaron.

He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him vow allegiance<n id="1" /> in the name of God. He was stubborn and obstinate, and refused to return<n id="2" /> to the <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel.

All the Levites who were musicians, including Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and relatives, wore linen. They played cymbals and stringed instruments as they stood east of the altar. They were accompanied by 120 priests who blew trumpets.

King Rehoboam solidified his rule in Jerusalem;<n id="1" /> he<n id="2" /> was forty-one years old when he became king and he ruled for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the <sc>Lordsc> chose from all the tribes of Israel to be his home.<n id="3" /> Rehoboam&#8217;s<n id="4" /> mother was an Ammonite named Naamah.