He said, &#8220;The <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel is worthy of praise because he has fulfilled<n id="1" /> what he promised<n id="2" /> my father David.

The <sc>Lordsc> told my father David, &#8216;It is right for you to have a strong desire to build a temple to honor me.<n id="1" />

You have kept your word to your servant, my father David;<n id="1" /> this very day you have fulfilled what you promised.<n id="2" />

You must serve me as your father David did. Do everything I commanded and obey my rules and regulations.<n id="1" />

They supported<n id="1" /> the kingdom of Judah and were loyal to<n id="2" /> Rehoboam son of Solomon for three years; they followed the edicts of<n id="3" /> David and Solomon for three years.p>

<p class="bodytext">Rehoboam married<n id="1" /> Mahalath the daughter of David&#8217;s son Jerimoth and of<n id="2" /> Abihail, the daughter of Jesse&#8217;s son Eliab.

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> was with Jehoshaphat because he followed in his ancestor<n id="1" /> David&#8217;s footsteps at the beginning of his reign.<n id="2" /> He did not seek the Baals,

<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">Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. No one regretted his death;<n id="1" /> he was buried in the City of David,<n id="2" /> but not in the royal tombs.p>

Jehoiada the priest gave to the officers of the units of hundreds King David&#8217;s spears and shields<n id="1" /> that were kept in God&#8217;s temple.

Hezekiah ordered the burnt sacrifice to be offered on the altar. As they began to offer the sacrifice, they also began to sing to the <sc>Lord,sc> accompanied by the trumpets and the musical instruments of King David of Israel.

King Hezekiah and the officials told the Levites to praise the <sc>Lordsc>, using the psalms<n id="1" /> of David and Asaph the prophet.<n id="2" /> So they joyfully offered praise and bowed down and worshiped.

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" />

<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.

<p class="bodytext">Solomon sent a message to King Huram<n id="1" /> of Tyre:<n id="2" /> &#8220;Help me<n id="3" /> as you did my father David, when you sent him cedar logs<n id="4" /> for the construction of his palace.<n id="5" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Now send me a man who is skilled in working with gold, silver, bronze, and iron, as well as purple, crimson, and violet colored fabrics, and who knows how to engrave. He will work with my skilled craftsmen here in Jerusalem<n id="1" /> and Judah, whom my father David provided.

<p class="bodytext">Solomon took a census<n id="1" /> of all the male resident foreigners in the land of Israel, after the census his father David had taken. There were 153,600 in all.

<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 Solomon had finished constructing the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple, he put the holy items that belonged to his father David (the silver, gold, and all the other articles) in the treasuries of God&#8217;s temple.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then Solomon convened Israel&#8217;s elders &#8211; all the leaders of the Israelite tribes and families &#8211; in Jerusalem,<n id="1" /> so they could witness the transferal of the ark of the covenant of the <sc>Lordsc> from the City of David<n id="2" /> (that is, Zion).<n id="3" />