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" />

<p class="bodytext">Solomon had 4,000 stalls for his chariot horses<n id="1" /> and 12,000 horses. He kept them in assigned cities and in Jerusalem.<n id="2" />

The king made silver 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" />.

The Levites even left their pasturelands and their property behind and came to Judah and Jerusalem, for Jeroboam and his sons prohibited them from serving as the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s priests.

Those among all the Israelite tribes who were determined to worship the <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel followed them to Jerusalem<n id="1" /> to sacrifice to the <sc>Lordsc> God of their ancestors.<n id="2" />

Because they were unfaithful to the <sc>Lord,sc> in King Rehoboam&#8217;s fifth year, King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem.

He ruled for three years in Jerusalem.<n id="1" /> His mother was Michaiah, the daughter of Uriel from Gibeah.<n id="2" />p> <p class="bodytext">There was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Jehoshaphat lived in Jerusalem.<n id="1" /> He went out among the people from Beer Sheba to the hill country of Ephraim and encouraged them to follow<n id="2" /> the <sc>Lordsc> God of their ancestors.<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">Jehoshaphat bowed down with his face toward the ground, and all the people of Judah<n id="1" /> and the residents of Jerusalem fell down before the <sc>Lordsc> and worshiped him.<n id="2" />

He also built high places on the hills of Judah; he encouraged the residents of Jerusalem to be unfaithful to the <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> and led Judah away from the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="2" />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>

Ahaziah was twenty-two<n id="1" /> years old when he became king and he reigned for one year in Jerusalem. His mother was Athaliah, the granddaughter<n id="2" /> of Omri.

They traveled throughout Judah and assembled the Levites from all the cities of Judah, as well as the Israelite family leaders.p> <p class="bodytext">They came to Jerusalem,<n id="1" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Joash was seven years old when he began to reign. He reigned for forty years in Jerusalem.<n id="1" /> His mother was Zibiah, who was from Beer Sheba.

An edict was sent throughout Judah and Jerusalem requiring the people to bring to the <sc>Lordsc> the tax that Moses, God&#8217;s servant, imposed on Israel in the wilderness.<n id="1" />

They abandoned the temple of the <sc>Lordsc> God of their ancestors,<n id="1" /> and worshiped<n id="2" /> the Asherah poles and idols. Because of this sinful activity, God was angry with Judah and Jerusalem.

From the time Amaziah turned from following the <sc>Lordsc>, conspirators plotted against him in Jerusalem,<n id="1" /> so he fled to Lachish. But they sent assassins after him<n id="2" /> and they killed him there.

<p class="bodytext">Uzziah built and fortified towers in Jerusalem at the Corner Gate, Valley Gate, and at the Angle.<n id="1" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Jotham was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem.<n id="1" /> His mother was Jerusha the daughter of Zadok.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem.<n id="1" /> He did not do what pleased the <sc>Lordsc>, in contrast to his ancestor David.<n id="2" />