<p class="bodytext">Solomon moved Pharaoh&#8217;s daughter up from the City of David<n id="1" /> to the palace he had built for her, for he said, &#8220;My wife must not live in the palace of King David of Israel, for the places where the ark of the <sc>Lordsc> has entered are holy.&#8221;p>

King Asa ordered all the men of Judah to carry away the stones and wood that Baasha had used to build Ramah.<n id="1" /> He used the materials to build up<n id="2" /> Geba and Mizpah.p>

<p class="bodytext">After this Manasseh<n id="1" /> built up the outer wall of the City of David<n id="2" /> on the west side of the Gihon in the valley to the entrance of the Fish Gate and all around the terrace; he made it much higher. He placed army officers in all the fortified cities in Judah.p>

<p class="bodytext">He removed the foreign gods and images from the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple and all the altars he had built on the hill of the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple and in Jerusalem; he threw them outside the city.

The Annals of the Prophets include his prayer, give an account of how the <sc>Lordsc> responded to it, record all his sins and unfaithful acts, and identify the sites where he built high places and erected Asherah poles and idols before he humbled himself.<n id="1" />

They responded to us in the following way: &#8216;We are servants of the God of heaven and earth. We are rebuilding the temple which was previously built many years ago. A great king<n id="1" /> of Israel built it and completed it.

He told the Levites, who instructed all Israel about things consecrated to the <sc>Lordsc>, &#8220;Place the holy ark in the temple which King Solomon son of David of Israel built. Don&#8217;t carry it on your shoulders. Now serve the <sc>Lordsc> your God and his people Israel!