<p class="bodytext">He built the Upper Gate to the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple and did a lot of work on the wall in the area known as Ophel.<n id="1" />

Jotham passed away<n id="1" /> and was buried in the City of David.<n id="2" /> His son Ahaz replaced him as king.p>

<p class="bodytext">In the first month of the first year of his reign, he opened the doors of the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple and repaired them.

<p class="bodytext">They assembled their brothers and consecrated themselves. Then they went in to purify the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple, just as the king had ordered, in accordance with the word<n id="1" /> of the <sc>Lordsc>.

<p class="bodytext">Early the next morning King Hezekiah assembled the city officials and went up to the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple.

Finally they brought the goats for the sin offering before the king and the assembly, and they placed their hands on them.

They made disbursements to the priests listed in the genealogical records by their families, and to the Levites twenty years old and up, according to their duties as assigned to their divisions,

he consulted with his advisers and military officers about stopping up the springs<n id="1" /> outside the city, and they supported him.

In his pain<n id="1" /> Manasseh<n id="2" /> asked the <sc>Lordsc> his God for mercy<n id="3" /> and truly<n id="4" /> humbled himself before the God of his ancestors.<n id="5" />

<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" />

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.

Huram also said, &#8220;Worthy of praise is the <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel, who made the sky and the earth! He has given David a wise son who has discernment and insight and will build a temple for the <sc>Lordsc>, as well as a royal palace for himself.<n id="1" />

He also made the big bronze basin called &#8220;The Sea.&#8221;<n id="1" /> It measured 15 feet<n id="2" /> from rim to rim, was circular in shape, and stood seven and one-half feet<n id="3" /> high. Its circumference was 45 feet.<n id="4" />

Images of bulls were under it all the way around, ten every eighteen inches<n id="1" /> all the way around. The bulls were in two rows and had been cast with &#8220;The Sea.&#8221;

the four hundred pomegranate-shaped ornaments for the latticework of the two pillars (each latticework had two rows of these ornaments at the bowl-shaped top of the pillar),

then listen from your heavenly dwelling place, forgive their sin,<n id="1" /> and act favorably toward each one based on your evaluation of their motives.<n id="2" /> (Indeed you are the only one who can correctly evaluate the motives of all people.)<n id="3" />

King Solomon sacrificed 22,000 cattle and 120,000 sheep. Then the king and all the people dedicated God&#8217;s temple.

Others will then answer,<n id="1" /> &#8216;Because they abandoned the <sc>Lordsc> God of their ancestors,<n id="2" /> who led them out of Egypt. They embraced other gods whom they worshiped and served.<n id="3" /> That is why he brought all this disaster down on them.&#8217;&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he summoned 180,000 skilled warriors from Judah and Benjamin<n id="1" /> to attack Israel and restore the kingdom to Rehoboam.

&#8216;The <sc>Lordsc> says this: &#8220;Do not attack and make war with your brothers. Each of you go home, for I have caused this to happen.&#8221;&#8217;&#8221;<n id="1" /> They obeyed the <sc>Lordsc> and called off the attack against Jeroboam.<n id="2" />p>