2CH 1:1
Now Solomon the son of David established himself
securely over his kingdom, and the Lord his God was
with him and exalted him greatly.
2CH 1:2 And Solomon spoke to all Israel, to
the commanders of thousands and of hundreds and to
the judges and to every leader in all Israel, the
heads of the fathers' households.
2CH 1:3 Then Solomon, and all the assembly
with him, went to the high place which was at Gibeon;
for God's tent of meeting was there, which Moses the
servant of the Lord had made in the wilderness.
2CH 1:4 However, David had brought up the ark
of God from Kiriath-jearim to the place he had
prepared for it; for he had pitched a tent for it in
Jerusalem.
2CH 1:5 Now the bronze altar, which Bezalel
the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made, was there
before the tabernacle of the Lord, and Solomon and
the assembly sought it out.
2CH 1:6 And Solomon went up there before the
Lord to the bronze altar which was at the tent of
meeting, and offered a thousand burnt offerings on
it.
2CH 1:7 In that night God appeared to Solomon
and said to him, "Ask what I shall give you."
2CH 1:8 And Solomon said to God, "Thou hast
dealt with my father David with great lovingkindness,
and hast made me king in his place.
2CH 1:9 "Now, O Lord God, Thy promise to my
father David is fulfilled; for Thou hast made me
king over a people as numerous as the dust of the
earth.
2CH 1:10 "Give me now wisdom and knowledge,
that I may go out and come in before this people;
for who can rule this great people of Thine?"
2CH 1:11 And God said to Solomon, "Because
you had this in mind, and did not ask for riches,
wealth, or honor, or the life of those who hate you,
nor have you even asked for long life, but you have
asked for yourself wisdom and knowledge, that you
may rule My people, over whom I have made you king,
2CH 1:12 wisdom and knowledge have been
granted to you. And I will give you riches and
wealth and honor, such as none of the kings who were
before you has possessed, nor those who will come
after you."
2CH 1:13 So Solomon went from the high place
which was at Gibeon, from the tent of meeting, to
Jerusalem, and he reigned over Israel.
2CH 1:14 And Solomon amassed chariots and
horsemen. He had 1,400 chariots, and 12,000
horsemen, and he stationed them in the chariot
cities and with the king at Jerusalem.
2CH 1:15 And the king made silver and gold as
plentiful in Jerusalem as stones, and he made cedars
as plentiful as sycamores in the lowland.
2CH 1:16 And Solomon's horses were imported
from Egypt and from Kue; the king's traders procured
them from Kue for a price.
2CH 1:17 And they imported chariots from
Egypt for 600 shekels of silver apiece, and horses
for 150 apiece, and by the same means they exported
them to all the kings of the Hittites and the kings
of Aram.
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2CH 2:1
Now Solomon decided to build a house for the name of
the Lord, and a royal palace for himself.
2CH 2:2 So Solomon assigned 70,000 men to
carry loads, and 80,000 men to quarry stone in the
mountains, and 3,600 to supervise them.
2CH 2:3 Then Solomon sent word to Huram the
king of Tyre, saying, "As you dealt with David my
father, and sent him cedars to build him a house to
dwell in, so do for me.
2CH 2:4 "Behold, I am about to build a house
for the name of the Lord my God, dedicating it to
Him, to burn fragrant incense before Him, and to set
out the showbread continually, and to offer burnt
offerings morning and evening, on sabbaths and on
new moons and on the appointed feasts of the Lord
our God, this being required forever in Israel.
2CH 2:5 "And the house which I am about to
build will be great; for greater is our God than all
the gods.
2CH 2:6 "But who is able to build a house for
Him, for the heavens and the highest heavens cannot
contain Him? So who am I, that I should build a
house for Him, except to burn incense before Him?
2CH 2:7 "And now send me a skilled man to
work in gold, silver, brass and iron, and in purple,
crimson and violet fabrics, and who knows how to
make engravings, to work with the skilled men whom I
have in Judah and Jerusalem, whom David my father
provided.
2CH 2:8 "Send me also cedar, cypress and
algum timber from Lebanon, for I know that your
servants know how to cut timber of Lebanon; and
indeed, my servants will work with your servants,
2CH 2:9 to prepare timber in abundance for
me, for the house which I am about to build will be
great and wonderful.
2CH 2:10 "Now behold, I will give to your
servants, the woodsmen who cut the timber, 20,000
kors of crushed wheat, and 20,000 kors of barley,
and 20,000 baths of wine, and 20,000 baths of oil."
2CH 2:11 Then Huram, king of Tyre, answered
in a letter sent to Solomon: "Because the Lord loves
His people, He has made you king over them."
2CH 2:12 Then Huram continued, "Blessed be
the Lord, the God of Israel, who has made heaven and
earth, who has given King David a wise son, endowed
with discretion and understanding, who will build a
house for the Lord and a royal palace for himself.
2CH 2:13 "And now I am sending a skilled man,
endowed with understanding, Huram-abi,
2CH 2:14 the son of a Danite woman and a
Tyrian father, who knows how to work in gold,
silver, bronze, iron, stone and wood, and in purple,
violet, linen and crimson fabrics, and who knows how
to make all kinds of engravings and to execute any
design which may be assigned to him, to work with
your skilled men, and with those of my lord David
your father.
2CH 2:15 "Now then, let my lord send to his
servants wheat and barley, oil and wine, of which he
has spoken.
2CH 2:16 "And we will cut whatever timber you
need from Lebanon, and bring it to you on rafts by
sea to Joppa, so that you may carry it up to
Jerusalem."
2CH 2:17 And Solomon numbered all the aliens
who were in the land of Israel, following the census
which his father David had taken; and 153,600 were
found.
2CH 2:18 And he appointed 70,000 of them to
carry loads, and 80,000 to quarry stones in the
mountains, and 3,600 supervisors to make the people
work.
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2CH 3:1
Then Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in
Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had
appeared to his father David, at the place that
David had prepared, on the threshing floor of Ornan
the Jebusite.
2CH 3:2 And he began to build on the second
day in the second month of the fourth year of his
reign.
2CH 3:3 Now these are the foundations which
Solomon laid for building the house of God. The
length in cubits, according to the old standard was
sixty cubits, and the width twenty cubits.
2CH 3:4 And the porch which was in front of
the house was as long as the width of the house,
twenty cubits, and the height 120; and inside he
overlaid it with pure gold.
2CH 3:5 And he overlaid the main room with
cypress wood and overlaid it with fine gold, and
ornamented it with palm trees and chains.
2CH 3:6 Further, he adorned the house with
precious stones; and the gold was gold from Parvaim.
2CH 3:7 He also overlaid the house with gold
- - the beams, the thresholds, and its walls, and
its doors; and he carved cherubim on the walls.
2CH 3:8 Now he made the room of the holy of
holies: its length, across the width of the house,
was twenty cubits, and its width was twenty cubits;
and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to 600
talents.
2CH 3:9 And the weight of the nails was fifty
shekels of gold. He also overlaid the upper rooms
with gold.
2CH 3:10 Then he made two sculptured cherubim
in the room of the holy of holies and overlaid them
with gold.
2CH 3:11 And the wingspan of the cherubim was
twenty cubits; the wing of one, of five cubits,
touched the wall of the house, and its other wing,
of five cubits, touched the wing of the other
cherub.
2CH 3:12 And the wing of the other cherub, of
five cubits, touched the wall of the house; and its
other wing of five cubits, was attached to the wing
of the first cherub.
2CH 3:13 The wings of these cherubim extended
twenty cubits, and they stood on their feet facing
the main room.
2CH 3:14 And he made the veil of violet,
purple, crimson and fine linen, and he worked
cherubim on it.
2CH 3:15 He also made two pillars for the
front of the house, thirty-five cubits high, and the
capital on the top of each was five cubits.
2CH 3:16 And he made chains in the inner
sanctuary, and placed them on the tops of the
pillars; and he made one hundred pomegranates and
placed them on the chains.
2CH 3:17 And he erected the pillars in front
of the temple, one on the right and the other on the
left, and named the one on the right Jachin and the
one on the left Boaz.
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2CH 4:1
Then he made a bronze altar, twenty cubits in length
and twenty cubits in width and ten cubits in height.
2CH 4:2 Also he made the cast metal sea, ten
cubits from brim to brim, circular in form, and its
height was five cubits and its circumference thirty
cubits.
2CH 4:3 Now figures like oxen were under it
and all around it, ten cubits, entirely encircling
the sea. The oxen were in two rows, cast in one
piece.
2CH 4:4 It stood on twelve oxen, three facing
the north, three facing west, three facing south,
and three facing east; and the sea was set on top of
them, and all their hindquarters turned inwards.
2CH 4:5 And it was a handbreadth thick, and
its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like a
lily blossom; it could hold 3,000 baths.
2CH 4:6 He also made ten basins in which to
wash, and he set five on the right side and five on
the left, to rinse things for the burnt offering;
but the sea was for the priests to wash in.
2CH 4:7 Then he made the ten golden
lampstands in the way prescribed for them, and he
set them in the temple, five on the right side and
five on the left.
2CH 4:8 He also made ten tables and placed
them in the temple, five on the right side and five
on the left. And he made one hundred golden bowls.
2CH 4:9 Then he made the court of the priests
and the great court and doors for the court, and
overlaid their doors with bronze.
2CH 4:10 And he set the sea on the right side
of the house toward the southeast.
2CH 4:11 Huram also made the pails, the
shovels, and the bowls. So Huram finished doing the
work which he performed for King Solomon in the
house of God:
2CH 4:12 the two pillars, the bowls and the
two capitals on top of the pillars, and the two
networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals
which were on top of the pillars,
2CH 4:13 and the four hundred pomegranates
for the two networks, two rows of pomegranates for
each network to cover the two bowls of the capitals
which were on the pillars.
2CH 4:14 He also made the stands and he made
the basins on the stands,
2CH 4:15 and the one sea with the twelve oxen
under it.
2CH 4:16 And the pails, the shovels, the
forks, and all its utensils, Huram-abi made of
polished bronze for King Solomon for the house of
the Lord.
2CH 4:17 On the plain of the Jordan the king
cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and
Zeredah.
2CH 4:18 Thus Solomon made all these utensils
in great quantities, for the weight of the bronze
could not be found out.
2CH 4:19 Solomon also made all the things
that were in the house of God: even the golden
altar, the tables with the bread of the Presence on
them,
2CH 4:20 the lampstands with their lamps of
pure gold, to burn in front of the inner sanctuary
in the way prescribed;
2CH 4:21 the flowers, the lamps, and the
tongs of gold, of purest gold;
2CH 4:22 and the snuffers, the bowls, the
spoons, and the firepans of pure gold; and the
entrance of the house, its inner doors for the holy
of holies, and the doors of the house, that is, of
the nave, of gold.
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2CH 5:1
Thus all the work that Solomon performed for the
house of the Lord was finished. And Solomon brought
in the things that David his father had dedicated,
even the silver and the gold and all the utensils,
and put them in the treasuries of the house of God.
2CH 5:2 Then Solomon assembled to Jerusalem
the elders of Israel and all the heads of the
tribes, the leaders of the fathers' households of
the sons of Israel, to bring up the ark of the
covenant of the Lord out of the city of David, which
is Zion.
2CH 5:3 And all the men of Israel assembled
themselves to the king at the feast, that is in the
seventh month.
2CH 5:4 Then all the elders of Israel came,
and the Levites took up the ark.
2CH 5:5 And they brought up the ark and the
tent of meeting and all the holy utensils which were
in the tent; the Levitical priests brought them up.
2CH 5:6 And King Solomon and all the
congregation of Israel who were assembled with him
before the ark were sacrificing so many sheep and
oxen, that they could not be counted or numbered.
2CH 5:7 Then the priests brought the ark of
the covenant of the Lord to its place, into the
inner sanctuary of the house, to the holy of holies,
under the wings of the cherubim.
2CH 5:8 For the cherubim spread their wings
over the place of the ark, so that the cherubim made
a covering over the ark and its poles.
2CH 5:9 And the poles were so long that the
ends of the poles of the ark could be seen in front
of the inner sanctuary, but they could not be seen
outside; and they are there to this day.
2CH 5:10 There was nothing in the ark except
the two tablets which Moses put there at Horeb,
where the Lord made a covenant with the sons of
Israel, when they came out of Egypt.
2CH 5:11 And when the priests came forth from
the holy place (for all the priests who were present
had sanctified themselves, without regard to
divisions),
2CH 5:12 and all the Levitical singers, Asaph,
Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and kinsmen, clothed
in fine linen, with cymbals, harps, and lyres,
standing east of the altar, and with them one
hundred and twenty priests blowing trumpets
2CH 5:13 in unison when the trumpeters and
the singers were to make themselves heard with one
voice to praise and to glorify the Lord, and when
they lifted up their voice accompanied by trumpets
and cymbals and instruments of music, and when they
praised the Lord saying, "He indeed is good for His
lovingkindness is everlasting," then the house, the
house of the Lord, was filled with a cloud,
2CH 5:14 so that the priests could not stand
to minister because of the cloud, for the glory of
the Lord filled the house of God.
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2CH 6:1
Then Solomon said, "The Lord has said that He would
dwell in the thick cloud.
2CH 6:2 "I have built Thee a lofty house, And
a place for Thy dwelling forever."
2CH 6:3 Then the king faced about and blessed
all the assembly of Israel, while all the assembly
of Israel was standing.
2CH 6:4 And he said, "Blessed be the Lord,
the God of Israel, who spoke with His mouth to my
father David and has fulfilled it with His hands,
saying,
2CH 6:5 'Since the day that I brought My
people from the land of Egypt, I did not choose a
city out of all the tribes of Israel in which to
build a house that My name might be there, nor did I
choose any man for a leader over My people Israel;
2CH 6:6 but I have chosen Jerusalem that My
name might be there, and I have chosen David to be
over My people Israel.'
2CH 6:7 "Now it was in the heart of my father
David to build a house for the name of the Lord, the
God of Israel.
2CH 6:8 "But the Lord said to my father
David, 'Because it was in your heart to build a
house for My name, you did well that it was in your
heart.
2CH 6:9 'Nevertheless you shall not build the
house, but your son who shall be born to you, he
shall build the house for My name.'
2CH 6:10 "Now the Lord has fulfilled His word
which He spoke; for I have risen in the place of my
father David and sit on the throne of Israel, as the
Lord promised, and have built the house for the name
of the Lord, the God of Israel.
2CH 6:11 "And there I have set the ark, in
which is the covenant of the Lord, which He made
with the sons of Israel."
2CH 6:12 Then he stood before the altar of
the Lord in the presence of all the assembly of
Israel and spread out his hands.
2CH 6:13 Now Solomon had made a bronze
platform, five cubits long, five cubits wide, and
three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of
the court; and he stood on it, knelt on his knees in
the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and
spread out his hands toward heaven.
2CH 6:14 And he said, "O Lord, the God of
Israel, there is no god like Thee in heaven or on
earth, keeping covenant and showing lovingkindness
to Thy servants who walk before Thee with all their
heart;
2CH 6:15 who has kept with Thy servant David,
my father, that which Thou hast promised him;
indeed, Thou hast spoken with Thy mouth, and hast
fulfilled it with Thy hand, as it is this day.
2CH 6:16 "Now therefore, O Lord, the God of
Israel, keep with Thy servant David, my father, that
which Thou hast promised him, saying, 'You shall not
lack a man to sit on the throne of Israel, if only
your sons take heed to their way, to walk in My law
as you have walked before Me.'
2CH 6:17 "Now therefore, O Lord, the God of
Israel, let Thy word be confirmed which Thou hast
spoken to Thy servant David.
2CH 6:18 "But will God indeed dwell with
mankind on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest
heaven cannot contain Thee; how much less this house
which I have built.
2CH 6:19 "Yet have regard to the prayer of
Thy servant and to his supplication, O Lord my God,
to listen to the cry and to the prayer which Thy
servant prays before Thee;
2CH 6:20 that Thine eyes may be open toward
this house day and night, toward the place of which
Thou hast said that Thou wouldst put Thy name there,
to listen to the prayer which Thy servant shall pray
toward this place.
2CH 6:21 "And listen to the supplications of
Thy servant and of Thy people Israel, when they pray
toward this place; hear Thou from Thy dwelling
place, from heaven; hear Thou and forgive.
2CH 6:22 "If a man sins against his neighbor,
and is made to take an oath, and he comes and takes
an oath before Thine altar in this house,
2CH 6:23 then hear Thou from heaven and act
and judge Thy servants, punishing the wicked by
bringing his way on his own head and justifying the
righteous by giving him according to his
righteousness.
2CH 6:24 "And if Thy people Israel are
defeated before an enemy, because they have sinned
against Thee, and they return to Thee and confess
Thy name, and pray and make supplication before Thee
in this house,
2CH 6:25 then hear Thou from heaven and
forgive the sin of Thy people Israel, and bring them
back to the land which Thou hast given to them and
to their fathers.
2CH 6:26 "When the heavens are shut up and
there is no rain because they have sinned against
Thee, and they pray toward this place and confess
Thy name, and turn from their sin when Thou dost
afflict them;
2CH 6:27 then hear Thou in heaven and forgive
the sin of Thy servants and Thy people Israel,
indeed, teach them the good way in which they should
walk. And send rain on Thy land, which Thou hast
given to Thy people for an inheritance.
2CH 6:28 "If there is famine in the land, if
there is pestilence, if there is blight or mildew,
if there is locust or grasshopper, if their enemies
besiege them in the land of their cities, whatever
plague or whatever sickness there is,
2CH 6:29 whatever prayer or supplication is
made by any man or by all Thy people Israel, each
knowing his own affliction and his own pain, and
spreading his hands toward this house,
2CH 6:30 then hear Thou from heaven Thy
dwelling place, and forgive, and render to each
according to all his ways, whose heart Thou knowest
for Thou alone dost know the hearts of the sons of
men,
2CH 6:31 that they may fear Thee, to walk in
Thy ways as long as they live in the land which Thou
hast given to our fathers.
2CH 6:32 "Also concerning the foreigner who
is not from Thy people Israel, when he comes from a
far country for Thy great name's sake and Thy mighty
hand and Thine outstretched arm, when they come and
pray toward this house,
2CH 6:33 then hear Thou from heaven, from Thy
dwelling place, and do according to all for which
the foreigner calls to Thee, in order that all the
peoples of the earth may know Thy name, and fear
Thee, as do Thy people Israel, and that they may
know that this house which I have built is called by
Thy name.
2CH 6:34 "When Thy people go out to battle
against their enemies, by whatever way Thou shalt
send them, and they pray to Thee toward this city
which Thou hast chosen, and the house which I have
built for Thy name,
2CH 6:35 then hear Thou from heaven their
prayer and their supplication, and maintain their
cause.
2CH 6:36 "When they sin against Thee (for
there is no man who does not sin) and Thou art angry
with them and dost deliver them to an enemy, so that
they take them away captive to a land far off or
near,
2CH 6:37 if they take thought in the land
where they are taken captive, and repent and make
supplication to Thee in the land of their captivity,
saying,' We have sinned, we have committed iniquity,
and have acted wickedly';
2CH 6:38 if they return to Thee with all
their heart and with all their soul in the land of
their captivity, where they have been taken captive,
and pray toward their land which Thou hast given to
their fathers, and the city which Thou hast chosen,
and toward the house which I have built for Thy
name,
2CH 6:39 then hear from heaven, from Thy
dwelling place, their prayer and supplications, and
maintain their cause, and forgive Thy people who
have sinned against Thee.
2CH 6:40 "Now, O my God, I pray Thee, let
Thine eyes be open, and Thine ears attentive to the
prayer offered in this place.
2CH 6:41 "Now therefore arise, O Lord God, to
Thy resting place, Thou and the ark of Thy might;
let Thy priests, O Lord God, be clothed with
salvation, and let Thy godly ones rejoice in what is
good.
2CH 6:42 "O Lord God, do not turn away the
face of Thine anointed; remember Thy lovingkindness
to Thy servant David."
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2CH 7:1
Now when Solomon had finished praying, fire came
down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and
the sacrifices; and the glory of the Lord filled the
house.
2CH 7:2 And the priests could not enter into
the house of the Lord, because the glory of the Lord
filled the Lord's house.
2CH 7:3 And all the sons of Israel, seeing
the fire come down and the glory of the Lord upon
the house, bowed down on the pavement with their
faces to the ground, and they worshiped and gave
praise to the Lord, saying, "Truly He is good, truly
His lovingkindness is everlasting."
2CH 7:4 Then the king and all the people
offered sacrifice before the Lord.
2CH 7:5 And King Solomon offered a sacrifice
of 22,000 oxen, and 120,000 sheep. Thus the king and
all the people dedicated the house of God.
2CH 7:6 And the priests stood at their posts
and the Levites, with the instruments of music to
the Lord, which King David had made for giving
praise to the Lord - - "for His lovingkindness is
everlasting" - - whenever he gave praise by their
means, while the priests on the other side blew
trumpets; and all Israel was standing.
2CH 7:7 Then Solomon consecrated the middle
of the court that was before the house of the Lord,
for there he offered the burnt offerings and the fat
of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar
which Solomon had made was not able to contain the
burnt offering, the grain offering, and the fat.
2CH 7:8 So Solomon observed the feast at that
time for seven days, and all Israel with him, a very
great assembly, who came from the entrance of Hamath
to the brook of Egypt.
2CH 7:9 And on the eighth day they held a
solemn assembly, for the dedication of the altar
they observed seven days, and the feast seven days.
2CH 7:10 Then on the twenty-third day of the
seventh month he sent the people to their tents,
rejoicing and happy of heart because of the goodness
that the Lord had shown to David and to Solomon and
to His people Israel.
2CH 7:11 Thus Solomon finished the house of
the Lord and the king's palace, and successfully
completed all that he had planned on doing in the
house of the Lord and in his palace.
2CH 7:12 Then the Lord appeared to Solomon at
night and said to him, "I have heard your prayer,
and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of
sacrifice.
2CH 7:13 "If I shut up the heavens so that
there is no rain, or if I command the locust to
devour the land, or if I send pestilence among My
people,
2CH 7:14 and My people who are called by My
name humble themselves and pray, and seek My face
and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear
from heaven, will forgive their sin, and will heal
their land.
2CH 7:15 "Now My eyes shall be open and My
ears attentive to the prayer offered in this place.
2CH 7:16 "For now I have chosen and
consecrated this house that My name may be there
forever, and My eyes and My heart will be there
perpetually.
2CH 7:17 "And as for you, if you walk before
Me as your father David walked even to do according
to all that I have commanded you and will keep My
statutes and My ordinances,
2CH 7:18 then I will establish your royal
throne as I covenanted with your father David,
saying,' You shall not lack a man to be ruler in
Israel.'
2CH 7:19 "But if you turn away and forsake My
statutes and My commandments which I have set before
you and shall go and serve other gods and worship
them,
2CH 7:20 then I will uproot you from My land
which I have given you, and this house which I have
consecrated for My name I will cast out of My sight,
and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all
peoples.
2CH 7:21 "As for this house, which was
exalted, everyone who passes by it will be
astonished and say, 'Why has the Lord done thus to
this land and to this house?'
2CH 7:22 "And they will say, 'Because they
forsook the Lord, the God of their fathers, who
brought them from the land of Egypt, and they
adopted other gods and worshiped them and served
them, therefore He has brought all this adversity on
them.'"
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2CH 8:1
Now it came about at the end of the twenty years in
which Solomon had built the house of the Lord and
his own house
2CH 8:2 that he built the cities which Huram
had given to him, and settled the sons of Israel
there.
2CH 8:3 Then Solomon went to Hamath-zobah and
captured it.
2CH 8:4 And he built Tadmor in the wilderness
and all the storage cities which he had built in
Hamath.
2CH 8:5 He also built upper Beth-horon and
lower Beth-horon, fortified cities with walls,
gates, and bars;
2CH 8:6 and Baalath and all the storage
cities that Solomon had, and all the cities for his
chariots and cities for his horsemen, and all that
it pleased Solomon to build in Jerusalem, in
Lebanon, and in all the land under his rule.
2CH 8:7 All of the people who were left of
the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the
Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of Israel,
2CH 8:8 namely, from their descendants who
were left after them in the land whom the sons of
Israel had not destroyed, them Solomon raised as
forced laborers to this day.
2CH 8:9 But Solomon did not make slaves for
his work from the sons of Israel; they were men of
war, his chief captains, and commanders of his
chariots and his horsemen.
2CH 8:10 And these were the chief officers of
King Solomon, two hundred and fifty who ruled over
the people.
2CH 8:11 Then Solomon brought Pharaoh's
daughter up from the city of David to the house
which he had built for her; for he said, "My wife
shall not dwell in the house of David king of
Israel, because the places are holy where the ark of
the Lord has entered."
2CH 8:12 Then Solomon offered burnt offerings
to the Lord on the altar of the Lord which he had
built before the porch;
2CH 8:13 and did so according to the daily
rule, offering them up according to the commandment
of Moses, for the sabbaths, the new moons, and the
three annual feasts - - the Feast of Unleavened
Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Booths.
2CH 8:14 Now according to the ordinance of
his father David, he appointed the divisions of the
priests for their service, and the Levites for their
duties of praise and ministering before the priests
according to the daily rule, and the gatekeepers by
their divisions at every gate; for David the man of
God had so commanded.
2CH 8:15 And they did not depart from the
commandment of the king to the priests and Levites
in any manner or concerning the storehouses.
2CH 8:16 Thus all the work of Solomon was
carried out from the day of the foundation of the
house of the Lord, and until it was finished. So the
house of the Lord was completed.
2CH 8:17 Then Solomon went to Ezion-geber and
to Eloth on the seashore in the land of Edom.
2CH 8:18 And Huram by his servants sent him
ships and servants who knew the sea; and they went
with Solomon's servants to Ophir, and took from
there four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and
brought them to King Solomon.
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2CH 9:1
Now when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of
Solomon, she came to Jerusalem to test Solomon with
difficult questions. She had a very large retinue,
with camels carrying spices, and a large amount of
gold and precious stones; and when she came to
Solomon, she spoke with him about all that was on
her heart.
2CH 9:2 And Solomon answered all her
questions; nothing was hidden from Solomon which he
did not explain to her.
2CH 9:3 And when the queen of Sheba had seen
the wisdom of Solomon, the house which he had built,
2CH 9:4 the food at his table, the seating of
his servants, the attendance of his ministers and
their attire, his cupbearers and their attire, and
his stairway by which he went up to the house of the
Lord, she was breathless.
2CH 9:5 Then she said to the king, "It was a
true report which I heard in my own land about your
words and your wisdom.
2CH 9:6 "Nevertheless I did not believe their
reports until I came and my eyes had seen it. And
behold, the half of the greatness of your wisdom was
not told me. You surpass the report that I heard.
2CH 9:7 "How blessed are your men, how
blessed are these your servants who stand before you
continually and hear your wisdom.
2CH 9:8 "Blessed be the Lord your God who
delighted in you, setting you on His throne as king
for the Lord your God; because your God loved Israel
establishing them forever, therefore He made you
king over them, to do justice and righteousness."
2CH 9:9 Then she gave the king one hundred
and twenty talents of gold, and a very great amount
of spices and precious stones; there had never been
spice like that which the queen of Sheba gave to
King Solomon.
2CH 9:10 And the servants of Huram and the
servants of Solomon who brought gold from Ophir,
also brought algum trees and precious stones.
2CH 9:11 And from the algum the king made
steps for the house of the Lord and for the king's
palace, and lyres and harps for the singers; and
none like that was seen before in the land of Judah.
2CH 9:12 And King Solomon gave to the queen
of Sheba all her desire which she requested besides
a return for what she had brought to the king. Then
she turned and went to her own land with her
servants.
2CH 9:13 Now the weight of gold which came to
Solomon in one year was 666 talents of gold,
2CH 9:14 besides that which the traders and
merchants brought; and all the kings of Arabia and
the governors of the country brought gold and silver
to Solomon.
2CH 9:15 And King Solomon made 200 large
shields of beaten gold, using 600 shekels of beaten
gold on each large shield.
2CH 9:16 And he made 300 shields of beaten
gold, using three hundred shekels of gold on each
shield, and the king put them in the house of the
forest of Lebanon.
2CH 9:17 Moreover, the king made a great
throne of ivory and overlaid it with pure gold.
2CH 9:18 And there were six steps to the
throne and a footstool in gold attached to the
throne, and arms on each side of the seat, and two
lions standing beside the arms.
2CH 9:19 And twelve lions were standing there
on the six steps on the one side and on the other;
nothing like it was made for any other kingdom.
2CH 9:20 And all King Solomon's drinking
vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the
house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold;
silver was not considered valuable in the days of
Solomon.
2CH 9:21 For the king had ships which went to
Tarshish with the servants of Huram; once every
three years the ships of Tarshish came bringing gold
and silver, ivory and apes and peacocks.
2CH 9:22 So King Solomon became greater than
all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.
2CH 9:23 And all the kings of the earth were
seeking the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom
which God had put in his heart.
2CH 9:24 And they brought every man his gift,
articles of silver and gold, garments, weapons,
spices, horses, and mules, so much year by year.
2CH 9:25 Now Solomon had 4,000 stalls for
horses and chariots and 12,000 horsemen, and he
stationed them in the chariot cities and with the
king in Jerusalem.
2CH 9:26 And he was the ruler over all the
kings from the Euphrates River even to the land of
the Philistines, and as far as the border of Egypt.
2CH 9:27 And the king made silver as common
as stones in Jerusalem, and he made cedars as
plentiful as sycamore trees that are in the lowland.
2CH 9:28 And they were bringing horses for
Solomon from Egypt and from all countries.
2CH 9:29 Now the rest of the acts of Solomon,
from first to last, are they not written in the
records of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy
of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo
the seer concerning Jeroboam the son of Nebat?
2CH 9:30 And Solomon reigned forty years in
Jerusalem over all Israel.
2CH 9:31 And Solomon slept with his fathers
and was buried in the city of his father David; and
his son Rehoboam reigned in his place.
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2CH 10:1
Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had
come to Shechem to make him king.
2CH 10:2 And it came about when Jeroboam the
son of Nebat heard of it (for he was in Egypt where
he had fled from the presence of King Solomon), that
Jeroboam returned from Egypt.
2CH 10:3 So they sent and summoned him. When
Jeroboam and all Israel came, they spoke to Rehoboam,
saying,
2CH 10:4 "Your father made our yoke hard; now
therefore lighten the hard service of your father
and his heavy yoke which he put on us, and we will
serve you."
2CH 10:5 And he said to them, "Return to me
again in three days." So the people departed.
2CH 10:6 Then King Rehoboam consulted with
the elders who had served his father Solomon while
he was still alive, saying, "How do you counsel me
to answer this people?"
2CH 10:7 And they spoke to him, saying, "If
you will be kind to this people and please them and
speak good words to them, then they will be your
servants forever."
2CH 10:8 But he forsook the counsel of the
elders which they had given him, and consulted with
the young men who grew up with him and served him.
2CH 10:9 So he said to them, "What counsel do
you give that we may answer this people, who have
spoken to me, saying, 'Lighten the yoke which your
father put on us'?"
2CH 10:10 And the young men who grew up with
him spoke to him, saying, "Thus you shall say to the
people who spoke to you, saying, 'Your father made
our yoke heavy, but you make it lighter for us.'
Thus you shall say to them, 'My little finger is
thicker than my father's loins!
2CH 10:11 'Whereas my father loaded you with
a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke; my father
disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline
you with scorpions.' "
2CH 10:12 So Jeroboam and all the people came
to Rehoboam on the third day as the king had
directed, saying, "Return to me on the third day."
2CH 10:13 And the king answered them harshly,
and King Rehoboam forsook the counsel of the elders.
2CH 10:14 And he spoke to them according to
the advice of the young men, saying, "My father made
your yoke heavy, but I will add to it; my father
disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline
you with scorpions."
2CH 10:15 So the king did not listen to the
people, for it was a turn of events from God that
the Lord might establish His word, which He spoke
through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of
Nebat.
2CH 10:16 And when all Israel saw that the
king did not listen to them the people answered the
king, saying, "What portion do we have in David? We
have no inheritance in the son of Jesse. Every man
to your tents, O Israel; Now look after your own
house, David." So all Israel departed to their
tents.
2CH 10:17 But as for the sons of Israel who
lived in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over
them.
2CH 10:18 Then King Rehoboam sent Hadoram,
who was over the forced labor, and the sons of
Israel stoned him to death. And King Rehoboam made
haste to mount his chariot to flee to Jerusalem.
2CH 10:19 So Israel has been in rebellion
against the house of David to this day.
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2CH 11:1
Now when Rehoboam had come to Jerusalem, he
assembled the house of Judah and Benjamin, 180,000
chosen men who were warriors, to fight against
Israel to restore the kingdom to Rehoboam.
2CH 11:2 But the word of the Lord came to
Shemaiah the man of God, saying,
2CH 11:3 "Speak to Rehoboam the son of
Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah
and Benjamin, saying,
2CH 11:4 'Thus says the Lord, "You shall not
go up or fight against your relatives; return every
man to his house, for this thing is from Me."' "So
they listened to the words of the Lord and returned
from going against Jeroboam.
2CH 11:5 Rehoboam lived in Jerusalem and
built cities for defense in Judah.
2CH 11:6 Thus he built Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa,
2CH 11:7 Beth-zur, Soco, Adullam,
2CH 11:8 Gath, Mareshah, Ziph,
2CH 11:9 Adoraim, Lachish, Azekah,
2CH 11:10 Zorah, Aijalon, and Hebron, which
are fortified cities in Judah and in Benjamin.
2CH 11:11 He also strengthened the fortresses
and put officers in them and stores of food, oil and
wine.
2CH 11:12 And he put shields and spears in
every city and strengthened them greatly. So he held
Judah and Benjamin.
2CH 11:13 Moreover, the priests and the
Levites who were in all Israel stood with him from
all their districts.
2CH 11:14 For the Levites left their pasture
lands and their property and came to Judah and
Jerusalem, for Jeroboam and his sons had excluded
them from serving as priests to the Lord.
2CH 11:15 And he set up priests of his own
for the high places, for the satyrs, and for the
calves which he had made.
2CH 11:16 And those from all the tribes of
Israel who set their hearts on seeking the Lord God
of Israel, followed them to Jerusalem to sacrifice
to the Lord God of their fathers.
2CH 11:17 And they strengthened the kingdom
of Judah and supported Rehoboam the son of Solomon
for three years, for they walked in the way of David
and Solomon for three years.
2CH 11:18 Then Rehoboam took as a wife
Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the son of David
and of Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of
Jesse,
2CH 11:19 and she bore him sons: Jeush,
Shemariah, and Zaham.
2CH 11:20 And after her he took Maacah the
daughter of Absalom, and she bore him Abijah, Attai,
Ziza, and Shelomith.
2CH 11:21 And Rehoboam loved Maacah the
daughter of Absalom more than all his other wives
and concubines. For he had taken eighteen wives and
sixty concubines and fathered twenty-eight sons and
sixty daughters.
2CH 11:22 And Rehoboam appointed Abijah the
son of Maacah as head and leader among his brothers,
for he intended to make him king.
2CH 11:23 And he acted wisely and distributed
some of his sons through all the territories of
Judah and Benjamin to all the fortified cities, and
he gave them food in abundance. And he sought many
wives for them.
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2CH 12:1
It took place when the kingdom of Rehoboam was
established and strong that he and all Israel with
him forsook the law of the Lord.
2CH 12:2 And it came about in King Rehoboam's
fifth year, because they had been unfaithful to the
Lord, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against
Jerusalem
2CH 12:3 with 1,200 chariots and 60,000
horsemen. And the people who came with him from
Egypt were without number: the Lubim, the Sukkiim,
and the Ethiopians.
2CH 12:4 And he captured the fortified cities
of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem.
2CH 12:5 Then Shemaiah the prophet came to
Rehoboam and the princes of Judah who had gathered
at Jerusalem because of Shishak, and he said to
them, "Thus says the Lord, 'You have forsaken Me, so
I also have forsaken you to Shishak.'"
2CH 12:6 So the princes of Israel and the
king humbled themselves and said, "The Lord is
righteous."
2CH 12:7 And when the Lord saw that they
humbled themselves, the word of the Lord came to
Shemaiah, saying, "They have humbled themselves so I
will not destroy them, but I will grant them some
measure of deliverance, and My wrath shall not be
poured out on Jerusalem by means of Shishak.
2CH 12:8 "But they will become his slaves so
that they may learn the difference between My
service and the service of the kingdoms of the
countries."
2CH 12:9 So Shishak king of Egypt came up
against Jerusalem, and took the treasures of the
house of the Lord and the treasures of the king's
palace. He took everything; he even took the golden
shields which Solomon had made.
2CH 12:10 Then King Rehoboam made shields of
bronze in their place, and committed them to the
care of the commanders of the guard who guarded the
door of the king's house.
2CH 12:11 And it happened as often as the
king entered the house of the Lord, the guards came
and carried them and then brought them back into the
guards' room.
2CH 12:12 And when he humbled himself, the
anger of the Lord turned away from him, so as not to
destroy him completely; and also conditions were
good in Judah.
2CH 12:13 So King Rehoboam strengthened
himself in Jerusalem, and reigned. Now Rehoboam was
forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he
reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which
the Lord had chosen from all the tribes of Israel,
to put His name there. And his mother's name was
Naamah the Ammonitess.
2CH 12:14 And he did evil because he did not
set his heart to seek the Lord.
2CH 12:15 Now the acts of Rehoboam, from
first to last, are they not written in the records
of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer,
according to genealogical enrollment? And there were
wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.
2CH 12:16 And Rehoboam slept with his
fathers, and was buried in the city of David; and
his son Abijah became king in his place.
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2CH 13:1
In the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam, Abijah
became king over Judah.
2CH 13:2 He reigned three years in Jerusalem;
and his mother's name was Micaiah the daughter of
Uriel of Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah
and Jeroboam.
2CH 13:3 And Abijah began the battle with an
army of valiant warriors, 400,000 chosen men, while
Jeroboam drew up in battle formation against him
with 800,000 chosen men who were valiant warriors.
2CH 13:4 Then Abijah stood on Mount Zemaraim,
which is in the hill country of Ephraim, and said,
"Listen to me, Jeroboam and all Israel:
2CH 13:5 "Do you not know that the Lord God
of Israel gave the rule over Israel forever to David
and his sons by a covenant of salt?
2CH 13:6 "Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the
servant of Solomon the son of David, rose up and
rebelled against his master,
2CH 13:7 and worthless men gathered about
him, scoundrels, who proved too strong for Rehoboam,
the son of Solomon, when he was young and timid and
could not hold his own against them.
2CH 13:8 "So now you intend to resist the
kingdom of the Lord through the sons of David, being
a great multitude and having with you the golden
calves which Jeroboam made for gods for you.
2CH 13:9 "Have you not driven out the priests
of the Lord, the sons of Aaron and the Levites, and
made for yourselves priests like the peoples of
other lands? Whoever comes to consecrate himself
with a young bull and seven rams, even he may become
a priest of what are no gods.
2CH 13:10 "But as for us, the Lord is our
God, and we have not forsaken Him; and the sons of
Aaron are ministering to the Lord as priests, and
the Levites attend to their work.
2CH 13:11 "And every morning and evening they
burn to the Lord burnt offerings and fragrant
incense, and the showbread is set on the clean
table, and the golden lampstand with its lamps is
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