2 Chronicles

  1 Moreover he made a bronze altar: twenty cubits was its length, twenty cubits its width, and ten cubits its height. 2 And he made the cast sea, ten cubits from brim to brim, a round circle. Its height was five cubits, and a line of thirty cubits circled around it. 3 And underneath … Continue reading »

  1 Thus Solomon began to build the house of YHWH at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where He had appeared to his father David, at the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. 2 And he began to build on the second day of the second month in the … Continue reading »

  1 And Solomon determined to build a house for the name of YHWH, and a royal house for himself. 2 Solomon numbered seventy thousand men to bear burdens, eighty thousand to quarry stone in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred to oversee them. 3 And Solomon sent to Huram king of Tyre, saying: … Continue reading »

  1 And Solomon the son of David strengthened himself in his kingdom, and YHWH his God was with him and highly magnified him. 2 And Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, to the judges, and to every leader in all Israel, the heads of the fathers; 3 … Continue reading »

  1 In the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam, Abijah became king over Judah. 2 He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Michaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam. 3 Abijah began the battle with an army of mighty men of war, four hundred … Continue reading »

  1 Now it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the kingdom and had strengthened himself, that he and all Israel with him forsook the Law of YHWH. 2 And it happened in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had transgressed against YHWH, … Continue reading »

  1 Now when Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, he summoned up from the house of Judah and Benjamin one hundred and eighty thousand choice men who were warriors, to fight against Israel, that he might restore the kingdom to Rehoboam. 2 But the Word of YHWH came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying, 3 … Continue reading »

  1 And Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king. 2 And it happened, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard it, where he was in Egypt, where he had fled from the presence of King Solomon, that Jeroboam returned from Egypt. 3 And they sent for … Continue reading »

  1 Now when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to Jerusalem to test Solomon with difficult questions, having a very great retinue, camels that bore spices, gold in abundance, and precious stones; and when she came to Solomon, she spoke with him about all that was in her … Continue reading »

  1 It came to pass at the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the house of YHWH and his own house, 2 that the cities which Huram had given to Solomon, Solomon built them; and he caused the children of Israel to dwell there. 3 And Solomon went to Hamath Zobah … Continue reading »