2 Chronicles
2 Chronicles 1
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Solomon the son of David was firmly established in his kingdom, and the LORD his God was with him, and made him exceedingly great.Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds, to the judges, and to every prince in all Israel, the heads of the fathers’ households.Then Solomon, and all...
2 Chronicles 2
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Now Solomon decided to build a house for the LORD’s name, and a house for his kingdom.Solomon counted out seventy thousand men to bear burdens, eighty thousand men who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred to oversee them.Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, “As you dealt with...
2 Chronicles 3
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Then Solomon began to build the LORD’s house at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD appeared to David his father, which he prepared in the place that David had appointed, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.He began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of...
2 Chronicles 4
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Then he made an altar of bronze, twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and ten cubits high.Also he made the molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim. It was round, five cubits high, and thirty cubits in circumference.Under it was the likeness of oxen, which encircled it, for ten cubits, encircling the sea....
2 Chronicles 5
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Thus all the work that Solomon did for the LORD’s house was finished. Solomon brought in the things that David his father had dedicated, even the silver, the gold, and all the vessels, and put them in the treasuries of God’s house.Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes,...
2 Chronicles 6
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Then Solomon said, “The LORD has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.But I have built you a house and home, a place for you to dwell in forever.”The king turned his face, and blessed all the assembly of Israel; and all the assembly of Israel stood.He said, “Blessed be the LORD, the...
2 Chronicles 7
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Now when Solomon had finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the LORD’s glory filled the house.The priests could not enter into the LORD’s house, because the LORD’s glory filled the LORD’s house.All the children of Israel looked on, when the fire came down, and the...
2 Chronicles 8
Last Updated: October 10, 2026At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the LORD’s house and his own house,Solomon built the cities which Huram had given to Solomon, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.Solomon went to Hamath Zobah, and prevailed against it.He built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the storage cities, which...
2 Chronicles 9
Last Updated: October 10, 2026When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to test Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great caravan, including camels that bore spices, gold in abundance, and precious stones. When she had come to Solomon, she talked with him about all that was in her heart.Solomon answered...
2 Chronicles 10
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.When Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it (for he was in Egypt, where he had fled from the presence of King Solomon), Jeroboam returned out of Egypt.They sent and called him; and Jeroboam and all Israel came, and they...
2 Chronicles 11
Last Updated: October 10, 2026When Rehoboam had come to Jerusalem, he assembled the house of Judah and Benjamin, one hundred eighty thousand chosen men who were warriors, to fight against Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam.But the LORD’s word came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying,“Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and...
2 Chronicles 12
Last Updated: October 10, 2026When the kingdom of Rehoboam was established and he was strong, he abandoned the LORD’s law, and all Israel with him.In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had trespassed against the LORD,with twelve hundred chariots and sixty thousand horsemen. The people were without number who...
2 Chronicles 13
Last Updated: October 10, 2026In the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam, Abijah began to reign over Judah.He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Micaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. There was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.Abijah joined battle with an army of valiant men of war, even four hundred thousand chosen men; and Jeroboam set...
2 Chronicles 14
Last Updated: October 10, 2026So Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in David’s city; and Asa his son reigned in his place. In his days, the land was quiet ten years.Asa did that which was good and right in the LORD his God’s eyes,for he took away the foreign altars and the high places, broke down...
2 Chronicles 15
Last Updated: October 10, 2026The Spirit of God came on Azariah the son of Oded.He went out to meet Asa, and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin! The LORD is with you while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he...
2 Chronicles 16
Last Updated: October 10, 2026In the thirty-sixth year of Asa’s reign, Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might not allow anyone to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.Then Asa brought out silver and gold out of the treasures of the LORD’s house and of the king’s house, and...
2 Chronicles 17
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his place, and strengthened himself against Israel.He placed forces in all the fortified cities of Judah, and set garrisons in the land of Judah and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.The LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father...
2 Chronicles 18
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honor in abundance; and he allied himself with Ahab.After some years, he went down to Ahab to Samaria. Ahab killed sheep and cattle for him in abundance, and for the people who were with him, and moved him to go up with him to Ramoth Gilead.Ahab king of Israel said...
2 Chronicles 19
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned to his house in peace to Jerusalem.Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to King Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked, and love those who hate the LORD? Because of this, wrath is on you from before the LORD.Nevertheless there are good...
2 Chronicles 20
Last Updated: October 10, 2026After this, the children of Moab, the children of Ammon, and with them some of the Meunites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle.Then some came who told Jehoshaphat, saying, “A great multitude is coming against you from beyond the sea from Syria. Behold, they are in Hazazon Tamar” (that is, En Gedi).Jehoshaphat was alarmed, and set...
2 Chronicles 21
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in David’s city; and Jehoram his son reigned in his place.He had brothers, the sons of Jehoshaphat: Azariah, Jehiel, Zechariah, Azariah, Michael, and Shephatiah. All these were the sons of Jehoshaphat king of Israel.Their father gave them great gifts of silver, of gold, and...
2 Chronicles 22
Last Updated: October 10, 2026The inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his place, because the band of men who came with the Arabians to the camp had slain all the oldest. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned.Ahaziah was forty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year...
2 Chronicles 23
Last Updated: October 10, 2026In the seventh year, Jehoiada strengthened himself, and took the captains of hundreds–Azariah the son of Jeroham, Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, Azariah the son of Obed, Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri–into a covenant with him.They went around in Judah and gathered the Levites out of all the cities...
2 Chronicles 24
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Joash was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah, of Beersheba.Joash did that which was right in the LORD’s eyes all the days of Jehoiada the priest.Jehoiada took for him two wives, and he became the father of sons and daughters.After this,...
2 Chronicles 25
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jehoaddan, of Jerusalem.He did that which was right in the LORD’s eyes, but not with a perfect heart.Now when the kingdom was established to him, he killed his servants who had killed his father...
2 Chronicles 26
Last Updated: October 10, 2026All the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the place of his father Amaziah.He built Eloth and restored it to Judah. After that the king slept with his fathers.Uzziah was sixteen years old when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His...
2 Chronicles 27
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Jotham was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jerushah the daughter of Zadok.He did that which was right in the LORD’s eyes, according to all that his father Uzziah had done. However he didn’t enter into the LORD’s temple. The people still...
2 Chronicles 28
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. He didn’t do that which was right in the LORD’s eyes, like David his father,but he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and also made molten images for the Baals.Moreover he burned incense in the...
2 Chronicles 29
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Hezekiah began to reign when he was twenty-five years old, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.He did that which was right in the LORD’s eyes, according to all that David his father had done.In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he...
2 Chronicles 30
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the LORD’s house at Jerusalem, to keep the Passover to the LORD, the God of Israel.For the king had taken counsel with his princes and all the assembly in Jerusalem to keep the Passover in...
2 Chronicles 31
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah and broke the pillars in pieces, cut down the Asherah poles, and broke down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, also in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all....
2 Chronicles 32
Last Updated: October 10, 2026After these things and this faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, entered into Judah, encamped against the fortified cities, and intended to win them for himself.When Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had come, and that he was planning to fight against Jerusalem,he took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of...
2 Chronicles 33
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.He did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, after the abominations of the nations whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down;...
2 Chronicles 34
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem.He did that which was right in the LORD’s eyes, and walked in the ways of David his father, and didn’t turn away to the right hand or to the left.For in the eighth year of his reign, while...
2 Chronicles 35
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Josiah kept a Passover to the LORD in Jerusalem. They killed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.He set the priests in their offices and encouraged them in the service of the LORD’s house.He said to the Levites who taught all Israel, who were holy to the LORD, “Put the holy ark...
2 Chronicles 36
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father’s place in Jerusalem.Joahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.The king of Egypt removed him from office at Jerusalem, and fined the land one hundred talents of...