Old Testament · 36 chapters

2 Chronicles

• No. 33 2 Chronicles 3:8-17

  Chronicles retells Israel's history for the community that came home from exile, and it lingers on the temple. This passage is the building of the Holy of Holies, the innermost room of Solomon's temple in...

• No. 71 2 Chronicles 28:22-27

  Chronicles judges Judah's kings by whether they kept faith with God, and Ahaz gets one of the harshest accounts in the book. He reigned in the eighth century BC while Assyria was swallowing the region, and he...

• No. 111 2 Chronicles 25:9-13

  Amaziah king of Judah has hired a hundred thousand mercenaries from the northern kingdom of Israel for a hundred talents of silver, and a prophet has told him to send them home because God is not with Israel....

• No. 199 2 Chronicles 8:7-11

  Chronicles is generally generous to Solomon, and this passage is one of the places where the accounting shows through anyway. It explains his labor policy.

• No. 217 2 Chronicles 32:21-26

  Assyria was the great power of the age, and under Sennacherib it had already swallowed the northern kingdom of Israel and come down to besiege Jerusalem in the days of King Hezekiah. These verses stand just...

• No. 219 2 Chronicles 6:28-33

  Solomon has finished building the temple, and this passage is part of the long prayer he prays at its dedication. He is standing before the new house and imagining, one situation at a time, all the trouble...

• No. 361 2 Chronicles 31:7-21

  This passage describes a happy problem. King Hezekiah has led Judah back to God, and the people have responded by bringing their tithes and offerings so generously that the contributions pile up in literal...

• No. 405 2 Chronicles 12:6-16

  This passage tells the sad, ordinary story of a decline, and it hangs on one telling detail about shields. Rehoboam, Solomon's son, has led Judah into unfaithfulness, and when the Egyptian king Shishak...

• No. 414 2 Chronicles 32:1-8

  The Assyrian army under Sennacherib is bearing down on Judah, and Hezekiah's response is worth watching closely, because he does two things at once that we often treat as opposites. First, he prepares,...

• No. 450 2 Chronicles 18:16-20

  King Ahab wants to go to war, and he has assembled four hundred prophets who all tell him exactly what he wants to hear: go up, and God will give you victory. But a visiting king, Jehoshaphat, is uneasy and...

• No. 472 2 Chronicles 18:21-26

  This is the aftermath of the prophet Micaiah telling King Ahab the truth. Ahab's four hundred court prophets had all promised him victory, but Micaiah alone declared that Ahab would fall in the coming battle,...

• No. 483 2 Chronicles 18:11-15

  This is the moment just before Micaiah, the lone true prophet, walks in to face King Ahab. Ahab has four hundred court prophets, and they have all, with one voice, told him to go to war and promised victory:...

• No. 582 2 Chronicles 7:1-6

  Solomon has just finished dedicating the temple with a long prayer, and God answers in a way no one could ignore. Fire comes down from heaven and consumes the sacrifices, and the glory of the LORD fills the...

• No. 637 2 Chronicles 16:7-14

  Asa had been one of Judah's good kings. Early in his reign, facing a vast invading army, he had cried out to God and trusted him, and God gave him an astonishing victory. But this passage catches him late in...

• No. 757 2 Chronicles 4:12-22

  Second Chronicles takes an inventory of everything that furnished Solomon's temple, and it is a staggering list. The master craftsman Huram-abi makes the two great pillars and their capitals, the networks and...

• No. 774 2 Chronicles 22:7-12

  This is one of the darkest hours in the story of David's line, and it turns on a single hidden child. King Ahaziah of Judah is killed, and when his mother Athaliah sees that her son is dead, she makes a bid...

• No. 806 2 Chronicles 2:7-12

  Solomon is the wisest and wealthiest king Israel will ever have, and he is about to build the temple, the great work of his reign. And the first thing he does is admit what he cannot do by himself. He writes...

• No. 838 2 Chronicles 22:1-6

  Ahaziah comes to the throne of Judah almost by accident, the youngest son left after raiders killed his older brothers, and he reigns only a year. The Chronicler's verdict on him is short and damning, and it...

• No. 955 2 Chronicles 18:6-10

  Two kings, Jehoshaphat of Judah and Ahab of Israel, are deciding whether to go to war, and four hundred prophets have already promised victory. But Jehoshaphat is uneasy and asks, is there not a prophet of the...

• No. 963 2 Chronicles 29:25-30

  King Hezekiah has cleansed and reopened the temple after years of neglect under his father, and now he restores its worship. He stations the Levites with cymbals, harps, and lyres, and the priests with...

• No. 984 2 Chronicles 9:22-31

  This is the Chronicler's summary of Solomon at his height and then his end. He surpassed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom; the whole world sought his presence; tribute poured in yearly. He...

• No. 1046 2 Chronicles 34:1-7

  Josiah becomes king of Judah at eight years old and reigns thirty-one years, and the Chronicler says he did what was right and did not turn aside to the right or left. The passage tracks his growth in stages....

• No. 1075 2 Chronicles 17:1-6

  Jehoshaphat succeeds his father Asa as king of Judah, and the Chronicler gives him a glowing summary. The LORD was with him, because he walked in the early ways of his father David, sought the God of his...

• No. 1083 2 Chronicles 2:13-18

  Solomon is preparing to build the temple, and Hiram of Tyre sends him a master craftsman, Huram-abi, described in detail: his mother was an Israelite of the tribe of Dan, his father a man of Tyre, and he is...

• No. 1094 2 Chronicles 21:8-15

  Jehoram, king of Judah, has turned from the faithful ways of his father Jehoshaphat and grandfather Asa. He walked in the ways of the wicked kings of Israel, built high places, led Judah into idolatry, and...

• No. 1119 2 Chronicles 20:24-30

  Jehoshaphat and Judah, having gone out to face a vast invading army with worship instead of weapons, arrive to find the enemy already destroyed, dead bodies covering the ground, killed by ambushes God set...

• No. 1145 2 Chronicles 34:14-18

  In the middle of Josiah's temple repairs, the priest Hilkiah makes an astonishing discovery: while clearing out the money for the workmen, he finds the Book of the Law of the LORD, given through Moses, buried...

• No. 1169 2 Chronicles 21:16-20

  This is the grim end of Jehoram, king of Judah, whose reign had been marked by idolatry and the murder of his own brothers. God stirs up the Philistines and Arabs against him; they raid Judah, carry off his...

• No. 1245 2 Chronicles 30:1-5

  Hezekiah, reforming the nation, wants to restore the Passover, which had long been neglected. He sends letters throughout all Israel and Judah, even to the northern tribes, inviting everyone to come to...

• No. 1254 2 Chronicles 10:1-5

  Solomon has died, and his son Rehoboam goes to Shechem, where all Israel has gathered to make him king. The moment is a crossroads for the whole kingdom. The people, led by Jeroboam, come with a reasonable...

• No. 1265 2 Chronicles 14:1-7

  Asa becomes king of Judah, and the land has ten years of quiet. Asa does what is good and right: he removes the foreign altars, the high places, the sacred pillars, and the Asherah poles, and commands Judah to...

• No. 1307 2 Chronicles 23:1-7

  For six years the boy Joash, the last surviving heir of David's line, has been hidden in the temple while the usurper Athaliah reigns, having murdered the rest of the royal family. Now Jehoiada the priest...

• No. 1327 2 Chronicles 27:1-9

  Jotham became king of Judah at twenty-five and reigned sixteen years. The chronicler's verdict is brief and good: he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, as his father Uzziah had done, though he did not...

• No. 1468 2 Chronicles 23:8-13

  Jehoiada the priest carries out his plan to restore the rightful heir. The Levites and all Judah arm themselves and surround the young king's son; Jehoiada gives them the spears and shields that had been King...

• No. 1499 2 Chronicles 1:7-12

  God appears to the young king Solomon in the night and makes an open offer: ask what you want me to give you. Solomon could have asked for anything, and he asks for one thing. He recalls God's kindness to his...

• No. 1564 2 Chronicles 30:6-12

  King Hezekiah sends couriers throughout Israel and Judah with a summons: return to the LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that he may return to the remnant of you who have escaped. Do not be...

• No. 1628 2 Chronicles 29:31-36

  Hezekiah has restored the worship of God in the temple, and now the people bring a great abundance of sacrifices and thank offerings, so many that the priests are overwhelmed. There are too few priests to...

• No. 1643 2 Chronicles 29:1-11

  Hezekiah becomes king of Judah after the disastrous reign of his father Ahaz, who had shut the doors of the temple and let the worship of God fall into ruin. And in the very first month of his first year,...

• No. 1649 2 Chronicles 13:13-22

  King Abijah of Judah is at war with the larger army of Jeroboam of Israel, and finds himself ambushed, with the enemy before him and behind. When Judah sees the trap, they cry out to the LORD, and the priests...

• No. 1651 2 Chronicles 34:29-33

  After the book of the law is found in the temple, King Josiah gathers all the people, great and small, to the house of the LORD, and reads aloud in their hearing all the words of the book of the covenant....

• No. 1653 2 Chronicles 4:1-6

  Among the furnishings Solomon makes for the temple are a great bronze altar, an enormous basin called the molten sea, resting on twelve bronze oxen, and ten smaller basins. The passage notes their purpose: the...

• No. 1656 2 Chronicles 24:15-19

  Jehoiada the priest, who had guided King Joash from childhood and led the nation back to God, dies at a great age, honored and buried among the kings. But after his death, the princes of Judah come and flatter...

• No. 1703 2 Chronicles 24:1-7

  Joash becomes king at seven, and does right in God's eyes throughout the lifetime of Jehoiada the priest. In time he resolves to restore the house of the LORD, which had fallen into disrepair, its dedicated...

• No. 1773 2 Chronicles 25:20-28

  Amaziah, king of Judah, had won a victory over Edom, and, strangely, had brought back Edom's gods to worship them. Now, puffed up, he provokes a needless war with Joash, king of Israel, and will not listen to...

• No. 1792 2 Chronicles 5:1-14

  The temple is finished, and Solomon brings the ark of the covenant into the inner sanctuary, under the wings of the cherubim. The whole assembly gathers, sacrificing more than could be counted. Then the...

• No. 1835 2 Chronicles 15:1-7

  The Spirit of God comes on Azariah, and he goes out to meet King Asa with a word: the LORD is with you while you are with him; if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake...

• No. 1850 2 Chronicles 21:1-7

  Jehoram succeeds his father Jehoshaphat as king of Judah, and one of his first acts is to murder all his brothers with the sword to secure his throne. He walks in the evil ways of the kings of Israel, having...

• No. 1861 2 Chronicles 12:1-5

  The account of Rehoboam's reign turns on a single, telling sentence: when the kingdom of Rehoboam was established, and he was strong, he abandoned the law of the LORD, and all Israel with him. His strength...

• No. 1933 2 Chronicles 11:1-12

  After the kingdom is divided and the northern tribes break away, Rehoboam gathers a great army, a hundred and eighty thousand chosen warriors, to fight and bring the kingdom back under his rule. He has the...

• No. 1944 2 Chronicles 14:8-15

  King Asa faces an overwhelming enemy: a vast army marching against his smaller forces. Rather than trust his own strength, Asa cries out to God: LORD, there is no one besides you to help, between the strong...

• No. 1988 2 Chronicles 25:1-8

  The record of King Amaziah gives him a mixed verdict: he did what was right in the LORD's eyes, but not with a whole heart. He obeyed God outwardly, in many things, and yet his heart was not fully in it; his...

• No. 2025 2 Chronicles 13:8-12

  As King Abijah of Judah faces the far larger army of Jeroboam's Israel, he calls out a declaration across the battle lines. Jeroboam's people had driven out the priests of the LORD and set up golden calves and...

• No. 2035 2 Chronicles 16:1-6

  King Asa of Judah, once a man who had trusted God for deliverance against overwhelming odds, faces a new threat from Baasha king of Israel. But this time Asa does not turn to God. He takes silver and gold from...

• No. 2135 2 Chronicles 28:1-13

  Under the wicked king Ahaz, Judah suffers a crushing defeat, and the army of Israel carries off two hundred thousand of their fellow Israelites, their own kinsmen, as captives, intending to enslave them. But a...

• No. 2176 2 Chronicles 10:12-19

  When the people ask the new king Rehoboam to lighten the heavy burden his father Solomon had laid on them, Rehoboam seeks counsel. The elders who had served his father advise him to speak kindly to the people...

• No. 2263 2 Chronicles 30:20-27

  When Hezekiah restored the great Passover in Jerusalem, many came who had not purified themselves according to the strict rules of the sanctuary, having been long out of practice. Hezekiah prayed for them: the...

• No. 2277 2 Chronicles 6:16-21

  At the dedication of the temple he has built, Solomon prays, and in the midst of his prayer he is struck by a wonder. Will God indeed dwell with men on the earth? he asks. Behold, heaven and the highest heaven...

• No. 2300 2 Chronicles 10:6-11

  As the new king Rehoboam considers how to answer the people's plea for a lighter burden, he seeks counsel. The elders who had served his father Solomon give him wise advice: if you are kind to these people and...

• No. 2328 2 Chronicles 7:7-11

  When Solomon has finished the temple and held the great feast of dedication, with a vast assembly gathered from the whole land, the celebration comes to an end. On the twenty-third day of the month, Solomon...

• No. 2454 2 Chronicles 20:1-12

  A vast coalition of armies is marching on Judah, and King Jehoshaphat is afraid. But his fear drives him the right direction: he sets himself to seek the LORD, proclaims a fast, and gathers the whole nation to...

• No. 2557 2 Chronicles 1:1-6

  Chronicles introduces Solomon's reign with a simple explanation for his rise: Solomon was established in his kingdom, and the LORD his God was with him and made him great. And the first thing recorded of the...

• No. 2574 2 Chronicles 6:1-9

  At the dedication of the temple, Solomon recounts its history. It had been in his father David's heart to build a house for the LORD, and God's response to David is worth pausing on. You did well that it was...

• No. 2582 2 Chronicles 23:14-21

  The usurper Athaliah, who had seized the throne by murdering the royal heirs, is finally overthrown. The priest Jehoiada has her removed and executed, and then he leads the nation in a series of decisive acts:...

• No. 2605 2 Chronicles 29:12-19

  The new king Hezekiah, whose father Ahaz had shut and defiled the temple, sends the Levites to reopen and cleanse it. They first sanctify themselves, then go in and carry out all the uncleanness that had...

• No. 2616 2 Chronicles 2:1-6

  Solomon sets out to build the temple, an enormous project, tens of thousands of laborers, cedar from Tyre, gold and fine work. And yet in the middle of announcing this grand undertaking, he says something...

• No. 2637 2 Chronicles 8:12-18

  With the temple finished, Solomon establishes the rhythm of its worship. He offers the burnt offerings as each day required, and appoints the priests and Levites to their divisions, the singers to praise, the...

• No. 2655 2 Chronicles 6:22-27

  In his prayer at the temple's dedication, Solomon looks ahead to all the ways Israel will fail, and builds a way home into each one. When your people sin and are defeated, he prays, and then turn again and...

• No. 2666 2 Chronicles 20:18-23

  Facing an invading coalition, King Jehoshaphat and all Judah bow and worship, and then he does something remarkable. He appoints singers to go out in front of the army, praising God and singing, give thanks to...

• No. 2715 2 Chronicles 18:1-5

  Jehoshaphat is a good king, rich in honor, but he marries into the house of Ahab and gets pulled toward Ahab's war at Ramoth Gilead. To his credit, before he commits his army he says the right thing: please...

• No. 2727 2 Chronicles 28:14-21

  This is one of the more surprising scenes in Chronicles. Northern Israel has just beaten Judah and dragged home thousands of captives, but a prophet confronts the victors, and the leaders relent. Then the...

• No. 2742 2 Chronicles 35:22-27

  Josiah had been the great reforming king, the one who tore down the idols and read the rediscovered law aloud to the whole nation. His death is a tragedy. Pharaoh Neco marches north on his own errand and warns...

• No. 2789 2 Chronicles 33:1-9

  Manasseh becomes king at twelve and reigns fifty-five years, and he sets about undoing everything his father Hezekiah had built. He rebuilds the high places, raises altars to Baal, worships the stars, and goes...

• No. 2805 2 Chronicles 35:1-6

  Josiah keeps a great Passover in Jerusalem, restoring a feast that had long lapsed. He puts the priests back in their offices and encourages them, and he tells the Levites to place the holy ark in the temple...

• No. 2836 2 Chronicles 26:1-5

  Uzziah becomes king of Judah at sixteen and reigns fifty-two years. He does what is right in the LORD's eyes, and Chronicles pins the whole verdict of his reign to one sentence: he set himself to seek God in...

• No. 2858 2 Chronicles 29:20-24

  Hezekiah has come to the throne after his father Ahaz defiled the temple, and he moves fast. He rises early, gathers the city's leaders, and goes up to the LORD's house to restore its worship. And the first...

• No. 2904 2 Chronicles 26:6-15

  Uzziah grows into a strong and celebrated king. He defeats the Philistines, breaks down their walls, subdues Arabians and Ammonites, builds towers and cisterns, raises a large army, and even commissions...

• No. 2910 2 Chronicles 17:7-19

  In the third year of his reign, King Jehoshaphat does something notable: he sends his officials, along with Levites and priests, throughout the towns of Judah to teach the people, carrying the book of the...

• No. 2949 2 Chronicles 33:18-25

  This closes the story of Manasseh. His prayer, and how God heard him, are recorded, along with all his sin, for he had humbled himself before God. He dies, and his son Amon becomes king, doing the same evil...

• No. 2967 2 Chronicles 20:13-17

  A vast invading army is bearing down, and King Jehoshaphat has gathered all Judah, with their wives and little ones, to stand before the LORD. Then the Spirit of the LORD comes upon a Levite named Jahaziel in...

• No. 3058 2 Chronicles 33:10-17

  The LORD warns Manasseh and his people, but they will not listen. So God brings the Assyrian army, who capture Manasseh, bind him with fetters, and drag him to Babylon. And there, in his distress, this king...

• No. 3109 2 Chronicles 36:9-14

  The end races toward Judah. Jehoiachin reigns three months and does evil, and Nebuchadnezzar carries him to Babylon. Zedekiah reigns eleven years and does evil, and the text singles out his failure: he did not...

• No. 3164 2 Chronicles 6:34-42

  As Solomon dedicates the temple, he looks ahead, past its glory, to the day his people will fail. If they sin, and are carried into captivity, yet come to their senses in exile and turn back, saying, we have...

• No. 3190 2 Chronicles 9:9-21

  The queen of Sheba's gifts pour in, gold, spices, precious stones, and the account piles up the scale of Solomon's glory: gold from Ophir, shields of beaten gold, an ivory throne overlaid with pure gold, every...

• No. 3345 2 Chronicles 15:8-19

  Encouraged by a prophet's word, King Asa takes courage and acts. He clears the idols out of the land, renews the neglected altar of the LORD, and gathers the people into a wholehearted covenant to seek the...

• No. 3486 2 Chronicles 3:1-7

  Solomon begins to build the temple on Mount Moriah, and the location is rich with meaning. This is the mountain where the LORD had appeared to David, at the threshing floor David bought to stop a plague, a...

• No. 3491 2 Chronicles 24:8-14

  King Joash, seeking to repair the long-neglected temple, sets a chest at the gate of the LORD's house, and the people respond gladly, bringing their contributions until the chest is full, day after day. There...

• No. 3521 2 Chronicles 9:1-8

  The queen of Sheba travels a great distance to test Solomon with hard questions, and she is left breathless. The half of your wisdom was not told me, she says; you surpass the report I heard. What she had...

• No. 3535 2 Chronicles 11:18-23

  This passage records Rehoboam's many wives, eighteen of them, and sixty concubines, and his favoritism, loving Maacah above all the rest. The chronicler notes that he dealt shrewdly in distributing his sons...

• No. 3559 2 Chronicles 32:9-15

  Sennacherib's officers pile up mockery designed to break the people's faith. They sneer at Hezekiah's reforms, twist his trust in God into a death trap, and above all they set the LORD on the level of the...

• No. 3576 2 Chronicles 35:7-15

  King Josiah leads Israel in a great Passover, and what stands out is the generosity and the good order of it. The king gives thirty thousand lambs and goats, and thousands of cattle, from his own possessions...

• No. 3596 2 Chronicles 19:1-11

  After being rebuked by a prophet for allying with wicked King Ahab, Jehoshaphat turns to reform, and one of his acts is to appoint judges throughout the land with a solemn charge: consider what you do, for you...

• No. 3650 2 Chronicles 35:16-21

  Josiah's Passover was so great that none like it had been kept in Israel since the days of Samuel; he was a faithful, reforming king who put God first. But the passage takes a tragic turn. When Neco of Egypt...

• No. 3693 2 Chronicles 4:7-11

  This passage describes the making of the temple's furnishings: ten golden lampstands, ten tables, a hundred basins, the courts and doors, all crafted for the worship of God. And it notes that Huram, the...

• No. 3696 2 Chronicles 36:1-8

  This passage records the rapid collapse of the kingdom of Judah in its final years: king after king in swift succession, deposed by Egypt, then by Babylon, the land drained by tribute, the temple vessels...

• No. 3725 2 Chronicles 18:27-34

  King Ahab, warned by the prophet Micaiah that he would die if he went to battle, tries to outsmart the prophecy: he disguises himself as an ordinary soldier so that no one will target the king. But God's word...

• No. 3728 2 Chronicles 11:13-17

  When Jeroboam set up idolatrous worship in the northern kingdom and rejected the true priests, the faithful Levites and priests left their homes and their lands and came south to Judah, where they could...

• No. 3804 2 Chronicles 36:15-23

  This passage tells of a patience finally exhausted and a mercy that outlasts even judgment. Again and again God sent his messengers to his people, rising up early to send them, the text says, because he had...

• No. 3806 2 Chronicles 31:1-6

  After Hezekiah leads the people to tear down the idols and restore the worship of the LORD, revival bears practical fruit. The king reorganizes the priests and Levites for their service, and then commands the...

• No. 3822 2 Chronicles 26:16-23

  King Uzziah had a long and successful reign, but the turning point of his life is captured in one sobering sentence: when he was strong, he grew proud, to his destruction. Emboldened by his success, he...

• No. 3824 2 Chronicles 32:16-20

  The Assyrians press their attack not only with armies but with words, mocking the LORD, writing letters that insult the God of Israel, lumping him together with the helpless gods of the nations they had...

• No. 3875 2 Chronicles 13:1-7

  Outnumbered two to one, King Abijah of Judah stands on a mountain and calls out to Jeroboam and the armies of Israel, and his appeal rests on one thing: God's covenant. Do you not know, he says, that the LORD...

• No. 3910 2 Chronicles 7:17-22

  After the glory of the temple's dedication, God speaks a personal word to Solomon that turns everything on a condition. As for you, he says, if you walk before me as David your father walked, keeping my...

• No. 3911 2 Chronicles 6:10-15

  As Solomon dedicates the temple, he begins his prayer by marveling at God's faithfulness. The LORD has kept the promise he made, Solomon says; he promised David a son who would build his house, and now that...

• No. 3961 2 Chronicles 20:31-37

  Jehoshaphat was a good king who walked in the ways of his faithful father and did what was right in the LORD's sight. And yet this passage records a serious misstep: he allied himself with Ahaziah, the wicked...

• No. 3973 2 Chronicles 25:14-19

  After defeating the Edomites, King Amaziah does something almost incomprehensible: he brings home the idols of the very people he had just conquered, sets them up as his own gods, and bows down to worship...

• No. 3977 2 Chronicles 24:20-27

  King Joash had been raised and protected by the godly priest Jehoiada, and while Jehoiada lived, Joash did well. But after the old priest died, Joash turned away, and when Jehoiada's own son Zechariah, moved...

• No. 3985 2 Chronicles 34:8-13

  As part of his great reforms, King Josiah sends men to repair the neglected temple of the LORD, and the account pauses to note something about the workers: the men did the work faithfully. It is a small...

• No. 3989 2 Chronicles 7:12-16

  God appears to Solomon by night with a promise that has comforted his people ever since. He acknowledges that hard times will come, drought, locusts, plague, but then gives the way through them: if my people...

• No. 4043 2 Chronicles 30:13-19

  At Hezekiah's great Passover, a problem arises: many of the people, especially those from the northern tribes, had come to worship but had not properly cleansed themselves according to the ritual law, and yet...

• No. 4071 2 Chronicles 34:19-28

  When young King Josiah hears the words of the law read for the first time and realizes how far his people have strayed, he tears his clothes in grief and sends to inquire of the LORD. The prophetess Huldah...

• No. 4147 2 Chronicles 8:1-6

  This passage lists Solomon's many building projects: cities, fortifications, storehouses, all the impressive works of a wealthy and successful king. And a phrase near the end catches the eye: he built all that...

• No. 4255 2 Chronicles 1:13-17

  This passage describes the wealth and strength Solomon amassed: thousands of chariots and horses, silver and gold as common as stones, horses imported from Egypt. On the surface it is a picture of great...

• No. 4308 2 Chronicles 32:27-33

  Hezekiah, a good king, comes into great wealth and honor: treasuries of silver and gold, storehouses, herds, and abundant possessions, for God had given him much. But the passage adds a revealing note. When...