2 Chronicles
The Second Book of Chronicles
How each chapter begins
- 2 Chronicles 1
And Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom, and Jehovah his God was with him and magnified him…
- 2 Chronicles 2
And Solomon purposed to build a house for the name of Jehovah, and a house for his kingdom.
- 2 Chronicles 3
And Solomon began to build the house of Jehovah at Jerusalem on mount Moriah, where he appeared to David his father, in…
- 2 Chronicles 4
And he made a brazen altar: its length was twenty cubits, and its breadth twenty cubits, and its height ten cubits.
- 2 Chronicles 5
And all the work was finished that Solomon made for the house of Jehovah. And Solomon brought in the things that David…
- 2 Chronicles 6
Then said Solomon: Jehovah said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.
- 2 Chronicles 7
And when Solomon had ended praying, the fire came down from the heavens and consumed the burnt-offering and the…
- 2 Chronicles 8
And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the house of Jehovah and his own house,
- 2 Chronicles 9
And the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, and came to Jerusalem to prove Solomon with enigmas; with a very…
- 2 Chronicles 10
And Rehoboam went to Shechem; for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.
- 2 Chronicles 11
And Rehoboam came to Jerusalem; and he assembled the house of Judah and Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand chosen…
- 2 Chronicles 12
And it came to pass when the kingdom of Rehoboam was established, and when he had become strong, [that] he forsook the…
- 2 Chronicles 13
In the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to reign over Judah.
- 2 Chronicles 14
And Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David. And Asa his son reigned in his stead. In…
- 2 Chronicles 15
And the Spirit of God came upon Azariah the son of Oded.
- 2 Chronicles 16
In the thirty-sixth year of the reign of Asa, Baasha king of Israel came up against Judah, and built Ramah, in order to…
- 2 Chronicles 17
And Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead, and strengthened himself against Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 18
And Jehoshaphat had riches and honour in abundance; and he allied himself with Ahab by marriage.
- 2 Chronicles 19
And Jehoshaphat king of Judah returned to his house in peace to Jerusalem.
- 2 Chronicles 20
And it came to pass after this [that] the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with them certain of the…
- 2 Chronicles 21
And Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David; and Jehoram his son…
- 2 Chronicles 22
And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his stead; for the band of men that came in the…
- 2 Chronicles 23
And in the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened himself, and took the captains of the hundreds, Azariah the son of…
- 2 Chronicles 24
Joash was seven years old when he began to reign; and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was…
- 2 Chronicles 25
Amaziah was twenty-five years old [when] he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem; and his…
- 2 Chronicles 26
And all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.
- 2 Chronicles 27
Jotham was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem; and his mother's…
- 2 Chronicles 28
Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign; and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And he did not what was…
- 2 Chronicles 29
Hezekiah began to reign being twenty-five years old; and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem; and his mother's…
- 2 Chronicles 30
And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the…
- 2 Chronicles 31
And when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and broke the columns…
- 2 Chronicles 32
After these things and this faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came and entered into Judah, and encamped against…
- 2 Chronicles 33
Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.
- 2 Chronicles 34
Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem.
- 2 Chronicles 35
And Josiah held a passover to Jehovah in Jerusalem; and they slaughtered the passover on the fourteenth of the first…
- 2 Chronicles 36
And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father's stead, in Jerusalem.