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Solomon visits the tabernacle at Gibeon and offers a thousand burnt offerings. God grants Solomon a wish and Solomon asks God for wisdom. God grants his wish and because he does not asks for wealth or honor, God grants these also.

PEOPLE: Solomon - יהוה YHVH God

PLACES: Kingdom of Israel - Gibeon - Kiriath-Jearim - Jerusalem - Egypt - Syria

RELATED ARTICLES: David - Tabernacle - Moses - Ark of the Covenant - Bezaleel - Uri - Hur - Biblical Hittites

Hiram of Tyre, a political ally of David's, sends an embassy to Solomon. Solomon and Hiram enter into a trade agreement so that Solomon can obtain the necessary raw materials to build a temple.

PEOPLE: Solomon - יהוה YHVH God - Hiram I

PLACES: Tyre, Lebanon - Israel - Jerusalem - Judah - Jaffa

RELATED ARTICLES: David - Showbread - Sacrifice - Biblical Sabbath - New Moon - Jewish holiday - Solomon - Bath (volume) - Tribe of Dan - Engraving

Solomon begins construction of the Temple in Jerusalem, based on specific plans given to King David, by God.

PEOPLE: Solomon - יהוה YHVH

PLACES: Jerusalem - Mount Moriah - Parvaim

RELATED ARTICLES: Solomon's Temple - David - Araunah the Jebusite - Cubit - Cherub - Shekel - Boaz and Jachin

Solomon and Hiram forge all the metal for the temple, including a brass altar, the menorah and all the utensils.

PEOPLE: Solomon - Hiram I - יהוה YHVH God

PLACES: Jordan - Succoth - Zeredathah

RELATED ARTICLES: Cubit - Bath (volume) - Metalworking - Sacrifice - Menorah (Temple) - Showbread

The temple is finished and the Israelites gather for its dedication. The ark of the covenant is brought into the temple. Sacrifices and music are part of the celebration.

PEOPLE: Solomon - יהוה YHVH - Levites - Asaph - Heman - Jeduthun

PLACES: Israel - Jerusalem - Zion

RELATED ARTICLES: Solomon's Temple - David - Ark of the Covenant - Sukkot - Tabernacle - Sacrifice - Holy of Holies - Cherub - Tablets of Stone - Moses - Horeb - Children of Israel - Egypt - Kohen - Cloud

At the dedication of the new temple, Solomon blesses the congregation and asks God to hear all prayers spoken in the temple and forgive the sins of Israel.

PEOPLE: Solomon - יהוה YHVH God - Children of Israel

PLACES: Jerusalem, Israel

RELATED ARTICLES: Solomon's Temple - David - Egypt - Tribes of Israel - Ark of the Covenant - Heaven - Kohen

At the dedication of the temple the Glory of the Lord fills the temple. God promises to hear the prayers from the temple and to extend mercy to those who repent of their idolatry.

PEOPLE: Solomon - יהוה YHVH God - Children of Israel

PLACES: Israel - Hamath - Nile

RELATED ARTICLES: Sacrifice - Solomon's Temple - Kohen - David - Mitzvah - Idolatry

In the twenty years following the completion of the temple, King Solomon builds cities, fortifies his army and marries a daughter of the Egyptian Pharaoh.

PEOPLE: Solomon - יהוה YHVH God - Hiram I - Children of Israel - Pharaoh's daughter (wife of Solomon) - Levite

PLACES: Hamath-zobah - Tadmor - Bethoron - Baalath - Jerusalem - Lebanon - Ezion-Geber - Eloth - Edom - Ophir

RELATED ARTICLES: Solomon's Temple - Biblical Hittites - Amorites - Perizzites - Hivites - Jebusites - David - Sacrifice - Moses - Sabbath - Passover - Shavuot - Sukkot - Kohen - Mitzvah - Talent (measurement)

The Queen of Sheba visits Solomon and brings gifts including gold and rare jewels to decorate the temple, and asks Solomon a number of riddles. When Solomon gives her "all her desire, whatsoever she asked", she leaves satisfied.

PEOPLE: Queen of Sheba – Solomon – יהוה YHVH God

PLACES: Sheba – Jerusalem – Israel – Ophir – Judah – Arabia – Lebanon – Tarshish – Egypt

RELATED ARTICLES: Talent – Hiram I – Shekel – Philistines – Book of Nathan the Prophet – Prophecy of Ahijah – Iddo – Jeroboam

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Jeroboam and the people promise their loyalty to Rehoboam in return for lesser burdens. The older men counsel Rehoboam to agree, but the king seeks advice from younger men who advise him to tax the people even more, which he does.

PEOPLE: Rehoboam – Israelites – Jeroboam – יהוה YHVH God – Ahijah the Shilonite – Hadoram

PLACES: Shechem – Egypt – Tribe of Judah

RELATED ARTICLES: Nebat – Solomon

Rehoboam organizes his armies to go to war against the new kingdom of Israel. However, he is advised by Shamariah against fighting his brethren. He builds elaborate defenses and strongholds, along with fortified cities.

PEOPLE: Rehoboam - Tribe of Judah - Tribe of Benjamin - יהוה YHVH God - Shemaiah - Jeroboam - Levites - Jeush - Shamariah - Zaham - Maachah - Abijah - Attai - Ziza - Shelomith

PLACES: Jerusalem - Kingdom of Israel - Kingdom of Judah - Bethlehem - Etam - Tekoa - Beth-zur - Shoco - Adullam - Gath - Maresha - Ziph - Adoraim - Lachish - Azekah - Zorah - Aijalon - Hebron

RELATED ARTICLES: Solomon - Kohen - Demon - David - Abihail - Eliab - Jesse - Absalom

Rehoboam forsakes God's law and God sends Shishaq to besiege Jerusalem.

PEOPLE: Rehoboam - יהוה YHVH - Shishaq - Lubims - Sukkiim - Ethiopians - Shemaiah - Jeroboam - Abijah

PLACES: Kingdom of Israel - Egypt - Jerusalem - Kingdom of Judah

RELATED ARTICLES: Torah - Sack of Jerusalem (925 BC) - Solomon's Temple - Solomon - Naamah - Ammon

Abijah wages a major battle against King Jeroboam. Abijah addresses the armies of Israel, urging them to submit and to let the Kingdom of Israel be whole again, but his plea falls on deaf ears. Jeroboam is defeated.

PEOPLE: Jeroboam - Abijah - יהוה YHVH God

PLACES: Kingdom of Judah - Jerusalem - Gibeah - Zemaraim - Mount Ephraim - Kingdom of Israel - Jeshanah - Tribe of Ephraim

RELATED ARTICLES: Michaiah - Uriel - David - Salt in the Bible - Nebat - Solomon - Belial - Idolatry - Kohen - Aaron - Levite - Sacrifice - Story of the Prophet Iddo

Asa son of Abijah becomes King of Judah. He is zealous in rooting all idolatry out of the land. He asks God for help against an invasion by Zerah the Ethiopian and with divine intervention, the Ethiopian forces are defeated.

PEOPLE: Abijah - Asa - יהוה YHVH God - Zerah

PLACES: Kingdom of Judah - Mareshah - Zephathah - Gerar - Jerusalem

RELATED ARTICLES: David - Tribe of Benjamin

Asa purges the land of former religious worships; all the sites of non-Judaic worship are destroyed and the nation enters into a covenant together.

PEOPLE: Spirit of God - Azariah - Asa - Tribe of Judah - Tribe of Benjamin - יהוה YHVH God - Tribe of Ephraim - Tribe of Manasseh - Tribe of Simeon - Maachah

PLACES: Kingdom of Judah - Kingdom of Israel - Mount Ephraim - Jerusalem - Kidron

RELATED ARTICLES: Oded - Kohen - Torah - Sacrifice - Covenant - Idolatry

King Baasha of Israel attackes the Kingdom of Judah. Asa sends Ben-Hadad, King of Damascus, gold and silver from the Temple in exchange for canceling his peace treaty with Baasha. Hanani the Seer, a prophet, admonishes Asa for relying on the King of Syria as opposed to Divine help in defeating Baasha.

PEOPLE: Asa - Baasha - יהוה YHVH - Benhadad - Hanani

PLACES: Kingdom of Israel - Kingdom of Judah - Ramah - Damascus Syria - Ijon - Dan - Abel-beth-maachah - Geba - Mizpah

RELATED ARTICLES: Tribe of Naphtali - People of Ethiopia - Lubims - Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel - David - Apothecary

Jehoshaphat fortifies his kingdom against Israel, destroys images of Baal, and sends out priests to instruct the people in the Law. The kingdom enjoys a great measure of peace and prosperity.

PEOPLE: Jehoshaphat – יהוה YHVH God – Benhail – Obadiah – Zechariah – Nethaneel – Michaiah – Shemaiah – Nethaniah – Zebadiah – Asahel – Shemiramoth – Jehonathan – Adonijah – Tobijah – Tobadonijah – Philistines – Arabians – Adnah – Amasiah – Eliada – Jehozabad

PLACES: Kingdom of Israel – Kingdom of Judah – Jerusalem

RELATED ARTICLES: Tribe of Ephraim – Asa – David – Baalim – Mitzvah – Levites – Kohen – Torah – Zichri – Tribe of Benjamin

Jehoshaphat and Ahab enter a pact to take back Ramoth-gilead from Aram. Jehoshaphat asks for consultation with the prophet Micaiah, whom Ahab hates. Micaiah predicts failure. The king of Israel dies in the battle.

PEOPLE: Jehoshaphat - Ahab - יהוה YHVH God - Micaiah - Zedekiah - Amon - Joash - Spirit of the Lord

PLACES: Samaria - Ramoth-Gilead - Kingdom of Israel - Kingdom of Judah - Syria

RELATED ARTICLES: Prophet - Imla - Chenaanah - Spirit

Jehu the prophet tells Jehoshaphat that the wrath of God is upon him but the Lord has found good in the king, as he has removed the Asherah poles from the land and set his heart to seek God.

PEOPLE: Jehoshaphat – Jehu – יהוה YHVH God – Levite – Amariah – Zebadiah

PLACES: Kingdom of Judah – Jerusalem – Beersheba – Mount Ephraim

RELATED ARTICLES: Hanani – Asherah pole – Kohen – Torah – Mitzvah – Ishmael

Moabites and Ammonites invade Judah. Jehoshaphat asks God for help and God gives Judah the victory. The people praise God, but later fall into apostasy.

PEOPLE: Children of Moab - Children of Ammon - Jehoshaphat - יהוה YHVH God - Jahaziel - Spirit of the Lord - Ahaziah - Eliezer

PLACES: Syria - Hazazontamar - Engedi - Kingdom of Judah - Jerusalem - Mount Seir - Egypt - Ziz - Jeruel - Tekoa - Beracah - Israel - Tarshish - Ezion-Geber - Mareshah

RELATED ARTICLES: Fasting - Solomon's Temple - Heaven - Israelites - Abraham - Pestilence - Famine - Zechariah - Benaiah - Jeiel - Mattaniah - Levite - Asaph - Kohathites - Korhites - Azubah - Shilhi - Book of Jehu - Hanani - Dodavah

Jehoram becomes king of Judah. He kills all his brothers, marries a daughter of Ahab and follows their gods. The prophet Elijah warns him that God will punish him. Subsequently, Jehoram's reign is plagued with war and disease.

PEOPLE: Jehoshaphat - Jehoram - Azariah - Jehiel - Zechariah - Azariah - Michael - Shephatiah - יהוה YHVH - Elijah - Philistines - Arabians - Ethiopians - Jehoahaz

PLACES: Jerusalem - Kingdom of Judah - Kingdom of Israel - Edom - Libnah

RELATED ARTICLES: David - Ahab - Asa

Ahaziah becomes king of Judah. He joins Jehoram, king of Israel, in an unsuccessful expedition against Hazael, king of the Arameans. Jehoram is wounded in the battle, and when Ahaziah visits him, he is caught up in the revolt of Jehu and is killed.

PEOPLE: Ahaziah - יהוה YHVH God - Jehoram - Hazael - Jehu - Athaliah - Jehoshabeath - Joash - Jehoiada

PLACES: Jerusalem - Kingdom of Judah - Kingdom of Israel - Syria - Ramoth-Gilead - Jezreel - Ramah - Samaria

RELATED ARTICLES: Arabians - Jehoram - Athaliah - Omri - Ahab - Nimshi - Jehoshaphat - Ahaziah

Jehoiada the priest makes a covenant with the LORD and stages a revolt to dethrone and kill the Queen Athaliah.

PEOPLE: Jehoiada – Azariah – Ishmael – Azariah – Maaseiah – Elishaphat – Levites – יהוה YHVH God – Athaliah – Mattan

PLACES: Kingdom of Judah – Jerusalem

RELATED ARTICLES: Jeroham – Jehohanan – Obed – Adaiah – Zichri – David – Biblical Sabbath – Kohen – Baal – Sacrifice – Torah – Moses

Joash worships God while the High Priest Jehoiada lives, but after the death of Jehoiada, Joash is led into supporting other gods. Zechariah, the son and successor of the High Priest, is put to death. Subsequently, Judah is invaded by the Aramean army.

PEOPLE: Joash - יהוה YHVH God - Jehoiada - Levites - Zechariah - Zabad - Jehozabad - Amaziah

PLACES: Jerusalem - Beersheba - Kingdom of Judah - Aram Damascus

RELATED ARTICLES: Zibiah - Kohen - Solomon's temple - Moses - Athaliah - Baal - Sacrifice - David - Asherah pole - Prophet - Spirit of God - Mitzvah - Stoning - Shimeath - Ammon - Shimrith - Moab - Story of the Book of Kings

Amaziah employs a mercenary army of 100,000 Israelite soldiers, but is commanded by a prophet to send them back, much to their annoyance. His obedience is followed by victory over Edom. He begins to worship idols taken from the Edomites, which leads to his defeat by the king of Israel. A conspiracy arises which takes his life.

PEOPLE: Amaziah - יהוה YHVH God - Jehoash of Israel - Obed-edom

PLACES: Jerusalem - Kingdom of Judah - Kingdom of Israel - Valley of Salt - Samaria - Beth-horon - Lebanon - Bethshemesh - Lachish

RELATED ARTICLES: Jehoaddan - Torah - Moses - Tribe of Benjamin - Tribe of Ephraim - Seir - Edom - Jehoahaz - Jehu - Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel

Uzziah takes the throne at the age of sixteen. Under the influence of a prophet named Zechariah, he is faithful to Yahweh. He becomes extremely prosperous and powerful. But then, his pride leads to his downfall. He is suddenly struck with tzaraath while in the act of offering incense. The government is turned over to his son Jotham.

PEOPLE: Uzziah - Amaziah - יהוה YHVH God - Zechariah - Jeiel - Maaseiah - Hananiah - Jotham - Isaiah

PLACES: Eloth - Kingdom of Judah - Jerusalem - Gath - Jabneh - Ashdod - Gurbaal - Egypt - Carmel

RELATED ARTICLES: Jecoliah - Philistines - Arabians - Mehunim - Ammonites - Hauberk - Kohen - Aaron - Censer - Tzaraath - Leprosy - Amoz

Jotham takes the throne at the age of twenty-five. He builds the Upper Gate of the Temple of Jerusalem, and extends the "wall of Ophel". He is victorious over the Ammonites, resulting in the Ammonites paying him tribute.

PEOPLE: Jotham - יהוה YHVH God - Ahaz

PLACES: Jerusalem - Kingdom of Judah

RELATED ARTICLES: Jerushah - Zadok - Uzziah - Solomon's temple - Ophel - Ammon - Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel - City of David (historic)

Ahaz of Judah introduces many pagan and idolatrous customs including sacrificing his own son. He ignores the remonstrances and warnings of the prophets and appeals to Tiglath-Pileser III, the king of Assyria, for help against his enemies.

PEOPLE: Ahaz - יהוה YHVH God - Pekah - Zichri - Maaseiah - Azrikam - Elkanah - Oded - Azariah - Berechiah - Jehizkiah - Amasa - Edomites - Philistines - Tiglath-Pileser III

PLACES: Jerusalem - Kingdom of Israel - Gehenna - Aram - Damascus - Kingdom of Judah - Samaria - Jericho - Bethshemesh - Ajalon - Gederoth - Shocho - Timnah - Gimzo

RELATED ARTICLES: David - Idolatry - Baal - Children of Israel - Sacrifice - Remaliah - Tribe of Ephraim - Prophet - Johanan - Meshillemoth - Shallum - Hadlai - Solomon's Temple - Asherah pole - Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel - Hezekiah

King Hezekiah restores the temple and all its fixtures and reinstates the priests and the order of sacrifice.

PEOPLE: Hezekiah - יהוה YHVH God - Levites - Mahath - Joel - Kish - Azariah - Joah - Eden - Shimri - Jeiel - Zechariah - Mattaniah - Jehiel - Shimei - Shemaiah - Uzziel

PLACES: Jerusalem - Kingdom of Judah - Kidron

RELATED ARTICLES: Abijah - Zechariah - David - Israel - Amasai - Azariah - Kohathites - Merari - Abdi - Jehalelel - Gershonites - Zimmah - Joah - Elizaphan - Asaph - Heman - Jeduthun - Solomon's Temple - Kohen - Ahaz - Aaron - Gad - Nathan

Hezekiah reinstates the Passover and invites all the people from Israel and Judah to come to Jerusalem. Some mock the idea, but many take part in the biggest celebration since Solomon's time.

PEOPLE: Hezekiah - יהוה YHVH God - Levites

PLACES: Kingdom of Israel - Kingdom of Judah - Jerusalem - Beersheba - Dan - Assyria - Kidron Valley

RELATED ARTICLES: Tribe of Ephraim - Tribe of Manasseh - Solomon's temple - Passover - Kohen - Abraham - Isaac - Israel - Tribe of Zebulun - Tribe of Asher - Sacrifice - Torah - Moses - Tribe of Issachar - Solomon - David

Religious reform continues in Judah. Hezekiah commands the congregation to tithe and the people respond abundantly.

PEOPLE: Hezekiah - יהוה YHVH - Azariah - Cononiah - Shimei - Jehiel - Azaziah - Nahath - Asahel - Jerimoth - Jozabad - Eliel - Ismachiah - Mahath - Benaiah - Kore - Eden - Miniamin - Jeshua - Shemaiah - Amariah - Shecaniah

PLACES: Kingdom of Judah - Jerusalem

RELATED ARTICLES: Children of Israel - Asherah pole - Tribe of Benjamin - Tribe of Ephraim - Tribe of Manasseh - Kohen - Levite - Sacrifice - Biblical Sabbath - New moon - Jewish holidays - First Fruits - Tithe - Torah - Zadok - Imnah - Aaron

Sennacherib, King of Assyria, raids Jerusalem. Hezekiah fortifies the city and turns off the water. He encourages the people and tells them to trust God while Sennacherib rails against God. God sends an angel to defeat Sennacherib.

PEOPLE: Sennacherib - Hezekiah - יהוה YHVH God - Isaiah - Manasseh

PLACES: Assyria - Kingdom of Judah - Jerusalem - Lachish - Gihon - Babylon

RELATED ARTICLES: Assyrian Siege of Jerusalem - Millo - David - City Gate - Amoz - Angel - Book of Isaiah - Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel

Manasseh reverses the religious reforms of Hezekiah and is taken captive to Babylon. His imprisonment brings him to repentance. God hears his cry, and he is restored to his kingdom. Amon succeeds Manasseh and continues his father's practice of idolatry. He is assassinated by his servants, who conspire against him.

PEOPLE: Manasseh - יהוה YHVH God - Amon - Josiah

PLACES: Jerusalem - Valley of Hinnom - Kingdom of Judah - Assyria - Babylon - Gihon - Ophel

RELATED ARTICLES: Hezekiah - Baal - Asherah pole - Witchcraft and divination in the Bible - Idolatry - Solomon's temple - David - Solomon - Torah - Moses - Sacrifice - Book of the Kings of Israel

Josiah reinstitutes the worship of God and destroys the religious artifacts of other gods. Hilkiah finds a book of Moses that was lost for many years. The prophetess Huldah says that Judah has forsaken God and will be destroyed.

PEOPLE: Josiah - יהוה YHVH God - Shaphan - Maaseiah - Joah - Hilkiah - Levite - Jahath - Obadiah - Zechariah - Meshullam - Ahikam - Abdon - Asaiah - Huldah

PLACES: Jerusalem - Kingdom of Judah

RELATED ARTICLES: David - Asherah pole - Idolatry - Baal - Tribe of Manasseh - Tribe of Ephraim - Tribe of Simeon - Tribe of Naphtali - Azaliah - Joahaz - Kohen - Tribe of Judah - Tribe of Benjamin - Solomon's Temple - Merari - Kohathites - Torah - Moses - Micah - Prophet - Shallum - Tikvath - Hasrah

Josiah reinstitutes the Passover celebrations and returned the Ark of the Covenant to the Temple. Necho king of Egypt comes up to fight against Carchemish by the Euphrates River and King Josiah is fatally wounded by an Egyptian archer. He is brought back to Jerusalem to die.

PEOPLE: Josiah - יהוה YHVH God - Levite - Hilkiah - Zechariah - Jehiel - Conaniah - Shemaiah - Nethaneel - Hashabiah - Jeiel - Jozabad - Children of Israel - Necho - Charchemish

PLACES: Jerusalem - Kingdom of Judah - Kingdom of Israel - Egypt - Euphrates - Megiddo

RELATED ARTICLES: Passover - Kohen - Solomon's Temple - Ark of the Covenant - Solomon - David - Moses - Sacrifice - Book of Moses - Aaron - Asaph - Heman - Jeduthun - Samuel - Jeremiah - Book of Lamentations - Torah - Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel

The kings of Judah fall away from God. The people of Judah are taken captive and held prisoner in Babylon, and the temple in Jerusalem and the palaces of Judah are burned. The Persian King Cyrus is moved by God to rebuild the temple.

PEOPLE: Jehoahaz - Eliakim - Jehoiakim - Necho - יהוה YHVH God - Nebuchadnezzar - Jehoiachin - Zedekiah - Jeremiah - Cyrus

PLACES: Jerusalem - Egypt - Kingdom of Judah - Chaldea - Babylon - Persia

RELATED ARTICLES: Josiah - Solomon's temple - Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel - Babylonian captivity