Category: 2 Chronicles

This chapter contains another account of Solomon’s temple dedication prayer. “If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence or blight or mildew or locust… if their enemies besiege them… whatever plague, whatever sickness there is, whatever prayer, whatever plea is made by any man or by all your people Israel, each knowing…

This chapter describes bringing the ark of the covenant into the newly completed temple. “And when the priests came out of the Holy Place (for all the priests who were present had consecrated themselves, without regard to their divisions…), and when the song was raised, with trumpets and cymbals and other musical instruments, in praise…

This chapter contains another account of the temple furnishings. “Then he made the sea of cast metal. It was round, ten cubits from brim to brim, and five cubits high, and a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference. It stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three…

This chapter also describes construction of the temple. “In front of the house he made two pillars thirty-five cubits high, with a capital of five cubits on the top of each. He made chains like a necklace and put them on the tops of the pillars, and he made a hundred pomegranates and put them…

This chapter parallels 1 Ki 5, though it shares more details on certain aspects of the temple preparations. “Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of the Lord my God and dedicate it to him for the burning of incense of sweet spices before him, and for the regular arrangement of…

This chapter parallels 1 Ki 3. Solomon prays for wisdom when given the option to ask for anything. “And Solomon went up there to the bronze altar before the Lord, which was at the tent of meeting, and offered a thousand burnt offerings on it. In that night God appeared to Solomon, and said to…