2 Chronicles

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Chapters in 2 Chronicles

1. 2 Chronicles 1: Solomon Asks for Wisdom

   Solomon leads Israel to worship at Gibeon, where Moses’ tent and its bronze altar still stand. That night God invites him to ask for anything, and Solomon requests wisdom and knowledge for leading God’s people. God grants it and adds great riches and honor, and wealth soon fills Jerusalem.

2. 2 Chronicles 2: Solomon Prepares to Build the Temple

   Solomon plans a temple for the LORD’s worship and asks Hiram, Tyre’s king, for cedar and a skilled craftsman. He confesses that God is above all gods and that no building could hold Him. Hiram praises Israel’s God and sends Huram-abi, and Solomon sets the foreigners in Israel to work.

3. 2 Chronicles 3: The Temple Built on Mount Moriah

   Solomon begins building the temple on Mount Moriah, at Ornan’s threshing floor that David had made ready, the place of the LORD’s appearing to David. The house is covered with gold, and the innermost room holds two great cherubim behind a woven veil. Two named pillars stand at the entrance.

4. 2 Chronicles 4: The Temple Furnishings

   Solomon has the bronze altar, the great Sea and the washing basins made for the temple court, with the Sea set apart for the priests to wash. Huram finishes the bronze work in vast quantity, and Solomon makes the gold furnishings, including the lampstands and tables for the holy bread.

5. 2 Chronicles 5: The Ark Comes to the Temple

   With the temple finished, Solomon gathers Israel’s leaders, and the ark is carried up and set in the innermost room beneath the cherubim. As priests and singers praise God together for His goodness and lasting love, a cloud of the LORD’s glory fills the temple so the priests cannot serve.

6. 2 Chronicles 6: Solomon’s Prayer of Dedication

   Solomon blesses the people and praises God for keeping His promise to David. Kneeling before the assembly, he confesses that no house can contain God and asks Him to hear prayers toward the temple: to judge, forgive the repentant, answer foreigners and restore exiles. He closes by asking God to remember David.

7. 2 Chronicles 7: Fire Falls and God Answers Solomon

   When Solomon finishes praying, fire from heaven consumes the offerings and God’s glory fills the temple, and the people bow in worship before a great dedication feast. Later God appears to Solomon by night, promising to forgive His humbled people but warning of exile if they turn to other gods.

8. 2 Chronicles 8: Solomon’s Building Works and Temple Worship

   Solomon rebuilds and fortifies towns, putting the remaining Canaanite peoples to forced labor while Israelites serve as his soldiers and officers. He moves Pharaoh’s daughter away from places made holy by the ark, orders worship by Moses’ law and David’s plan, and his servants sail with Hiram’s ships to Ophir for gold.

9. 2 Chronicles 9: The Queen of Sheba Visits Solomon

   The queen of Sheba comes to test Solomon with hard questions, finds his wisdom greater than the reports, and praises the LORD for making him king to do justice. Kings from every land seek the wisdom God gave him, his wealth surpasses all others, and after forty years he dies and Rehoboam succeeds him.

10. 2 Chronicles 10: Rehoboam Rejects Wise Counsel

    At Shechem the Israelites, joined by Jeroboam, ask Rehoboam to lighten Solomon’s heavy demands. He spurns the elders’ advice and answers harshly, which God brings about to fulfill Ahijah’s prophecy. The northern tribes break away and stone his labor chief, leaving him ruling only the Israelites in Judah’s towns.

11. 2 Chronicles 11: Rehoboam Fortifies Judah

    The prophet Shemaiah stops Rehoboam from going to war against the northern tribes, and the king strengthens the towns of Judah instead. Priests, Levites, and faithful worshipers from the north move to Jerusalem after Jeroboam rejects them, and Rehoboam names his son Abijah as heir.

12. 2 Chronicles 12: Shishak Invades and Rehoboam Humbles Himself

    Once secure, Rehoboam and the people abandon God’s law, and Shishak of Egypt invades. When Shemaiah announces God’s judgment, the leaders humble themselves, so God spares them from destruction but makes them Shishak’s servants. Shishak takes the temple treasures, and Rehoboam’s reign is judged evil.

13. 2 Chronicles 13: Abijah Defeats Jeroboam

    King Abijah of Judah faces Jeroboam’s larger army and appeals to God’s lasting covenant with David and the true priesthood in Jerusalem. Caught in an ambush, Judah calls on God for help, and God routs Israel because Judah trusted Him. Jeroboam never recovers and dies by the LORD’s hand.

14. 2 Chronicles 14: Asa Seeks God and Defeats Zerah

    King Asa tears down idol worship, calls Judah to follow God’s law, and builds walled towns during years of peace that God grants. When Zerah the Cushite invades with a huge army, Asa prays for help, and God routs the invaders before Judah.

15. 2 Chronicles 15: Azariah’s Message and Asa’s Covenant

    The prophet Azariah tells Asa that God stays near to those who look for Him and leaves those who abandon Him. Encouraged, Asa removes idols, and the people pledge wholehearted devotion to God, who grants them peace. Asa deposes his grandmother for making an idol and stays loyal to God.

16. 2 Chronicles 16: Asa Trusts Aram and Rejects Rebuke

    When Baasha of Israel threatens Judah, Asa pays Aram’s king with temple treasure to attack Israel. The seer Hanani rebukes him for trusting a foreign king instead of God, and Asa jails him. Later Asa falls ill but turns only to doctors, not to God, and dies and is buried with honor.

17. 2 Chronicles 17: Jehoshaphat Seeks God and Teaches Judah

    Jehoshaphat becomes king of Judah, follows David’s early example, and rejects the Baals, so God makes his rule secure. He sends officials, Levites and priests to teach God’s law in the towns, and fear from God keeps the nations from attacking while his strength and army grow.

18. 2 Chronicles 18: Micaiah Warns Ahab Before Battle

    Jehoshaphat joins Ahab of Israel in a war against Ramoth-gilead after four hundred prophets promise victory. Micaiah alone tells of a vision of Israel scattered and a deceiving spirit sent among the prophets. Ahab disguises himself, Jehoshaphat cries to God and is rescued, and Ahab dies from a stray arrow.

19. 2 Chronicles 19: Jehoshaphat Rebuked and Judges Appointed

    The seer Jehu rebukes Jehoshaphat for helping Ahab, yet says some good is still found in him. Jehoshaphat calls the people back to God and appoints judges in Judah’s cities and Jerusalem, charging them to judge for God with honesty, impartiality and reverence.

20. 2 Chronicles 20: Jehoshaphat Trusts God Against a Vast Army

    When Moab, Ammon and Mount Seir invade, Jehoshaphat calls Judah to fast and pray. Through the Levite Jahaziel God promises to fight for them; singers lead the march, the enemies destroy each other, and Judah praises God. Later Eliezer says God wrecked the king’s ships over his alliance with Ahaziah of Israel.

21. 2 Chronicles 21: Jehoram’s Evil Reign and Death

    Jehoram kills his brothers and follows the ways of Ahab’s family, yet God spares David’s line for the sake of His covenant. Edom and Libnah revolt, Elijah sends a letter of judgment, raiders carry off the king’s family, and Jehoram dies of a painful disease, mourned by no one.

22. 2 Chronicles 22: Ahaziah, Athaliah, and the Hidden Prince

    Ahaziah reigns briefly over Judah, steered into evil by his mother Athaliah and by Ahab’s family, and God brings about his death at the hands of Jehu. Athaliah then seizes power and tries to wipe out the royal line, but Ahaziah’s sister Jehoshabeath hides the young prince Joash in the temple for six years.

23. 2 Chronicles 23: Jehoiada Crowns Joash

    Jehoiada the priest gathers the Levites and leaders and crowns young Joash, David’s heir, in the temple. Athaliah protests and is executed outside the temple, the people pledge themselves to the LORD and tear down Baal’s temple, worship is restored, and Jerusalem settles into peace.

24. 2 Chronicles 24: Joash Repairs the Temple and Turns Away

    Joash serves the LORD while Jehoiada the priest lives and gathers money in a chest to restore the temple. After Jehoiada dies, Joash and the officials turn to idols, and Joash has Jehoiada’s son Zechariah stoned for warning them. A small Aramean army defeats Judah, and Joash’s servants kill him.

25. 2 Chronicles 25: Amaziah Turns to Edom’s Idols

    Amaziah obeys a man of God by sending home hired soldiers from Israel and then defeats Edom, but he brings back Edom’s idols and worships them. He silences a prophet who rebukes him, ignores a warning from Jehoash of Israel, loses to Israel at Beth-shemesh, and later dies in a conspiracy.

26. 2 Chronicles 26: Uzziah’s Pride and Leprosy

    Uzziah seeks God while Zechariah teaches him, and God helps him win wars, build defenses, and gain fame. Once powerful, he grows proud and enters the temple to offer incense, defying the priests, and the LORD strikes him with leprosy, so he lives apart until his death while Jotham rules in his place.

27. 2 Chronicles 27: Jotham Grows Strong

    Jotham follows his father’s good example but stays out of the temple, though the people remain corrupt. He builds the temple gate, cities, and forts, subdues the Ammonites, and grows powerful because he lives faithfully before God, then dies and is succeeded by his son Ahaz.

28. 2 Chronicles 28: Ahaz Abandons the LORD

    King Ahaz turns to Baal worship and even sacrifices his own sons, so God gives Judah into the hands of Aram and Israel. At the prophet Oded’s rebuke, Israel clothes, feeds and sends home its captives, while Ahaz seeks Assyrian help in vain, worships Aram’s gods and shuts the temple.

29. 2 Chronicles 29: Hezekiah Cleanses the Temple

    Hezekiah reopens the temple in his first month as king and urges the priests and the Levites to make themselves and God’s house holy again. After the cleansing, sin offerings atone for all Israel, Levites lead music as David had ordered, and the people bring willing offerings and rejoice.

30. 2 Chronicles 30: Hezekiah’s Great Passover

    Hezekiah invites Judah and the northern tribes to a Passover held a month late, urging the northern survivors to turn back to a merciful God. Many mock the couriers, but some come; Hezekiah prays for those who eat unpurified, God heals them, and the joyful two-week feast ends in a blessing heard in heaven.

31. 2 Chronicles 31: Hezekiah Restores Offerings and Tithes

    After the Passover the people destroy idol shrines across the land, and Hezekiah reorganizes the temple servants and funds the regular offerings. Tithes pile up in heaps the chief priest credits to God’s blessing, storerooms are prepared for faithful distribution, and Hezekiah seeks God wholeheartedly and prospers.

32. 2 Chronicles 32: Sennacherib Threatens Jerusalem

    Sennacherib of Assyria invades Judah; Hezekiah blocks the springs, repairs the walls and urges trust in the LORD. When the Assyrians mock God, Hezekiah and Isaiah pray and an angel strikes their camp. Later Hezekiah falls ill and prays, grows proud, humbles himself, is tested as Babylon’s envoys visit and dies honored.

33. 2 Chronicles 33: Manasseh Humbles Himself

    Manasseh leads Judah into idolatry worse than the nations, even placing an idol in God’s temple. Taken captive to Babylon, he humbles himself and prays, and the LORD restores him to his throne, after which he removes the idols. His son Amon does evil without humbling himself and is killed by his own servants.

34. 2 Chronicles 34: Josiah’s Reform and the Rediscovered Law

    Josiah seeks God as a young king and purges idols from Judah and the northern lands. During temple repairs Hilkiah finds Moses’ Law, the king grieves, and the prophetess Huldah announces judgment, with mercy for the humbled king. Josiah reads the covenant to the nation and leads everyone to renew it.

35. 2 Chronicles 35: Josiah’s Great Passover and Death

    Josiah holds a great Passover in Jerusalem, with Levites preparing the offerings for priests, singers and gatekeepers and the king giving animals from his own herds. Later he ignores a warning God sent through Egypt’s king Neco, is fatally wounded at Megiddo, and is mourned by Jeremiah and all Judah.

36. 2 Chronicles 36: Jerusalem Falls and Cyrus Decrees Return

    Judah’s last kings do evil while Egypt and Babylon control the throne, and Zedekiah rejects the prophet Jeremiah’s message. After the people scorn God’s repeated warnings, Babylon burns the temple and exiles the survivors, and the land lies empty seventy years until Cyrus of Persia invites God’s people to return.