1. The tabernacle was at Gibeon.
2. The Ark of the Covenant David had brought to Jerusalem.
3. a. Solomon asked God for wisdom to lead God\\'s people. b. God also gave him riches, wealth, and honor that he did not ask for.

1. Solomon asked Hiram, king of Tyre, for supplies to build the temple and a skillful craftsman in gold, silver, bronze, iron, in purple, crimson, and blue.
2. The aliens in the land were used to build the temple.

1. Solomon built the temple on Mount Moriah, at the threshing floor of Oman the Jebusite, where David had built an altar to stop the plague by the angel of God.
2. Solomon began building the temple in the second month of his fourth year as king.
3. Solomon names two pillars of the temple Jachin (He shall establish) and Boaz (strength).

1. The Sea of bronze is where the priests washed themselves for consecration.
2. Solomon made ten tables (for the showbread).
3. Solomon made ten lampstands (for light).

1. Solomon brought the Ark of the Covenant to put in the temple.
2. The ark contained the two tablets of stone of the law that God gave to Moses at Mount Horeb.

1. Solomon prayed that the people would recognize when God was angry with them because of their sins, they would turn back to God, and God would forgive them and turn back to them.

1. God agreed to hear His people, forgive them, and heal their land when they humble themselves, pray, and seek Him.

1. Solomon used descendants of foreign nations who were left in the land Israel had taken.
2. Solomon acknowledged that Pharaoh’s daughter was unholy and could not be where the Ark had consecrated places.

1. The Queen of Sheba had all her hard questions answered by Solomon.
2. The queen of Sheba gave Solomon gold, precious stones, and spices as never before were given.
3. Solomon gave the queen of Sheba more than she gave him and all she desired.
4. Solomon reigned forty years over all Israel.

1. Jeroboam and the elders asked Rehoboam to make their burden lighter than his father Solomon.
2. a. Rehoboam asked advice from the elders and his young friends. b. Rehoboam listened to his young friends.
3. The decision of Rehoboam caused ten tribes of Israel to split apart from Judah.

1. God spoke through His prophet, Shemaiah to advise Rehoboam and Judah to not fight against their brother Israel.
2. Jeroboam had rejected all the priests and Levites as serving as priests for the Lord. All came to Jerusalem and Judah in support of Rehoboam.

1. God sent the king of Egypt against Rehoboam because of sins they had committed against Him.
2. God did not completely destroy Rehoboam because he humbled himself before God for forgiveness.

1. a. Abijah had 400,000 fighting men. b. Jeroboam had 800,000 fighting men.
2. Abijah called on God for help against Jeroboam.
3. Jeroboam lost 500,000 fighting men.

1. An army of one million came against Asa, King of Judah.
2. Asa sought God for help against the multitude of Ethiopians.

1. Azariah told Asa “the Lord is with you if you are with Him. If you seek Him you will find Him. If you forsake Him He will forsake you".
2. Asa’s mother had built an obscene image of a false god.

1. Asa called on Ben-hadad, king of Syria, for help against Baasha, king of Israel.
2. God sent war upon Asa because he had relied on men instead of God against Israel.

1. a. King Jehoshaphat of Judah sent the Levites and priests among the people. b. The priests and Levites were sent to teach the people the Book of the Law.

1. Through a marriage Jehoshaphat allied with Ahab of Israel.
2. The four hundred prophets of Ahab told Ahab to go to battle against the Syrians at Ramoth Gilead, God would be with him.
3. Jehoshaphat asked for a true prophet of the Lord.
4. Micaiah was told to speak the same as the four hundred prophets of Ahab had spoken.
5. Micaiah advised Ahab to not go to battle. Ahab would fall in the battle if he went.
6. If Ahab returned in peace then God had not spoken to Micaiah.
7. A Syrian drew a bow at random. It struck Ahab between the joints of his armor. He died later.

1. Jehu, the son of a seer, told Jehoshaphat  the wrath of God was upon him for helping Ahab and those who do not love the Lord.
2. Jehoshaphat told his judges to judge fairly and without partiality. Judge for God - not man.

1. The people to whom Israel was to turn away from, whom God would not let Israel invade when they came out of Egypt,  were now coming against Judah (Moab, Ammon, and Mt. Seir).
2. Jehoshaphat called on God for help.
3. Jahaziel told the king and the people at the assembly to not to be afraid. The battle was God\\'s - not theirs.
4. God caused the nations who came against Judah to turn on each other and kill one another. Not one was left alive.
5. God destroyed the ships made by Jehoshaphat and Ahaziah. .

1. a. Jehoram became kiong of Judah. b. He killed all his brothers.
2. Elijah the prophet sent Jehoram a message from God.
3. Jehoram’s intestines were struck for two years with an incurable disease and came out of his body.

1. Ahaziah, king of Judah sought the counselors of the house of Ahab, king of Israel.
2. Jehoram, king of Israel, who had been wounded in battle against Hazael, king of Syria.
3. Jehu who was anointed by Elisha and instructed to cutoff the house of Ahab, King of Israel.
4. a. Ahaziah\\'s mother, Athaliah, became ruler of Judah. b. Athaliah had all the sons of Ahaziah killed.
5. Ahaziah’s son, Joash, was hid for six years.

1. Jehoiada the priest instructed the Levites to divide up into thirds with his weapon in his hand and completely surround Joash.
2. The men of the army, as instructed by Jehoiada, killed her.
3. Jehoiada made a covenant with himself, the people, and the king that they would be the Lord\\'s people.

1. Joash asked the Levites to collect money to repair the temple as was the commandment of Moses.
2. Jehoiada was 130 years old when he died.
3. Jehoiada ‘s son told Joash “Because you have forsaken God, He has forsaken you".
4. Joash had Jehoiada ‘s son killed.
5. The Syrians wounded Joash, king of Judah, and then later his own servants killed him.

1. Amaziah paid Ephraim of Israel to help fight the Edomites.
2. Amaziah, after defeating the Edomites, brought their gods back to Judah.
3. God sent Joash, king of Israel, against Amaziah.
4. Amaziah was defeated by Israel but later killed by a conspiracy group.

1. Zechariah, son of Jehoiada, taught Uzziah.
2. Uzziah entered into the temple to burn incense that only a priest should do.
3. God struck Uzziah with leprosy and he remained a leper until he died.

1. Jotham, became king after his father Uzziah.
2. Jotham did what was right in the eyes of God.

1. Ahaz followed the gods of the nations whom God had cast out before Israel.
2. God stirred up Syria and Israel against Judah because they had forsaken the Lord God of their fathers.
3. Oded advised Israel to give up the spoil and the captives of Judah, their brethren, because God\\'s wrath would come upon them.
4. The nation of Edom and the Philistines also came against Judah.
5. a. Ahaz sought help from the kings of Assyria. b. They did not help him.
6. Ahaz sought help from the gods of Damascus. He reasoned they had helped Syria defeat him earlier, and maybe they would help him also if he sacrificed to them.
7. Ahaz did not get the honor of being buried in the tombs of the kings of Israel.

1. Hezekiah restored the house of the Lord, consecrated all the priests, and began the temple worship according to the Book of the Law of Moses.
2. Hezekiah knew God had forsaken them because the people and their fathers before them had forsaken God.

1. Hezekiah could not keep the Passover at the regular time because a sufficient number of priests had not been consecrated.
2. The captives of Israel in other lands would return if the remnant turned their hearts to God.
3. God judged their heart as good. They had prepared their hearts to seek Him.

1. The people destroyed the altars, high places and images of the false idols.
2. Hezekiah prospered because he did every work for God with his whole heart.

1. Sennacherib, king of Assyria, came against Judah.
2. To keep Assyria from finding much water.
3. Hezekiah called on God to help against Assyria.
4. God could not deliver Judah from Assyria’s hand, just as the gods of the other nations couldn’t help them who Assyria had defeated.
5. The prophet Isaiah prayed with Hezekiah.
6. The Lord sent an angel who struck down every man of valor, every leader, and every captain of the Assyrian army.
7. The king of Assyria returned shamefaced to his land and his own sons killed Him.
8. God sent the ambassadors of Babylon to Hezekiah to see what he would do.

1. Manasseh was an evil king who worshiped the Baals and practiced witchcraft.
2. Manasseh repented after the captains of the Assyrian army came and took him captive. They lead him away in bronze fetters and nose hooks.
3. Amon was an evil king.
4. Amon’s servants conspired against him and killed him.

1. Josiah, king of Judah, did what was right before God.
2. Hilkiah found the Book of the Law in the temple.
3. Josiah was convicted because he and the people had not been obeying the commandments and statues of God.
4. Josiah\\'s men inquired of Huldah, a prophetess, for a word from the Lord.

1. The Passover had not been observed as Josiah observed it since the days of Samuel the prophet.
2. Josiah fought Necho, king of Egypt, but was wounded and died.

1. Egypt took Jehoahaz captive.
2. Babylon carried Jehoiakin captive.
3. Zedekiah was the last king of Judah.
4. Judah ignored and mocked God’s messengers and prophets bringing Him to wrath against them.
5. Judah remained desolate seventy years.
6. God stirred up his heart to build Him a house in Jerusalem.