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Sometimes thy people will go out to levy war upon their enemies, here and there at thy bidding. Then, as they fall to prayer, let them but turn in the direction of the city thou hast chosen, the temple I have built there in thy honour, (2 Chronicles 6, 34)
Shut I the heavens, so that no rain should fall, give I charge to the locust to ravage the country-side, send I pestilence to destroy my people; (2 Chronicles 7, 13)
Baalath, too, and all those other fortress-cities which bear Solomon’s name, cities where he stationed his chariots and his horsemen. In Jerusalem, on Lebanon, all through his kingdom Solomon built whatever he had the whim to design. (2 Chronicles 8, 6)
And now Solomon was visited by the queen of Saba. His fame had reached her, and she came to make trial of his power with knotty questions. Great was the wealth she brought with her to Jerusalem; her camels were loaded with spices and abundant gold and precious stones. And when she met Solomon, she told him all the thoughts that exercised her mind; (2 Chronicles 9, 1)
Forty thousand horses king Solomon had in his stables, twelve thousand chariots, and horsemen with them; some he kept in his chariot cities, and others at his side in Jerusalem. (2 Chronicles 9, 25)
Silver he made as common in Jerusalem as stone, and cedars as plentiful as the sycamores that grow in the valleys; (2 Chronicles 9, 27)
For forty years Solomon reigned at Jerusalem over all Israel; (2 Chronicles 9, 30)
Thus the king refused to fall in with the people’s request; the Lord’s will was to give effect to the promise he had made, through Ahias the Silonite, to Jeroboam son of Nabat. (2 Chronicles 10, 15)
And now, when Aduram, who had charge of the levy, came to them in the king’s name, the Israelites stoned him to death; whereupon Roboam mounted his chariot and betook himself, with all speed, to Jerusalem. (2 Chronicles 10, 18)
Upon reaching Jerusalem, Roboam mustered the whole forces of Juda and Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand tried warriors, to do battle with the Israelites and recover his kingdom. (2 Chronicles 11, 1)
Roboam had his capital at Jerusalem, but there were many other cities in Juda he fortified, (2 Chronicles 11, 5)
Precincts and lands must be left behind, to Juda and Jerusalem they must betake themselves, now that Jeroboam and his heirs would have none of their divinely appointed ministrations; (2 Chronicles 11, 14)
