Jerusalem

All 110 verses in 2 Chronicles, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.

2 Chronicles

• 2 Chronicles 1:4

  Now David had brought the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim to the place he had prepared for it, because he had pitched a tent for it in Jerusalem.

• 2 Chronicles 1:13

  So Solomon went to Jerusalem from the high place in Gibeon before the Tent of Meeting, and he reigned over Israel.

• 2 Chronicles 1:14

  Solomon accumulated 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horses, which he stationed in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem.

• 2 Chronicles 1:15

  The king made silver and gold as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.

• 2 Chronicles 2:7

  Send me, therefore, a craftsman skilled in engraving to work with gold and silver, with bronze and iron, and with purple, crimson, and blue yarn. He will work with my craftsmen in Judah and Jerusalem, whom my father David provided.

• 2 Chronicles 2:16

  We will cut logs from Lebanon, as many as you need, and we will float them to you as rafts by sea down to Joppa. Then you can take them up to Jerusalem.”

• 2 Chronicles 3:1

  Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David. This was the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

• 2 Chronicles 5:2

  At that time Solomon assembled in Jerusalem the elders of Israel—all the tribal heads and family leaders of the Israelites—to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD from Zion, the City of David.

• 2 Chronicles 6:6

  But now I have chosen Jerusalem for My Name to be there, and I have chosen David to be over My people Israel.’

• 2 Chronicles 8:6

  as well as Baalath, all the store cities that belonged to Solomon, and all the cities for his chariots and horses —whatever he desired to build in Jerusalem, Lebanon, and throughout the land of his dominion.

• 2 Chronicles 9:1

  Now when the queen of Sheba heard about the fame of Solomon, she came to test him with difficult questions. She arrived in Jerusalem with a very large caravan—with camels bearing spices, gold in abundance, and precious stones. So she came to Solomon and spoke with him about all that was on her mind.

• 2 Chronicles 9:25

  Solomon had 4,000 stalls for horses and chariots, and 12,000 horses, which he stationed in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem.

• 2 Chronicles 9:27

  The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.

• 2 Chronicles 9:30

  Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.

• 2 Chronicles 10:18

  Then King Rehoboam sent out Hadoram, who was in charge of the forced labor, but the Israelites stoned him to death. And King Rehoboam mounted his chariot in haste and escaped to Jerusalem.

• 2 Chronicles 11:1

  When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he mobilized the house of Judah and Benjamin—180,000 chosen warriors—to fight against Israel and restore the kingdom to Rehoboam.

• 2 Chronicles 11:5

  Rehoboam continued to live in Jerusalem, and he built up cities for defense in Judah.

• 2 Chronicles 11:14

  For the Levites left their pasturelands and their possessions and went to Judah and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons had rejected them as priests of the LORD.

• 2 Chronicles 11:16

  Those from every tribe of Israel who had set their hearts to seek the LORD their God followed the Levites to Jerusalem to sacrifice to the LORD, the God of their fathers.

• 2 Chronicles 12:2

  In the fifth year of Rehoboam’s reign, because they had been unfaithful to the LORD, Shishak king of Egypt came up and attacked Jerusalem

• 2 Chronicles 12:4

  He captured the fortified cities of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem.

• 2 Chronicles 12:5

  Then Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and the leaders of Judah who had gathered at Jerusalem because of Shishak, and he said to them, “This is what the LORD says: ‘You have forsaken Me; therefore, I have forsaken you into the hand of Shishak.’”

• 2 Chronicles 12:7

  When the LORD saw that they had humbled themselves, the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah, saying, “They have humbled themselves; I will not destroy them, but will soon grant them deliverance. My wrath will not be poured out on Jerusalem through Shishak.

• 2 Chronicles 12:9

  So King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem and seized the treasures of the house of the LORD and of the royal palace. He took everything, including the gold shields that Solomon had made.

• 2 Chronicles 12:13

  Thus King Rehoboam established himself in Jerusalem. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen from all the tribes of Israel in which to put His Name. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.

• 2 Chronicles 13:2

  and he reigned in Jerusalem three years. His mother’s name was Micaiah daughter of Uriel; she was from Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.

• 2 Chronicles 14:15

  They also attacked the tents of the herdsmen and carried off many sheep and camels. Then they returned to Jerusalem.

• 2 Chronicles 15:10

  So they gathered together in Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of Asa’s reign.

• 2 Chronicles 17:13

  and kept vast supplies in the cities of Judah. He also had warriors in Jerusalem who were mighty men of valor.

• 2 Chronicles 19:1

  When Jehoshaphat king of Judah had returned safely to his home in Jerusalem,

• 2 Chronicles 19:4

  Jehoshaphat lived in Jerusalem, and once again he went out among the people from Beersheba to the hill country of Ephraim and turned them back to the LORD, the God of their fathers.

• 2 Chronicles 19:8

  Moreover, Jehoshaphat appointed in Jerusalem some of the Levites, priests, and heads of the Israelite families to judge on behalf of the LORD and to settle disputes. And they lived in Jerusalem.

• 2 Chronicles 20:5

  Then Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem in the house of the LORD in front of the new courtyard

• 2 Chronicles 20:15

  And he said, “Listen, all you people of Judah and Jerusalem! Listen, King Jehoshaphat! This is what the LORD says: ‘Do not be afraid or discouraged because of this vast army, for the battle does not belong to you, but to God.

• 2 Chronicles 20:17

  You need not fight this battle. Take up your positions, stand firm, and see the salvation of the LORD on your behalf, O Judah and Jerusalem. Do not be afraid or discouraged. Go out and face them tomorrow, for the LORD is with you.’”

• 2 Chronicles 20:18

  Then Jehoshaphat bowed facedown, and all the people of Judah and Jerusalem fell down before the LORD to worship Him.

• 2 Chronicles 20:20

  Early in the morning they got up and left for the Wilderness of Tekoa. As they set out, Jehoshaphat stood up and said, “Hear me, O people of Judah and Jerusalem. Believe in the LORD your God, and you will be upheld; believe in His prophets, and you will succeed.”

• 2 Chronicles 20:27

  Then all the men of Judah and Jerusalem, with Jehoshaphat at their head, returned joyfully to Jerusalem, for the LORD had made them rejoice over their enemies.

• 2 Chronicles 20:28

  So they entered Jerusalem and went into the house of the LORD with harps, lyres, and trumpets.

• 2 Chronicles 20:31

  So Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah. He was thirty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-five years. His mother’s name was Azubah daughter of Shilhi.

• 2 Chronicles 21:5

  Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years.

• 2 Chronicles 21:11

  Jehoram had also built high places on the hills of Judah; he had caused the people of Jerusalem to prostitute themselves and had led Judah astray.

• 2 Chronicles 21:13

  but you have walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and have caused Judah and the people of Jerusalem to prostitute themselves, just as the house of Ahab prostituted itself. You have also killed your brothers, your father’s family, who were better than you.

• 2 Chronicles 21:20

  Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years. He died, to no one’s regret, and was buried in the City of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.

• 2 Chronicles 22:1

  Then the people of Jerusalem made Ahaziah, the youngest son of Jehoram, king in his place, since the raiders who had come into the camp with the Arabs had killed all the older sons. So Ahaziah son of Jehoram became king of Judah.

• 2 Chronicles 22:2

  Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem one year. His mother’s name was Athaliah, the granddaughter of Omri.

• 2 Chronicles 23:2

  So they went throughout Judah and gathered the Levites from all the cities of Judah and the heads of the families of Israel. And when they came to Jerusalem,

• 2 Chronicles 24:1

  Joash was seven years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem forty years. His mother’s name was Zibiah; she was from Beersheba.

• 2 Chronicles 24:6

  So the king called Jehoiada the high priest and said, “Why have you not required the Levites to bring from Judah and Jerusalem the tax imposed by Moses the servant of the LORD and by the assembly of Israel for the Tent of the Testimony?”

• 2 Chronicles 24:9

  And a proclamation was issued in Judah and Jerusalem that they were to bring to the LORD the tax imposed by Moses the servant of God on Israel in the wilderness.

• 2 Chronicles 24:18

  They abandoned the house of the LORD, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherah poles and idols. So wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this guilt of theirs.

• 2 Chronicles 24:23

  In the spring, the army of Aram went to war against Joash. They entered Judah and Jerusalem and destroyed all the leaders of the people, and they sent all the plunder to their king in Damascus.

• 2 Chronicles 25:1

  Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother’s name was Jehoaddan; she was from Jerusalem.

• 2 Chronicles 25:23

  There at Beth-shemesh, Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz. Then Jehoash brought him to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate—a section of four hundred cubits.

• 2 Chronicles 25:27

  From the time that Amaziah turned from following the LORD, a conspiracy was formed against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish. But men were sent after him to Lachish, and they killed him there.

• 2 Chronicles 26:3

  Uzziah was sixteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-two years. His mother’s name was Jecoliah; she was from Jerusalem.

• 2 Chronicles 26:9

  Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the Corner Gate, the Valley Gate, and the angle in the wall, and he fortified them.

• 2 Chronicles 26:15

  And in Jerusalem he made skillfully designed devices to shoot arrows and catapult large stones from the towers and corners. So his fame spread far and wide, for he was helped tremendously so that he became powerful.

• 2 Chronicles 27:1

  Jotham was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years. His mother’s name was Jerushah daughter of Zadok.

• 2 Chronicles 27:8

  He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years.

• 2 Chronicles 28:1

  Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years. And unlike David his father, he did not do what was right in the eyes of the LORD.

• 2 Chronicles 28:10

  And now you intend to reduce to slavery the men and women of Judah and Jerusalem. But are you not also guilty before the LORD your God?

• 2 Chronicles 28:24

  Then Ahaz gathered up the articles of the house of God, cut them into pieces, shut the doors of the house of the LORD, and set up altars of his own on every street corner in Jerusalem.

• 2 Chronicles 28:27

  And Ahaz rested with his fathers and was buried in the city of Jerusalem, but he was not placed in the tombs of the kings of Israel. And his son Hezekiah reigned in his place.

• 2 Chronicles 29:1

  Hezekiah was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother’s name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.

• 2 Chronicles 29:8

  Therefore, the wrath of the LORD has fallen upon Judah and Jerusalem, and He has made them an object of terror, horror, and mockery, as you can see with your own eyes.

• 2 Chronicles 30:1

  Then Hezekiah sent word throughout all Israel and Judah, and he also wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasseh inviting them to come to the house of the LORD in Jerusalem to keep the Passover of the LORD, the God of Israel.

• 2 Chronicles 30:2

  For the king and his officials and the whole assembly in Jerusalem had decided to keep the Passover in the second month,

• 2 Chronicles 30:3

  since they had been unable to observe it at the regular time, because not enough priests had consecrated themselves and the people had not been gathered in Jerusalem.

• 2 Chronicles 30:5

  So they established a decree to circulate a proclamation throughout Israel, from Beersheba to Dan, that the people should come to keep the Passover of the LORD, the God of Israel, in Jerusalem. For they had not observed it as a nation as prescribed.

• 2 Chronicles 30:11

  Nevertheless, some from Asher, Manasseh, and Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem.

• 2 Chronicles 30:13

  In the second month, a very great assembly gathered in Jerusalem to celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread.

• 2 Chronicles 30:14

  They proceeded to remove the altars in Jerusalem and to take away the incense altars and throw them into the Kidron Valley.

• 2 Chronicles 30:21

  The Israelites who were present in Jerusalem celebrated the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days with great joy, and the Levites and priests praised the LORD day after day, accompanied by loud instruments of praise to the LORD.

• 2 Chronicles 32:19

  They spoke against the God of Jerusalem as they had spoken against the gods of the peoples of the earth—the work of human hands.

• 2 Chronicles 32:22

  So the LORD saved Hezekiah and the people of Jerusalem from the hands of King Sennacherib of Assyria and all the others, and He gave them rest on every side.

• 2 Chronicles 32:23

  Many brought offerings to Jerusalem for the LORD and valuable gifts for Hezekiah king of Judah, and from then on he was exalted in the eyes of all nations.

• 2 Chronicles 32:25

  But because his heart was proud, Hezekiah did not repay the favor shown to him. Therefore wrath came upon him and upon Judah and Jerusalem.

• 2 Chronicles 32:26

  Then Hezekiah humbled the pride of his heart—he and the people of Jerusalem—so that the wrath of the LORD did not come upon them during the days of Hezekiah.

• 2 Chronicles 32:33

  And Hezekiah rested with his fathers and was buried in the upper tombs of David’s descendants. All Judah and the people of Jerusalem paid him honor at his death. And his son Manasseh reigned in his place.

• 2 Chronicles 33:1

  Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-five years.

• 2 Chronicles 33:4

  Manasseh also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “My Name will remain in Jerusalem forever.”

• 2 Chronicles 33:7

  Manasseh even took the carved image he had made and set it up in the house of God, of which God had said to David and his son Solomon, “In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will establish My Name forever.

• 2 Chronicles 33:9

  So Manasseh led the people of Judah and Jerusalem astray, so that they did greater evil than the nations that the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites.

• 2 Chronicles 33:13

  And when he prayed to Him, the LORD received his plea and heard his petition; so He brought him back to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD is God.

• 2 Chronicles 33:15

  He removed the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the LORD, along with all the altars he had built on the temple mount and in Jerusalem, and he dumped them outside the city.

• 2 Chronicles 33:21

  Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem two years.

• 2 Chronicles 34:1

  Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-one years.

• 2 Chronicles 34:3

  In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, Josiah began to seek the God of his father David, and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the cast images.

• 2 Chronicles 34:5

  Then he burned the bones of the priests on their altars. So he cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.

• 2 Chronicles 34:7

  He tore down the altars and Asherah poles, crushed the idols to powder, and cut to pieces all the incense altars throughout the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

• 2 Chronicles 34:9

  So they went to Hilkiah the high priest and gave him the money that had been brought into the house of God, which the Levites at the doors had collected from the people of Manasseh and Ephraim, from all the remnant of Israel, Judah, and Benjamin, and from the people of Jerusalem.

• 2 Chronicles 34:22

  So Hilkiah and those the king had designated went and spoke to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum son of Tokhath, the son of Hasrah, the keeper of the wardrobe. She lived in Jerusalem, in the Second District.

• 2 Chronicles 34:29

  Then the king summoned all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.

• 2 Chronicles 34:30

  And he went up to the house of the LORD with all the people of Judah and Jerusalem, as well as the priests and the Levites—all the people small and great—and in their hearing he read all the words of the Book of the Covenant that had been found in the house of the LORD.

• 2 Chronicles 34:32

  Then he had everyone in Jerusalem and Benjamin take a stand in agreement to it. So all the people of Jerusalem carried out the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.

• 2 Chronicles 35:1

  Then Josiah celebrated the Passover to the LORD in Jerusalem, and the Passover lamb was slaughtered on the fourteenth day of the first month.

• 2 Chronicles 35:18

  No such Passover had been observed in Israel since the days of Samuel the prophet. None of the kings of Israel ever observed a Passover like the one that Josiah observed with the priests, the Levites, all Judah, the Israelites who were present, and the people of Jerusalem.

• 2 Chronicles 35:24

  So his servants took him out of his chariot, put him in his second chariot, and brought him to Jerusalem, where he died. And Josiah was buried in the tomb of his fathers, and all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for him.

• 2 Chronicles 36:1

  Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and made him king in Jerusalem in place of his father.

• 2 Chronicles 36:2

  Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months.

• 2 Chronicles 36:3

  And the king of Egypt dethroned him in Jerusalem and imposed on Judah a levy of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.

• 2 Chronicles 36:4

  Then Neco king of Egypt made Eliakim brother of Jehoahaz king over Judah and Jerusalem, and he changed Eliakim’s name to Jehoiakim. But Neco took Eliakim’s brother Jehoahaz and carried him off to Egypt.

• 2 Chronicles 36:5

  Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. And he did evil in the sight of the LORD his God.

• 2 Chronicles 36:9

  Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months and ten days. And he did evil in the sight of the LORD.

• 2 Chronicles 36:10

  In the spring, King Nebuchadnezzar summoned Jehoiachin and brought him to Babylon, along with the articles of value from the house of the LORD. And he made Jehoiachin’s relative Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.

• 2 Chronicles 36:11

  Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years.

• 2 Chronicles 36:14

  Furthermore, all the leaders of the priests and the people multiplied their unfaithful deeds, following all the abominations of the nations, and they defiled the house of the LORD, which He had consecrated in Jerusalem.

• 2 Chronicles 36:19

  Then the Chaldeans set fire to the house of God and broke down the wall of Jerusalem. They burned down all the palaces and destroyed every article of value.

• 2 Chronicles 36:23

  “This is what Cyrus king of Persia says: ‘The LORD, the God of heaven, who has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, has appointed me to build a house for Him at Jerusalem in Judah. Whoever among you belongs to His people, may the LORD his God be with him, and may he go up.’”

Events the dataset sets at Jerusalem. Dates follow its Ussher–Jones reckoning (one of several traditional counts), not established history.

1. c. 1055 BC
   Reign of David2 Samuel 2:1–24:25
2. c. 1015 BC
   Death of David1 Kings 2:10–11
3. c. 1015 BC
   Reign of Solomon1 Kings 2:12–11:42
4. c. 1012 BC
   Construction of Solomon's Temple1 Kings 5:1–7:51
5. c. 975 BC
   Death of Solomon1 Kings 11:43
6. c. 975 BC
   Reign of Rehoboam1 Kings 12:17–24
7. c. 958 BC
   Reign of Abijam1 Kings 15:1–8
8. c. 956 BC
   Death of Abijam1 Kings 15:8
9. c. 956 BC
   Reign of Asa1 Kings 15:9–24
10. c. 914 BC
    Death of Asa1 Kings 15:24
11. c. 914 BC
    Reign of Jehoshaphat1 Kings 22:41–50
12. c. 893 BC
    Reign of Jehoram2 Kings 1:17–8:24

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. Its geography and “modern” descriptions date from the 1890s. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.