Solomon offered “a thousand burnt offerings” on the altar at Gibeon. The number is stated as part of the national gathering and worship there (2 Chronicles 1:6).

Solomon prayed that when a foreigner came and prayed toward the temple, God would hear from heaven and do according to what the foreigner asked. The purpose stated is that all peoples of the earth may know God’s name and fear him, as Israel does (2 Chronicles 6:32-33).

The people asked Rehoboam to lighten the heavy yoke Solomon had put on them. Rehoboam rejected the older advisers’ counsel and answered harshly, increasing the burden, and Israel rebelled from the house of David (2 Chronicles 10:4; 2 Chronicles 10:13-19).

At Gibeon God told Solomon, “Ask what I shall give thee.” Solomon asked for “wisdom and knowledge” to lead and judge the people. God granted that request and also gave him riches, wealth, and honor (2 Chronicles 1:7-12).

Solomon asked that God’s eyes be open and his ears attentive to prayer made in that place. He repeatedly asked God to hear from heaven, forgive, and respond when people prayed toward the house (2 Chronicles 6:20-21).

When the ark was placed in the inner sanctuary, the text notes what it contained. It says there was nothing in the ark except the two tables Moses put there at Horeb, where the LORD made a covenant with Israel (2 Chronicles 5:10).

Solomon asked Huram for a skilled craftsman and for timber—cedar, fir, and algum—from Lebanon. He also described the scale of offerings and supplies needed for the work (2 Chronicles 2:7-10).

Solomon said that God would not dwell with man on the earth in a way the building could contain. He stated that the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain God, much less the house Solomon built (2 Chronicles 6:18).

The queen said the report she heard was true and that Solomon’s wisdom and prosperity surpassed what she had been told. She also blessed the LORD who delighted in Solomon and set him on the throne to do judgment and justice (2 Chronicles 9:5-8).

Fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices. The glory of the LORD filled the house, and the people bowed with their faces to the ground and praised the LORD (2 Chronicles 7:1-3).

God says that if his people who are called by his name humble themselves, pray, seek his face, and turn from their wicked ways, he will hear from heaven. He will forgive their sin and heal their land (2 Chronicles 7:14).

Solomon set out to build a house for the LORD’s name and organized a labor force for the work. He numbered burden-bearers, stonecutters, and overseers among the people in the land (2 Chronicles 2:1-2; 2 Chronicles 2:17-18).

God warned that if Solomon and Israel turned away and served other gods, they would be plucked up from the land. He said the house would become a byword and people would explain the ruin as the result of forsaking the LORD (2 Chronicles 7:19-22).

The molten sea was a large round bronze basin set on twelve oxen. It held water for washing, and the text says the priests washed in it (2 Chronicles 4:2-6).

Solomon set up two pillars before the temple. He named the right pillar Jachin and the left pillar Boaz (2 Chronicles 3:17).

Solomon began building the house of the LORD at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah. The place is linked to where the LORD appeared to David and to the site David prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite (2 Chronicles 3:1).

During the time Solomon sacrificed at Gibeon, the ark of God was not there. The text says David had brought the ark up to a place he prepared for it in Jerusalem (2 Chronicles 1:4).

Huram sent a man described as “Huram my father,” often called Huram-abi, whose mother was from Dan and whose father was from Tyre. He was skilled in working gold, silver, brass, iron, stone, timber, and in cloth and engraving (2 Chronicles 2:13-14).

As the singers and trumpeters praised the LORD “as one,” a cloud filled the house of the LORD. Because of the cloud, the priests could not stand to minister, and the passage says the glory of the LORD filled the house (2 Chronicles 5:13-14).

The priests and Levites came to Judah and Jerusalem because Jeroboam and his sons cast them off from serving as priests to the LORD. The passage says Israelites who set their hearts to seek the LORD followed them to Jerusalem to sacrifice (2 Chronicles 11:13-16).

Rehoboam assembled an army to fight Israel, but the word of the LORD came through Shemaiah. The message said not to go up or fight their brothers, because the thing was from God, and they returned home (2 Chronicles 11:1-4).

Solomon and the assembly went to the high place at Gibeon because God’s tent of meeting was there. Solomon offered a large number of burnt offerings on the bronze altar at that location (2 Chronicles 1:3-6).

Solomon brought Pharaoh’s daughter up from the city of David to the house he built for her. He said, “My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places are holy, whereunto the ark of the LORD hath come” (2 Chronicles 8:11).