2 Chronicles 28 tells the story of King Ahaz of Judah, a king who abandoned the God of his fathers and led his people into idolatry so severe that he burned his own children as offerings. The chapter

2 Chronicles 27 gives a brief, mostly positive account of King Jotham of Judah, who reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem and did what was right in the Lord's eyes. He rebuilt and fortified, he prevailed

2 Chronicles 26 tells the story of Uzziah, a king of Judah who reigned fifty-two years and was remarkably helped by God. The chapter traces his early obedience, his military and agricultural strength,

Amaziah begins well and ends badly. He obeys the law of Moses, listens to a prophet about hired troops, and wins a battle against Edom. Then he brings Edom's gods home, ignores a second prophet, picks

2 Chronicles 24 tells the story of King Joash, who came to the throne at seven years old and did right while the priest Jehoiada lived. He led a successful repair of the temple, but after Jehoiada die

2 Chronicles 23 tells how the priest Jehoiada, after six years of hiding the surviving heir of David, organized a carefully ordered coup against Queen Athaliah and crowned seven-year-old Joash as king

Second Chronicles 22 tells how Ahaziah, son of Jehoram, became king of Judah and reigned only one year because he followed the counsel of his mother Athaliah and the house of Ahab instead of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 21 records the reign of Jehoram, a king of Judah who had a godly father and a wicked heart. He murdered his own brothers, married into Ahab's family, led Judah into idolatry, and lost Edo

2 Chronicles 20 tells how a vast coalition of Moabites, Ammonites and Edomites marched against King Jehoshaphat, and how Judah answered not with an army but with a fast, a public prayer and a choir. G

Second Chronicles 19 picks up Jehoshaphat after his disastrous alliance with Ahab and shows what repentance looks like in a king's actual administration. A prophet confronts him, he responds by travel

2 Chronicles 18 tells how King Jehoshaphat of Judah joined himself to King Ahab of Israel and went with him to war against Syria at Ramoth Gilead. Ahab's four hundred prophets promised success, but th

2 Chronicles 17 records the early reign of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, and explains why his kingdom was established. He sought the God of his father David rather than the Baals, removed the high place

Second Chronicles 16 records the later years of King Asa, a king who once trusted God and then stopped. Facing a northern threat, he empties the temple treasury to buy a foreign king's help instead of

2 Chronicles 15 tells how the prophet Azariah met King Asa with a word from God, and how Asa responded by clearing idolatry out of Judah, gathering a large assembly in Jerusalem, and leading the natio

2 Chronicles 14 tells how Asa, David's great-great-grandson, began his reign in Judah with a decade of peace and a deliberate turn away from foreign worship. He removed rival altars and called the nat

2 Chronicles 13 tells how Abijah, king of Judah, faced a vastly larger army from the northern kingdom of Israel under Jeroboam. Before the battle he appealed to God's covenant with David and to Judah'

2 Chronicles 12 tells how Rehoboam's early strength curdled into abandonment of God's law, how Egypt's King Shishak then stripped Jerusalem, and how a prophet's word and a king's humility turned aside

2 Chronicles 11 records what happened after the kingdom split. Rehoboam gathers an army to retake the north, but a prophet tells him the division is God's doing, and the army stands down. The chapter

2 Chronicles 10 tells how the united kingdom of Israel split in two. Rehoboam, Solomon's son, inherited the throne and faced a request to lighten the heavy labor his father had imposed. He rejected th

Second Chronicles 9 closes the account of Solomon's reign with the visit of the queen of Sheba, a catalogue of his wealth and building, and a quiet report of his death. The chapter is less a celebrati