The king had a fleet of large merchant ships manned by Huram's men that sailed the sea. Once every three years the fleet came into port with cargoes of gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.

King Rehoboam sent Hadoram, the supervisor of the work crews, out after them, but the Israelites stoned him to death. King Rehoboam managed to jump into his chariot and escape to Jerusalem.

He brought the holy items that his father and he had made into God's temple, including the silver, gold, and other articles.

The Lord put fear into all the kingdoms surrounding Judah; they did not make war with Jehoshaphat.

Micaiah replied, "Look, you will see in the day when you go into an inner room to hide."

They seized her and took her into the precincts of the royal palace through the horses' entrance. There they executed her.

(Wicked Athaliah and her sons had broken into God's temple and used all the holy items of the Lord's temple in their worship of the Baals.)

All the officials and all the people gladly brought their silver and threw it into the chest until it was full.

They removed the altars in Jerusalem; they also removed all the incense altars and threw them into the Kidron Valley.

They gave money to the craftsmen and builders to buy chiseled stone and wood for the braces and rafters of the buildings that the kings of Judah had allowed to fall into disrepair.