Quotes About Jerusalem

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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: ëYou have forsaken Me; therefore, I have forsaken you into the hand of Shishak.í”

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.

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.

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 motherís name was Naamah the Ammonite.

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

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

So they gathered together in Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of Asaís reign.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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,