2 Chronicles 2:1; 2 Chronicles 2:3; 2 Chronicles 2:4; 2 Chronicles 2:5; 2 Chronicles 2:6; 2 Chronicles 2:9; 2 Chronicles 2:12; 2 Chronicles 3:1; 2 Chronicles 3:2; 2 Chronicles 3:3; 2 Chronicles 6:2; 2 Chronicles 6:5; 2 Chronicles 6:7; 2 Chronicles 6:8; 2 Chronicles 6:9; 2 Chronicles 6:10; 2 Chronicles 6:18; 2 Chronicles 6:33; 2 Chronicles 6:34; 2 Chronicles 6:38; 2 Chronicles 8:1; 2 Chronicles 8:2; 2 Chronicles 8:4; 2 Chronicles 8:5; 2 Chronicles 8:6; 2 Chronicles 8:11; 2 Chronicles 8:12; 2 Chronicles 9:3; 2 Chronicles 11:5; 2 Chronicles 11:6; 2 Chronicles 14:6; 2 Chronicles 14:7; 2 Chronicles 16:1; 2 Chronicles 16:5; 2 Chronicles 16:6; 2 Chronicles 17:12; 2 Chronicles 20:8; 2 Chronicles 26:2; 2 Chronicles 26:6; 2 Chronicles 26:9; 2 Chronicles 26:10; 2 Chronicles 27:3; 2 Chronicles 27:4; 2 Chronicles 32:5; 2 Chronicles 33:3; 2 Chronicles 33:4; 2 Chronicles 33:5; 2 Chronicles 33:14; 2 Chronicles 33:15; 2 Chronicles 33:19; 2 Chronicles 34:11; 2 Chronicles 35:3; 2 Chronicles 36:23

2 Chronicles 2:1

1 Solomon gave orders to build a temple for the Name of the LORD and a royal palace for himself.

2 Chronicles 2:3

3 Solomon sent this message to Hiram king of Tyre: “Send me cedar logs as you did for my father David when you sent him cedar to build a palace to live in.

2 Chronicles 2:4

4 Now I am about to build a temple for the Name of the LORD my God and to dedicate it to him for burning fragrant incense before him, for setting out the consecrated bread regularly, and for making burnt offerings every morning and evening and on the Sabbaths, at the New Moons and at the appointed festivals of the LORD our God. This is a lasting ordinance for Israel.

2 Chronicles 2:5

5 “The temple I am going to build will be great, because our God is greater than all other gods.

2 Chronicles 2:6

6 But who is able to build a temple for him, since the heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain him? Who then am I to build a temple for him, except as a place to burn sacrifices before him?

2 Chronicles 2:9

9 to provide me with plenty of lumber, because the temple I build must be large and magnificent.

2 Chronicles 2:12

12 And Hiram added: “Praise be to the LORD, the God of Israel, who made heaven and earth! He has given King David a wise son, endowed with intelligence and discernment, who will build a temple for the LORD and a palace for himself.

2 Chronicles 3:1

1 Then Solomon began to build the temple of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David. It was on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite, the place provided by David.

2 Chronicles 3:2

2 He began building on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.

2 Chronicles 3:3

3 The foundation Solomon laid for building the temple of God was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide (using the cubit of the old standard).

2 Chronicles 6:2

2 I have built a magnificent temple for you, a place for you to dwell forever.”

2 Chronicles 6:5

5 ‘Since the day I brought my people out of Egypt, I have not chosen a city in any tribe of Israel to have a temple built so that my Name might be there, nor have I chosen anyone to be ruler over my people Israel.

2 Chronicles 6:7

7 “My father David had it in his heart to build a temple for the Name of the LORD, the God of Israel.

2 Chronicles 6:8

8 But the LORD said to my father David, ‘You did well to have it in your heart to build a temple for my Name.

2 Chronicles 6:9

9 Nevertheless, you are not the one to build the temple, but your son, your own flesh and blood—he is the one who will build the temple for my Name.’

2 Chronicles 6:10

10 “The LORD has kept the promise he made. I have succeeded David my father and now I sit on the throne of Israel, just as the LORD promised, and I have built the temple for the Name of the LORD, the God of Israel.

2 Chronicles 6:18

18 “But will God really dwell on earth with humans? The heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain you. How much less this temple I have built!

2 Chronicles 6:33

33 then hear from heaven, your dwelling place. Do whatever the foreigner asks of you, so that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you, as do your own people Israel, and may know that this house I have built bears your Name.

2 Chronicles 6:34

34 “When your people go to war against their enemies, wherever you send them, and when they pray to you toward this city you have chosen and the temple I have built for your Name,

2 Chronicles 6:38

38 and if they turn back to you with all their heart and soul in the land of their captivity where they were taken, and pray toward the land you gave their ancestors, toward the city you have chosen and toward the temple I have built for your Name;

2 Chronicles 8:1

1 At the end of twenty years, during which Solomon built the temple of the LORD and his own palace,

2 Chronicles 8:2

2 Solomon rebuilt the villages that Hiram had given him, and settled Israelites in them.

2 Chronicles 8:4

4 He also built up Tadmor in the desert and all the store cities he had built in Hamath.

2 Chronicles 8:5

5 He rebuilt Upper Beth Horon and Lower Beth Horon as fortified cities, with walls and with gates and bars,

2 Chronicles 8:6

6 as well as Baalath and all his store cities, and all the cities for his chariots and for his horses —whatever he desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon and throughout all the territory he ruled.

2 Chronicles 8:11

11 Solomon brought Pharaoh’s daughter up from the City of David to the palace he had built for her, for he said, “My wife must not live in the palace of David king of Israel, because the places the ark of the LORD has entered are holy.”

2 Chronicles 8:12

12 On the altar of the LORD that he had built in front of the portico, Solomon sacrificed burnt offerings to the LORD,

2 Chronicles 9:3

3 When the queen of Sheba saw the wisdom of Solomon, as well as the palace he had built,

2 Chronicles 11:5

5 Rehoboam lived in Jerusalem and built up towns for defense in Judah:

2 Chronicles 11:6

6 Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa,

2 Chronicles 14:6

6 He built up the fortified cities of Judah, since the land was at peace. No one was at war with him during those years, for the LORD gave him rest.

2 Chronicles 14:7

7 “Let us build up these towns,” he said to Judah, “and put walls around them, with towers, gates and bars. The land is still ours, because we have sought the LORD our God; we sought him and he has given us rest on every side.” So they built and prospered.

2 Chronicles 16:1

1 In the thirty-sixth year of Asa’s reign Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah and fortified Ramah to prevent anyone from leaving or entering the territory of Asa king of Judah.

2 Chronicles 16:5

5 When Baasha heard this, he stopped building Ramah and abandoned his work.

2 Chronicles 16:6

6 Then King Asa brought all the men of Judah, and they carried away from Ramah the stones and timber Baasha had been using. With them he built up Geba and Mizpah.

2 Chronicles 17:12

12 Jehoshaphat became more and more powerful; he built forts and store cities in Judah

2 Chronicles 20:8

8 They have lived in it and have built in it a sanctuary for your Name, saying,

2 Chronicles 26:2

2 He was the one who rebuilt Elath and restored it to Judah after Amaziah rested with his ancestors.

2 Chronicles 26:6

6 He went to war against the Philistines and broke down the walls of Gath, Jabneh and Ashdod. He then rebuilt towns near Ashdod and elsewhere among the Philistines.

2 Chronicles 26:9

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

2 Chronicles 26:10

10 He also built towers in the wilderness and dug many cisterns, because he had much livestock in the foothills and in the plain. He had people working his fields and vineyards in the hills and in the fertile lands, for he loved the soil.

2 Chronicles 27:3

3 Jotham rebuilt the Upper Gate of the temple of the LORD and did extensive work on the wall at the hill of Ophel.

2 Chronicles 27:4

4 He built towns in the hill country of Judah and forts and towers in the wooded areas.

2 Chronicles 32:5

5 Then he worked hard repairing all the broken sections of the wall and building towers on it. He built another wall outside that one and reinforced the terraces of the City of David. He also made large numbers of weapons and shields.

2 Chronicles 33:3

3 He rebuilt the high places his father Hezekiah had demolished; he also erected altars to the Baals and made Asherah poles. He bowed down to all the starry hosts and worshiped them.

2 Chronicles 33:4

4 He built altars in the temple of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “My Name will remain in Jerusalem forever.”

2 Chronicles 33:5

5 In both courts of the temple of the LORD, he built altars to all the starry hosts.

2 Chronicles 33:14

14 Afterward he rebuilt the outer wall of the City of David, west of the Gihon spring in the valley, as far as the entrance of the Fish Gate and encircling the hill of Ophel; he also made it much higher. He stationed military commanders in all the fortified cities in Judah.

2 Chronicles 33:15

15 He got rid of the foreign gods and removed the image from the temple of the LORD, as well as all the altars he had built on the temple hill and in Jerusalem; and he threw them out of the city.

2 Chronicles 33:19

19 His prayer and how God was moved by his entreaty, as well as all his sins and unfaithfulness, and the sites where he built high places and set up Asherah poles and idols before he humbled himself—all these are written in the records of the seers.

2 Chronicles 34:11

11 They also gave money to the carpenters and builders to purchase dressed stone, and timber for joists and beams for the buildings that the kings of Judah had allowed to fall into ruin.

2 Chronicles 35:3

3 He said to the Levites, who instructed all Israel and who had been consecrated to the LORD: “Put the sacred ark in the temple that Solomon son of David king of Israel built. It is not to be carried about on your shoulders. Now serve the LORD your God and his people Israel.

2 Chronicles 36:23

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