II Chronicles

II Chronicles 34:14
"And when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of the Lord, Hilkiah the priest found a book of the law of the Lord given by Moses."

Josiah worked hard to restore the worship of God and to remove the worship of Baal from his kingdom. He came to the throne when he was just eight years old

II Chronicles 18:26-27
"and say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I return in peace. And Micaiah said, If thou certainly return in peace, then hath not the Lord spoken by me. And he said, Hearken, all ye people."

Micaiah was, of course, right. King Ahab died in the battle and his blood was licked by dogs, just as the prophet Elijah had foretold

Because Rehoboam had neglected God's commandments, God allowed the Egyptian King Shishak to ransack Jerusalem. But because the king of Judah turned back to God, the city was not destroyed.

II Chronicles 12:6-7
"Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, The Lord is righteous. And when the Lord saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the Lord came to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled themselves; therefore I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance; and my wrath shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak"

II Chronicles 9:13
"Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and threescore and six talents of gold."

666 talents of gold is 19.66 tons - that's a lot of gold!

II Chronicles 15:8
"And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominable idols out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from mount Ephraim, and renewed the altar of the Lord, that was before the porch of the Lord."

Asa also made a law that anyone who would not worship God would be put to death

II Chronicles 30:5
"So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beer-sheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the passover unto the Lord God of Israel at Jerusalem: for they had not done it of a long time in such sort as it was written."

Hezekiah also reopened the temple, which had been closed during the reign of his father, and abolished idolatry in his kingdom

II Chronicles 36:23
"Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath the Lord God of heaven given me; and he hath charged me to build him an house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Who is there among you of all his people? The Lord his God be with him, and let him go up."

Cyrus, who was king of Persia from 559-530 BC, conquered Babylon and freed the Jews who were there. Cyrus commanded the largest empire that the world had ever seen

The prophet Jeremiah had said that the land must rest for seventy years to make up for the years when the people refused to observe the Sabbath.

II Chronicles 36:21
"to fulfil the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years"

II Chronicles 20:23
"For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of mount Seir, utterly to slay and destroy them: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, every one helped to destroy another."

By the time Jehoshaphat arrived, all of his enemies were dead and the Judeans took the riches and jewels from the bodies

II Chronicles 32:21
"And the Lord sent an angel, which cut off all the mighty men of valour, and the leaders and captains in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he was come into the house of his god, they that came forth of his own bowels slew him there with the sword."