Lexicon :: Strong's H4427 - mālaḵ

And Solomon said to God, “You have shown great and faithful love to my father David, and you have made me king in his place.

God said to Solomon, “Since this was in your heart, and you have not requested riches, wealth, or glory, or for the life of those who hate you, and you have not even requested long life, but you have requested for yourself wisdom and knowledge that you may judge my people over whom I have made you king,

So Solomon went to Jerusalem from[fn] the high place that was in Gibeon in front of the tent of meeting, and he reigned over Israel.

Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel for forty years.

Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had gone to Shechem to make him king.

But as for the Israelites living in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.

Rehoboam appointed Abijah son of Maacah as chief, leader among his brothers, intending to make him king.

King Rehoboam established his royal power in Jerusalem. Rehoboam 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 to put his name. Rehoboam’s mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.

Rehoboam rested with his ancestors and was buried in the city of David. His son Abijah[fn] became king in his place.

In the eighteenth year of Israel’s King Jeroboam, Abijah[fn] became king over Judah,

Abijah rested with his ancestors and was buried in the city of David. His son Asa became king in his place. During his reign the land experienced peace for ten years.

Asa rested with his ancestors; he died in the forty-first year of his reign.

His son Jehoshaphat became king in his place and strengthened himself against Israel.

In the third year of his reign, Jehoshaphat sent his officials ​— ​Ben-hail,[fn] Obadiah, Zechariah, Nethanel, and Micaiah ​— ​to teach in the cities of Judah.

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

Jehoshaphat rested with his ancestors and was buried with his ancestors in the city of David. His son Jehoram[fn] became king in his place.

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

During Jehoram’s reign, Edom rebelled against Judah’s control and appointed their own king.

Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king; he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. He died to no one’s regret[fn] and was buried in the city of David but not in the tombs of the kings.

Then the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah, his youngest son, king in his place, because the troops that had come with the Arabs to the camp had killed all the older sons.[fn] So Ahaziah son of Jehoram became king of Judah.

He was hiding with them in God’s temple for six years while Athaliah reigned over the land.

Then the whole assembly made a covenant with the king in God’s temple. Jehoiada said to them, “Here is the king’s son! He will reign, just as the LORD promised concerning David’s sons.

They brought out the king’s son, put the crown on him, gave him the testimony, and made him king. Jehoiada and his sons anointed him and cried, “Long live the king! ”

Joash was seven years old when he became king, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah; she was from Beer-sheba.

The accounts concerning his sons, the many divine pronouncements about him, and the restoration of God’s temple are recorded in the Writing of the Book of the Kings. His son Amaziah became king in his place.

Amaziah became king when he was twenty-five years old, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jehoaddan; she was from Jerusalem.

All the people of Judah took Uzziah,[fn] who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.

Uzziah was sixteen years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jecoliah; she was from Jerusalem.

Uzziah rested with his ancestors, and he was buried with his ancestors in the burial ground of the kings’ cemetery, for they said, “He has a skin disease.” His son Jotham became king in his place.

Jotham was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jerushah daughter of Zadok.

He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.

Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. He did not do what was right in the LORD’s sight like his ancestor David,

Ahaz rested with his ancestors and was buried in the city, in Jerusalem, but they did not bring him into the tombs of the kings of Israel. His son Hezekiah became king in his place.

Hezekiah was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Abijah[fn] daughter of Zechariah.

In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of the LORD’s temple and repaired them.

Hezekiah rested with his ancestors and was buried on the ascent to the tombs of David’s descendants. All Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem paid him honor at his death. His son Manasseh became king in his place.

Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.

Manasseh rested with his ancestors, and he was buried in his own house. His son Amon became king in his place.

The common people[fn] killed all who had conspired against King Amon, and they made his son Josiah king in his place.

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

In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still a youth, Josiah began to seek the God of his ancestor David, and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved images, and the cast images.

In the eighteenth year of his reign, in order to cleanse the land and the temple, Josiah sent Shaphan son of Azaliah, along with Maaseiah the governor of the city and the court historian Joah son of Joahaz, to repair the temple of the LORD his God.

Then the common people[fn] took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and made him king in Jerusalem in place of his father.