2 Chronicles 11:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Rehoboam resided in Jerusalem, and he built cities for defense in Judah.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And Rehoboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and built cities for defence in Judah.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Rehoboam dwelt in Jerusalem and built cities for defense in Judah.

American Standard Version (1901)

And Rehoboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and built cities for defence in Judah.

Common English Bible

Rehoboam lived in Jerusalem, but he built cities for Judah’s defense

Catholic Public Domain Version

Then Rehoboam lived in Jerusalem, and he built fortified cities in Judah.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And Roboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and built walled cities in Juda.

2 Chronicles 11:5 Cross References

2 Chronicles 11:23

He dealt wisely and distributed some of his sons through all the districts of Judah and Benjamin, in all the fortified cities; he gave them abundant provisions and found many wives for them.

2 Chronicles 11:6

He built up Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa,

2 Chronicles 12:4

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

2 Chronicles 14:5

He also removed from all the cities of Judah the high places and the incense altars. And the kingdom was quiet under him.

2 Chronicles 16:6

Then King Asa brought all Judah, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and its timber with which Baasha had been building, and with them he built up Geba and Mizpah.

2 Chronicles 17:12

Jehoshaphat grew steadily greater. He built fortresses and storage cities in Judah.

2 Chronicles 17:2

He placed forces in all the fortified cities of Judah and set garrisons in the land of Judah and in the cities of Ephraim that his father Asa had taken.

2 Chronicles 21:3

Their father gave them many gifts of silver, gold, and valuable possessions, together with fortified cities in Judah, but he gave the kingdom to Jehoram because he was the firstborn.

2 Chronicles 26:6

He went out and made war against the Philistines and broke down the wall of Gath and the wall of Jabneh and the wall of Ashdod; he built cities in the territory of Ashdod and elsewhere among the Philistines.

2 Chronicles 27:4

Moreover, he built cities in the hill country of Judah and forts and towers on the wooded hills.

Jeremiah 34:7

when the army of the king of Babylon was fighting against Jerusalem and against all the cities of Judah that were left, Lachish and Azekah, for these were the only fortified cities of Judah that remained.