2 Chronicles 14:7 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ Therefore he said unto Judah, Let us build these cities, and make about them walls, and towers, gates, and bars, while the land is yet before us; because we have sought the LORD our God, we have sought him, and he hath given us rest on every side. So they built and prospered.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ Therefore he said to Judah, Let us build these cities and surround them with walls, towers, gates, and bars. The land is still ours, because we sought the Lord our God; we have sought Him [yearning for Him with all our desire] and He has given us rest and peace on every side. So they built and prospered.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ For he said unto Judah, Let us build these cities, and make about them walls, and towers, gates, and bars; the land is yet before us, because we have sought Jehovah our God; we have sought him, and he hath given us rest on every side. So they built and prospered.

Common English Bible

⁷ “Let’s build up these cities,” Asa told Judah. “We’ll surround them with walls, towers, gates, and crossbars while the land is still ours, because we sought the LORD our God and he sought us and surrounded us with rest.” As a result, the people successfully completed their building projects.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ Then he said to Judah: "Let us build these cities, and strengthen them with walls, and fortify them with towers and gates and bars, while all things are at rest from wars. For we have sought the Lord, the God of our fathers, and he has granted to us peace on every side." And so they built, and there was nothing to impede them from building.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ And he said to Juda: Let us build these cities, and compass them with walls, and fortify them with towers, and gates, and bars, while all is quiet from wars, because we have sought the Lord the God of our fathers, and he hath given us peace round about. So they built, and there was no hinderance in building.

2 Chronicles 14:7 Cross References

1 Kings 15:23

Now the rest of all the acts of Asa, all his power, all that he did, and the cities that he built, are they not written in the Book of the Annals of the Kings of Judah? But in his old age he was diseased in his feet.

1 Chronicles 28:9

“And you, my son Solomon, know the God of your father, and serve him with single mind and willing heart, for the Lord searches every mind and understands every plan and thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will abandon you forever.

2 Chronicles 14:4

and commanded Judah to seek the Lord, the God of their ancestors, and to keep the law and the commandment.

2 Chronicles 14:6

He built fortified cities in Judah while the land was quiet. He had no war in those years, for the Lord gave him rest.

2 Chronicles 15:15

All Judah rejoiced over the oath, for they had sworn with all their heart and had sought him with their whole desire, and he was found by them, and the Lord gave them rest all around.

2 Chronicles 17:13

He carried out great works in the cities of Judah. He had soldiers, mighty warriors, in Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 17:17

Of Benjamin: Eliada, a mighty warrior, with two hundred thousand armed with bow and shield,

2 Chronicles 20:30

And the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet, for his God gave him rest all around.

2 Chronicles 25:5

Amaziah assembled the people of Judah and set them by ancestral houses under commanders of the thousands and of the hundreds for all Judah and Benjamin. He mustered those twenty years old and up and found that they were three hundred thousand picked troops fit for war, able to handle spear and shield.

2 Chronicles 26:13

Under their command was an army of three hundred seven thousand five hundred, who could make war with mighty power to help the king against the enemy.

2 Chronicles 32:5

Hezekiah strengthened himself and built up the entire wall that was broken down and raised towers on it, and outside it he built another wall; he also strengthened the Millo in the city of David and made weapons and shields in abundance.

2 Chronicles 8:5

He also built Upper Beth-horon and Lower Beth-horon, fortified cities, with walls, gates, and bars,

John 9:4

We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work.

Acts 9:31

Meanwhile the church throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace and was built up. Living in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, it increased in numbers.

Joshua 23:1

A long time afterward, when the Lord had given rest to Israel from all their enemies all around and Joshua was old and well advanced in years,

1 Peter 3:12

For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”