2 Chronicles 17:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² And he placed forces in all the fenced cities of Judah, and set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² And he placed forces in all the fortified cities of Judah and set garrisons in the land of Judah and in the cities of Ephraim which Asa his father had taken.

American Standard Version (1901)

² And he placed forces in all the fortified cities of Judah, and set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.

Common English Bible

² by stationing troops in the fortified cities of Judah and placing soldiers throughout the land of Judah and in the cities of Ephraim that his father Asa had captured.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² And he appointed numbers of soldiers in all the cities of Judah that had been fortified with walls. And he placed garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim that his father Asa had seized.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² And he placed numbers of soldiers in all the fortified cities of Juda. And he put garrisons in the land of Juda, and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.

2 Chronicles 17:2 Cross References

2 Chronicles 11:5

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

2 Chronicles 13:19

Abijah pursued Jeroboam and took cities from him: Bethel with its villages and Jeshanah with its villages and Ephron with its villages.

2 Chronicles 15:8

When Asa heard these words, the prophecy of Azariah son of Oded, he took courage and put away the abominable idols from all the land of Judah and Benjamin and from the towns that he had taken in the hill country of Ephraim. He repaired the altar of the Lord that was in front of the vestibule of the house of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 17:19

These were in the service of the king, besides those whom the king had placed in the fortified cities throughout all Judah.

2 Chronicles 17:3

The Lord was with Jehoshaphat because he walked in the earlier ways of his father; he did not seek the Baals