2 Chronicles 32:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ Also he strengthened himself, and built up all the wall that was broken, and raised it up to the towers, and another wall without, and repaired Millo in the city of David, and made darts and shields in abundance.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ Also Hezekiah took courage and built up all the wall that was broken, and raised towers upon it, and he built another wall outside and strengthened the Millo in the City of David and made weapons and shields in abundance.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ And he took courage, and built up all the wall that was broken down, and raised it up to the towers, and the other wall without, and strengthened Millo in the city of David, and made weapons and shields in abundance.

Common English Bible

⁵ Hezekiah vigorously rebuilt all the broken sections of the wall, erected towers, constructed another wall outside the first, reinforced the terrace of David’s City, and made a large supply of weapons and shields.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ Also, acting industriously, he built up the entire wall that had been broken apart. And he constructed towers upon it, and another wall outside it. And he repaired Millo, in the City of David. And he made all kinds of weapons and shields.

2 Chronicles 32:5 Cross References

2 Chronicles 25:23

King Joash of Israel captured King Amaziah of Judah son of Joash son of Ahaziah at Beth-shemesh; he brought him to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate, a distance of four hundred cubits.

1 Kings 9:24

But Pharaoh’s daughter went up from the city of David to her own house that Solomon had built for her; then he built the Millo.

2 Kings 25:4

Then a breach was made in the city wall; the king with all the soldiers fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, by the King’s Garden, though the Chaldeans were all around the city. They went in the direction of the Arabah.

2 Samuel 5:9

David occupied the stronghold and named it the city of David. David built the city all around from the Millo inward.

Jeremiah 39:4

When King Zedekiah of Judah and all the soldiers saw them, they fled, going out of the city at night by way of the King’s Garden through the gate between the two walls, and they went toward the Arabah.

2 Chronicles 26:8

The Ammonites paid tribute to Uzziah, and his fame spread even to the border of Egypt, for he became very strong.

2 Chronicles 23:1

But in the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened himself and entered into a compact with the commanders of the hundreds, Azariah son of Jeroham, Ishmael son of Jehohanan, Azariah son of Obed, Maaseiah son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat son of Zichri.

2 Chronicles 12:1

When the rule of Rehoboam was established and he grew strong, he abandoned the law of the Lord, he and all Israel with him.

2 Kings 12:20

His servants arose, devised a conspiracy, and killed Joash in the house of Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla.

1 Kings 11:27

The following was the reason he rebelled against the king. Solomon built the Millo and closed up the gap in the wall of the city of his father David.

Judges 9:6

Then all the lords of Shechem and all Beth-millo came together, and they went and made Abimelech king, by the oak of the pillar at Shechem.

Proverbs 25:28

Like a city breached, without walls, is one who lacks self-control.

2 Chronicles 33:14

Afterward he built an outer wall for the city of David west of Gihon, in the valley, reaching the entrance at the Fish Gate; he carried it around Ophel and raised it to a very great height. He also put commanders of the army in all the fortified cities in Judah.

Joel 2:8

They do not jostle one another; each keeps to its own track; they burst through the weapons and are not halted.