Rechav`am lived in Yerushalayim, and built cities for defense in Yehudah.
2 Chronicles 17:2 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) He placed forces in all the fortified cities of Yehudah, and set garrisons in the land of Yehudah, and in the cities of Efrayim, which Asa his father had taken. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 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 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. |
Rechav`am lived in Yerushalayim, and built cities for defense in Yehudah.
Aviyah pursued after Yarov`am, and took cities from him, Beit-El with the towns of it, and Yeshanah with the towns of it, and `Efron with the towns of it.
When Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of `Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominations out of all the land of Yehudah and Binyamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from the hill country of Efrayim; and he renewed the altar of the LORD, that was before the porch of the LORD.
These were those who waited on the king, besides those whom the king put in the fortified cities throughout all Yehudah.
The LORD was with Yehoshafat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and didn't seek the Ba`alim,