Verse 5

And Rehoboam dwelt in Hierusalem, and built strong cities in Iuda.

Referenced Verses

• 2 Chr 8:2-6 : 2 He buylt the cities that Hiram gaue hym, and put of the children of Israel in them. 3 And Solomon went to Hamath Zoba, and strengthed it. 4 And he buylt Thadmor in the wildernesse, & repaired all the store cities which were in Hamath. 5 And he buylt Bethhoron the vpper, and Bethhoron the neather, strong cities, hauing walles, gates, and barres: 6 And Baalah, and al the store cities that Solomon had, and all the charet cities, and the cities of the horsmen, and euery pleasaunt place that Solomon had last to buyld in Hierusalem & Libanon, and throughout all the land of his dominion.
• 2 Chr 11:23 : 23 And he played wyselie, and scattered all his children throughout al the countryes of Iuda and Beniamin vnto euery strong citie, and he gaue them aboundaunce of vittaile, and obtayned many wyues.
• 2 Chr 14:6-7 : 6 And he built strong cities in Iuda, because the lande was in rest, and he had no warre in those yeres: for the Lorde had geuen him rest. 7 Therefore he saide vnto Iuda: let vs builde these cities, & make about them walles, towres, gates, and barres, for the lande is yet in rest before vs: because we haue sought the Lorde our God, we haue sought him, and he hath geuen vs rest on euery side. And so they built, and it prospered with them.
• 2 Chr 16:6 : 6 And then Asa the king toke all Iuda, and caryed away the stones and timber of Rama wherewith Baasa was a building, and he built therewith Geba and Mispah.
• 2 Chr 17:12 : 12 And so Iehosaphat prospered, and grew vp an hie: And he built in Iuda castels and cities of store.
• 2 Chr 26:6 : 6 And he went to battaile against the Philistines, and brake downe the wall of Geth, and the wall of Iabne, and the wall of Asdod, & built cities about Asdod and among the Philistines.
• 2 Chr 27:4 : 4 Moreouer, he built cities in the mountaines of Iuda, and in the wood countrey he built castels and towres.
• Isa 22:8-9 : 8 And in that day dyd the enemie take away the couer of Iuda, and then didst thou loke towarde the armour of the house of the forest. 9 Ye haue seene also the broken places of the citie of Dauid, howe that they are many, and ye gathered together the waters of the lower poole. 10 As for the houses of Hierusalem ye haue numbred them, and the houses haue ye broken downe, to make the wall strong. 11 A pit also haue ye made betweene the two walles for the waters of the olde poole, & haue not regarded the maker therof, neither had respect vnto hym that fashioned it long ago.