2 Chronicles 11:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And in every town he put stores of body-covers and spears, and made them very strong. And Judah and Benjamin were his.

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  • 2 Sam 13:19 : 19 And Tamar, in her grief, put dust on her head; and she put her hand on her head and went away crying loudly.
  • 2 Sam 13:22 : 22 But Absalom said nothing to his brother Amnon, good or bad: for he was full of hate for him, because he had taken his sister Tamar by force.
  • 2 Chr 26:14-15 : 14 And Uzziah had all these forces armed with body-covers and spears and head-covers and coats of metal and bows and stones for sending from leather bands. 15 And in Jerusalem he made machines, the invention of expert men, to be placed on the towers and angles of the walls for sending arrows and great stones. And his name was honoured far and wide; for he was greatly helped till he was strong.
  • 2 Chr 32:5 : 5 Then he took heart, building up the wall where it was broken down, and making its towers higher, and building another wall outside; and he made strong the Millo in the town of David, and got together a great store of all sorts of instruments of war.

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  • 2 Chr 11:10-11
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    10 And Zorah and Aijalon and Hebron, walled towns in Judah and Benjamin.

    11 And he made the walled towns strong, and he put captains in them and stores of food, oil, and wine.

  • 2 Chr 32:5-6
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    5 Then he took heart, building up the wall where it was broken down, and making its towers higher, and building another wall outside; and he made strong the Millo in the town of David, and got together a great store of all sorts of instruments of war.

    6 And he put war chiefs over the people, and sent for them all to come together to him in the wide place at the doorway into the town, and to give them heart he said to them,

  • 2 Chr 17:1-2
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    1 And Jehoshaphat his son became king in his place, and made himself strong against Israel.

    2 He put forces in all the walled towns of Judah, and responsible chiefs in the land of Judah and in the towns of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.

  • 2 Chr 27:4
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    4 In addition, he made towns in the hill-country of Judah, and strong buildings and towers in the woodlands.

  • 2 Chr 17:12-13
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    12 Jehoshaphat became greater and greater, and made strong towers and store-towns in Judah.

    13 He had much property in the towns of Judah; he had forces of armed men, great and strong, in Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 14:6-8
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    6 He made walled towns in Judah, for the land was quiet and there were no wars in those years, because the Lord had given him rest.

    7 He said to Judah, Let us make these towns, building walls round them with towers and doors and locks. The land is still ours, because we have been true to the Lord our God; we have been true to him and he has given us rest on every side. So they went on building and all went well for them.

    8 And Asa had an army of three hundred thousand men of Judah armed with body-covers and spears, and two hundred and eighty thousand of Benjamin armed with body-covers and bows; all these were men of war.

  • Neh 4:16
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    16 And from that time, half of my servants were doing their part of the work, and half kept the spears and body-covers and the bows and the metal war-dresses; and the chiefs were at the back of the men of Judah.

  • 2 Chr 33:14
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    14 After this he made an outer wall for the town of David, on the west side of Gihon in the valley, as far as the way into the town by the fish doorway; and he put a very high wall round the Ophel; and he put captains of the army in all the walled towns of Judah.

  • 2 Chr 11:13
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    13 And the priests and Levites who were in all Israel came together to him from every part of their country.

  • 2 Chr 12:4
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    4 And he took the walled towns of Judah, and came as far as Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 17:17-19
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    17 And the captains of Benjamin: Eliada, a great man of war, and with him two hundred thousand armed with bows and body-covers;

    18 And after him Jehozabad, and with him a hundred and eighty thousand trained for war.

    19 These were the men who were waiting on the king, in addition to those placed by the king in the walled towns through all Judah.

  • 2 Chr 15:9
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    9 And he got together all Judah and Benjamin and those of Ephraim and Manasseh and Simeon who were living with them; for numbers of them came to him out of Israel when they saw that the Lord his God was with him.

  • 2 Chr 26:6
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    6 He went out and made war against the Philistines, pulling down the walls of Gath and Jabneh and Ashdod, and building towns in the country round Ashdod and among the Philistines.

  • 2 Chr 26:13-15
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    13 And under their orders was a trained army of three hundred and seven thousand, five hundred, of great strength in war, helping the king against any who came against him.

    14 And Uzziah had all these forces armed with body-covers and spears and head-covers and coats of metal and bows and stones for sending from leather bands.

    15 And in Jerusalem he made machines, the invention of expert men, to be placed on the towers and angles of the walls for sending arrows and great stones. And his name was honoured far and wide; for he was greatly helped till he was strong.

  • 2 Kgs 11:10
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    10 And the priest gave to the captains of hundreds the spears and body-covers which had been King David's, and which were kept in the house of the Lord.

  • 2 Chr 11:5
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    5 Now Rehoboam kept in Jerusalem, building walled towns in Judah.

  • 1 Chr 12:16
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    16 And some of the children of Benjamin and Judah came to David in his strong place.

  • 2 Chr 19:5
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    5 And he put judges through all the land, in every walled town of Judah,

  • 1 Chr 12:24
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    24 There were six thousand, eight hundred spearmen of the children of Judah, armed for war;

  • Neh 11:36
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    36 And of the Levites, certain divisions in Judah were joined to Benjamin.

  • 2 Chr 11:23
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    23 And in his wisdom he had his sons stationed in every walled town through all the lands of Judah and Benjamin; and he gave them a great store of food, and took wives for them.

  • 2 Chr 23:9-10
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    9 Then Jehoiada the priest gave to the captains of hundreds the spears and body-covers which had been King David's and which were kept in the house of God.

    10 And he put all the people in position, every man with his instruments of war in his hand, from the right side of the house to the left, by the altar and the house and all round the king.

  • Neh 4:13
    69%

    13 So in the lowest part of the space at the back of the walls, in the open places, I put the people by families, with their swords, their spears, and their bows.

  • 1 Chr 11:10
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    10 Now these are the chief of David's men of war who were his strong supporters in the kingdom, and, with all Israel, made him king, as the Lord had said about Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 14:27
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    27 So in their place King Rehoboam had other body-covers made of brass, and gave them into the care of the captains of the armed men who were stationed at the door of the king's house.

  • 2 Chr 8:5
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    5 And of Beth-horon the higher and the lower, walled towns with walls and doorways and locks;

  • 2 Chr 34:6
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    6 And in all the towns of Manasseh and Ephraim and Simeon as far as Naphtali, he made waste their houses round about.

  • Neh 11:3
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    3 Now these are the chiefs of the divisions of the country who were living in Jerusalem: but in the towns of Judah everyone was living on his heritage in the towns, that is, Israel, the priests, the Levites, the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon's servants.

  • 2 Sam 24:7
    69%

    7 And to the walled town of Tyre, and to all the towns of the Hivites and the Canaanites: and they went out to the South of Judah at Beer-sheba.

  • 2 Sam 2:9
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    9 And made him king over Gilead and the Asherites and over Jezreel and Ephraim and Benjamin, that is, over all Israel.

  • 2 Chr 12:10
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    10 And in their place King Rehoboam had other body-covers made of brass and gave them into the care of the captains of the armed men who were stationed at the door of the king's house.

  • 2 Sam 17:11
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    11 But my suggestion is that all Israel, from Dan as far as Beer-sheba, comes together to you, a great army like the sands of the sea in number; and that you yourself go out among them.

  • Jer 1:18
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    18 For see, this day have I made you a walled town, and an iron pillar, and walls of brass, against all the land, against the kings of Judah, against its captains, against its priests, and against the people of the land.

  • Ezra 1:6
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    6 And all their neighbours gave them help with offerings of vessels of silver and gold and goods and beasts and things of great value, in addition to what was freely offered.

  • 2 Chr 25:5
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    5 Then Amaziah got all Judah together and put them in order by their families, even all Judah and Benjamin, under captains of thousands and captains of hundreds: and he had those of twenty years old and over numbered, and they came to three hundred thousand of the best fighting-men, trained for war and in the use of the spear and the body-cover.

  • 1 Chr 18:7
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    7 And the gold body-covers of the servants of Hadadezer, David took to Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 11:1
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    1 And Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, and got together the men of Judah and Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand of his best fighting-men, to make war against Israel and get the kingdom back for Rehoboam.

  • 2 Sam 8:7
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    7 And David took their gold body-covers from the servants of Hadadezer and took them to Jerusalem.