2 Chronicles 17:12

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Jehoshaphat became greater and greater, and made strong towers and store-towns in Judah.

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  • 1 Chr 29:25 : 25 And the Lord made Solomon great in the eyes of all Israel, clothing him with glory and honour such as no other king in Israel had had before him.
  • 2 Chr 8:2-6 : 2 He took in hand the building up of the towns which Huram had given him, causing the children of Israel to make living-places for themselves there. 3 And Solomon went to Hamath-zobah and overcame it. 4 And he put up the buildings of Tadmor in the waste land, and of all the store-towns in Hamath; 5 And of Beth-horon the higher and the lower, walled towns with walls and doorways and locks; 6 And of Baalath, and all the store-towns which Solomon had, and the towns where he kept his war-carriages and his horse men, and everything which it was his pleasure to put up in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land under his rule.
  • 2 Chr 11:5-9 : 5 Now Rehoboam kept in Jerusalem, building walled towns in Judah. 6 He was the builder of Beth-lehem and Etam and Tekoa 7 And Beth-zur and Soco and Adullam 8 And Gath and Mareshah and Ziph 9 And Adoraim and Lachish and Azekah 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. 12 And in every town he put stores of body-covers and spears, and made them very strong. And Judah and Benjamin were his.
  • 2 Chr 14:6-7 : 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.
  • 2 Chr 18:1 : 1 Now Jehoshaphat had great wealth and honour, and his son was married to Ahab's daughter.
  • 2 Chr 26:6-9 : 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. 7 And God gave him help against the Philistines, and against the Arabians living in Gur-baal, and against the Meunim. 8 The Ammonites gave offerings to Uzziah: and news of him went out as far as the limit of Egypt; for he became very great in power. 9 Uzziah made towers in Jerusalem, at the doorway in the angle and at the doorway in the valley and at the turn of the wall, arming them.
  • 2 Chr 27:4 : 4 In addition, he made towns in the hill-country of Judah, and strong buildings and towers in the woodlands.
  • 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.
  • 2 Chr 32:27-29 : 27 And Hezekiah had very great wealth and honour; and he made himself store-houses for his gold and silver and jewels and spices, and for body-covers and all sorts of beautiful vessels. 28 And store-houses for the produce of grain and wine and oil; and buildings for all sorts of beasts and flocks. 29 And he made towns for himself, and got together much property in flocks and herds: for God had given him great wealth.

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  • 2 Chr 17:13
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    13He had much property in the towns of Judah; he had forces of armed men, great and strong, in Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 27:3-4
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    80%

    3He put up the higher doorway of the house of the Lord, and did much building on the wall of the Ophel.

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

  • 2 Chr 17:1-6
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    79%

    1And Jehoshaphat his son became king in his place, and made himself strong against Israel.

    2He 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.

    3And the Lord was with Jehoshaphat, because he went in the early ways of his father, not turning to the Baals,

    4But turning to the God of his father and keeping his laws, and not doing as Israel did.

    5So the Lord made his kingdom strong; and all Judah gave offerings to Jehoshaphat, and he had great wealth and honour.

    6His heart was lifted up in the ways of the Lord; and he went so far as to take away the high places and the wood pillars out of Judah.

  • 2 Chr 14:6-7
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    6He 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.

    7He 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.

  • 2 Chr 11:10-12
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    10And Zorah and Aijalon and Hebron, walled towns in Judah and Benjamin.

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

    12And in every town he put stores of body-covers and spears, and made them very strong. And Judah and Benjamin were his.

  • 2 Chr 19:3-5
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    3But still there is some good in you, for you have put away the wood pillars out of the land, and have given your heart to the worship of God.

    4And Jehoshaphat was living in Jerusalem; and he went out again among the people, from Beer-sheba to the hill-country of Ephraim, guiding them back to the Lord, the God of their fathers.

    5And he put judges through all the land, in every walled town of Judah,

  • 2 Chr 18:1
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    1Now Jehoshaphat had great wealth and honour, and his son was married to Ahab's daughter.

  • 2 Chr 33:14
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    14After 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.

  • 1 Kgs 9:19
    72%

    19And all the store-towns and the towns which Solomon had for his war-carriages and for his horsemen, and everything which it was his pleasure to put up in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land under his rule.

  • 2 Chr 17:10-11
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    10And the fear of the Lord was on all the kingdoms of the lands round Judah, so that they made no wars against Jehoshaphat.

    11And some of the Philistines took offerings to Jehoshaphat, and made him payments of silver; and the Arabians gave him flocks, seven thousand, seven hundred sheep, and seven thousand, seven hundred he-goats.

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

  • 2 Chr 26:6
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    6He 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 8:4-6
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    4And he put up the buildings of Tadmor in the waste land, and of all the store-towns in Hamath;

    5And of Beth-horon the higher and the lower, walled towns with walls and doorways and locks;

    6And of Baalath, and all the store-towns which Solomon had, and the towns where he kept his war-carriages and his horse men, and everything which it was his pleasure to put up in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land under his rule.

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

  • 1 Kgs 22:44-45
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    44And Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.

    45Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his great power, and how he went to war, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?

  • 2 Chr 26:9
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    9Uzziah made towers in Jerusalem, at the doorway in the angle and at the doorway in the valley and at the turn of the wall, arming them.

  • Eccl 9:14
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    14There was a little town and the number of its men was small, and there came a great king against it and made an attack on it, building works of war round about it.

  • 2 Chr 32:27-29
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    27And Hezekiah had very great wealth and honour; and he made himself store-houses for his gold and silver and jewels and spices, and for body-covers and all sorts of beautiful vessels.

    28And store-houses for the produce of grain and wine and oil; and buildings for all sorts of beasts and flocks.

    29And he made towns for himself, and got together much property in flocks and herds: for God had given him great wealth.

  • 2 Chr 20:1
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    1Now after this, the children of Moab and the children of Ammon, and with them some of the Meunim, made war against Jehoshaphat.

  • 2 Chr 19:1
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    1And Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, went back to his house in Jerusalem in peace.

  • 2 Chr 20:5
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    5And Jehoshaphat took his place in the meeting of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the Lord in front of the new open space,

  • 1 Chr 11:7
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    7And David took the strong tower for his living-place, so it was named the town of David.

  • 2 Chr 27:6
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    6So Jotham became strong, because in all his ways he made the Lord his guide.

  • 2 Chr 17:19
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    19These 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 32:5
    68%

    5Then 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.

  • 1 Kgs 9:15
    68%

    15Now, this was the way of Solomon's system of forced work for the building of the Lord's house and of the king's house, and the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and Megiddo and Gezer. ...

  • 2 Chr 20:25
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    25And when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take their goods from them, they saw beasts in great numbers, and wealth and clothing and things of value, more than they were able to take away; all this they took for themselves, and they were three days getting it away, there was so much.

  • 2 Kgs 12:18
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    18Then Jehoash, king of Judah, took all the holy things which Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah his fathers, the kings of Judah, had given to the Lord, together with the things he himself had given, and all the gold in the Temple store and in the king's house, and sent it to Hazael, king of Aram; and he went away from Jerusalem.

  • Deut 3:5
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    5All these towns had high walls round them with doors and locks; and in addition we took a great number of unwalled towns.

  • Deut 6:10
    67%

    10And when the Lord your God has taken you into the land which he gave his oath to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, that he would give you; with great and fair towns which were not of your building;

  • 2 Chr 1:15
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    15And the king made silver and gold as common as stones in Jerusalem, and cedar like the sycamore-trees of the lowland in number.

  • 2 Kgs 14:22
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    22He was the builder of Elath, which he got back for Judah after the death of the king.