2 Chronicles 17:13

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • 1 Chr 27:25-31 : 25 And Azmaveth, the son of Adiel, was controller of the king's property; Jonathan, the son of Uzziah, had control of all store-houses in country places and in the towns and little towns and strong places; 26 Ezri, the son of Chelub, had authority over the field-workers and farmers; 27 Shimei the Ramathite was responsible for the vine-gardens; Zabdi the Shiphmite was responsible for the produce of the vine-gardens and for all the stores of wine; 28 Baal-hanan the Gederite was responsible for the olive-trees and the sycamore-trees in the lowlands; and Joash for the stores of oil; 29 And Shitrai the Sharonite was responsible for the herds in the grass-lands of Sharon, and Shaphat, the son of Adlai, for those in the valleys; 30 Obil the Ishmaelite had control of the camels and Jehdeiah the Meronothite of the she-asses; 31 The flocks were in the care of Jaziz the Hagarite. All these were the controllers of King David's property.
  • 2 Chr 26:10-15 : 10 And he put up towers in the waste land and made places for storing water, for he had much cattle, in the low hills and in the table land; and he had farmers and vine-keepers in the mountains and in the fertile land, for he was a lover of farming. 11 In addition, Uzziah had an army of fighting-men who went out to war in bands, as they had been listed by Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the ruler, under the authority of Hananiah, one of the king's captains. 12 The heads of families, the strong men of war, were two thousand, six hundred. 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.

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

  • 2 Chr 17:14-19
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    14 This is the number of them, listed by their families, the captains of thousands of Judah: Adnah, the captain, and with him three hundred thousand men of war;

    15 Second to him Jehohanan, the captain, and with him two hundred and eighty thousand;

    16 After him Amasiah, the son of Zichri, who freely gave himself to the Lord, and with him two hundred thousand men of war;

    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 11:10-12
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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.

    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 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 17:5-6
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    5 So the Lord made his kingdom strong; and all Judah gave offerings to Jehoshaphat, and he had great wealth and honour.

    6 His 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 19:4-5
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    4 And 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.

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

  • 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.

  • 1 Chr 7:11
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    11 All these were the sons of Jediael, by the heads of their families, seventeen thousand, two hundred men of war, able to go out with the army for war.

  • 2 Chr 26:11-13
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    11 In addition, Uzziah had an army of fighting-men who went out to war in bands, as they had been listed by Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the ruler, under the authority of Hananiah, one of the king's captains.

    12 The heads of families, the strong men of war, were two thousand, six hundred.

    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.

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

  • 2 Chr 25:5-6
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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.

    6 And for a hundred talents of silver, he got a hundred thousand fighting-men from Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 22:45
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    45 Now 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 25:13
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    13 But the men of the band which Amaziah sent back and did not take with him to the fight, made attacks on the towns of Judah from Samaria to Beth-horon, putting to death three thousand of their people and taking away a great store of their goods.

  • 2 Chr 20:27
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    27 Then all the men of Judah and Jerusalem went back, with Jehoshaphat at their head, coming back to Jerusalem with joy; for the Lord had made them glad over their haters.

  • 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.

  • Zech 14:14
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    14 And even Judah will be fighting against Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the nations round about will be massed together, a great store of gold and silver and clothing.

  • 2 Chr 13:3
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    3 And Abijah went out to the fight with an army of men of war, four hundred thousand of his best men; and Jeroboam put his forces in line against him, eight hundred thousand of his best men of war.

  • Isa 3:2
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    2 The strong man and the man of war; the judge and the prophet; the man who has knowledge of secret arts, and the man who is wise because of his years;

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

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

  • 1 Chr 26:31
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    31 Of the Hebronites, Jerijah was the chief of all the Hebronites, in their generations by families. In the fortieth year of the rule of David a search was made, and able men were seen among them at Jazer of Gilead.

  • 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.

  • 1 Kgs 10:26
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    26 And Solomon got together war-carriages and horsemen; he had one thousand, four hundred carriages and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he kept, some in the carriage-towns and some with the king at Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 1:14
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    14 And Solomon got together war-carriages and horsemen; he had one thousand, four hundred carriages and twelve thousand horsemen, which he kept, some in the carriage-towns and some with the king at Jerusalem.

  • 2 Sam 24:9
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    9 And Joab gave the king the number of all the people: there were in Israel eight hundred thousand fighting men able to take up arms; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand.

  • 2 Chr 9:25
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    25 Solomon had four thousand buildings for his horses and his war-carriages, and twelve thousand horsemen whom he kept, some in the carriage-towns and some with the king in Jerusalem.

  • 1 Kgs 9:19
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    19 And 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.

  • Num 1:26
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    26 The generations of the sons of Judah were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war;

  • 1 Chr 19:13
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    13 Take heart, and let us be strong for our people and for the towns of our God; and may the Lord do what seems good to him.

  • Eccl 9:14
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    14 There 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.

  • 1 Chr 21:5
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    5 And Joab gave David the number of all the people; all the men of Israel, able to take up arms, were one million, one hundred thousand men; and those of Judah were four hundred and seventy thousand men, able to take up arms.

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    5 Now Rehoboam kept in Jerusalem, building walled towns in Judah.

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    1 And Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, went back to his house in Jerusalem in peace.