2 Chronicles 11:12

Authorized King James Version (1611)

And in every several city [he put] shields and spears, and made them exceeding strong, having Judah and Benjamin on his side.

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  • 2 Sam 13:19 : 19 And Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent her garment of divers colours that [was] on her, and laid her hand on her head, and went on crying.
  • 2 Sam 13:22 : 22 And Absalom spake unto his brother Amnon neither good nor bad: for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar.
  • 2 Chr 26:14-15 : 14 And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host shields, and spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and slings [to cast] stones. 15 And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal. And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped, till he was strong.
  • 2 Chr 32:5 : 5 Also he strengthened himself, and built up all the wall that was broken, and raised [it] up to the towers, and another wall without, and repaired Millo [in] the city of David, and made darts and shields in abundance.

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  • 2 Chr 11:10-11
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    85%

    10And Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron, which [are] in Judah and in Benjamin fenced cities.

    11And he fortified the strong holds, and put captains in them, and store of victual, and of oil and wine.

  • 2 Chr 32:5-6
    2 verses
    77%

    5Also he strengthened himself, and built up all the wall that was broken, and raised [it] up to the towers, and another wall without, and repaired Millo [in] the city of David, and made darts and shields in abundance.

    6And he set captains of war over the people, and gathered them together to him in the street of the gate of the city, and spake comfortably to them, saying,

  • 2 Chr 17:1-2
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    1¶ And Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead, and strengthened himself against Israel.

    2And 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.

  • 2 Chr 27:4
    74%

    4Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.

  • 2 Chr 17:12-13
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    12And Jehoshaphat waxed great exceedingly; and he built in Judah castles, and cities of store.

    13And he had much business in the cities of Judah: and the men of war, mighty men of valour, [were] in Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 14:6-8
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    73%

    6And he built fenced cities in Judah: for the land had rest, and he had no war in those years; because the LORD had given him rest.

    7Therefore he said unto Judah, Let us build these cities, and make about [them] walls, and towers, gates, and bars, [while] the land [is] yet before us; because we have sought the LORD our God, we have sought [him], and he hath given us rest on every side. So they built and prospered.

    8And Asa had an army [of men] that bare targets and spears, out of Judah three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin, that bare shields and drew bows, two hundred and fourscore thousand: all these [were] mighty men of valour.

  • Neh 4:16
    72%

    16¶ And it came to pass from that time forth, [that] the half of my servants wrought in the work, and the other half of them held both the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the habergeons; and the rulers [were] behind all the house of Judah.

  • 2 Chr 33:14
    72%

    14Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah.

  • 2 Chr 11:13
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    13¶ And the priests and the Levites that [were] in all Israel resorted to him out of all their coasts.

  • 2 Chr 12:4
    72%

    4And he took the fenced cities which [pertained] to Judah, and came to Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 17:17-19
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    72%

    17And of Benjamin; Eliada a mighty man of valour, and with him armed men with bow and shield two hundred thousand.

    18And next him [was] Jehozabad, and with him an hundred and fourscore thousand ready prepared for the war.

    19These waited on the king, beside [those] whom the king put in the fenced cities throughout all Judah.

  • 2 Chr 15:9
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    9And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and the strangers with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon: for they fell to him out of Israel in abundance, when they saw that the LORD his God [was] with him.

  • 2 Chr 26:6
    71%

    6And he went forth and warred against the Philistines, and brake down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod, and built cities about Ashdod, and among the Philistines.

  • 2 Chr 26:13-15
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    71%

    13And under their hand [was] an army, three hundred thousand and seven thousand and five hundred, that made war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy.

    14And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host shields, and spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and slings [to cast] stones.

    15And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal. And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped, till he was strong.

  • 2 Kgs 11:10
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    10And to the captains over hundreds did the priest give king David's spears and shields, that [were] in the temple of the LORD.

  • 2 Chr 11:5
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    5And Rehoboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and built cities for defence in Judah.

  • 1 Chr 12:16
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    16And there came of the children of Benjamin and Judah to the hold unto David.

  • 2 Chr 19:5
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    5¶ And he set judges in the land throughout all the fenced cities of Judah, city by city,

  • 1 Chr 12:24
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    24The children of Judah that bare shield and spear [were] six thousand and eight hundred, ready armed to the war.

  • Neh 11:36
    70%

    36And of the Levites [were] divisions [in] Judah, [and] in Benjamin.

  • 2 Chr 11:23
    70%

    23And he dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his children throughout all the countries of Judah and Benjamin, unto every fenced city: and he gave them victual in abundance. And he desired many wives.

  • 2 Chr 23:9-10
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    70%

    9Moreover Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains of hundreds spears, and bucklers, and shields, that [had been] king David's, which [were] in the house of God.

    10And he set all the people, every man having his weapon in his hand, from the right side of the temple to the left side of the temple, along by the altar and the temple, by the king round about.

  • Neh 4:13
    69%

    13Therefore set I in the lower places behind the wall, [and] on the higher places, I even set the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows.

  • 1 Chr 11:10
    69%

    10¶ These also [are] the chief of the mighty men whom David had, who strengthened themselves with him in his kingdom, [and] with all Israel, to make him king, according to the word of the LORD concerning Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 14:27
    69%

    27And king Rehoboam made in their stead brasen shields, and committed [them] unto the hands of the chief of the guard, which kept the door of the king's house.

  • 2 Chr 8:5
    69%

    5Also he built Bethhoron the upper, and Bethhoron the nether, fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars;

  • 2 Chr 34:6
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    6And [so did he] in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks round about.

  • Neh 11:3
    69%

    3Now these [are] the chief of the province that dwelt in Jerusalem: but in the cities of Judah dwelt every one in his possession in their cities, [to wit], Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon's servants.

  • 2 Sam 24:7
    69%

    7And came to the strong hold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites: and they went out to the south of Judah, [even] to Beersheba.

  • 2 Sam 2:9
    69%

    9And made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel.

  • 2 Chr 12:10
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    10Instead of which king Rehoboam made shields of brass, and committed [them] to the hands of the chief of the guard, that kept the entrance of the king's house.

  • 2 Sam 17:11
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    11Therefore I counsel that all Israel be generally gathered unto thee, from Dan even to Beersheba, as the sand that [is] by the sea for multitude; and that thou go to battle in thine own person.

  • Jer 1:18
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    18For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an iron pillar, and brasen walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land.

  • Ezra 1:6
    68%

    6And all they that [were] about them strengthened their hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, and with beasts, and with precious things, beside all [that] was willingly offered.

  • 2 Chr 25:5
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    5Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and made them captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, according to the houses of [their] fathers, throughout all Judah and Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and above, and found them three hundred thousand choice [men, able] to go forth to war, that could handle spear and shield.

  • 1 Chr 18:7
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    7And David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadarezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 11:1
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    1¶ And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he gathered of the house of Judah and Benjamin an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen [men], which were warriors, to fight against Israel, that he might bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam.

  • 2 Sam 8:7
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    7And David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.