2 Chronicles 11:12

World English Bible (2000)

In every city [he put] shields and spears, and made them exceeding strong. Judah and Benjamin belonged to him.

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  • 2 Sam 13:19 : 19 Tamar put ashes on her head, and tore her garment of various colors that was on her; and she laid her hand on her head, and went her way, crying aloud as she went.
  • 2 Sam 13:22 : 22 Absalom spoke to Amnon neither good nor bad; for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar.
  • 2 Chr 26:14-15 : 14 Uzziah prepared for them, even for all the army, shields, and spears, and helmets, and coats of mail, and bows, and stones for slinging. 15 He made in Jerusalem engines, invented by skillful men, to be on the towers and on the battlements, with which to shoot arrows and great stones. His name spread far abroad; for he was marvelously helped, until he was strong.
  • 2 Chr 32:5 : 5 He took courage, and built up all the wall that was broken down, and raised [it] up to the towers, and the other wall outside, and strengthened Millo [in] the city of David, and made weapons and shields in abundance.

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  • 2 Chr 11:10-11
    2 verses
    85%

    10 and Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron, which are in Judah and in Benjamin, fortified cities.

    11 He fortified the strongholds, and put captains in them, and stores of food, and oil and wine.

  • 2 Chr 32:5-6
    2 verses
    77%

    5 He took courage, and built up all the wall that was broken down, and raised [it] up to the towers, and the other wall outside, and strengthened Millo [in] the city of David, and made weapons and shields in abundance.

    6 He set captains of war over the people, and gathered them together to him in the broad place at the gate of the city, and spoke comfortably to them, saying,

  • 2 Chr 17:1-2
    2 verses
    76%

    1 Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his place, and strengthened himself against Israel.

    2 He placed forces in all the fortified 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%

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

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

    13 He had many works in the cities of Judah; and men of war, mighty men of valor, in Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 14:6-8
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    73%

    6 He built fortified cities in Judah; for the land was quiet, and he had no war in those years, because Yahweh had given him rest.

    7 For he said to Judah, "Let us build these cities, and make walls around them, with towers, gates, and bars. The land is yet before us, because we have sought Yahweh our God; we have sought him, and he has given us rest on every side." So they built and prospered.

    8 Asa had an army that bore bucklers and spears, out of Judah three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin, that bore shields and drew bows, two hundred eighty thousand: all these were mighty men of valor.

  • Neh 4:16
    72%

    16 It happened from that time forth, that half of my servants worked in the work, and half of them held the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the coats of mail; and the rulers were behind all the house of Judah.

  • 2 Chr 33:14
    72%

    14 Now after this he built an outer wall to the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance at the fish gate; and he encircled Ophel [with it], and raised it up to a very great height: and he put valiant captains in all the fortified cities of Judah.

  • 2 Chr 11:13
    72%

    13 The priests and the Levites who were in all Israel resorted to him out of all their border.

  • 2 Chr 12:4
    72%

    4 He took the fortified cities which pertained to Judah, and came to Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 17:17-19
    3 verses
    72%

    17 Of Benjamin: Eliada a mighty man of valor, and with him two hundred thousand armed with bow and shield;

    18 and next to him Jehozabad and with him one hundred eighty thousand ready prepared for war.

    19 These were those who waited on the king, besides those whom the king put in the fortified cities throughout all Judah.

  • 2 Chr 15:9
    72%

    9 He gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and those who lived 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 Yahweh his God was with him.

  • 2 Chr 26:6
    71%

    6 He went forth and warred against the Philistines, and broke down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod; and he built cities in [the country of] Ashdod, and among the Philistines.

  • 2 Chr 26:13-15
    3 verses
    71%

    13 Under their hand was an army, three hundred thousand and seven thousand and five hundred, who made war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy.

    14 Uzziah prepared for them, even for all the army, shields, and spears, and helmets, and coats of mail, and bows, and stones for slinging.

    15 He made in Jerusalem engines, invented by skillful men, to be on the towers and on the battlements, with which to shoot arrows and great stones. His name spread far abroad; for he was marvelously helped, until he was strong.

  • 2 Kgs 11:10
    71%

    10 The priest delivered to the captains over hundreds the spears and shields that had been king David's, which were in the house of Yahweh.

  • 2 Chr 11:5
    71%

    5 Rehoboam lived in Jerusalem, and built cities for defense in Judah.

  • 1 Chr 12:16
    71%

    16 There came of the children of Benjamin and Judah to the stronghold to David.

  • 2 Chr 19:5
    70%

    5 He set judges in the land throughout all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city,

  • 1 Chr 12:24
    70%

    24 The children of Judah who bore shield and spear were six thousand and eight hundred, armed for war.

  • Neh 11:36
    70%

    36 Of the Levites, certain divisions in Judah [were joined] to Benjamin.

  • 2 Chr 11:23
    70%

    23 He dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his sons throughout all the lands of Judah and Benjamin, to every fortified city: and he gave them food in abundance. He sought [for them] many wives.

  • 2 Chr 23:9-10
    2 verses
    70%

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

    10 He set all the people, every man with his weapon in his hand, from the right side of the house to the left side of the house, along by the altar and the house, around the king.

  • Neh 4:13
    69%

    13 Therefore set I in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, in the open places, I set [there] the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows.

  • 1 Chr 11:10
    69%

    10 Now these are the chief of the mighty men whom David had, who showed themselves strong with him in his kingdom, together with all Israel, to make him king, according to the word of Yahweh concerning Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 14:27
    69%

    27 King Rehoboam made in their place shields of brass, and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard, who kept the door of the king's house.

  • 2 Chr 8:5
    69%

    5 Also he built Beth Horon the upper, and Beth Horon the lower, fortified cities, with walls, gates, and bars;

  • 2 Chr 34:6
    69%

    6 [So did he] in the cities of Manasseh and Ephraim and Simeon, even to Naphtali, around in their ruins.

  • Neh 11:3
    69%

    3 Now these are the chiefs of the province who lived in Jerusalem: but in the cities of Judah lived everyone in his possession in their cities, [to wit], Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon's servants.

  • 2 Sam 24:7
    69%

    7 and came to the stronghold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites; and they went out to the south of Judah, at Beersheba.

  • 2 Sam 2:9
    69%

    9 and he 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
    68%

    10 King Rehoboam made in their place shields of brass, and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard, who kept the door of the king's house.

  • 2 Sam 17:11
    68%

    11 But I counsel that all Israel be gathered together to you, from Dan even to Beersheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that you go to battle in your own person.

  • Jer 1:18
    68%

    18 For, behold, I have made you this day a fortified city, and an iron pillar, and bronze walls, against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against its princes, against its priests, and against the people of the land.

  • Ezra 1:6
    68%

    6 All those who were around them strengthened their hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, and with animals, and with precious things, besides all that was willingly offered.

  • 2 Chr 25:5
    68%

    5 Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and ordered them according to their fathers' houses, under captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, even all Judah and Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and upward, and found them three hundred thousand chosen men, able to go forth to war, who could handle spear and shield.

  • 1 Chr 18:7
    68%

    7 David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 11:1
    68%

    1 When Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled the house of Judah and Benjamin, one hundred eighty thousand chosen men, who were warriors, to fight against Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam.

  • 2 Sam 8:7
    68%

    7 David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.