KJV King James Version
Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.
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2 Chronicles 27:4
Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
He also built cities in the hill country of Judah and fortresses and towers in the forests.
WEB World English Bible
Moreover he built cities in the hill country of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.
ASV American Standard Version
Moreover he built cities in the hill-country of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and cities he hath built in the hill-country of Judah, and in the forests he hath built palaces and towers.
Surrounding context — 2 Chronicles 27
1 Jotham [was] twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also [was] Jerushah, the daughter of Zadok.
2 And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Uzziah did: howbeit he entered not into the temple of the LORD. And the people did yet corruptly.
3 He built the high gate of the house of the LORD, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.
4 Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.
5 He fought also with the king of the Ammonites, and prevailed against them. And the children of Ammon gave him the same year an hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the children of Ammon pay unto him, both the second year, and the third.
6 So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the LORD his God.
7 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and his ways, lo, they [are] written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.
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2 Chronicles 11:5-10And Rehoboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and built cities for defence in Judah.2 Chronicles 26:9-10Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate, and at the valley gate, and at the turning [of the wall], and fortified them.Joshua 14:12-13Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof the LORD spake in that day; for thou heardest in that day how the Anakims [were] there, and [that] the cities [were] great [and] fenced: if so be the LORD [will be] with me, then I shall be able to drive them out, as the LORD said.Luke 1:39And Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Juda;2 Chronicles 14:7Therefore 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.
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