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Christian Standard Bible ®

2 Chronicles 17:12

Jehoshaphat grew stronger and stronger. He built fortresses and storage cities in Judah

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Armies;   Castle;   Cities;   Jehoshaphat;   Thompson Chain Reference - Castles;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Kings;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Jehoshaphat;   Jerusalem;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Jehoshaphat;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Preaching;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - City;   Jehoshaphat;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Castle;   Chronicles, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Number;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Jehoshaphat ;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Chronicles, Books of;   City;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Yehoshafat grew great exceedingly; and he built in Yehudah castles and cities of store.
King James Version
And Jehoshaphat waxed great exceedingly; and he built in Judah castles, and cities of store.
English Standard Version
And Jehoshaphat grew steadily greater. He built in Judah fortresses and store cities,
New Century Version
Jehoshaphat grew more and more powerful. He built strong, walled cities and towns for storing supplies in Judah.
New English Translation
Jehoshaphat's power kept increasing. He built fortresses and storage cities throughout Judah.
Amplified Bible
So Jehoshaphat became greater and greater. He built fortresses and storage cities in Judah.
New American Standard Bible
So Jehoshaphat grew greater and greater, and he built fortresses and storage cities in Judah.
World English Bible
Jehoshaphat grew great exceedingly; and he built in Judah castles and cities of store.
Geneva Bible (1587)
So Iehoshaphat prospered and grewe vp on hie: and he built in Iudah palaces and cities of store.
Legacy Standard Bible
So Jehoshaphat grew greater and greater, and he built fortresses and store cities in Judah.
Berean Standard Bible
Jehoshaphat grew stronger and stronger, and he built fortresses and store cities in Judah
Contemporary English Version
As Jehoshaphat became more powerful, he built fortresses and cities
Complete Jewish Bible
So Y'hoshafat grew increasingly powerful. In Y'hudah he built fortresses and storage cities.
Darby Translation
And Jehoshaphat waxed exceeding great; and he built in Judah castles and store-cities.
Easy-to-Read Version
Jehoshaphat became more and more powerful. He built fortresses and storage towns in the country of Judah.
George Lamsa Translation
And Jehoshaphat grew exceedingly rich; and he built in Judah castles and store cities.
Good News Translation
So Jehoshaphat continued to grow more and more powerful. Throughout Judah he built fortifications and cities,
Lexham English Bible
And Jehoshaphat grew greater and greater, and he built fortresses and storage cities in Judah.
Literal Translation
And Jehoshaphat went on to be greater, exceedingly. And he built fortresses and store cities in Judah.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thus increased Iosaphat, & grewe euer greater. And he buylded castels and corne cities in Iuda.
American Standard Version
And Jehoshaphat waxed great exceedingly; and he built in Judah castles and cities of store.
Bible in Basic English
Jehoshaphat became greater and greater, and made strong towers and store-towns in Judah.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And so Iehosaphat prospered, and grew vp an hie: And he built in Iuda castels and cities of store.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Jehoshaphat waxed great exceedingly; and he built in Judah castles and cities of store.
King James Version (1611)
And Iehoshaphat waxed great exceedingly, and he built in Iudah castles, and cities of store.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Josaphat increased in greatness exceedingly, and built in Judea places of abode, and strong cities.
English Revised Version
And Jehoshaphat waxed great exceedingly; and he built in Judah castles and cities of store.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor Josaphat encreesside, and was magnified `til in to an hiy; and he bildide in Juda housis at the licnesse of touris, and stronge citees;
Update Bible Version
And Jehoshaphat waxed great exceedingly; and he built in Judah castles and cities of store.
Webster's Bible Translation
And Jehoshaphat became exceedingly great; and he built in Judah castles, and cities of store.
New King James Version
So Jehoshaphat became increasingly powerful, and he built fortresses and storage cities in Judah.
New Living Translation
So Jehoshaphat became more and more powerful and built fortresses and storage cities throughout Judah.
New Life Bible
So Jehoshaphat became greater and greater. And he built strong places and store-cities in Judah.
New Revised Standard
Jehoshaphat grew steadily greater. He built fortresses and storage cities in Judah.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And so it came to pass that, Jehoshaphat, went on waxing surpassingly great, - and he built, throughout Judah, fortresses and cities for store;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Josaphat grew, and became exceeding great: and he built in Juda houses like towers, and walled cities.
Revised Standard Version
And Jehosh'aphat grew steadily greater. He built in Judah fortresses and store-cities,
Young's Literal Translation
And Jehoshaphat is going on and becoming very great, and he buildeth in Judah palaces and cities of store,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So Jehoshaphat grew greater and greater, and he built fortresses and store cities in Judah.

Contextual Overview

10The terror of the Lord was on all the kingdoms of the lands that surrounded Judah, so they didn’t fight against Jehoshaphat. 11Some of the Philistines also brought gifts and silver as tribute to Jehoshaphat, and the Arabs brought him flocks: 7,700 rams and 7,700 male goats. 12Jehoshaphat grew stronger and stronger. He built fortresses and storage cities in Judah 13and carried out great works in the towns of Judah. He had fighting men, valiant warriors, in Jerusalem. 14These are their numbers according to their ancestral families. For Judah, the commanders of thousands: 15next to him, Jehohanan the commander and two hundred eighty thousand with him; 16next to him, Amasiah son of Zichri, the volunteer of the Lord, and two hundred thousand valiant warriors with him; 17from Benjamin, Eliada, a valiant warrior, and two hundred thousand with him armed with bow and shield; 18next to him, Jehozabad and one hundred eighty thousand with him equipped for war. 19These were the ones who served the king, besides those he stationed in the fortified cities throughout all Judah.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

am 3092-3115, bc 912-889

waxed great: 2 Chronicles 18:1, 1 Chronicles 29:25

in Judah: 2 Chronicles 8:2-6, 2 Chronicles 11:5-12, 2 Chronicles 14:6, 2 Chronicles 14:7, 2 Chronicles 26:6-9, 2 Chronicles 27:4, 2 Chronicles 32:5, 2 Chronicles 32:27-29

castles: or, palaces

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 33:7 - let his hands 1 Samuel 11:8 - the children 1 Chronicles 27:1 - served 2 Chronicles 8:6 - the store cities 2 Chronicles 16:4 - the store cities 2 Chronicles 17:19 - put in

Cross-References

Genesis 17:22
When he finished talking with him, God withdrew from Abraham.
Genesis 17:23
So Abraham took his son Ishmael and those born in his household or purchased—every male among the members of Abraham’s household—and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskin on that very day, just as God had said to him.
Genesis 21:4
When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God had commanded him.
Leviticus 12:3
The flesh of his foreskin must be circumcised on the eighth day.
Luke 1:59
When they came to circumcise the child on the eighth day, they were going to name him Zechariah, after his father.
Luke 2:21
When the eight days were completed for his circumcision, he was named Jesus—the name given by the angel before he was conceived.
Acts 7:8
And so he gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision. After this, he fathered Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day. Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs.
Romans 2:28
For a person is not a Jew who is one outwardly, and true circumcision is not something visible in the flesh.
Philippians 3:5
circumcised the eighth day; of the nation of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew born of Hebrews; regarding the law, a Pharisee;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Jehoshaphat waxed great exceedingly,.... In wealth and riches, power and authority, in his forces and fortifications:

and he built in Judah castles, and cities of stores; castles for the defence of his kingdom, and store cities to lay up corn, and wine, and all provisions, in case of an invasion, or against a time of war.


 
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