2 Tawarikh 26:10

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Ia mendirikan juga menara-menara di padang gurun dan menggali banyak sumur, karena banyak ternaknya, baik di Dataran Rendah maupun di Dataran Tinggi. Juga ia mempunyai petani-petani dan penjaga-penjaga kebun anggur, di gunung-gunung dan di tanah yang subur, karena ia suka pada pertanian.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Ia mendirikan juga menara-menara di padang gurun dan menggali banyak sumur, karena banyak ternaknya, baik di Dataran Rendah maupun di Dataran Tinggi. Juga ia mempunyai petani-petani dan penjaga-penjaga kebun anggur, di gunung-gunung dan di tanah yang subur, karena ia suka pada pertanian.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Dan lagi dibangunkannya beberapa menara di padang belantara, dan digalinya perigi yang besar-besar, karena adalah padanya banyak binatang, baik di tanah datar baik di padang, dan beberapa orang peladang dan tukang kebun anggur di atas bukit-bukit dan di Karmel, karena sukalah baginda akan perusahaan tanah.

Contextual Overview

¹ Then all the people of Iuda toke Uzzia, which was sixteene yeres olde, & made him king in the roome of his father Amaziahu. ² And he built Eloth, and brought it againe to Iuda, after that the king was layde to sleepe with his fathers. ³ Sixteene yeres olde was Uzzia when he began to raigne, and he raigned fiftie and two yeres in Hierusalem: His mothers name also was Iecholia, of Hierusalem. ⁴ And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lorde, according to all as did his father Amaziahu. ⁵ And [it came to passe that] he sought God in the dayes of Zachariahu, who had vnderstanding in the visions of God: And as long as he sought the Lorde, God made him to prosper. ⁶ And he went to battaile against the Philistines, and brake downe the wall of Geth, and the wall of Iabne, and the wall of Asdod, & built cities about Asdod and among the Philistines. ⁷ And God holpe him against the Philistines and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gur baal and Hamehunim. ⁸ And the Ammonites gaue tribute to Uzzia, & his name spread abrode euen to the entring in of Egypt: for he played the man exceedingly. ⁹ Moreouer, Uzzia built towres in Hierusalem by the corner gate, and by the valley gate, and at the turning of the wall, and made them strong. ¹⁰ And he built towres in the wildernesse, and digged many welles: For he had much cattaile in the valleyes & playnes, plowmen and vinedressers in the mountaines and in Charmel: for he loued husbandry.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

digged many wells: or, cut out many cisterns, Genesis 26:18-21

he had much: 2 Kings 3:4, 1 Chronicles 27:26-31

Carmel: or, fruitful fields, 2 Kings 19:23, Isaiah 29:17

husbandry: Heb. ground

Reciprocal: Genesis 47:6 - rulers Joshua 15:55 - Maon 1 Samuel 8:11 - He will take 1 Samuel 21:7 - herdmen 2 Samuel 13:23 - sheepshearers 2 Kings 18:8 - from the tower 1 Chronicles 27:25 - the storehouses 2 Chronicles 17:13 - much business 2 Chronicles 26:15 - to shoot arrows 2 Chronicles 27:4 - he built cities 2 Chronicles 32:28 - Storehouses 2 Chronicles 32:29 - possessions Job 1:3 - household Proverbs 27:23 - diligent Ecclesiastes 2:4 - I planted Ecclesiastes 2:7 - also Hosea 8:14 - and Judah

Cross-References

Genesis 26:9
And Abimelech called Isahac, and said: beholde, she is of a suretie thy wife, and why saydest thou, she is my sister? To whom Isahac aunswered: because I thought that I might peraduenture haue dyed for her sake.

Genesis 26:10
Abimelech said: why hast thou done this vnto vs? one of the people myght lyghtly haue lyne by thy wyfe, and so shouldest thou haue brought sinne vpon vs.

Genesis 26:18
And Isahac returning, digged againe the welles of water which they digged in the dayes of Abraham his father, which the Philistines had stopped after the death of Abraham, & named them after the same names by the which his father had named them.

Genesis 26:19
Isahacs seruauntes digged in the valley, and founde a well of springyng water.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Also he built towers in the desert,.... In the desert of Arabia, to protect travellers from thieves and robbers, and particularly shepherds and their flocks, as appears by what follows; which a certain writer p thinks are the same which the Indians call pagodas; not such as served for temples, but were buildings encompassed with good walls, where flocks were gathered together in case of any alarm:

and digged many wells; for the watering of the flocks, which in those hot and desert places were of great use:

for he had much cattle, both in the low country and in the plains; both flocks and herds:

husbandmen also, and vinedressers in the mountains; husbandmen to take care of the corn, and manure the land for that, and gather it when ripe; and vinedressers to prune the vines, and look after them; which were very often planted on mountains, and on which also corn grew, Psalms 72:16

and in Carmel; a place in the tribe of Judah, where Nabal dwelt, 1 Samuel 25:2 or it may be put for any fruitful field:

for he loved husbandry; not only the profit, but the exercise of it at times; and it was usual with great personages in the eastern countries to employ themselves in some such way; Saul after he was king attended the herd, 1 Samuel 11:5, Mesha king of Moab was a sheep master, 2 Kings 3:4, among the Romans, Quinctius Cincinnatus and Cato Major q were great lovers of husbandry; and we read of one of the Chinese emperors that gave himself to husbandry, held the plough himself, broke the clods, and cast in the seed, to set an example to the whole empire r. Another of their emperors gave himself wholly to husbandry s; an other chose an husbandman for his successor, and who also encouraged husbandry t.

p Agreement of Customs between the East Indians and Jews, art. 13. p. 61. q In Cicero de Senectute. r Martin. Sinic. Hist. l. 8. p. 326. s Ib. l. 4. p. 92. t Ib. l. 1. p. 29, 32.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He built towers in the desert - Refuges for the flocks and the herdsmen in the wild pasture country on the borders of the holy land, especially toward the south and southeast.

Wells - The marginal translation is preferable. Judaea depends largely for its water-supply on reservoirs in which the rain-fall is stored. These are generally cut in the natural rock, and covered at top.

For he had much cattle ... - Some prefer, “for he had much cattle there, and in the low country, and on the dawns,” with allusion to three pasture districts:

(1) The “wilderness,” or high tract to the south and southeast, extending from the western shores of the Dead Sea to the vicinity of Beersheba;

(2) The “low country,” or maritime plain on the west, between the hills of Judaea and the sea; and

(3) The “downs,” or rich grazing land beyond the Jordan, on the plateau of Gilead. Uzziah’s possession of this last-named district must have been connected with the submission of the Ammonites (see 2 Chronicles 26:8).

In the mountains, and in Carmel - These terms describe Judaea Proper - the hilly tract between the low maritime plain on the one side, and the wilderness and Jordan valley on the other. By “Carmel” we must understand, not the mountain of that name, which belonged to Samaria, but the cultivated portions of the Judaean hill-tract (see the margin).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Chronicles 26:10. Built towers in the desert — For the defence of his flocks, and his shepherds and husbandmen.

And in Carmel — Calmet remarks that there were two Carmels in Judea: one in the tribe of Judah, where Nabal lived, and the other on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, near to Kishon; and both fertile in vines.

He loved husbandry. — This is a perfection in a king: on husbandry every state depends. Let their trade or commerce be what they may, there can be no true national prosperity if agriculture do not prosper; for the king himself is served by the field. When, therefore, the king of a country encourages agriculture, an emulation is excited among his subjects; the science is cultivated; and the earth yields its proper increase; then, should trade and commerce fail, the people cannot be reduced to wretchedness, because there is plenty of bread.