2 Chronicles 8:2-6

8:2 Solomon rebuilt the cities that Huram ¹  had given him and settled Israelites there. 8:3 Solomon went to Hamath Zobah and seized it. 8:4 He built up Tadmor in the wilderness and all the storage cities he had built in Hamath. 8:5 He made upper Beth Horon and lower Beth Horon fortified cities with walls and barred gates, ²  8:6 and built up Baalath, all the storage cities that belonged to him, ³  and all the cities where chariots and horses were kept. ⁴  He built whatever he wanted in Jerusalem, ⁵  Lebanon, and throughout his entire kingdom. ⁶ 

2 Chronicles 14:6-7

14:6 He built fortified cities throughout Judah, for the land was at rest and there was no war during those years; the Lord gave him peace. 14:7 He said to the people of Judah: ⁷  “Let’s build these cities and fortify them with walls, towers, and barred gates. ⁸  The land remains ours because we have followed ⁹  the Lord our God and he has made us secure on all sides.” ¹⁰  So they built the cities ¹¹  and prospered.

2 Chronicles 16:6

16:6 King Asa ordered all the men of Judah to carry away the stones and wood that Baasha had used to build Ramah. ¹²  He used the materials to build up ¹³  Geba and Mizpah.

2 Chronicles 17:12

17:12 Jehoshaphat’s power kept increasing. He built fortresses and storage cities throughout Judah.

2 Chronicles 26:6

26:6 Uzziah attacked ¹⁴  the Philistines and broke down the walls of Gath, Jabneh, and Ashdod. He built cities in the region of Ashdod and throughout Philistine territory. ¹⁵ 

2 Chronicles 27:4

27:4 He built cities in the hill country of Judah and fortresses and towers in the forests.

Isaiah 22:8-11

22:8 They ¹⁶  removed the defenses ¹⁷  of Judah.

At that time ¹⁸  you looked

for the weapons in the House of the Forest. ¹⁹ 

22:9 You saw the many breaks

in the walls of the city of David; ²⁰ 

you stored up water in the lower pool.

22:10 You counted the houses in Jerusalem, ²¹ 

and demolished houses so you could have material to reinforce the wall. ²² 

22:11 You made a reservoir between the two walls

for the water of the old pool –

but you did not trust in ²³  the one who made it; ²⁴ 

you did not depend on ²⁵  the one who formed it long ago!

[8:2]  ¹ tn Heb “Huram” (also in v. 18). Some medieval Hebrew mss, along with the LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate spell the name “Hiram,” agreeing with 1 Chr 14:1. “Huram” is a variant spelling referring to the same individual.

[8:5]  ² tn Heb “and he built…[as] cities of fortification, [with] walls, doors, and a bar.”

[8:6]  ³ tn Heb “Solomon.” The recurrence of the proper name is unexpected in terms of contemporary English style, so the pronoun has been used in the translation instead.

[8:6]  ⁴ tn Heb “the cities of the chariots and the cities of the horses.”

[8:6]  ⁵ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[8:6]  ⁶ tn Heb “and all the desire of Solomon which he desired to build in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land of his kingdom.”

[14:7]  ⁷ tn The words “the people of” are supplied in the translation for clarification. The Hebrew text uses the name “Judah” by metonymy for the people of Judah.

[14:7]  ⁸ tn Heb “and we will surround [them] with wall[s] and towers, doors, and bars.”

[14:7]  ⁹ tn Heb “sought.”

[14:7]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and he has given us rest all around.”

[14:7]  ¹¹ tn The words “the cities” are supplied in the translation for clarification and for stylistic reasons.

[16:6]  ¹² tn Heb “and King Asa took all Judah and they carried away the stones of Ramah and its wood which Baasha had built.”

[16:6]  ¹³ tn Heb “and he built with them.”

[26:6]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “went out and fought.”

[26:6]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “in Ashdod and among the Philistines.”

[22:8]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “he,” i.e., the enemy invader. NASB, by its capitalization of the pronoun, takes this to refer to the Lord.

[22:8]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “covering.”

[22:8]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “in that day” (so KJV), likewise at the beginning of v. 12.

[22:8]  ¹⁹ sn Perhaps this refers to a royal armory, or to Solomon’s “House of the Forest of Lebanon,” where weapons may have been kept (see 1 Kgs 10:16-17).

[22:9]  ²⁰ tn Heb “the breaks of the city of David, you saw that they were many.”

[22:10]  ²¹ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[22:10]  ²² tn Heb “you demolished the houses to fortify the wall.”

[22:11]  ²³ tn Heb “look at”; NAB, NRSV “did not look to.”

[22:11]  ²⁴ tn The antecedent of the third feminine singular suffix here and in the next line is unclear. The closest feminine noun is “pool” in the first half of the verse. Perhaps this “old pool” symbolizes the entire city, which had prospered because of God’s provision and protection through the years.

[22:11]  ²⁵ tn Heb “did not see.”