◄ 2 Chronicles 12:4 ►
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Good News Translation
He captured the fortified cities of Judah and advanced as far as Jerusalem.

New Revised Standard Version
He took the fortified cities of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem.

Contemporary English Version
He captured every one of the fortified cities in Judah and then marched to Jerusalem.

New American Bible
They captured the fortified cities of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he took the strongest cities in Juda, and came to Jerusalem.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he took the strongest cities in Juda, and came to Jerusalem.

the fenced

2 Chronicles 11:5-12 And Roboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and built walled cities in Juda. . . .

Isaiah 36:1 And it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Ezechias, that Sennacherib king of the Assyrians came up against all the fenced cities of Juda, and took them.

Jeremiah 5:10 Scale the walls thereof, and throw them down, but do not utterly destroy: take away the branches thereof, because they are not the Lord's.

came

2 Kings 18:17 And the king of the Assyrians sent Tharthan, and Rabsaris, and Rabsaces, from Lachis, to king Ezechias, with a strong army, to Jerusalem: and they went up and came to Jerusalem, and they stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the way of the fuller's field.

Isaiah 8:8 And shall pass through Juda, overflowing, and going over shall reach even to the neck. And the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy, land, O Emmanuel.

Isaiah 10:11 Shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?

Context
Shishak Raids Jerusalem
…3With twelve hundred chariots and threescore thousand horsemen: and the people were without number that came with him out of Egypt, to wit, Libyans, and Troglodites, and Ethiopians. 4And he took the strongest cities in Juda, and came to Jerusalem.5And Semeias the prophet came to Roboam, and to the princes of Juda, that were gathered together in Jerusalem, fleeing from Sesac, and he said to them: Thus saith the Lord: You have left me, and I have left you in the hand of Sesac.…
Cross References
Numbers 31:43
But out of the half that fell to the rest of the multitude, that is to say, out of the three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep,

2 Chronicles 11:5
And Roboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and built walled cities in Juda.

2 Chronicles 12:3
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