2 Chronicles 17:2
He assigned troops to every fortified city of Judah and placed garrisons throughout Judah and in the towns of Ephraim that his father Asa had captured.
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1Asa's son Jehoshaphat took over as king. He strengthened his country's defenses against Israel.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 11:5Rehoboam stayed in Jerusalem, and he strengthened the defenses of the towns in Judah.
2 Chronicles 13:19Abijah chased Jeroboam and captured some towns from him: Bethel, Jeshanah, and Ephron, along with their villages.
2 Chronicles 17:19These were the men who served the king, in addition to those he assigned to the fortified towns throughout Judah.
Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 17:2-10
Jehoshaphat Succeeds Asa. ( b. c. 914.) 1 And Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead, and strengthened himself against Israel. 2 And he placed forces in all the fenced cities of Judah, and set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken. 3 And the Lord was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and sought not unto Baalim; 4 But sought to the Lord God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not after the doings of… Read the whole commentary →