2 Chronicles 17:19
These [are] those serving the king, apart from those whom the king put in the fortress cities in all of Judah.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
These waited on the king, beside those whom the king put in the fenced cities throughout all Judah.
In Context
18and at his hand [is] Jehozabad, and with him one hundred and eighty thousand armed ones of the host.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 11:12and in each and every city [he puts] bucklers and spears, and strengthens them very greatly; and he has Judah and Benjamin.
2 Chronicles 17:2and puts a force in all the fortified cities of Judah, and puts garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim that his father Asa had captured.
2 Chronicles 33:14And after this he has built an outer wall for the City of David, on the west of Gihon, in the valley, and at the entering in at the Fish Gate, and it has gone around to the tower, and he makes it exceedingly high, and he puts heads of the force in all the cities of the bulwarks in Judah.
Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 17:11-19
Jehoshaphat's Prosperity. ( b. c. 911.) 10 And the fear of the Lord fell upon all the kingdoms of the lands that were round about Judah, so that they made no war against Jehoshaphat. 11 Also some of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat presents, and tribute silver; and the Arabians brought him flocks, seven thousand and seven hundred rams, and seven thousand and seven hundred he goats. 12 And Jehoshaphat waxed great exceedingly; and he built in Judah castles, and cities of store. 13 And he had much business in the… Read the whole commentary →