2 Chronicles 26:10

And he built towers in the wilderness, and dug many wells, for he had many cattle in the low country and in the plain; and vinedressers in the mountain country and in Carmel: for he was a husbandman.

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In The King James Version

Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen also, and vine dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry.

In Context

9And Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem, both at the gate of the corner and at the valley gate, and at the corners, and he fortified them.

11And Uzziah had a host of warriors, and that went out orderly to war, and returned orderly in number; and their number was made by the hand of Jeiel the scribe, and Maaseiah the judge, by the hand of Ananias the king’s deputy.

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Cross References

Joshua 15:55Maon, and Carmel, and Ziph, and Juttah,

2 Kings 3:4And Mesha king of Moab was a sheepmaster, and he rendered to the king of Israel in the beginning of the year, a hundred thousand lambs, and a hundred thousand rams, with the wool.

1 Chronicles 27:26And over the husbandmen who tilled the ground was Ezri the son of Chelub.

1 Chronicles 27:29And over the oxen pasturing in Sharon was Shitrai the Sharonite; and over the oxen in the valleys was Shaphat the son of Adlai.

2 Chronicles 17:13And he had many works in Judea: and the mighty men of war, the men of strength, were in Jerusalem.

Ecclesiastes 5:8Also the abundance of the earth is for everyone: 1 The king is dependent on the tilled field. 1

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 26:2-16

Uzziah's Prosperity. ( b. c. 800.) 1 Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah. 2 He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers. 3 Sixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Jecoliah of Jerusalem. 4 And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord , according to all that his father Amaziah did. 5 And he… Read the whole commentary →

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