2 Chronicles 12:4
And he captured the arei hametzurot (fortified cities) which are of Yehudah, and came as far as Yerushalayim.
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
And he took the fenced cities which pertained to Judah, and came to Jerusalem.
In Context
Cross References
2 Kings 18:17And Melech Ashur sent Tartan and Rav Saris and Rav Shakeh from Lakhish to Melech Chizkiyah with a large army against Yerushalayim. And they went up and came to Yerushalayim. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the te'alat haberekhah haelyonah (aqueduct of the Upper Pool), on the highway of the Sadeh of the Launderer.
Isaiah 8:8And he shall swirl into Yehudah; 1 he shall overflow and go over, 1 he shall reach even to the neck; 1 and the stretching out of his wings 1 shall fill the breadth of Thy eretz, O Immanu El. 1
Isaiah 36:1Now it came to pass in the fourteenth shanah of Melech Chizkiyah, that Sancheriv Melech Ashur came up against all the fortified cities of Yehudah, and captured them.
Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 12:2-13
Abijah's Reign over Judah. ( b. c. 970.) 1 And it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the kingdom, and had strengthened himself, he forsook the law of the Lord , and all Israel with him. 2 And it came to pass, that in the fifth year of king Rehoboam Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had transgressed against the Lord , 3 With twelve hundred chariots, and threescore thousand horsemen: and the people were without number that came with him out of Egypt; the Lubims, the Sukkiims, and… Read the whole commentary →