2 Chronicles 26:6

Uzziah went out and fought against the Philistines. He broke down the city walls of Gath, Jabneh, and Ashdod; he built cities in the country of Ashdod and among the Philistines.

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And he went forth and warred against the Philistines, and brake down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod, and built cities about Ashdod, and among the Philistines.

In Context

5He set himself to seek God in the days of Zechariah, who taught him to honor God + 26:5 The Hebrew text can be read either, to honor God , or in the fear of God or in seeing God . Scholars are divided. . As long as he sought Yahweh, God made him prosper.

7God helped him against the Philistines, against the Arabians who lived in Gurbaal, and against the Meunites.

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Cross References

Joshua 15:47Ashdod, its surrounding towns, including their villages; Gaza, its surrounding towns including their villages; to the brook of Egypt, and to the Great Sea with its coastline.

1 Samuel 5:6Yahweh's hand was heavy upon the people of Ashdod. He destroyed them and afflicted them with tumors, both Ashdod and its territories.

1 Chronicles 18:1After this it came about that David attacked the Philistines and defeated them. He took Gath and its villages out of the Philistines' control.

2 Chronicles 21:16Yahweh stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines and of the Arabians who were near the Cushites.

Isaiah 20:1In the year that Tartan came to Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him, he fought against Ashdod and took it.

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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