5And Rehoboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and built cities for defence in Judah.
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That the cities which Huram had restored to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there. …
Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.
Then Asa the king took all Judah; and they carried away the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha was building; and he built therewith Geba and Mizpah.
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.
And he discovered the covering of Judah, and thou didst look in that day to the armour of the house of the forest. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-12)How the ten tribes deserted the house of David we read in the foregoing chapter. They had formerly sat loose to that family ( 2 Sam. 20:1 , 2 ), and now they quite threw it off, not considering how much it would weaken the common interest and take Israel down from that pitch of glory at which it had arrived in the last reign. But thus the kingdom must be corrected as well as the house of David. 1.…
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