2 Chronicles 12:4
What does 2 Chronicles 12:4 mean?
A plain-English look at 2 Chronicles 12:4 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And he took the fortified cities which pertained to Judah, and came unto Jerusalem.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And he took the fenced cities which pertained to Judah, and came to Jerusalem.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And he took the fortified cities which pertained to Judah, and came unto Jerusalem.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949And he took the walled towns of Judah, and came as far as Jerusalem.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862and he captureth the cities of the bulwarks that <FI>are<Fi> to Judah, and cometh in unto Jerusalem.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752And he took the strongest cities in Juda, and came to Jerusalem.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And he took the fortified cities that belonged to Judah, and came to Jerusalem.
Context
v.3with twelve hundred chariots, and threescore thousand horsemen. And the people were without number that came with him out of Egypt: the Lubim, the Sukkiim, and the Ethiopians.
v.4This passage
v.5Now Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam, and to the princes of Judah, that were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said unto them, Thus saith Jehovah, Ye have forsaken me, therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shishak.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Isaiah 10:11
shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?
- Jeremiah 5:10
Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her branches; for they are not Jehovah’s.
- 2 Kings 18:17
And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rab-saris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great army unto Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller’s field.
- Isaiah 8:8
and it shall sweep onward into Judah; it shall overflow and pass through; it shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of its wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.
- 2 Chronicles 11:5
And Rehoboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and built cities for defence in Judah.
- Isaiah 36:1
Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and took them.