2 Chronicles 27

2 Chronicles · Chapter 27

2 Chronicles 27:4

1Jotham was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was Jerushah, the daughter of Zadok.2And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Uzziah did: howbeit he entered not into the temple of the LORD. And the people did yet corruptly.3He built the high gate of the house of the LORD, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.4Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.5He fought also with the king of the Ammonites, and prevailed against them. And the children of Ammon gave him the same year an hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the children of Ammon pay unto him, both the second year, and the third.6So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the LORD his God.7Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and his ways, lo, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.8He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.9And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.

King James Version (1769)

Other translations

VerseKJVBSBASV
4Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.He also built cities in the hill country of Judah and fortresses and towers in the forests.Moreover he built cities in the hill-country of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.

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Original Hebrew words

EnglishHebrewSay itStrong'sMeaning
and citiesוְעָרִ֥יםve-'a-RIMH5892B
city

עִיר (ir) 1) city, town (a place of waking, guarded) 1a) city, town (a place of waking, guarded) 1a) city, town

he builtבָּנָ֖הba-NAHH1129
to build

בְּנָה (be.nah) 1) to build 1a) (P'al) to build 1b) (Ithp'il) to be built

in [the] hill country ofבְּהַר־be-har-H2022H
mountain: mount

הַר (har) : mount/hill hill, mountain, hill country, mount

Judahיְהוּדָ֑הye-hu-DAHH3063G
Judah

יְהוּד (ye.hud) A man of the tribe of Judah living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.29.35; son of: Israel (H3478) and Leah (H3812); brother of: Reuben (H7205), Simeon (H8095), Levi (H3878), Issachar (H3485), Zebulun (H2074) and Dinah (H1783); half-brother of: Dan (H1835H), Naphtali (H5321), Gad (H1410), Asher (H0836), Joseph (H3130) and Benjamin (H1144); married to Bath-shua (H1323I) and Tamar (H8559); father of: Er (H6147), Onan (H0209), Shelah (H7956), Perez (H6557) and Zerah (H2226I) Aramaic of ye.hu.dah (יְהוּדָה "Judah" H3063) Judah-the territory of the tribe of Judah

and in the wooded areasוּבֶחֳרָשִׁ֣יםu-ve-cho-ra-SHIMH2793H
wood

חֹ֫רֶשׁ (cho.resh) 1) wood, wooded height, forest, wooded area.

he builtבָּנָ֔הba-NAHH1129
to build

בְּנָה (be.nah) 1) to build 1a) (P'al) to build 1b) (Ithp'il) to be built

fortressesבִּֽירָנִיּ֖וֹתbi-ra-ni-YOTH1003
fortress

בִּירָנִית (bi.ra.nit) fortress, fortified place

and towersוּמִגְדָּלִֽים׃u-mig-da-LIMH4026M
tower

מִגְדָּל (mig.dal) 1) tower 1a) tower 1b) elevated stage, pulpit 1c) raised bed

Words and meanings from STEPBible data (Tyndale House, Cambridge, CC BY 4.0). The capitalized syllable is the stressed one.