King James Version
What Does 2 Chronicles 27:4 Mean?
“Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.”
Context
2
And 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.
3
He built the high gate of the house of the LORD, and on the wall of Ophel he built much. Ophel: or, the tower
4
Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.
5
He 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. So: Heb. This
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So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the LORD his God. prepared: or, established
Commentary
Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers(4) **Moreover.**—Literally, *and cities built he in the hill region of Judah.* (Comp. 2Chronicles 26:10.)
**Castles.**—*Bîrânîyôth;* a term explained at 2Chronicles 17:12. The contemporary prophets denounced the popular confidence in “fenced cities” as a kind of treason against Jehovah, who was Himself the shield and fortress of His people (Psalm 18:1; Isaiah 12:2). “Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth palaces; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof” (Hosea 8:14. Comp. Isaiah 2:15; Isaiah 17:3-4).
Charles John Ellicott (1819–1905). Public Domain.
Historical Context
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