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2 Chronicles 12

2 Chron. 12:4 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And he took
lakad (Hebrew #3920)
to catch (in a net, trap or pit); generally, to capture or occupy; also to choose (by lot); figuratively, to cohere
KJV usage: X at all, catch (self), be frozen, be holden, stick together, take.
Pronounce: law-kad'
Origin: a primitive root
the fenced
mtsuwrah (Hebrew #4694)
feminine of 4692; a hemming in, i.e. (objectively) a mound (of siege), or (subjectively) a rampart (of protection), (abstractly) fortification
KJV usage: fenced (city, fort, munition, strong hold.
Pronounce: mets-oo-raw'
Origin: or mtsurah {mets-oo-raw'}
cities
`iyr (Hebrew #5892)
or ayar (Judges 10:4) {aw-yar'}; from 5782 a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)
KJV usage: Ai (from margin), city, court (from margin), town.
Pronounce: eer
Origin: or (in the plural) par {awr}
which pertained to Judah
Yhuwdah (Hebrew #3063)
celebrated; Jehudah (or Judah), the name of five Israelites; also of the tribe descended from the first, and of its territory
KJV usage: Judah.
Pronounce: yeh-hoo-daw'
Origin: from 3034
, and came
bow' (Hebrew #935)
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
KJV usage: abide, apply, attain, X be, befall, + besiege, bring (forth, in, into, to pass), call, carry, X certainly, (cause, let, thing for) to come (against, in, out, upon, to pass), depart, X doubtless again, + eat, + employ, (cause to) enter (in, into, -tering, -trance, -try), be fallen, fetch, + follow, get, give, go (down, in, to war), grant, + have, X indeed, (in-)vade, lead, lift (up), mention, pull in, put, resort, run (down), send, set, X (well) stricken (in age), X surely, take (in), way.
Pronounce: bo
Origin: a primitive root
to Jerusalem
Yruwshalaim (Hebrew #3389)
a dual (in allusion to its two main hills (the true pointing, at least of the former reading, seems to be that of 3390)); probably from (the passive participle of) 3384 and 7999; founded peaceful; Jerushalaim or Jerushalem, the capital city of Palestine
KJV usage: Jerusalem.
Pronounce: yer-oo-shaw-lah'-im
Origin: rarely Yruwshalayim {yer-oo- shaw-lah'-yim}
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Fenced Cities,
Jerusalem,
Judah

Cross References

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the fenced.
2 Chron. 11:5‑12• 5And Rehoboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and built cities for defence in Judah.
 6And he built Bethlehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,
 7and Beth-zur, and Soco, and Adullam,
 8and Gath, and Mareshah, and Ziph,
 9and Adoraim, and Lachish, and Azekah,
 10and Zorah, and Ajalon, and Hebron, which are in Judah and in Benjamin, fortified cities.
 11And he fortified the strongholds, and put captains in them, and stores of victuals, and of oil and wine;
 12and in every several city, targets and spears, and made them exceedingly strong. And Judah and Benjamin were his. (2 Chron. 11:5‑12)
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Isa. 36:1• 1And 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. (Isa. 36:1)
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Jer. 5:10• 10Go up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end; take away her battlements, for they are not Jehovah's. (Jer. 5:10)
came.
2 Kings 18:17• 17And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rab-shakeh from Lachish, with a strong force, against king Hezekiah, to Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the aqueduct of the upper pool, which is on the highway of the fuller's field. (2 Kings 18:17)
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Isa. 8:8• 8and he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow it and go further, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel! (Isa. 8:8)
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Isa. 10:11• 11--shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her images? (Isa. 10:11)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And he took the fortified cities that belonged to Judah, and came to Jerusalem.