2 Chronicles 11:11
in 2 Chronicles 11He strengthened their fortresses and put officers in them, with supplies of food, oil, and wine.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And he fortified the strongholds, and put captains in them, and stores of victuals, and oil and wine.
KJV
And he fortified the strong holds, and put captains in them, and store of victual, and of oil and wine.
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This verse in 2 Chronicles 11
Commentary
5 notes on this verseStore of victual - In these places he laid up stores of provisions, not only to enable them to endure a siege; but also that they might be able, from their situation, to supply desolate places.
This site's exposition
He strengthened their fortresses
on 2 Chronicles 11:11-12
Rehoboam strengthens the fortresses, puts officers in them “with supplies of food, oil, and wine,” and arms every city with shields and spears. The defense is limited to the south, and nothing here moves against Jeroboam, in keeping with Shemaiah's word at verse 4.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
And he fortified the strong holds,.... Of these and other cities: and put captains in them; garrisons of soldiers, with captains over them to defend them: and store of victual, and of oil and wine; that they might be able to hold out a siege, should they be attacked.
Jeroboam cast them off, that is, he set up such a way of worship as he knew they could not in conscience comply with, which obliged them to withdraw from his altar, and at the same time he would not allow them to go up to Jerusalem to worship at the altar there; so that he totally cast them off from executing the priest's office,
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
built cities for defence in Judah--This is evidently used as the name of the southern kingdom. Rehoboam, having now a bitter enemy in Israel, deemed it prudent to lose no time in fortifying several cities that lay along the frontier of his kingdom.
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How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
leaders chiefs and officers to guard the towns and the large cities.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 4 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
10 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיְחַזֵּ֖ק | vaychazek | and he strengthened | H2388 → | 291 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| הַמְּצֻר֑וֹת | hametzurot | the fortifications | H4694 → | 8 times |
| וַיִּתֵּ֤ן | vaiyiten | and he put | H5414 → | 2011 times |
| בָּהֶם֙ | bahem | in them | ||
| נְגִידִ֔ים | negidim | commanders | H5057 → | 45 times |
| וְאֹצְר֥וֹת | veotzerot | and supplies of | H214 → | 79 times |
| מַאֲכָ֖ל | maakhal | food | H3978 → | |
| וְשֶׁ֥מֶן | veshemen | and oil | H8081 → | 193 times |
| וָיָֽיִן׃ | vayayin | and wine | H3196 → | 141 times |
וַיְחַזֵּ֖קand he strengthened
vaychazekH2388 →291 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
הַמְּצֻר֑וֹתthe fortifications
hametzurotH4694 →8 times
וַיִּתֵּ֤ןand he put
vaiyitenH5414 →2011 times
בָּהֶם֙in them
bahem
נְגִידִ֔יםcommanders
negidimH5057 →45 times
וְאֹצְר֥וֹתand supplies of
veotzerotH214 →79 times
מַאֲכָ֖לfood
maakhalH3978 →
וְשֶׁ֥מֶןand oil
veshemenH8081 →193 times
וָיָֽיִן׃and wine
vayayinH3196 →141 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
2 Chronicles 17:19These were the men who served the king, besides those he stationed in the fortified cities throughout Judah.
it leads to
- 2 Chronicles 17:2
He stationed troops in every fortified city of Judah and put garrisons in the land of Judah and in the cities of Ephraim that his father Asa had captured.
- 2 Chronicles 11:12
He also put shields and spears in all the cities and strengthened them greatly. So Judah and Benjamin belonged to him.
- 2 Chronicles 17:12
Jehoshaphat grew stronger and stronger, and he built fortresses and store cities in Judah
- 2 Chronicles 17:2
Through
2 Chronicles 11:23Rehoboam also acted wisely by dispersing some of his sons throughout the districts of Judah and Benjamin, and to all the fortified cities. He gave them abundant provisions and sought many wives for them.
it leads to
- Genesis 25:6
But while he was still alive, Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them away from his son Isaac to the land of the east.
- Luke 16:8
The master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly. For the sons of this age are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than are the sons of light.
- 2 Chronicles 21:3
Their father had given them many gifts of silver and gold and precious things, as well as the fortified cities in Judah; but he gave the kingdom to Jehoram because he was the firstborn.
- 1 Kings 1:5–6
At that time Adonijah, David’s son by Haggith, began to exalt himself, saying, “I will be king!” And he acquired chariots and horsemen and fifty men to run ahead of him.
- 2 Chronicles 10:8–15
But Rehoboam rejected the advice of the elders; instead, he consulted the young men who had grown up with him and served him.
- Genesis 25:6
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About 2 Chronicles
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.