King James Version (KJV)
2 Chronicles 12:4
“And he took the fenced cities which [pertained] to Judah, and came to Jerusalem.”
Verse in context — 2 Chronicles 12
And it came to pass, [that] in the fifth year of king Rehoboam Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had transgressed against the LORD,
With twelve hundred chariots, and threescore thousand horsemen: and the people [were] without number that came with him out of Egypt; the Lubims, the Sukkiims, and the Ethiopians.
And he took the fenced cities which [pertained] to Judah, and came to Jerusalem.
Then came Shemaiah the prophet to Rehoboam, and [to] the princes of Judah, that were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Ye have forsaken me, and therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shishak.
Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, The LORD [is] righteous.
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Solomon’s reign and Judah’s history until the Babylonian exile.
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