2 Chronicles 11:5
“And Rehoboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and built cities for defence in Judah.”
Speak unto Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying,
Thus saith the Lord, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren: return every man to his house: for this thing is done of me. And they obeyed the words of the Lord, and returned from going against Jeroboam.
And Rehoboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and built cities for defence in Judah.
He built even Beth–lehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,
And Beth–zur, and Shoco, and Adullam,
Cross-References
“Then Jeroboam built Shechem in mount Ephraim, and dwelt therein; and went out from thence, and built Penuel.”
“That the cities which Huram had restored to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.”
“And he went forth and warred against the Philistines, and brake down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod, and built cities about Ashdod, and among the Philistines.”
“And he discovered the covering of Judah, and thou didst look in that day to the armour of the house of the forest.”
“And he built fenced cities in Judah: for the land had rest, and he had no war in those years; because the Lord had given him rest.”