2 Chronicles 12:4
New International Version
he captured the fortified cities of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem.

New Living Translation
Shishak conquered Judah’s fortified towns and then advanced to attack Jerusalem.

English Standard Version
And he took the fortified cities of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem.

Berean Standard Bible
He captured the fortified cities of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem.

King James Bible
And he took the fenced cities which pertained to Judah, and came to Jerusalem.

New King James Version
And he took the fortified cities of Judah and came to Jerusalem.

New American Standard Bible
And he captured the fortified cities of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem.

NASB 1995
He captured the fortified cities of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem.

NASB 1977
And he captured the fortified cities of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem.

Legacy Standard Bible
And he captured the fortified cities of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem.

Amplified Bible
Shishak took the fortified cities of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem.

Christian Standard Bible
He captured the fortified cities of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He captured the fortified cities of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem.

American Standard Version
And he took the fortified cities which pertained to Judah, and came unto Jerusalem.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English


Brenton Septuagint Translation
And they obtained possession of the strong cities, which were in Juda, and came to Jerusalem.

Contemporary English Version
He captured every one of the fortified cities in Judah and then marched to Jerusalem.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he took the strongest cities in Juda, and came to Jerusalem.

English Revised Version
And he took the fenced cities which pertained to Judah, and came unto Jerusalem.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
He captured the fortified cities in Judah and then came to Jerusalem.

Good News Translation
He captured the fortified cities of Judah and advanced as far as Jerusalem.

International Standard Version
Shishak captured the fortified cities of Judah and invaded as far as Jerusalem.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And he took the fortified cities which pertained to Judah, and came unto Jerusalem.

Literal Standard Version
and he captures the cities of the bulwarks that [are] of Judah, and comes to Jerusalem.

Majority Standard Bible
He captured the fortified cities of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem.

New American Bible
They captured the fortified cities of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem.

NET Bible
He captured the fortified cities of Judah and marched against Jerusalem.

New Revised Standard Version
He took the fortified cities of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem.

New Heart English Bible
He took the fortified cities which pertained to Judah, and came to Jerusalem.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he took the fortified cities which pertained to Judah, and came to Jerusalem.

World English Bible
He took the fortified cities which belonged to Judah, and came to Jerusalem.

Young's Literal Translation
and he captureth the cities of the bulwarks that are to Judah, and cometh in unto Jerusalem.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Shishak Raids Jerusalem
3with 1,200 chariots, 60,000 horsemen, and countless troops who came with him out of Egypt—Libyans, Sukkites, and Cushites. 4He captured the fortified cities of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem. 5Then Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and the leaders of Judah who had gathered at Jerusalem because of Shishak, and he said to them, “This is what the LORD says: ‘You have forsaken Me; therefore, I have forsaken you into the hand of Shishak.’ ”…

Cross References
Numbers 31:43
this half belonged to the congregation: 337,500 sheep,

2 Chronicles 11:5
Rehoboam continued to live in Jerusalem, and he built up cities for defense in Judah.


Treasury of Scripture

And he took the fenced cities which pertained to Judah, and came to Jerusalem.

the fenced

2 Chronicles 11:5-12
And Rehoboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and built cities for defence in Judah…

Isaiah 36:1
Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the defenced cities of Judah, and took them.

Jeremiah 5:10
Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the LORD'S.

came

2 Kings 18:17
And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller's field.

Isaiah 8:8
And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.

Isaiah 10:11
Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?

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2 Chronicles 12
1. Rehoboam, forsaking the Lord, is punished by Shishak
5. He and the princes, repenting at the preaching of Shemaiah,
7. are delivered from destruction, but not from spoil
13. The reign and death of Rehoboam














(4) He took the fenced cities.--Those very cities which Rehoboam had fortified as bulwarks against Egypt (2Chronicles 11:5-12). Fourteen names of cities have disappeared from the Karnak inscription, but Socho, Adoraim, and Ajalon, are still read there.

Came to (so far as to) Jerusalem.--Comp. Isaiah 36:1-2. The verse is not in Kings. Thenius (on 1Kings 14:26) says that the chronicler has here made use of "really historical notices." It is self-evident.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
He captured
וַיִּלְכֹּ֛ד (way·yil·kōḏ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3920: To catch, to capture, occupy, to choose, to cohere

the fortified
הַמְּצֻר֖וֹת (ham·mə·ṣu·rō·wṯ)
Article | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 4694: A hemming in, a mound, a rampart, fortification

cities
עָרֵ֥י (‘ā·rê)
Noun - feminine plural construct
Strong's 5892: Excitement

of Judah
לִֽיהוּדָ֑ה (lî·hū·ḏāh)
Preposition-l | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3063: Judah -- 'praised', a son of Jacob, also the southern kingdom, also four Israelites

and came
וַיָּבֹ֖א (way·yā·ḇō)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go

as far as
עַד־ (‘aḏ-)
Preposition
Strong's 5704: As far as, even to, up to, until, while

Jerusalem.
יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ (yə·rū·šā·lim)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 3389: Jerusalem -- probably 'foundation of peace', capital city of all Israel


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