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Clementine Latin Vulgate

Nehemiæ 27:4

Secundi mensis habebat turmam Dudia Ahohites, et post se alter nomine Macelloth, qui regebat partem exercitus viginti quatuor millium.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Castle;   Thompson Chain Reference - Castles;   Forests;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Kings;   Towers;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Jotham;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Forest;   Jerusalem;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Forest;   Shepherd;   Towers;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Castle;   Chronicles, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Forest;   Fortification and Siegecraft;   Horesh;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Forest;   Jotham ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Jotham;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Shepherd;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Forest;   Hill;   Horesh;   Jotham;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Forest;  

Parallel Translations

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Urbes quoque �dificavit in montibus Juda, et in saltibus castella et turres.
Nova Vulgata (1979)
Urbes quoque aedificavit in montibus Iudae et in saltibus castella et turres.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

he built cities: 2 Chronicles 11:5-10, 2 Chronicles 14:7, 2 Chronicles 26:9, 2 Chronicles 26:10

the mountains: Joshua 14:12, Joshua 14:13, Luke 1:39

castles and towers: These castles and towers he doubtless built built for the protection of the country people against marauders.

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 15:36 - the rest 2 Chronicles 17:12 - in Judah Jeremiah 34:7 - for Hosea 8:14 - and Judah

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Moreover, he built cities in the mountains of Judah,.... In the mountainous part of it, the hill country of Judea, Luke 1:65,

and in the forests he built castles and towers; for the safety of travellers, and of shepherds and their flocks, see 2 Chronicles 26:10.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Chronicles 27:4. Castles and towers. — These he built for the protection of the country people against marauders.


 
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