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2 Chronicles 26:10

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Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen [also], and vine dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry.

Also he built {H1129} towers {H4026} in the desert {H4057}, and digged {H2672} many {H7227} wells {H953}: for he had much {H7227} cattle {H4735}, both in the low country {H8219}, and in the plains {H4334}: husbandmen {H406} also, and vine dressers {H3755} in the mountains {H2022}, and in Carmel {H3760}: for he loved {H157} husbandry {H127}.

He built towers in the desert and dug many cisterns, because he had much livestock, likewise in the Sh'felah and the coastal plain. He had farmers and vineyard-workers in the hills and in the fertile lands, because he loved the soil.

Since he had much livestock in the foothills and in the plain, he built towers in the desert and dug many cisterns. And since he was a lover of the soil, he had farmers and vinedressers in the hill country and in the fertile fields.

And he built towers in the wilderness, and hewed out many cisterns, for he had much cattle; in the lowland also, and in the plain: and he had husbandmen and vinedressers in the mountains and in the fruitful fields; for he loved husbandry.

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Cross-References

  • Genesis 26:18 (3 votes)

    And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.

  • Genesis 26:21 (3 votes)

    And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah.

  • Isaiah 29:17 (3 votes)

    ¶ [Is] it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?

  • 2 Kings 19:23 (2 votes)

    By thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, [and] the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, [and into] the forest of his Carmel.

  • 2 Kings 3:4 (2 votes)

    And Mesha king of Moab was a sheepmaster, and rendered unto the king of Israel an hundred thousand lambs, and an hundred thousand rams, with the wool.

  • 1 Chronicles 27:26 (2 votes)

    And over them that did the work of the field for tillage of the ground [was] Ezri the son of Chelub:

  • 1 Chronicles 27:31 (2 votes)

    And over the flocks [was] Jaziz the Hagerite. All these [were] the rulers of the substance which [was] king David's.