fenced

And hee tooke the fenced cities which perteined to Iudah, and came to Ierusalem.

¶ And hee built fenced cities in Iudah; for the land had rest, and hee had no warre in those yeeres; because the LORD had giuen him rest.

And he placed forces in all the fenced cities of Iudah, and set garisons in the land of Iudah, and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.

These waited on the king, besides those whom the king put in the fenced cities throughout all Iudah.

¶ And he set Iudges in the land, throughout all the fenced cities of Iudah, city by city,

And their father gaue them great giftes of siluer and of golde, and of precious things, with fenced cities in Iudah: but the kingdome gaue hee to Iehoram, because he was the first borne.

¶ After these things and the establishment therof, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entred into Iudah, & encamped against the fenced cities, and thought to winne them for himselfe.

1611 marginal noteHebr. to breake them vp.

1611 marginal note2.king. 18.13. &c. esai. 36.1. &c.

Now after this, hee built a wall without the citie of Dauid, on the Westside of Gihon, in the valley, euen to the entring in at the fish-gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it vp a very great height, and put captaines of warre in all the fenced cities of Iudah.

1611 marginal noteOr, the tower.

Thou hast cloathed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinewes.

1611 marginal noteHeb. hedged.

Hee hath fenced vp my way that I cannot passe; and hee hath set darkenesse in my pathes.