'Fortified Cities' in the Bible

Also he built Beth-horon the upper, and Beth-horon the lower, fortified cities, with walls, gates, and bars,

and Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron, which are in Judah and in Benjamin, fortified cities.

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

And he built fortified cities in Judah. For the land was quiet, and he had no war in those years, because LORD had given him rest.

And he placed forces in all the fortified cities of Judah, and set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.

These were those who waited on the king, besides those whom the king put in the fortified cities throughout all Judah.

And he set judges in the land throughout all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city,

And their father gave them great gifts, of silver, and of gold, and of precious things, with fortified cities in Judah. But the kingdom he gave to Jehoram, because he was the first-born.

After these things, and this faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fortified cities, and thought to win them for himself.