Also he built Upper Beth Horon, and Lower Beth Horon, fortified cities, with walls, gates, and bars;

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

He fortified the strongholds, and put captains in them, and stores of food, and oil and wine.

He dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his sons throughout all the lands of Judah and Benjamin, to every fortified city: and he gave them food in abundance. He sought for them many wives.

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

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

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.

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

Their father gave them great gifts, of silver, and of gold, and of precious things, with fortified cities in Judah: but the kingdom gave he to Jehoram, because he was the firstborn.

Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate, and at the valley gate, and at the turning of the wall, and fortified them.

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.

Now after this he built an outer wall to the City of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance at the fish gate; and he encircled Ophel with it, and raised it up to a very great height: and he put valiant captains in all the fortified cities of Judah.