John Gill's Exposition on 2 Chronicles 12:4

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And he took the fenced cities which pertained to Judah, etc.] Which Rehoboam had lately built, and placed his sons in them, (<141105>2 Chronicles 11:5-12,23), these he took without any opposition: and came to Jerusalem; there being no army to oppose him; and so Sesostris took many countries without fighting, and among the rest Phoenicia, as Manetho f40 relates, in which Judea may be included.

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