8. and Gath, and Marĕshah, and Ziph,
9. and Aḏorayim, and Laḵish, and Azĕqah,
10. and Tsor‛ah, and Ayalon, and Ḥeḇron, which are in Yehuḏah and Binyamin, cities of defence.
11. And he strengthened the strongholds, and put commanders in them, and stores of food, and oil, and wine,
12. and shields and spears in every city, and made them very strong. Thus Yehuḏah and Binyamin were his.
13. And from all their borders the priests and the Lĕwites who were in all Yisra’ĕl took their stand with him.
14. For the Lĕwites left their open lands and their possessions and came to Yehuḏah and Yerushalayim, for Yaroḇ‛am and his sons had rejected them from serving as priests unto יהוה,
15. as he appointed for himself priests for the high places, and for goats, and the calf idols which he had made.