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2Ch 26:10 — Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen [also], and vine dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

digged many wells		or, cut out many cisterns. Gen 26:18-21
he had much		2Ki 3:4; 1Ch 27:26-31
Carmel		or, fruitful fields. 2Ki 19:23; Isa 29:17
husbandry		Heb.ground.

Correlating Passages

digged many wells

	Gen 26:18	And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.
	Gen 26:19	And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.
	Gen 26:20	And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac's herdmen, saying, The water [is] ours: and he called the name of the well Esek; because they strove with him.
	Gen 26:21	And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah.

he had much

	2Ki 3:4	And Mesha king of Moab was a sheepmaster, and rendered unto the king of Israel an hundred thousand lambs, and an hundred thousand rams, with the wool.
	1Ch 27:26	And over them that did the work of the field for tillage of the ground [was] Ezri the son of Chelub:
	1Ch 27:27	And over the vineyards [was] Shimei the Ramathite: over the increase of the vineyards for the wine cellars [was] Zabdi the Shiphmite:
	1Ch 27:28	And over the olive trees and the sycomore trees that [were] in the low plains [was] Baalhanan the Gederite: and over the cellars of oil [was] Joash:
	1Ch 27:29	And over the herds that fed in Sharon [was] Shitrai the Sharonite: and over the herds [that were] in the valleys [was] Shaphat the son of Adlai:
	1Ch 27:30	Over the camels also [was] Obil the Ishmaelite: and over the asses [was] Jehdeiah the Meronothite:
	1Ch 27:31	And over the flocks [was] Jaziz the Hagerite. All these [were] the rulers of the substance which [was] king David's.

Carmel

	2Ki 19:23	By thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, [and] the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, [and into] the forest of his Carmel.
	Isa 29:17	[Is] it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?

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Scott, Thomas. "2 Chronicles 26:10," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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