2 He placed forces in all the ⁿfortified cities of Judah and set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim ^othat Asa his father had captured.

19 And Abijah pursued Jeroboam ^aand took cities from him, Bethel with its villages and Jeshanah with its villages and ^bEphron¹ with its villages.