⁴⁸ Joseph collected all the food produced in those seven years of abundance in Egypt and stored it in the cities.^(A) In each city he put the food grown in the fields surrounding it.

¹¹ So they put slave masters^(A) over them to oppress them with forced labor,^(B) and they built Pithom and Rameses^(C) as store cities^(D) for Pharaoh.

¹⁹ as well as all his store cities^(A) and the towns for his chariots^(B) and for his horses^[a]—whatever he desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon and throughout all the territory he ruled.

⁴ He also built up Tadmor in the desert and all the store cities he had built in Hamath.^(A)

⁴ Ben-Hadad agreed with King Asa and sent the commanders of his forces against the towns of Israel. They conquered Ijon, Dan, Abel Maim^[a] and all the store cities of Naphtali.^(A)

¹² Jehoshaphat became more and more powerful; he built forts and store cities in Judah