²⁰ Then it happened, while Joshua and the children of Israel made an end of slaying them with a very great slaughter, till they had finished, that those who escaped entered fortified cities.

⁴ And he took the fortified cities of Judah and came to Jerusalem.

² And he placed troops in all the fortified cities of Judah, and set garrisons in the land of ^(A)Judah and in the cities of Ephraim ^(B)which Asa his father had taken.

¹⁹ These served the king, besides ^(A)those the king put in the fortified cities throughout all Judah.

³ Their father gave them great gifts of silver and gold and precious things, with fortified cities in Judah; but he gave the kingdom to Jehoram, because he was the firstborn.