Rest and Fortify

I am in the process of journaling my way slowly through the Bible, and right now I am about halfway through book of 2 Chronicles. My studies through this book in the past have focused primarily on the “good king, bad king,” dynamic of this period in Israel’s history, but as I read through the first few verses of king Asa’s reign, I noticed something in the initial list of his accomplishments:

“And he built fenced cities in Judah: for the land had rest, and he had no war in those years; because th...