4 'The Lord says, "Do not go up to fight against your relatives. I want every one of you to go back home. Things have happened exactly the way I planned them." ' " So the fighting men obeyed the Lord's message. They turned back. They didn't march out against Jeroboam.
5 Rehoboam lived in Jerusalem. He made Judah more secure by building up their towns.
6 He built up Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa,
7 Beth Zur, Soco and Adullam.
8 He also built up Gath, Mareshah, Ziph,
9 Adoraim, Lachish, Azekah,
10 Zorah, Aijalon and Hebron. All of them were cities in Judah and Benjamin that had high walls around them.