2 Chronicles 32:29
Good News Translation
Besides all this, God gave him sheep and cattle and so much other wealth that he built many cities.

New Revised Standard Version
He likewise provided cities for himself, and flocks and herds in abundance; for God had given him very great possessions.

Contemporary English Version
God made Hezekiah extremely rich, so he bought even more sheep, goats, and cattle. And he built towns where he could keep all these animals.

New American Bible
He built cities for himself, and he acquired sheep and oxen in great numbers, for God gave him very great riches.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he built himself cities: for he had flocks of sheep, and herds without number, for the Lord had given him very much substance.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he built himself cities: for he had flocks of sheep, and herds without number, for the Lord had given him very much substance.

possessions

2 Chronicles 26:10 And he built towers in the wilderness, and dug many cisterns, for he had much cattle both in the plains, and in the waste of the desert: he had also vineyards and dressers of vines in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he was a man that loved husbandry.

Genesis 13:2-6 And he was very rich in possession of gold and silver. . . .

1 Chronicles 27:29-31 And over the herds that fed in Saron, was Setrai a Saronite: and over the oxen in the valleys, Saphat the son of Adli: . . .

Job 1:3,9 And his possession was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a family exceedingly great: and this man was great among all the people of the east. . . .

Job 42:12 And the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. And he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.

God

2 Chronicles 25:9 And Amasias said to the man of God: What will then become of the hundred talents which I have given to the soldiers of Israel? and the man of God answered him: The Lord is rich enough to be able to give thee much more than this.

Deuteronomy 8:18 But remember the Lord thy God, that he hath given thee strength, that he might fulfil his covenant, concerning which he swore to thy fathers, as this present day sheweth.

1 Samuel 2:7 The Lord maketh poor and maketh rich, he humbleth and he exalteth:

1 Chronicles 29:12 Thine are riches, and thine is glory, thou hast dominion over all, in thy hand is power and might: in thy hand greatness, and the empire of all things.

Proverbs 10:22 A fool worketh mischief as it were for sport: but wisdom is prudence to a man.

1 Timothy 6:17,18 Charge the rich of this world not to be highminded nor to trust in the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God (who giveth us abundantly all things to enjoy) . . .

Context
Hezekiah's Illness and Recovery
28Storehouses also of corn, of wine, and of oil, and stalls for all beasts, and folds for cattle. 29And he built himself cities: for he had flocks of sheep, and herds without number, for the Lord had given him very much substance.30This same Ezechias was, he that stopped the upper source of the waters of Gihon, and turned them away underneath toward the west of the city of David: in all his works he did prosperously what he would.…
Cross References
1 Chronicles 29:12
Thine are riches, and thine is glory, thou hast dominion over all, in thy hand is power and might: in thy hand greatness, and the empire of all things.

2 Chronicles 32:28
Storehouses also of corn, of wine, and of oil, and stalls for all beasts, and folds for cattle.

2 Chronicles 32:28
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