2 Chronicles 19:5

2Ch 19:5 And he set judges in the land throughout all the fenced cities of Judah, city by city,

Ver. 5. And he set judges in the land. ] Judges they had before; but some of them, haply, fell in the late war with the Syrians, or were otherwise wanting to their places and duties. It is a mercy to have judges, modo audeant quae sentiunt, saith the orator, a so they be as they should be.

Throughout all the fenced cities. ] Lest soldiers should abuse their power unto violence and wrong, as they are apt to do. Luk 3:14

a Cic., pro Milone.