9 and the sons of Israel went searching into the things that were not right toward Jehovah their God+ and kept building themselves high places+ in all their cities, from the tower+ of the watchmen clear to the fortified city;

10 Further, he built towers+ in the wilderness, and hewed out many cisterns (for there was a great deal of livestock that became his), and also in the She·pheʹlah+ and on the tableland. There were farmers and vinedressers in the mountains and in Carʹmel, for a lover of agriculture he proved to be.