2 Chronicles 8:2

2 Solomon rebuilt the villages that Hiram^[a] had given him, and settled Israelites in them.

2 Chronicles 8:2 in Other Translations

2 That the cities which Huram had restored to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.

2 Solomon rebuilt the cities that Hiram had given to him, and settled the people of Israel in them.

2 Solomon turned his attention to rebuilding the towns that King Hiram had given him, and he settled Israelites in them.

2 rebuilt the cities that Hiram had given him and colonized them with Israelites;

2 Solomon having rebuilt the cities Hiram gave him and having settled the Israelites there-

2 Chronicles 8:2 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 8:2

That the cities which Huram had restored to Solomon
Which Solomon first gave to him, but he not liking them, returned them to him, ( 1 Kings 9:12 ) ,

Solomon built them;
or rebuilt them, being very much out of repair, which might be one reason of Huram's not accepting them:

and caused the children of Israel to dwell there;
they being inhabited by others, the remains of the Canaanitcs perhaps; see ( 2 Chronicles 8:7 ) .

2 Chronicles 8:2 In-Context

1 At the end of twenty years, during which Solomon built the temple of the LORD and his own palace,

2 Solomon rebuilt the villages that Hiram had given him, and settled Israelites in them.

3 Solomon then went to Hamath Zobah and captured it.

4 He also built up Tadmor in the desert and all the store cities he had built in Hamath.

5 He rebuilt Upper Beth Horon and Lower Beth Horon as fortified cities, with walls and with gates and bars,

Footnotes

• [a]. Hebrew "Huram," a variant of "Hiram" ; also in verse 18