2 Chronicles 8:3

3 And Solomon went to Hamath-zobah and overcame it.

2 Chronicles 8:3 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 8:3

And Solomon went to Hamathzobah
In an hostile manner, which is the only instance of any warlike expedition of Solomon's. This was Coelesyria, which though subdued in the times of David, perhaps rebelled, and now Solomon went forth to reduce it:

and prevailed against it;
took it.

2 Chronicles 8:3 In-Context

1 Now at the end of twenty years, in which time Solomon had put up the house of the Lord and a house for himself,
2 He took in hand the building up of the towns which Huram had given him, causing the children of Israel to make living-places for themselves there.
3 And Solomon went to Hamath-zobah and overcame it.
4 And he put up the buildings of Tadmor in the waste land, and of all the store-towns in Hamath;
5 And of Beth-horon the higher and the lower, walled towns with walls and doorways and locks;
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