2 Chronicles 8:3

3 Shlomo went to Hamat-Tzovah, and prevailed against 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 It happened at the end of twenty years, in which Shlomo had built the house of the LORD, and his own house,

2 that the cities which Huram had given to Shlomo, Shlomo built them, and caused the children of Yisra'el to dwell there.

3 Shlomo went to Hamat-Tzovah, and prevailed against it.

4 He built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store-cities, which he built in Hamat.

5 Also he built Beit-Horon the upper, and Beit-Horon the lower, fortified cities, with walls, gates, and bars;