2 Chronicles 8:2

2 Solomon also built the cities that Huram had given to him, and he settled the {Israelites} in them.

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 And it happened [that] at the end of twenty years [in] which Solomon had built the house of Yahweh and his own house,

2 Solomon also built the cities that Huram had given to him, and he settled the {Israelites} in them.

3 And Solomon went to Hamath-Zobah and laid siege upon it.

4 And he built Tadmor in the desert, and he built all the storage cities in Hamath.

5 He also built Upper Beth-Horon and Lower Beth-Horon, fortified cities [with] walls, gates, and bars;

Footnotes

• [a] This is the spelling in Hebrew, though many translations have "Hiram"
• [b] Literally "sons/children of Israel"