2 Chronicles 8:3

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