2 Chronicles 8:1-6

Solomon's Activities and Accomplishments

1 ¹Now it came about at the end of the twenty years in which Solomon had built the house of the LORD and his own house

2 that he built the cities which Huram had given to him, and settled the sons of Israel there.

3 Then Solomon went to Hamath-zobah and captured it.

4 He built Tadmor in the wilderness and all the storage cities which he had built in Hamath.

5 He also built upper ²Beth-horon and lower Beth-horon, ³fortified cities with walls, gates and bars;

6 and Baalath and all the storage cities that Solomon had, and all the cities for his chariots and cities for his horsemen, and all that it pleased * Solomon to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land under his rule.

2 Chronicles 8:1-6 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 2 CHRONICLES 8

This chapter contains much the same, with a little variation, as what is related in 1Ki 9:10-28.

Cross References

• 1. 1 Kings 9:10-28
• 2. 1 Chronicles 7:24
• 3. 2 Chronicles 14:7

Footnotes

• [a] Lit "Solomon"
• [b] Lit "the"
• [c] Lit "the"
• [d] Lit "of"