2 Chronicles 8:1-6

Solomon’s Other Activities

1 At the end of twenty years, during which Solomon built the temple of the LORD and his own palace,

2 Solomon rebuilt the villages that Hiram^[a] had given him, and settled Israelites in them.

3 Solomon then went to Hamath Zobah and captured it.

4 He also built up Tadmor in the desert and all the store cities he had built in Hamath.

5 He rebuilt Upper Beth Horon and Lower Beth Horon as fortified cities, with walls and with gates and bars,

6 as well as Baalath and all his store cities, and all the cities for his chariots and for his horses^[b] —whatever he desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon and throughout all the territory he ruled.

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. S 2 Samuel 7:2
• 2. S 2 Samuel 8:9
• 3. S Joshua 10:10; 1 Chronicles 7:24; 2 Chronicles 14:7
• 4. S Joshua 19:44

Footnotes

• [a] Hebrew "Huram," a variant of "Hiram" ; also in verse 18
• [b] Or "charioteers"