2 Chronicles 8:2

2 civitates quas dederat Hiram Salomoni aedificavit et habitare ibi fecit filios Israhel

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 expletis autem viginti annis postquam aedificavit Salomon domum Domini et domum suam

2 civitates quas dederat Hiram Salomoni aedificavit et habitare ibi fecit filios Israhel

3 abiit quoque in Emath Suba et obtinuit eam

4 et aedificavit Palmyram in deserto et alias civitates munitissimas aedificavit in Emath

5 extruxitque Bethoron superiorem et Bethoron inferiorem civitates muratas habentes portas et vectes et seras