2 Chronicles 8:5

5 And he builded the higher Bethhoron and the lower Bethhoron, walled cities, having gates, and locks, and bars;

2 Chronicles 8:5 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 8:5

Also he built Bethhoron the upper, and Bethhoron the nether,
&c.] Only mention is made of the latter in ( 1 Kings 9:17 ) ,

fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars;
fortified cities in the tribe of Ephraim.

2 Chronicles 8:5 In-Context

3 Also he went into Hamath of Zobah, and got it.

4 And he builded Palmyra in (the) desert, and he builded other full strong cities in Hamath.

5 And he builded the higher Bethhoron and the lower Bethhoron, walled cities, having gates, and locks, and bars;

6 also he builded Baalath, and all the strong cities that were of Solomon; and all the cities of carts, and the cities of knights (and all the cities for the chariots, and the cities for the horsemen), (and) king Solomon builded, and disposed all things, whichever he would, in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his power.

7 And Solomon made subject into tributaries till into this day all the people that was left of (the) Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites, that were not of the generations of Israel,