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2 Chronicles 8:3

And Solomon went to Hamath-zobah and overcame it.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Hamath-Zobah;   Zobah;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Zobah;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Hamath;   Lebanon;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Hamath;   Hamath-Zobah;   Solomon;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Hamath-Zobah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Chronicles, Books of;   Hamath-Zobah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Hamath-Zobah;   Solomon;   Tadmor;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Hamathzobah ;   Zoba, Zobah ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Zobah;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Ha'math-Zo'bah;   Sol'omon;   Zo'ba,;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Hamath-Zobah;   Zobah;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Aram;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Hamath-Zobah;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Solomon went to Hamath-zobah and seized it.
Hebrew Names Version
Shlomo went to Hamat-Tzovah, and prevailed against it.
King James Version
And Solomon went to Hamathzobah, and prevailed against it.
English Standard Version
And Solomon went to Hamath-zobah and took it.
New Century Version
Then he went to Hamath Zobah and captured it.
New English Translation
Solomon went to Hamath Zobah and seized it.
Amplified Bible
Then Solomon went to Hamath-zobah and captured it.
New American Standard Bible
Then Solomon went to Hamath-zobah and captured it.
World English Bible
Solomon went to Hamath-zobah, and prevailed against it.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And Salomon went to Hamath Zobah, and ouercame it.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then Solomon went to Hamath-zobah and overpowered it.
Berean Standard Bible
Then Solomon went to Hamath-zobah and captured it.
Contemporary English Version
Solomon attacked and captured the town of Hamath-Zobah.
Complete Jewish Bible
Then Shlomo attacked Hamat-Tzovah and defeated it.
Darby Translation
And Solomon went to Hamath-Zobah, and overcame it.
Easy-to-Read Version
After this Solomon went to Hamath of Zobah and captured it.
George Lamsa Translation
And Solomon went to Hamath and besieged it, and destroyed it.
Good News Translation
He captured the territory of Hamath and Zobah
Lexham English Bible
And Solomon went to Hamath-Zobah and laid siege upon it.
Literal Translation
And Solomon went to Hamath-zobah and prevailed over it.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And Salomon wente vnto Hemath Zoba, and made it stronge,
American Standard Version
And Solomon went to Hamath-zobah, and prevailed against it.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Solomon went to Hamath Zoba, and strengthed it.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Solomon went to Hamath-zobah, and prevailed against it.
King James Version (1611)
And Solomon went to Hamath Zobah, and preuailed against it.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Solomon came to Baesoba, and fortified it.
English Revised Version
And Solomon went to Hamath–zobah, and prevailed against it.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Also he yede in to Emath of Suba, and gat it.
Update Bible Version
And Solomon went to Hamath-zobah, and prevailed against it.
Webster's Bible Translation
And Solomon went to Hamath-zobah, and prevailed against it.
New King James Version
And Solomon went to Hamath Zobah and seized it.
New Living Translation
Solomon also fought against the town of Hamath-zobah and conquered it.
New Life Bible
Then Solomon went to Hamath-zobah, and took it.
New Revised Standard
Solomon went to Hamath-zobah, and captured it.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And Solomon went to Hamath-zobah, - and prevailed against it;
Douay-Rheims Bible
He went also into Emath Suba, and possessed it.
Revised Standard Version
And Solomon went to Ha'math-zo'bah, and took it.
Young's Literal Translation
And Solomon goeth to Hamath-Zobah, and layeth hold upon it;
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then Solomon went to Hamath-zobah and captured it.

Contextual Overview

1 Now at the end of twenty years, in which time Solomon had put up the house of the Lord and a house for himself, 2 He took in hand the building up of the towns which Huram had given him, causing the children of Israel to make living-places for themselves there. 3 And Solomon went to Hamath-zobah and overcame it. 4 And he put up the buildings of Tadmor in the waste land, and of all the store-towns in Hamath; 5 And of Beth-horon the higher and the lower, walled towns with walls and doorways and locks; 6 And of Baalath, and all the store-towns which Solomon had, and the towns where he kept his war-carriages and his horse men, and everything which it was his pleasure to put up in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land under his rule. 7 As for all the rest of the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, who were not of Israel: 8 Their men who were still living in the land, and whom the children of Israel had not put an end to, these Solomon put to forced work, as is done to this day; 9 But Solomon did not make use of the children of Israel as servants for his work; they were men of war, his chiefs and his captains, and captains of his war-carriages and his horsemen. 10 Now these were the chief men in authority whom King Solomon had: two hundred and fifty of them, in authority over the people.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Hamathzobah: Numbers 13:21, Numbers 34:8, 2 Samuel 8:3, 1 Kings 11:23-25, 1 Chronicles 18:3

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 8:5 - Zobah 2 Kings 14:28 - Damascus Jeremiah 52:9 - Hamath

Cross-References

Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep came bursting through, and the windows of heaven were open;
Genesis 7:24
And the waters were over the earth a hundred and fifty days.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Hamath-zobah - Usually identified with the “great Hamath” Amos 6:2; the capital of Coele-Syria; but probably a town of Zobah otherwise unknown, which revolted from Solomon, and was reduced to subjection.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Chronicles 8:3. Hamath-zobah — "Emessa, on the river Orontes." - Calmet.


 
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