2 Chronicles 8:3

Contemporary English Version

Solomon attacked and captured the town of 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.

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.

Bible in Basic English
And Solomon went to Hamath-zobah and overcame 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 It took twenty years for the Lord 's temple and Solomon's palace to be built. ² After that, Solomon had his workers rebuild the towns that Hiram had given him. Then Solomon sent Israelites to live in those towns. ³ Solomon attacked and captured the town of Hamath-Zobah. ⁴ He had his workers build the town of Tadmor in the desert and some towns in Hamath where he could keep his supplies. ⁵ He strengthened Upper Beth-Horon and Lower Beth-Horon by adding walls and gates that could be locked. ⁶ He did the same thing to the town of Baalath and to the cities where he kept supplies, chariots, and horses. Solomon had his workers build whatever he wanted in Jerusalem, Lebanon, and anywhere else in his kingdom. ⁷Solomon did not force the Israelites to do his work. Instead, they were his soldiers, officers, army commanders, and cavalry troops. But he did make slaves of the Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites who were living in Israel. These were the descendants of those foreigners the Israelites did not destroy, and they remained Israel's slaves. ¹⁰ Solomon appointed two hundred fifty officers to be in charge of his workers. ¹¹ Solomon's wife, the daughter of the king of Egypt, moved from the part of Jerusalem called David's City to her new palace that Solomon had built. The sacred chest had been kept in David's City, which made his palace sacred, and so Solomon's wife could no longer live there.

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
Noah was six hundred years old when the water under the earth started gushing out everywhere. The sky opened like windows, and rain poured down for forty days and nights. All this began on the seventeenth day of the second month of the year.

Genesis 7:24
A hundred fifty days later, the water started going down.

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.