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Complete Jewish Bible

2 Chronicles 8:3

Then Shlomo attacked Hamat-Tzovah and defeated 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.
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 At the end of twenty years, during which time Shlomo had built the house of Adonai and his own palace, 2 Shlomo built up the cities which Huram had given to Shlomo and had the people of Isra'el live there. 3 Then Shlomo attacked Hamat-Tzovah and defeated it. 4 He built Tadmor in the desert and all the cities for storing supplies that he built in Hamat. 5 He also built Upper Beit-Horon and Lower Beit-Horon, fortified cities with walls, gates and bars; 6 Ba‘alat; and all the cities that Shlomo had for storing supplies, all the cities for his chariots, the cities for his horsemen, and all the other buildings Shlomo wanted to build in Yerushalayim, in the L'vanon and throughout the land he ruled. 7 As for all the people still left from the Hitti, Emori, P'rizi, Hivi, and Y'vusi, who were not part of Isra'el, 8 from their descendants remaining after them in the land, whom the people of Isra'el did not exterminate — from them Shlomo levied [his forced laborers], as it is to this day. 9 But Shlomo did not raise any of his slaves from the people of Isra'el; rather, these were the soldiers, his chief commanders, and the officials in charge of his chariots and horsemen. 10 King Shlomo had 250 chief officers in charge of 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
On the seventeenth day of the second month of the 600th year of Noach's life all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of the sky were opened.
Genesis 7:24
The water held power over the earth for 150 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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