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Geneva Bible

2 Chronicles 8:2

Then Salomon built the cities that Huram gaue to Salomon, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Solomon;  

Dictionaries:

- Easton Bible Dictionary - Cabul;   Solomon;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Cabul;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Chronicles, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Hiram;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Cabul ;   Hiram ;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Hu'ram;   Sol'omon;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Huram;   Solomon;   Trade;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Solomon had rebuilt the cities Hiram gave him and settled Israelites there—
Hebrew Names Version
that the cities which Huram had given to Shlomo, Shlomo built them, and caused the children of Yisra'el to dwell there.
King James Version
That the cities which Huram had restored to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.
English Standard Version
Solomon rebuilt the cities that Hiram had given to him, and settled the people of Israel in them.
New Century Version
Solomon rebuilt the towns that Hiram had given him, and Solomon sent Israelites to live in them.
New English Translation
Solomon rebuilt the cities that Huram had given him and settled Israelites there.
Amplified Bible
that he built and fortified the cities which Huram (Hiram) had given to him, and settled the Israelites there.
New American Standard Bible
that he built the cities which Huram had given him, and settled the sons of Israel there.
World English Bible
that the cities which Huram had given to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.
Legacy Standard Bible
that he built the cities which Huram had given to him, and settled the sons of Israel there.
Berean Standard Bible
Solomon rebuilt the cities Hiram had given him and settled Israelites there.
Contemporary English Version
After that, Solomon had his workers rebuild the towns that Hiram had given him. Then Solomon sent Israelites to live in those towns.
Complete Jewish Bible
Shlomo built up the cities which Huram had given to Shlomo and had the people of Isra'el live there.
Darby Translation
that the cities which Huram had given to Solomon, Solomon built them and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then Solomon rebuilt the towns that Hiram gave him and then moved Israelites into those towns to live there.
George Lamsa Translation
That Solomon rebuilt the cities which Hiram had given to him, and caused the children of Israel to dwell in them.
Good News Translation
He also rebuilt the cities that King Hiram had given him, and sent Israelites to settle in them.
Lexham English Bible
Solomon also built the cities that Huram had given to him, and he settled the Israelites in them.
Literal Translation
As to the cities that Hiram had given to Solomon, Solomon had built them, and he caused the sons of Israel to live there.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
he buylded the cyties also which Hiram gaue vnto Salomon, and caused the children of Israel to dwell therin.
American Standard Version
that the cities which Huram had given to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.
Bible in Basic English
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.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
He buylt the cities that Hiram gaue hym, and put of the children of Israel in them.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
that the cities which Huram had given to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.
King James Version (1611)
That the cities which Huram had restored to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
that Solomon rebuilt the cities which Chiram had given to Solomon, and caused the children of Israel to dwell in them.
English Revised Version
that the cities which Huram had given to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwelt there.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and his owne hows, he bildide the citees, whiche Iram hadde youe to Salomon; and he made the sones of Israel to dwelle there.
Update Bible Version
that the cities which Huram had given to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the sons of Israel to dwell there.
Webster's Bible Translation
That the cities which Huram had restored to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.
New King James Version
that the cities which Hiram 2 Chronicles 2:3)">[fn] had given to Solomon, Solomon built them; and he settled the children of Israel there.
New Living Translation
Solomon turned his attention to rebuilding the towns that King Hiram had given him, and he settled Israelites in them.
New Life Bible
he built again the cities which Huram had given to him. And he had the people of Israel live in them.
New Revised Standard
Solomon rebuilt the cities that Huram had given to him, and settled the people of Israel in them.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
that, the cities which Huram had given to Solomon, Solomon built them, - and caused, the sons of Israel, to dwell there.
Douay-Rheims Bible
He built the cities which Hiram had given to Solomon, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.
Revised Standard Version
Solomon rebuilt the cities which Huram had given to him, and settled the people of Israel in them.
Young's Literal Translation
As to the cities that Huram hath given to Solomon, Solomon hath built them, and there he causeth the sons of Israel to dwell.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
that he built the cities which Huram had given to him, and settled the sons of Israel there.

Contextual Overview

1 And after twentie yeere when Salomon had built the house of the Lorde, and his owne house, 2 Then Salomon built the cities that Huram gaue to Salomon, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there. 3 And Salomon went to Hamath Zobah, and ouercame it. 4 And he built Tadmor in the wildernesse, and repayred all the cities of store which hee built in Hamath. 5 And he built Beth-horon the vpper, and Beth-horon the nether, cities defensed with walles, gates and barres: 6 Also Baalath, and al the cities of store that Salomon had, and all the charet cities, and the cities of the horsemen, and euery pleasaunt place that Salomon had a minde to builde in Ierusalem, and in Lebanon, and throughout all the lande of his dominion. 7 And all the people that were left to ye Hittites, and ye Amorites, and Perizzites, and the Hiuuites, and the Iebusites, which were not of Israel, 8 But of their children which were left after them in the lande, whome the children of Israel had not consumed, euen them did Salomon make tributaries vntill this day. 9 But of the children of Israel did Salomon make no seruantes for his worke: for they were men of warre, and his chiefe princes, and the captaines of his charets and of his horsemen. 10 So these were the chiefe of the officers which Salomon had, euen two hundreth and fiftie that bare rule ouer the people.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the cities: 1 Kings 9:11-18

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 11:5 - built 2 Chronicles 14:6 - And he built 2 Chronicles 17:12 - in Judah

Cross-References

Genesis 7:11
In the sixe hundreth yeere of Noahs life in the second moneth, the seuetenth day of the moneth, in the same day were all the fountaines of the great deepe broken vp, and the windowes of heauen were opened,
Genesis 8:11
And the doue came to him in ye euening, and loe, in her mouth was an oliue leafe that she had pluckt: whereby Noah knewe that the waters were abated from off the earth.
Genesis 8:13
And in the sixe hundreth and one yeere, in the first day of the first moneth the waters were dryed vp from off the earth: and Noah remoued the couering of the Arke and looked, and beholde, the vpper part of the ground was drie.
Job 38:37
Who can nomber cloudes by wisedome? or who can cause to cease the bottels of heaue,
Proverbs 8:28
When he established the cloudes aboue, when he confirmed the fountaines of the deepe,
Jonah 2:3
For thou haddest cast me into the bottome in the middes of the sea, and the floods compassed me about: all thy surges, and all thy waues passed ouer me.
Matthew 8:9
For I am a man also vnder the authoritie of an other, and haue souldiers vnder me: and I say to one, Goe, and he goeth: and to another, Come, and he commeth: and to my seruant, Doe this, and he doeth it.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The cities which Huram had restored to Solomon - These cities had not been mentioned previously by the writer of Chronicles, who, however, seems to assume that the fact of their having been given by Hiram to Solomon is known to his readers. See 1 Kings 9:11-13.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Chronicles 8:2. The cities which Huram had restored1 Kings 9:11.


 
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