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Myles Coverdale Bible

2 Chronicles 8:3

And Salomon wente vnto Hemath Zoba, and made it stronge,

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.
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 And after twentye yeares (wherin Salomon buylded the house of the LORDE and his awue house) 2 he buylded the cyties also which Hiram gaue vnto Salomon, and caused the children of Israel to dwell therin. 3 And Salomon wente vnto Hemath Zoba, and made it stronge, 4 and buylded Thadmor in the wyldernes, and all the cornecyties which he buylded in Hemath. 5 He buylded the vpper and lower Bethoron likewyse, so that they were stronge cities wt walles, portes and barres. 6 And Baelath, and all the cornecites which Salomon had, and all the cities of the charettes and of the horse men, and all that Salomon had lust to buylde, both at Ierusalem and vpon Libanus, and in all the londe of his domynion. 7 All the remnaunt of the people of the Hethites, Amorites, Pheresites, Heuites and Iebusites, which were not of the children of Israel, 8 and their children which they had lefte behynde them in the londe, (whom the children of Israel had not vtterly destroied) those dyd Salomon make trybutaries vnto this daye. 9 As for the children of Israel, Salomon made no bondmen of them vnto his worke, but they were men of warre, and chefe captaynes, and ouer his charettes & horsmen. 10 And the chefe of kynge Salomons officers were two hundreth and fyftie, which ruled 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 sixe hundreth yeare of Noes age, vpon the seuentene daye of the seconde moneth, that same daye were all ye fountaynes of the greate depe broken vp, and the wyndowes of heauen were opened,
Genesis 7:24
And the waters preuayled vpon the earth, an hundreth and fiftie dayes.

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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