2 Chronicles 8:3

THE MESSAGE

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.

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

¹At the end of twenty years, Solomon had quite a list of accomplishments. He had: built The Temple of God and his own palace; rebuilt the cities that Hiram had given him and colonized them with Israelites; marched on Hamath Zobah and took it; fortified Tadmor in the desert and all the store-cities he had founded in Hamath; built the fortress cities Upper Beth Horon and Lower Beth Horon, complete with walls, gates, and bars; built Baalath and store-cities; built chariot-cities for his horses. Solomon built impulsively and extravagantly—whenever a whim took him. And in Jerusalem, in Lebanon—wherever he fancied. ⁷The remnants from the original inhabitants of the land (Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, Jebusites—all non-Israelites), survivors of the holy wars, were rounded up by Solomon for his gangs of slave labor. The policy is in effect today. But true Israelites were not treated this way; they were used in his army and administration—government leaders and commanders of his chariots and charioteers. They were also the project managers responsible for Solomon's building operations—250 in all in charge of the workforce. ¹¹ Solomon brought Pharaoh's daughter from the City of David to a house built especially for her, "Because," he said, "my wife cannot live in the house of David king of Israel, for the areas in which the Chest of God has entered are sacred."

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
It was the six-hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month that it happened: all the underground springs erupted and all the windows of Heaven were thrown open. Rain poured for forty days and forty nights.

Genesis 7:24
The floodwaters took over 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.