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The NET Bible®

2 Chronicles 8:3

Solomon went to Hamath Zobah and seized 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.
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

1 After twenty years, during which Solomon built the Lord 's temple and his royal palace, 2 Solomon rebuilt the cities that Huram had given him and settled Israelites there. 3 Solomon went to Hamath Zobah and seized it. 4 He built up Tadmor in the wilderness and all the storage cities he had built in Hamath. 5 He made upper Beth Horon and lower Beth Horon fortified cities with walls and barred gates, 6 and built up Baalath, all the storage cities that belonged to him, and all the cities where chariots and horses were kept. He built whatever he wanted in Jerusalem, Lebanon, and throughout his entire kingdom. 7 Now several non-Israelite peoples were left in the land after the conquest of Joshua, including the Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. 8 Their descendants remained in the land (the Israelites were unable to wipe them out). Solomon conscripted them for his work crews and they continue in that role to this very day. 9 Solomon did not assign Israelites to these work crews; the Israelites served as his soldiers, officers, charioteers, and commanders of his chariot forces. 10 These men worked for Solomon as supervisors; there were a total of 250 of them who were 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
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month—on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst open and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
Genesis 7:24
The waters prevailed 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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