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2 Chronicles 8:3 KJV

2 Chronicles · chapter 8 · verse 3

And Solomon went to Hamathzobah, and prevailed against it.2 Chronicles 8:3 · King James Version

2 Chronicles 8:3 in context

1And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the house of the LORD, and his own house,

2That the cities which Huram had restored to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.

3And Solomon went to Hamathzobah, and prevailed against it.

4And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store cities, which he built in Hamath.

5Also he built Bethhoron the upper, and Bethhoron the nether, fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars;

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Commentary

This we had Kg1 9:10-24, and therefore shall only observe here, I. Though Solomon was a man of great learning and knowledge, yet he spent his days, not in contemplation, but in action, not in his study, but in his country, in building cities and fortifying them, in a time of peace preparing for a time of war, which is…

— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-11

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