KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
2 Chronicles 8:2–4
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2 Chronicles 8:2
2That the cities which Huram had restored to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.
2That the cities which Huram had restored to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.
2 Chronicles 8:3
3And Solomon went to Hamath-zobah, and prevailed against it.
3And Solomon went to Hamath Zobah, and preuailed against it.
2 Chronicles 8:4
4And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store cities, which he built in Hamath.
4And he built Tadmor in the wildernesse, and all the store-cities, which he built in Hamath.
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DEFINED WORDS
2 Chronicles 8:2
Returned; brought back; retrieved 5 recovered; cured; renewed; re-established.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage
Constructed, formed, established, or strengthened.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Produced; effected; brought about.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Sons or daughters; descendants; or persons likened to children by age, relation, or character.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The name given to Jacob and, by extension, his descendants, their nation, or the people so called in Scripture.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
DEFINED WORDS
2 Chronicles 8:3
Opposed to, contrary to, facing, toward, or in contact with; in some settings, exposed to or ready for a stated time.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat, Bible Words Glossary (1893)
DEFINED WORDS
2 Chronicles 8:4
Constructed, formed, established, or strengthened.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
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A supply laid up or available; a reserve, abundance, or plenty.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat, Bible Words Glossary (1893) · KJV usage
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From verse 2
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Open the full verse study11(Now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire,) that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.
12And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they pleased him not.
13And he said, What cities are these which thou hast given me, my brother? And he called them the land of Cabul unto this day.
14And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold.
15¶ And this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised; for to build the house of the Lord, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.
16For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city, and given it for a present unto his daughter, Solomon’s wife.
17And Solomon built Gezer, and Beth-horon the nether,
18And Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land,
From verse 3
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Open the full verse study3¶ And David smote Hadarezer king of Zobah unto Hamath, as he went to stablish his dominion by the river Euphrates.
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Open the full verse study23¶ And God stirred him up another adversary, Rezon the son of Eliadah, which fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah:
24And he gathered men unto him, and became captain over a band, when David slew them of Zobah: and they went to Damascus, and dwelt therein, and reigned in Damascus.
25And he was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon, beside the mischief that Hadad did: and he abhorred Israel, and reigned over Syria.
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Open the full verse study3¶ David smote also Hadadezer, the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to recover his border at the river Euphrates.
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Open the full verse study21¶ So they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath.
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Open the full verse study8From mount Hor ye shall point out your border unto the entrance of Hamath; and the goings forth of the border shall be to Zedad:
From verse 4
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Open the full verse study17And Solomon built Gezer, and Beth-horon the nether,
18And Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land,
19And all the cities of store that Solomon had, and cities for his chariots, and cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
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