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2 Chronicles 8:2

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That the cities which Huram had restored to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.
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  1. 1 Kings 9:11–18Rank 1 from verse 2
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    11(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,

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2 Chronicles 8:2

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which

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1. An interrogative or relative pronoun identifying one or more persons or things from a stated or implied set. 2. That which; what.

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restored

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Returned, given back, recovered, healed, renewed, or brought back to a former place or condition.

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caused

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of cause, meaning to make something happen.

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children

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Sons or daughters; descendants; or persons likened to children by age, relation, or character.

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Israel

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The name given to Jacob and, by extension, his descendants, their nation, or the people so called.

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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.

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3And Solomon went to Hamath-zobah, and prevailed against it.

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