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8:1 After <07093> <01961> twenty <06242> years <08141>, during which <0834> Solomon <08010> built <01129> the Lord’s <03068> temple <01004> and his royal palace <01004>, 8:2 Solomon <08010> rebuilt <01129> the cities <05892> that <0834> Huram <02361> had given <05414> him <08010> and settled <03427> Israelites <03478> <01121> there <08033>. 8:3 Solomon <08010> went <01980> to Hamath Zobah <02578> and seized <02388> it. 8:4 He built up <01129> Tadmor <08412> in the wilderness <04057> and all <03605> the storage <04543> cities <05892> he had built <01129> in Hamath <02574>. 8:5 He made <01129> upper <05945> Beth Horon <01032> and lower <08481> Beth Horon <01032> fortified <04692> cities <05892> with walls <02346> and barred <01280> gates <01817>, 8:6 and built up Baalath <01191>, all <03605> the storage <04543> cities <05892> that <0834> belonged <01961> to him <08010>, and all <03605> the cities <05892> where chariots <07393> and horses <06571> were kept. He <08010> built <01129> whatever <02837> <03605> he wanted <02836> in Jerusalem <03389>, Lebanon <03844>, and throughout <03605> his entire <0776> kingdom <04474>. 8:7 Now several <03605> non-Israelite <03478> <03808> peoples <05971> were left <03498> in the land after the conquest of Joshua, including <04480> the Hittites <02850>, Amorites <0567>, Perizzites <06522>, Hivites <02340>, and Jebusites <02983>. 8:8 Their descendants <01121> remained <03498> in the land <0776> (the Israelites <03478> <01121> were unable <03808> to wipe <03615> them out <03615>). Solomon <08010> conscripted <05927> them for his work crews <04522> and they continue <05704> in that role to <05704> this <02088> very day <03117>. 8:9 Solomon <08010> did not <03808> assign <05414> Israelites <03478> <01121> to these work <04399> crews <05650>; the Israelites served as his soldiers <04421> <0582>, officers <08269>, charioteers <07991>, and commanders <08269> of his chariot <07393> forces <06571>. 8:10 These <0428> men worked for Solomon <08010> <04428> as supervisors <05333> <08269>; there were a total of 250 <03967> <02572> of them who were in charge <07287> of the people <05971>. 8:11 Solomon <08010> moved <05927> Pharaoh’s <06547> daughter <01323> up <05927> from the City <05892> of David <01732> to the palace <01004> he had built <01129> for her, for <03588> he said <0559>, “My wife <0802> must not <03808> live <03427> in the palace <01004> of King <04428> David <01732> of Israel <03478>, for <03588> the places where <0834> the ark <0727> of the Lord <03068> has entered <0935> are holy <06944>.” 8:12 Then <0227> Solomon <08010> offered <05927> burnt sacrifices <05930> to the Lord <03068> on <05921> the altar <04196> of the Lord <03068> which <0834> he had built <01129> in front <06440> of the temple’s porch <0197>.

• 2Ch 8:1-18 -- Building Projects and Commercial Efforts

• Solomon

  [ebd] peaceful, (Heb. Shelomoh), David's second son by Bathsheba, i.e., the first after their legal marriage (2 Sam. 12). He was probably born about B.C. 1035 (1 Chr. 22:5; 29:1). He succeeded his father on the throne in early man...
  [isbe] SOLOMON - sol'-o-mun (shelomoh; New Testament Solomon): I. EARLY LIFE 1. Name and Meaning 2. Sources 3. Birth and Upbringing 4. His Accession 5. Closing Days of David II. REIGN OF SOLOMON 1. His Vision 2. His Policy 3. Its R...
  [smith] (peaceful). I. Early life and occasion to the throne . --Solomon was the child of David?s old age, the last born of all his sons. (1 Chronicles 3:5) The yearnings of the "man of war" led him to give to the new-horn infant ...
  [nave] SOLOMON Son of David by Bathsheba, 2 Sam. 12:24; 1 Kin. 1:13, 17, 21. Named Jedidiah, by Nathan the prophet, 2 Sam. 12:24, 25. Ancestor of Joseph, Matt. 1:6. Succeeds David to the throne of Israel, 1 Kin. 1:11-48; 2:12; 1...
  

• Hamath

  [ebd] fortress, the capital of one of the kingdoms of Upper Syria of the same name, on the Orontes, in the valley of Lebanon, at the northern boundary of Palestine (Num. 13:21; 34:8), at the foot of Hermon (Josh. 13:5) towards Dam...
  [isbe] HAMATH - ha'-math (chamath; Hemath, Haimath; Swete also has Hemath): The word signifies a defense or citadel, and such designation was very suitable for this chief royal city of the Hittites, situated between their northern ...
  [smith] (fortress), the principal city of upper Syria, was situated in the valley of the Orontes, which it commanded from the low screen of hills which forms the water-shed between the source of the Orontes and Antioch. The Hamathite...
  [nave] HAMATH, called also Hemath. A city of upper Syria, Num. 13:21; 34:8; Josh. 13:5; 1 Kin. 8:65; Ezek. 47:16. Inhabited by Canaanites, Gen. 10:18. Prosperity of, Amos 6:2. David receives gifts of gold and silver from Toi, kin...
  

• Tadmor

  [ebd] palm, a city built by Solomon "in the wilderness" (2 Chr. 8:4). In 1 Kings 9:18, where the word occurs in the Authorized Version, the Hebrew text and the Revised Version read "Tamar," which is properly a city on the southern...
  [isbe] TADMOR - tad'-mor, tad'-mor (tadhmor): A city built by Solomon in the wilderness (2 Ch 8:4), the Roman Palmyra. Tadmor is the native name and is found on inscriptions. It occurs also in the Kere of 1 Ki 9:18, where the Kethi...
  [smith] (city of palms), called "Tadmor in the wilderness," is the same as the city known to the Greeks and Romans under the name of Palmyra. It lay between the Euphrates and Hamath, to the southeast of that city, in a fertile tract ...
  [nave] TADMOR, a city built in the wilderness by Solomon, 1 Kin. 9:18; 2 Chr. 8:4.
  

• Baalath

  [ebd] a town of the tribe of Dan (Josh. 19:44). It was fortified by Solomon (1 Kings 9:18; 2 Chr. 8:6). Some have identified it with Bel'ain, in Wady Deir Balut.
  [isbe] BAALATH - ba'-a-lath ba`alath; A, Baalon):between Shikkeron (Ekron) and Jabnoel unless, as seems probable, the suggestion of M. Clermont-Ganneau (Rev. Crit, 1897, 902) is correct that for har ( = "mount"), we should read nah...
  [nave] BAALATH, a city of Dan, Josh. 19:44; 1 Kin. 9:18; 2 Chr. 8:6.
  

• Beth-horon

  [ebd] house of the hollow, or of the cavern, the name of two towns or villages (2 Chr. 8:5; 1 Chr. 7:24) in the territory of Ephraim, on the way from Jerusalem to Joppa. They are distinguished as Beth-horon "the upper" and Beth-ho...
  [isbe] BETH-HORON - beth-ho'-ron (beth-choron (other Hebrew forms occur); Bethoron, probably the "place of the hollow"; compare Hauran, "the hollow"): 1. The Ancient Towns: The name of two towns, Beth-horon the Upper (Josh 16:5) an...
  [nave] BETH-HORON Two ancient cities of Canaan, near which Joshua defeated the Amorites, Josh. 10:10, 11; 16:3, 5; 18:13; 1 Sam. 13:18; 1 Chr. 7:24. Solomon builds, 1 Kin. 9:17; 2 Chr. 8:5. Taken from Judah by the ten tribes, 2 C...
  

• Cities

  [nave] CITIES Ancient, Gen. 4:17; 10:10-12. Fortified, Num. 32:36; Deut. 9:1; Josh. 10:20; 14:12; 2 Chr. 8:5; 11:10-12; 17:2, 19; 21:3; Isa. 23:11. Gates of, See: Gates. Designated as: Royal, Josh. 10:2; 1 Sam. 27:5; 2 Sam. 12:2...
  

• Hamath-zobah

  [ebd] fortress of Zobah, (2 Chr. 8:3) is supposed by some to be a different place from the foregoing; but this is quite uncertain.
  [isbe] HAMATH-ZOBAH - ha'-math-zo'-ba (chamath tsobhah; Baisoba) : Mentioned only in 2 Ch 8:3. Apart from Great Hamath no site answering to this name is known. It does not seem to be implied that Solomon took possession of Hamath i...
  [nave] HAMATH-ZOBAH, a town on the border of Palestine. Subdued by Solomon, 2 Chr. 8:3.
  

• TAMAR (2)

  [isbe] TAMAR (2) - (tamar, "palm tree"; Thaiman): (1) This name occurs in Ezekiel's ideal delimitation of the territory to be occupied by Israel (Ezek 47:19; 48:28). The Dead Sea is the eastern border; and the southern boundary run...
  

• Zobah

  [isbe] ZOBAH - zo'-ba (tsobhah; Souba): The name is derived by Halevy from zehobhah as referring to its supplies of "bright yellow" brass; but this word might be more appropriately used to contrast its cornfields with white Lebanon...
  [nave] ZOBAH, called also Zoba; Aram-zobah; Hamath-zobah. A kingdom in the N. of Palestine, 1 Sam. 14:47. Conquest of, by David, 2 Sam. 8:3-8, 12; 1 Kin. 11:23, 24; 1 Chr. 18:2-9. Its inhabitants mercenaries of the Ammonites again...
  

• SOLOMONS SERVANTS

  [smith] (CHILDREN OF). (Ezra 2:55,58; Nehemiah 7:57,60) The persons thus named appear in the lists of the exiles who returned from the captivity. They were the descendants of the Canaanites who were reduced by Solomon to the helot st...
  

• Treasure cities

  [nave] TREASURE CITIES, built for the storage of the king's substance, Ex. 1:11; 1 Kin. 9:19; 2 Chr. 8:4, 6.
  

• HURAM

  [isbe] HURAM - hu'-ram (churam, "noble-born"): (1) Grandson of Benjamin (1 Ch 8:5). (2) King of Tyre in alliance with David and Solomon. So named in 2 Ch 2:3,11,12; 8:2; 9:10,21, but elsewhere written HIRAM (which see). (3) The Tyr...
  [smith] (noble born). A Benjamite; son of Bela, the first-born of the patriarch. (1 Chronicles 8:5) The form in which the name of the king of Tyre in alliance with David and Solomon --and elsewhere given as HIRAM, OR HURAM-- appe...
  

• STORE-CITIES

  [isbe] STORE-CITIES - stor'-cit-iz (mickenoth): the Revised Version (British and American) Ex 1:11 (of PITHOM and RAAMSES (which see)) for the King James Version "treasure cities" (compare 1 Ki 9:19; 2 Ch 8:4,6; 16:4, etc.). Depots...
  

• Chariot

  [nave] CHARIOT For war, Ex. 14:7, 9, 25; Josh. 11:4; 1 Sam. 13:5; 1 Kin. 20:1, 25; 2 Kin. 6:14; 2 Chr. 12:2, 3; Psa. 20:7; 46:9; Jer. 46:9; 47:3; 51:21; Joel 2:5; Nah. 2:3, 4; 3:2. Wheels of Pharaoh's, providentially taken off, Ex...
  

• Cavalry

  [nave] CAVALRY Mounted on horses, Ex. 14:23; 1 Sam. 13:5; 2 Sam. 8:4; 1 Kin. 4:26; 2 Chr. 8:6; 9:25; 12:3; Isa. 30:16; 31:1; Jer. 4:29; Zech. 10:5; Rev. 9:16-18; on camels, 1 Sam. 30:17. See: Armies.
  

• Ark

  [nave] ARK 1. Noah's. Directions for building of, Gen. 6:14-16. Noah and family preserved in, Gen. 6:18; 7:8; Matt. 24:38; Heb. 11:7; 1 Pet. 3:20. Animals saved in, Gen. 6:19, 20; 7:1-16. 2. Of Bulrushes, Ex. 2:3. 3. In the Tab...
  

• ADONIRAM

  [isbe] ADONIRAM - ad-o-ni'-ram ('adhoniram, "my lord is exalted"): An official of Solomon (1 Ki 4:6; 5:14). Near the close of the reign of David, and at the opening of the reign of Rehoboam, the same office was held by Adoram (2 Sa...
  

• City of David

  [nave] CITY OF DAVID 2 Sam. 5:7, 9; 6:10, 12, 16; 1 Kin. 2:10; 3:1; 8:1; 9:24; 14:31; 15:8; 2 Kin. 8:24; 9:28; 12:21; 14:20; 15:7, 38; 16:20; 1 Chr. 11:5, 7; 13:13; 15:1, 29; 2 Chr. 5:2; 8:11; 12:16; 14:1; 16:14; 21:1, 20; 24:16, 2...
  

• Cabul

  [ebd] how little! as nothing. (1.) A town on the eastern border of Asher (Josh. 19:27), probably one of the towns given by Solomon to Hiram; the modern Kabul, some 8 miles east of Accho, on the very borders of Galilee. (2.) A dist...
  

• Hivites

  [nave] HIVITES A tribe of Canaanites, Gen. 10:17; 1 Chr. 1:15. Shechemites and Gibeonites were families of, Gen. 34:2; Josh. 9:7; 11:19. Esau intermarries with, Gen. 26:34; 36:2. Dwelling place of, Josh. 11:3; Judg. 3:3; 2 Sam. ...
  

• Solomon Completing His Work

  

• Who were Solomons wives?
  You will not find the names of all of Solomon's wives. If they were recorded, it would be a book in and of itself. We know that one of his wives was the daughter of Pharaoh (1 Kings 9:16; 2 Chronicles 8:11). And we are told h...

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