2 Chronicles 8:3
New International Version
Solomon then went to Hamath Zobah and captured it.

New Living Translation
Solomon also fought against the town of Hamath-zobah and conquered it.

English Standard Version
And Solomon went to Hamath-zobah and took it.

Berean Standard Bible
Then Solomon went to Hamath-zobah and captured it.

King James Bible
And Solomon went to Hamathzobah, and prevailed against it.

New King James Version
And Solomon went to Hamath Zobah and seized it.

New American Standard Bible
Then Solomon went to Hamath-zobah and captured it.

NASB 1995
Then Solomon went to Hamath-zobah and captured it.

NASB 1977
Then Solomon went to Hamath-zobah and captured it.

Legacy Standard Bible
Then Solomon went to Hamath-zobah and overpowered it.

Amplified Bible
Then Solomon went to Hamath-zobah and captured it.

Christian Standard Bible
Solomon went to Hamath-zobah and seized it.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Solomon went to Hamath-zobah and seized it.

American Standard Version
And Solomon went to Hamath-zobah, and prevailed against it.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And Solomon went on to Antioch, and he encamped against it and he destroyed it.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And Solomon came to Baesoba, and fortified it.

Contemporary English Version
Solomon attacked and captured the town of Hamath-Zobah.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He went also into Emath Suba, and possessed it.

English Revised Version
And Solomon went to Hamath-zobah, and prevailed against it.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Then Solomon went to Hamath Zobah and conquered it.

Good News Translation
He captured the territory of Hamath and Zobah

International Standard Version
After this, Solomon traveled to Hamath-zobah and captured it.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And Solomon went to Hamath-zobah, and prevailed against it.

Literal Standard Version
And Solomon goes to Hamath-Zobah, and lays hold on it;

Majority Standard Bible
Then Solomon went to Hamath-zobah and captured it.

New American Bible
Then Solomon went to Hamath of Zoba and conquered it.

NET Bible
Solomon went to Hamath Zobah and seized it.

New Revised Standard Version
Solomon went to Hamath-zobah, and captured it.

New Heart English Bible
Solomon went to Hamath Zobah, and prevailed against it.

Webster's Bible Translation
And Solomon went to Hamath-zobah, and prevailed against it.

World English Bible
Solomon went to Hamath Zobah, and prevailed against it.

Young's Literal Translation
And Solomon goeth to Hamath-Zobah, and layeth hold upon it;

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Solomon's Additional Accomplishments
2Solomon rebuilt the cities Hiram had given him and settled Israelites there. 3Then Solomon went to Hamath-zobah and captured it. 4He built Tadmor in the wilderness, in addition to all the store cities that he had built in Hamath.…

Cross References
2 Kings 14:28
As for the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, along with all his accomplishments and might, and how he waged war and recovered both Damascus and Hamath for Israel from Judah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

2 Chronicles 8:2
Solomon rebuilt the cities Hiram had given him and settled Israelites there.

2 Chronicles 8:4
He built Tadmor in the wilderness, in addition to all the store cities that he had built in Hamath.


Treasury of Scripture

And Solomon went to Hamathzobah, and prevailed against it.

Hamath-zobah

Numbers 13:21
So they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath.

Numbers 34:8
From mount Hor ye shall point out your border unto the entrance of Hamath; and the goings forth of the border shall be to Zedad:

2 Samuel 8:3
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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1. Solomon's buildings
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11. Pharaoh's daughter removes to her house
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(3) And Solomon went.--Marched (2Samuel 12:29).

Hamath-zobah.--That is, Hamath bordering on Zobah. (Comp. 1Chronicles 18:3.) Solomon's conquest of the kingdom of Hamath, which had been on terms of amity with David, is not mentioned in 1 Kings 9; nor indeed anywhere else in the Old Testament. Thenius (on 2Kings 14:25) supposes that the text describes not a conquest of Hamath itself, but only the annexation of part of its territory; viz., a part of the highly fruitful plain of C?le-Syria, called by the Arabs Ard-el-Beqaa. This appears to be correct.

Against it.--Or, over it (a late construction, 2Chronicles 27:5; Daniel 11:5). . . .

Verse 3. - Hamath-zobah. Hamath (when the name occurs separately) was a place both of great geographical note (occupying, whether regarded as a larger region or a town, an important position in the northern end of that broad valley of Coele-Syria which separates Lebanon and Antilebanon, and through which passed the river Orontes) and of great historical note from the time of the Exodus to that of Amos. The town, or city, is to be understood to be the Great Hamath (Amos 6:2). But the kingdom, or district, or county, was almost conterminous with Coele-Syria. Zobah, also a portion of Syria, amounted to a small kingdom, and is read of alike in Saul's and in David's times, as in Solomon's time. It probably lay to the north-east of Hamath (1 Samuel 14:47; 2 Samuel 8:8, 7, 8, 10; 2 Samuel 10:9, 16, 19; 1 Chronicles 18:4; 1 Chronicles 19:16). But Hamath-zobah of this verse was probably a place called Hamath, in the region of Zobah, in which also two other cities are mentioned, Berothai and Tibhath, or Betah (2 Samuel 8:8; 1 Chronicles 18:8). These two kingdoms of Hamath and Zobah, contiguous as they were, seem as though they purposed to compliment one another - Zobah by naming one of its towns Hamath, and vice versa It is said that the Assyrian inscriptions show that they remained, after Solomon, distinct kingdoms.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Then Solomon
שְׁלֹמֹה֙ (šə·lō·mōh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 8010: Solomon -- David's son and successor to his throne

went
וַיֵּ֤לֶךְ (way·yê·leḵ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1980: To go, come, walk

to Hamath-zobah
צוֹבָ֔ה (ṣō·w·ḇāh)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 2578: Hamath-zobah -- a place North of Damascus

and captured
וַיֶּחֱזַ֖ק (way·ye·ḥĕ·zaq)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 2388: To fasten upon, to seize, be strong, obstinate, to bind, restrain, conquer

it.
עָלֶֽיהָ׃ (‘ā·le·hā)
Preposition | third person feminine singular
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against


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