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The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

2 Chronicles 8:2

Solomon rebuilt the cities Hiram had given him and settled Israelites there.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Solomon;  

Dictionaries:

- Easton Bible Dictionary - Cabul;   Solomon;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Cabul;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Chronicles, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Hiram;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Cabul ;   Hiram ;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Hu'ram;   Sol'omon;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Huram;   Solomon;   Trade;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Solomon had rebuilt the cities Hiram gave him and settled Israelites there—
Hebrew Names Version
that the cities which Huram had given to Shlomo, Shlomo built them, and caused the children of Yisra'el to dwell there.
King James Version
That the cities which Huram had restored to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.
English Standard Version
Solomon rebuilt the cities that Hiram had given to him, and settled the people of Israel in them.
New Century Version
Solomon rebuilt the towns that Hiram had given him, and Solomon sent Israelites to live in them.
New English Translation
Solomon rebuilt the cities that Huram had given him and settled Israelites there.
Amplified Bible
that he built and fortified the cities which Huram (Hiram) had given to him, and settled the Israelites there.
New American Standard Bible
that he built the cities which Huram had given him, and settled the sons of Israel there.
World English Bible
that the cities which Huram had given to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then Salomon built the cities that Huram gaue to Salomon, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.
Legacy Standard Bible
that he built the cities which Huram had given to him, and settled the sons of Israel there.
Contemporary English Version
After that, Solomon had his workers rebuild the towns that Hiram had given him. Then Solomon sent Israelites to live in those towns.
Complete Jewish Bible
Shlomo built up the cities which Huram had given to Shlomo and had the people of Isra'el live there.
Darby Translation
that the cities which Huram had given to Solomon, Solomon built them and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then Solomon rebuilt the towns that Hiram gave him and then moved Israelites into those towns to live there.
George Lamsa Translation
That Solomon rebuilt the cities which Hiram had given to him, and caused the children of Israel to dwell in them.
Good News Translation
He also rebuilt the cities that King Hiram had given him, and sent Israelites to settle in them.
Lexham English Bible
Solomon also built the cities that Huram had given to him, and he settled the Israelites in them.
Literal Translation
As to the cities that Hiram had given to Solomon, Solomon had built them, and he caused the sons of Israel to live there.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
he buylded the cyties also which Hiram gaue vnto Salomon, and caused the children of Israel to dwell therin.
American Standard Version
that the cities which Huram had given to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.
Bible in Basic English
He took in hand the building up of the towns which Huram had given him, causing the children of Israel to make living-places for themselves there.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
He buylt the cities that Hiram gaue hym, and put of the children of Israel in them.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
that the cities which Huram had given to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.
King James Version (1611)
That the cities which Huram had restored to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
that Solomon rebuilt the cities which Chiram had given to Solomon, and caused the children of Israel to dwell in them.
English Revised Version
that the cities which Huram had given to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwelt there.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and his owne hows, he bildide the citees, whiche Iram hadde youe to Salomon; and he made the sones of Israel to dwelle there.
Update Bible Version
that the cities which Huram had given to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the sons of Israel to dwell there.
Webster's Bible Translation
That the cities which Huram had restored to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.
New King James Version
that the cities which Hiram 2 Chronicles 2:3)">[fn] had given to Solomon, Solomon built them; and he settled the children of Israel there.
New Living Translation
Solomon turned his attention to rebuilding the towns that King Hiram had given him, and he settled Israelites in them.
New Life Bible
he built again the cities which Huram had given to him. And he had the people of Israel live in them.
New Revised Standard
Solomon rebuilt the cities that Huram had given to him, and settled the people of Israel in them.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
that, the cities which Huram had given to Solomon, Solomon built them, - and caused, the sons of Israel, to dwell there.
Douay-Rheims Bible
He built the cities which Hiram had given to Solomon, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.
Revised Standard Version
Solomon rebuilt the cities which Huram had given to him, and settled the people of Israel in them.
Young's Literal Translation
As to the cities that Huram hath given to Solomon, Solomon hath built them, and there he causeth the sons of Israel to dwell.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
that he built the cities which Huram had given to him, and settled the sons of Israel there.

Contextual Overview

1Now at the end of the twenty years during which Solomon had built the house of the LORD and his own palace, 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, along with all the store cities that he had built in Hamath. 5He rebuilt Upper and Lower Beth-horon as fortified cities with walls, gates, and bars, 6as well as Baalath, all the store cities that belonged to Solomon, all the cities for his chariots and horses-whatever he desired to build in Jerusalem, Lebanon, and throughout the land of his dominion. 7As for all the people who remained of the Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites (the people who were not Israelites)- 8their descendants who remained in the land, those whom the Israelites were unable to destroy-Solomon conscripted these people to be forced laborers, as they are to this day. 9But Solomon did not consign any of the Israelites to slave labor, because they were his men of war, his officers and captains, and the commanders of his chariots and cavalry. 10They were also the chief officers for King Solomon: 250 supervisors.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the cities: 1 Kings 9:11-18

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 11:5 - built 2 Chronicles 14:6 - And he built 2 Chronicles 17:12 - in Judah

Cross-References

Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
Genesis 8:11
And behold, the dove returned to him in the evening with a freshly plucked olive leaf in her beak. So Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.
Genesis 8:13
In Noah's six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the water had dried up from the earth. So Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.
Job 38:37
Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Or who can tilt the water jars of the heavens
Proverbs 8:28
when He established the clouds above, when the fountains of the deep gushed forth,
Jonah 2:3
For You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the current swirled about me. All Your breakers and waves swept over me.
Matthew 8:9
For I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I tell one to go, and he goes; and another to come, and he comes. I tell my servant to do something, and he does it."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

That the cities which Huram had restored to Solomon,.... Which Solomon first gave to him, but he not liking them, returned them to him, 1 Kings 9:12,

Solomon built them; or rebuilt them, being very much out of repair, which might be one reason of Huram's not accepting them:

and caused the children of Israel to dwell there; they being inhabited by others, the remains of the Canaanitcs perhaps; see 2 Chronicles 8:7.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The cities which Huram had restored to Solomon - These cities had not been mentioned previously by the writer of Chronicles, who, however, seems to assume that the fact of their having been given by Hiram to Solomon is known to his readers. See 1 Kings 9:11-13.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Chronicles 8:2. The cities which Huram had restored1 Kings 9:11.


 
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