2 Chronicles 8:5

JPS Old Testament

Also he built Beth-horon the upper, and Beth-horon the nether, fortified cities, with walls, gates, and bars;

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He built Upper Beth-horon and Lower Beth-horon—fortified cities with walls, gates, and bars—

Hebrew Names Version
Also he built Beit-Horon the upper, and Beit-Horon the lower, fortified cities, with walls, gates, and bars;

King James Version
Also he built Bethhoron the upper, and Bethhoron the nether, fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars;

English Standard Version
He also built Upper Beth-horon and Lower Beth-horon, fortified cities with walls, gates, and bars,

New Century Version
He rebuilt the towns of Upper Beth Horon and Lower Beth Horon, protecting them with strong walls, gates, and bars in the gates.

New English Translation
He made upper Beth Horon and lower Beth Horon fortified cities with walls and barred gates,

Amplified Bible
He also built upper Beth-horon and lower Beth-horon, fortified cities with walls, gates, and bars [to lock the gates];

New American Standard Bible
He also built upper Beth-horon and lower Beth-horon, which were fortified cities with walls, gates, and bars;

World English Bible
Also he built Beth-horon the upper, and Beth-horon the lower, fortified cities, with walls, gates, and bars;

Geneva Bible (1587)
And he built Beth-horon the vpper, and Beth-horon the nether, cities defensed with walles, gates and barres:

Legacy Standard Bible
He also built upper Beth-horon and lower Beth-horon, fortified cities with walls, gates and bars;

Berean Standard Bible
He rebuilt Upper and Lower Beth-horon as fortified cities with walls, gates, and bars,

Contemporary English Version
He strengthened Upper Beth-Horon and Lower Beth-Horon by adding walls and gates that could be locked.

Complete Jewish Bible
He also built Upper Beit-Horon and Lower Beit-Horon, fortified cities with walls, gates and bars;

Darby Translation
And he built upper Beth-Horon and lower Beth-Horon, fortified cities, with walls, gates, and bars;

Easy-to-Read Version
He rebuilt the towns of Upper Beth Horon and Lower Beth Horon. He made them into strong forts with strong walls, gates, and bars in the gates.

George Lamsa Translation
Also he built Beth-hauran the upper and Beth-hauran the lower;

Good News Translation
Solomon also rebuilt the following cities: Upper Beth Horon and Lower Beth Horon (fortified cities with gates that could be barred),

Lexham English Bible
He also built Upper Beth-Horon and Lower Beth-Horon, fortified cities with walls, gates, and bars;

Literal Translation
And he built Beth-horon the upper, and Beth-horon the lower, as fortified cities, with walls, two leaved doors, and bars;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
He buylded the vpper and lower Bethoron likewyse, so that they were stronge cities wt walles, portes and barres.

American Standard Version
Also he built Beth-horon the upper, and Beth-horon the nether, fortified cities, with walls, gates, and bars;

Bible in Basic English
And of Beth-horon the higher and the lower, walled towns with walls and doorways and locks;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And he buylt Bethhoron the vpper, and Bethhoron the neather, strong cities, hauing walles, gates, and barres:

King James Version (1611)
Also he built Beth-horon the vpper, and Beth-horon the nether, fensed cities with walles, gates and barres:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And he built Baethoron the upper, and Baethoron the lower, strong cities, —they had walls, gates, and bars;

English Revised Version
Also he built Beth–horon the upper, and Beth–horon the nether, fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars;

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And he bildide the hiyere Betheron and the lowere Betheron, wallid citees, hauynge yatis and lockis and barris;

Update Bible Version
Also he built Beth-horon the upper, and Beth-horon the nether, fortified cities, with walls, gates, and bars;

Webster's Bible Translation
Also he built Beth-horon the upper, and Beth-horon the nether, fortified cities, with walls, gates, and bars;

New King James Version
He built Upper Beth Horon and Lower Beth Horon, fortified cities with walls, gates, and bars,

New Living Translation
He fortified the towns of Upper Beth-horon and Lower Beth-horon, rebuilding their walls and installing barred gates.

New Life Bible
He built upper Beth-horon and lower Beth-horon. He made the city strong with walls, gates, and long pieces of iron.

New Revised Standard
He also built Upper Beth-horon and Lower Beth-horon, fortified cities, with walls, gates, and bars,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and he built Beth-horon, the upper, and Beth-horon, the nether, - fortified cities, with walls, and doors and bars;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he built Beth-horon the upper, and Beth-horon the nether, walled cities with gates and bars and locks.

Revised Standard Version
He also built Upper Beth-hor'on and Lower Beth-hor'on, fortified cities with walls, gates, and bars,

Young's Literal Translation
And he buildeth Beth-Horon the upper, and Beth-Horon the lower -- cities of defence, with walls, two-leaved doors, and bar --

New American Standard Bible (1995)
He also built upper Beth-horon and lower Beth-horon, fortified cities with walls, gates and bars;

Contextual Overview

¹ And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the house of the LORD, and his own house, ² that the cities which Huram had given to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there. ³ And Solomon went to Hamath-zobah, and prevailed against it. ⁴ And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store-cities, which he built in Hamath. ⁵ Also he built Beth-horon the upper, and Beth-horon the nether, fortified cities, with walls, gates, and bars; ⁶ and Baalath, and all the store-cities that Solomon had, and all the cities for his chariots, and the cities for his horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion. ⁷ As for all the people that were left of the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of Israel; ⁸ of their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel consumed not, of them did Solomon raise a levy of bondservants, unto this day. ⁹ But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no servants for his work; but they were men of war, and chief of his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen. ¹⁰ And these were the chief officers of king Solomon, even two hundred and fifty, that bore rule over the people.

Bible Verse Review
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Bethhoron: Joshua 16:3, Joshua 16:5, 1 Chronicles 7:24

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 13:18 - Bethhoron 2 Chronicles 25:13 - Bethhoron

Cross-References

Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Also he built Bethhoron the upper, and Bethhoron the nether,.... Only mention is made of the latter in 1 Kings 9:17,

fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars; fortified cities in the tribe of Ephraim.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Built - “Rebuilt,” or “repaired” (as in 2 Chronicles 8:2). The two Beth-borons were both ancient cities (see Joshua 10:10 note).