2 Chronicles 8

2 Chronicles · Chapter 8

2 Chronicles 8:5

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.3And Solomon went to Hamathzobah, and prevailed against it.4And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store cities, which he built in Hamath.5Also he built Bethhoron the upper, and Bethhoron the nether, fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars;6And Baalath, and all the store cities that Solomon had, and all the chariot cities, and the cities of the horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and throughout all the land of his dominion.7As for all the people that were left of the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which were not of Israel,8But of their children, who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel consumed not, them did Solomon make to pay tribute until this day.9But 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 captains of his chariots and horsemen.10And these were the chief of king Solomon’s officers, even two hundred and fifty, that bare rule over the people.11And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David unto the house that he had built for her: for he said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places are holy, whereunto the ark of the LORD hath come.12Then Solomon offered burnt offerings unto the LORD on the altar of the LORD, which he had built before the porch,13Even after a certain rate every day, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts, three times in the year, even in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles.14And he appointed, according to the order of David his father, the courses of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their charges, to praise and minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required: the porters also by their courses at every gate: for so had David the man of God commanded.15And they departed not from the commandment of the king unto the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning the treasures.16Now all the work of Solomon was prepared unto the day of the foundation of the house of the LORD, and until it was finished. So the house of the LORD was perfected.17Then went Solomon to Eziongeber, and to Eloth, at the sea side in the land of Edom.18And Huram sent him by the hands of his servants ships, and servants that had knowledge of the sea; and they went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and took thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon.

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VerseKJVBSBASV
5Also he built Bethhoron the upper, and Bethhoron the nether, fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars;He rebuilt Upper and Lower Beth-horon as fortified cities with walls, gates, and bars,Also he built Beth-horon the upper, and Beth-horon the nether, fortified cities, with walls, gates, and bars;

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Original Hebrew words

EnglishHebrewSay itStrong'sMeaning
and he builtוַיִּ֜בֶןvai-YI-venH1129
to build

בְּנָה (be.nah) 1) to build 1a) (P'al) to build 1b) (Ithp'il) to be built

Bethבֵּ֤יתbeitH1032H
(Upper) Beth-horon

בֵּית חוֹרֹן (bet cho.ron) Beth-horon = "house of hollowness" Upper Beth-horon-town on the mountains of Ephraim Combined with el.yon (עֶלְיוֹן ", Upper" H5945)

Horonחוֹרוֹן֙cho-rOnH1032H
(Upper) Beth-horon

בֵּית חוֹרֹן (bet cho.ron) Beth-horon = "house of hollowness" Upper Beth-horon-town on the mountains of Ephraim Combined with el.yon (עֶלְיוֹן ", Upper" H5945)

the upperהָֽעֶלְי֔וֹןha-'el-YONH5945GNo entry
Bethבֵּ֥יתbeitH1032I
Beth-horon

בֵּית חוֹרֹן (bet cho.ron) § Beth-horon = "house of hollowness" two towns in Ephraim 1a) Upper Beth-horon-town on the mountains of Ephraim 1b) Lower Beth-horon-town located 800 feet (245 m) lower than Upper Beth-horon

Horonחוֹר֖וֹןcho-RONH1032I
Beth-horon

בֵּית חוֹרֹן (bet cho.ron) § Beth-horon = "house of hollowness" two towns in Ephraim 1a) Upper Beth-horon-town on the mountains of Ephraim 1b) Lower Beth-horon-town located 800 feet (245 m) lower than Upper Beth-horon

the lowerהַתַּחְתּ֑וֹןha-tach-TONH8481G
Lower (Beth Horon)

תַּחְתּוֹן (tach.ton) Combined with bet cho.ron (בֵּית חוֹרֹן "Beth-horon" H1032) § lower, lowest, nether Another name of bet cho.ron (בֵּית חוֹרֹן "Beth-horon" H1032G)

cities ofעָרֵ֣י'a-REIH5892B
city

עִיר (ir) 1) city, town (a place of waking, guarded) 1a) city, town (a place of waking, guarded) 1a) city, town

fortificationמָצ֔וֹרma-TZORH4692
siege

מָצוֹר (ma.tsor) 1) siege-enclosure, siege, entrenchment, siege works 1a) siege 1b) enclosure, siege-works, rampart

wallsחוֹמ֖וֹתcho-MOTH2346G
wall

חוֹמָה (cho.mah) wall

doorsדְּלָתַ֥יִםde-la-TA-yimH1817C
door

דֶּ֫לֶת (de.let) 1) door, gate 1a) a door 1b) a gate 1c) (fig.) 1c1) of chest lid 1c2) of crocodile jaws 1c3) of doors of the heavens 1c4) of an easily-accessible woman

and bar[s]וּבְרִֽיחַ׃u-ve-RI-achH1280
bar

בְּרִיחַ (be.ri.ach) 1) bar 1a) of wood 1b) of city gates 2) of tribulation, a fortress, of the earth as a prison (fig.)

Words and meanings from STEPBible data (Tyndale House, Cambridge, CC BY 4.0). The capitalized syllable is the stressed one.