2nd Chronicles Chapter 11 verse 6 Holy Bible
He built Beth-lehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,
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He was the builder of Beth-lehem and Etam and Tekoa
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And he built Bethlehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,
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He built even Bethlehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,
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He built even Beth-lehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,
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He built Bethlehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,
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yea, he buildeth Beth-Lehem and Etam, and Tekoa,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 6. - Bethlehem. This was a case not of actual new building of a city, but of restoring and strengthening it. Bethlehem, originally Ephrath (Genesis 35:16; Genesis 48:7), was one of the very oldest towns existent in Jacob's time. It was not called Bethlehem till long after the settlement of the tribes. It was six miles from Jerusalem, on the east of the road to Hebron. Etam. A place near Bethlehem (1 Chronicles 4:3, 4, not 32; Septuagint of Joshua 15:60); possibly the resort of Samson after his revenge on the Philistines (Judges 15:8, 11). It was not the Etam mentioned as belonging to Simeon (1 Chronicles 4:32). Tekoa. According to Jerome, as also Eusebius, six Roman miles from Bethlehem, and nine from Jerusalem, or else, possibly by another road, twelve (Jerome's 'Pro-oemium in Amos,' and his 'Onomasticon'). It is absent from the Hebrew catalogue of Judah towns (Joshua 15:49), but is in the Septuagint Version of it. It was the place of the "wise woman" of 2 Samuel 14:2.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(6) He built even.--And he built--i.e., fortified.Beth-lehem.--Beit-lahm, on a rocky eminence, two hours south of Jerusalem (Genesis 35:19; Micah 5:2; Matthew 2:6). The birthplace of David and of Christ.Etam.--Ain Attan; different from the place mentioned in 1Chronicles 4:32 and Judges 15:8, which lay in Simeonite territory. . . .
