2nd Chronicles Chapter 8 verse 3 Holy Bible
And Solomon went to Hamath-zobah, and prevailed against it.
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And Solomon went to Hamath-zobah and overcame it.
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And Solomon went to Hamath-Zobah, and overcame it.
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And Solomon went to Hamathzobah, and prevailed against it.
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And Solomon went to Hamath-zobah, and prevailed against it.
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Solomon went to Hamath-zobah, and prevailed against it.
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And Solomon goeth to Hamath-Zobah, and layeth hold upon it;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 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.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(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). . . .
