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<span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/8-6.htm" target="_top"><b>6</b></a></span>and Baalath and all the storage cities that Solomon had, and all the cities for his chariots and cities for his horsemen, and all that it pleased Solomon to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land under his rule. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/8-7.htm" target="_top"><b>7</b></a></span>All of the people who were left of the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, who were not of Israel, <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/8-8.htm" target="_top"><b>8</b></a></span><i>namely,</i> from their descendants who were left after them in the land whom the sons of Israel had not destroyed, them Solomon raised as forced laborers to this day. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/8-9.htm" target="_top"><b>9</b></a></span>But Solomon did not make slaves for his work from the sons of Israel; they were men of war, his chief captains and commanders of his chariots and his horsemen. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/8-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>These were the chief officers of King Solomon, two hundred and fifty who ruled over the people. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/8-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>Then Solomon brought Pharaohs daughter up from the city of David to the house which 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 where the ark of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> has entered. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/8-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>Then Solomon offered burnt offerings to the L<font size="1">ORD</font> on the altar of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> which he had built before the porch; <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/8-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>and <i>did so</i> according to the daily rule, offering <i>them</i> up according to the commandment of Moses, for the sabbaths, the new moons and the three annual feaststhe Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks and the Feast of Booths. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/8-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>Now according to the ordinance of his father David, he appointed the divisions of the priests for their service, and the Levites for their duties of praise and ministering before the priests according to the daily rule, and the gatekeepers by their divisions at every gate; for David the man of God had so commanded. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/8-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>And they did not depart from the commandment of the king to the priests and Levites in any manner or concerning the storehouses. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/8-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>Thus all the work of Solomon was carried out from the day of the foundation of the house of the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, and until it was finished. So the house of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> was completed. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/8-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>Then Solomon went to Ezion-geber and to Eloth on the seashore in the land of Edom. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/8-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>And Huram by his servants sent him ships and servants who knew the sea; and they went with Solomons servants to Ophir, and took from there four hundred and fifty talents of gold and brought them to King Solomon. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/2_chronicles/8.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />And Solomon went to Hamath-zobah, and prevailed against it.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/2_chronicles/8.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />He went also into Emath Suba, and possessed it. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/2_chronicles/8.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />And Solomon went to Hamath-Zobah, and overcame it.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/2_chronicles/8.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />And Solomon went to Hamath-zobah, and prevailed against it.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/2_chronicles/8.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />And Solomon went to Hamath-zobah, and prevailed against it.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/2_chronicles/8.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Solomon went to Hamath Zobah, and prevailed against it.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/2_chronicles/8.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> And Solomon goeth to Hamath-Zobah, and layeth hold upon it;<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_g/the_duty_of_every_day.htm">The Duty of Every Day</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'Then Solomon offered burnt offerings unto the Lord ... Even after a certain rate every day.'--(A.V.) 'Then Solomon offered burnt offerings unto the Lord, even as the duty of every day required it.'--2 Chron. viii. 12-13 (R. V.). This is a description of the elaborate provision, in accordance with the commandment of Moses, which Solomon made for the worship in his new Temple. The writer is enlarging on the precise accordance of the ritual with the regulations laid down in the law. He expresses, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_g/the_duty_of_every_day.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/lightfoot/from_the_talmud_and_hebraica/chapter_4_the_seven_seas.htm">The Seven Seas According to the Talmudists, and the Four Rivers Compassing the Land. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"Seven seas (say they) and four rivers compass the land of Israel. I. The Great Sea, or the Mediterranean. II. The sea of Tiberias. III. The sea of Sodom. IV. The lake of Samocho... The three first named among the seven are sufficiently known, and there is no doubt of the fourth:--only the three names of it are not to be passed by. IV. 1. The Sibbichaean. The word seems to be derived from a bush. 2. ... 3. ... V. Perhaps the sandy sea. Which fits very well to the lake of Sirbon, joining the commentary <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/lightfoot/from_the_talmud_and_hebraica/chapter_4_the_seven_seas.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Lightfoot—</span><span class="citation2">From the Talmud and Hebraica</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/edersheim/sketches_of_jewish_social_life/chapter_12_commerce.htm">Commerce</a><br></span><span class="snippet">The remarkable change which we have noticed in the views of Jewish authorities, from contempt to almost affectation of manual labour, could certainly not have been arbitrary. But as we fail to discover here any religious motive, we can only account for it on the score of altered political and social circumstances. So long as the people were, at least nominally, independent, and in possession of their own land, constant engagement in a trade would probably mark an inferior social stage, and imply <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/edersheim/sketches_of_jewish_social_life/chapter_12_commerce.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alfred Edersheim—</span><span class="citation2">Sketches of Jewish Social Life</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/mcfadyen/introduction_to_the_old_testament/chronicles.htm">Chronicles</a><br></span><span class="snippet">The comparative indifference with which Chronicles is regarded in modern times by all but professional scholars seems to have been shared by the ancient Jewish church. Though written by the same hand as wrote Ezra-Nehemiah, and forming, together with these books, a continuous history of Judah, it is placed after them in the Hebrew Bible, of which it forms the concluding book; and this no doubt points to the fact that it attained canonical distinction later than they. Nor is this unnatural. The book <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/mcfadyen/introduction_to_the_old_testament/chronicles.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Edgar McFadyen—</span><span class="citation2">Introduction to the Old Testament</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/2_chronicles/8-3.htm">2 Chronicles 8:3 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/2_chronicles/8-3.htm">2 Chronicles 8:3 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/2_chronicles/8-3.htm">2 Chronicles 8:3 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/2_chronicles/8-3.htm">2 Chronicles 8:3 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/2_chronicles/8-3.htm">2 Chronicles 8:3 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/2_chronicles/8-3.htm">2 Chronicles 8:3 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/2_chronicles/8-3.htm">2 Chronicles 8:3 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../2_chronicles/8-2.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="2 Chronicles 8:2"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="2 Chronicles 8:2" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../2_chronicles/8-4.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="2 Chronicles 8:4"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="2 Chronicles 8:4" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/2_chronicles/8-3.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>