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2 Chronicles 11:7

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Beth-zur, Soco, Adullam,

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And Beth-zur, and Soco, and Adullam,

KJV

And Beth–zur, and Shoco, and Adullam,

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This verse in 2 Chronicles 11

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

built cities for defence in Judah

on 2 Chronicles 11:5-10

Chronicles alone preserves this roster: fifteen cities across Judah and Benjamin, Bethlehem, Etam and Tekoa among the first three, running south and west toward the Philistine and Egyptian frontier. Kings never lists them; the material is the Chronicler's own, likely drawn from the royal archive he names elsewhere as his source. Bethlehem's presence in a defense list, centuries before the child born there, is passed without comment, one more name doing its ordinary work in its own day.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And Bethzur, and Shocho, and Adullam. All in the tribe of Judah, of which see Jos 15:35.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

built cities for defence in Judah--This is evidently used as the name of the southern kingdom. Rehoboam, having now a bitter enemy in Israel, deemed it prudent to lose no time in fortifying several cities that lay along the frontier of his kingdom.

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The words behind it

7 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

8 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Joshua 15:35Jarmuth, Adullam, Socoh, Azekah,4 worksJoshua 12:15the king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;2 works2 Samuel 23:13At harvest time, three of the thirty chief men went down to David at the cave of Adullam, while a company of Philistines was encamped in the Valley of Rephaim.2 works1 Samuel 22:1So David left Gath and took refuge in the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and the rest of his father’s household heard about it, they went down to him there.2 worksJoshua 15:58Halhul, Beth-zur, Gedor,2 worksMicah 1:15I will again bring a conqueror against you, O dweller of Mareshah. The glory of Israel will come to Adullam.2 works
The other 2 cross-references, with their words ▾
1 Samuel 17:1Now the Philistines gathered their forces for war at Socoh in Judah, and they camped between Socoh and Azekah in Ephes-dammim.2 worksNehemiah 3:16Beyond him, Nehemiah son of Azbuk, ruler of a half-district of Beth-zur, made repairs up to a point opposite the tombs of David, as far as the artificial pool and the House of the Mighty.2 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    2 Samuel 23:13

    At harvest time, three of the thirty chief men went down to David at the cave of Adullam, while a company of Philistines was encamped in the Valley of Rephaim.

    it leads to

    • 1 Samuel 22:1

      So David left Gath and took refuge in the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and the rest of his father’s household heard about it, they went down to him there.

      Reached by 3 separate paths from here.

    • 2 Samuel 5:18

      Now the Philistines had come and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim.

  • Through

    1 Samuel 22:1

    So David left Gath and took refuge in the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and the rest of his father’s household heard about it, they went down to him there.

    it leads to

    • Joshua 12:15

      the king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Psalms 57:1–11

      Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy, for in You my soul takes refuge. In the shadow of Your wings I will take shelter until the danger has passed.

    • Psalms 142:1–7

      I cry aloud to the LORD; I lift my voice to the LORD for mercy.

    • Psalms 34:1

      I will bless the LORD at all times; His praise will always be on my lips.

  • Through

    Joshua 15:35

    Jarmuth, Adullam, Socoh, Azekah,

    it leads to

    • 1 Samuel 17:1

      Now the Philistines gathered their forces for war at Socoh in Judah, and they camped between Socoh and Azekah in Ephes-dammim.

    • Joshua 10:3

      Therefore Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem sent word to Hoham king of Hebron, Piram king of Jarmuth, Japhia king of Lachish, and Debir king of Eglon, saying,

About 2 Chronicles

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Solomon Receives the Queen of Sheba, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).

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