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2 Chronicles 8:5
2 Chronicles 8:5 is verse 5 of 2 Chronicles chapter 8, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
He rebuilt Upper and Lower Beth-horon as fortified cities with walls, gates, and bars,
King James Version
Also he built Bethhoron the upper, and Bethhoron the nether, fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars;
World English Bible
Also he built Beth Horon the upper and Beth Horon the lower, fortified cities with walls, gates, and bars;
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2 Chronicles 8:3–7 · Berean Standard Bible
3 Then Solomon went to Hamath-zobah and captured it.
4 He built Tadmor in the wilderness, in addition to all the store cities that he had built in Hamath.
5 He rebuilt Upper and Lower Beth-horon as fortified cities with walls, gates, and bars,
6 as well as Baalath, all the store cities that belonged to Solomon, and all the cities for his chariots and horses —whatever he desired to build in Jerusalem, Lebanon, and throughout the land of his dominion.
7 As for all the people who remained of the Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites (the people who were not Israelites)—
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Cross-references
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Joshua 16:3Then it descended westward to the border of the Japhletites as far as the border of Lower Beth-horon and on to Gezer, and it ended at the Sea.
Joshua 16:5This was the territory of the descendants of Ephraim by their clans: The border of their inheritance went from Ataroth-addar in the east to Upper Beth-horon
1 Chronicles 7:24His daughter was Sheerah, who built Lower and Upper Beth-horon, as well as Uzzen-sheerah.