Hamath Zobah
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2 Chronicles 8:3 names Hamath Zobah as the place Solomon went to and prevailed against. The verse does not further locate it or state its relation to Hamath.
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- 2CH 8:3–6, engwebp
3Solomon went to Hamath Zobah, and prevailed against it.
4He built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the storage cities, which he built in Hamath.
5Also he built Beth Horon the upper and Beth Horon the lower, fortified cities with walls, gates, and bars;
6and Baalath, and all the storage cities that Solomon had, and all the cities for his chariots, the cities for his horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
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Machine comparison on 2026-10-07: the wording raised none of the 3 rules against the passages this entry cites. No person has read it.
Geographic sources & candidates
Matched to OpenBible.info’s “Hamath-zobah” by name and 1 shared verse. The coordinate of its leading identification, another name for Hamath 1 (confidence 490 of 1000), is adopted as a sourced approximation: not verified here, and not the place of any particular event. 2 other identifications are listed too.
AI-assisted source review; human approval pending, 2026-09-29
- another name for Hamath 1
OpenBible.info confidence 490 of 1000 (current scholarship)
35.1365, 36.75
OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, “Hamath-zobah” (CC BY 4.0) - in Zobah
OpenBible.info confidence 250 of 1000 (current scholarship)
33.93528, 36.15083
OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, “Hamath-zobah” (CC BY 4.0) - Baalbek
OpenBible.info confidence 108 of 1000 (current scholarship)
34.00761, 36.2044
OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, “Hamath-zobah” (CC BY 4.0)
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Narrated location (1) — Solomon prevails against Hamath Zobah and builds Tadmor and other cities
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Solomon went to Hamath Zobah, and prevailed against it.
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[Bibliadatum entry report] Entry: Hamath Zobah (place-hamath-zobah) Address: https://bibliadatum.org/en/wiki/place/hamath-zobah Current wording: 2 Chronicles 8:3 names Hamath Zobah as the place Solomon went to and prevailed against. The verse does not further locate it or state its relation to Hamath. Cited evidence: 2CH 8:3–6, engwebp Review state: ai-assisted / human-review-pending What looks wrong: (not written yet) --- This collection records what the text says and does not settle interpretation. A report about a reading that divides opinion may be registered as an unresolved issue rather than corrected.