Also he built Beth Horon the upper, and Beth Horon the lower, fortified cities, with walls, gates, and bars;
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Also he built Beth Horon the upper, and Beth Horon the lower, fortified cities, with walls, gates, and bars;
Also he built Bethhoron the upper, and Bethhoron the nether, fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars;
And he built Beth Horon the Upper and Beth Horon the Lower, fortified cities with walls, doors, and a bar,
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Also he built Beth Horon the upper, and Beth Horon the lower, fortified cities, with walls, gates, and bars;
He rebuilt Upper and Lower Beth-horon as fortified cities with walls, gates, and bars,
He rebuilt Upper and Lower Beth-horon as fortified cities with walls, gates, and bars,
Also he built Bethhoron the upper, and Bethhoron the nether, fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars;
Also he built Beth-horon the upper, and Beth-horon the nether, fortified cities, with walls, gates, and bars;
Also he built Beth-horon the upper, and Beth-horon the nether, fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars;
And he built Beth-horon the vpper, and Beth-horon the nether, cities defensed with walles, gates and barres:
And he built Beth-horon the upper, and Beth-horon the nether, walled cities with Rates and bars and locks.
And he buildeth Beth-Horon the upper, and Beth-Horon the lower -- cities of defence, with walls, two-leaved doors, and bar --
And he builds Beth-Horon the upper, and Beth-Horon the lower—cities of defense, with walls, double gates, and bar—
Also he built Beth Horon the Upper and Beth Horon the Lower, cities fortified with walls, gates, and bars.
And he built Beth Horon the Upper and Beth Horon the Lower, fortified cities with walls, doors, and a bar,
And he built upper Beth-Horon and lower Beth-Horon, fortified cities, with walls, gates, and bars;
Also he built Beth Horon the upper and Beth Horon the lower, fortified cities with walls, gates, and bars;
Also he built Beth-horon the upper, and Beth-horon the nether, fortified cities, with walls, gates, and bars;
He rebuilt Upper and Lower Beth-horon, fortified cities with walls and barred gates,
And of Beth-horon the higher and the lower, walled towns with walls and doorways and locks;
Also he built Beth-horon the upper, and Beth-horon the nether, fortified cities, with walls, gates, and bars;
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is הַתַּחְתּ֑וֹן lower H8481 — appearing just 13 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
הַתַּחְתּ֑וֹן lower H8481 occurs in 13 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 19 words from the Hebrew and 18 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
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Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 14 Hebrew tokens and 17 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
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וַיִּ֜בֶן אֶת בֵּ֤ית חוֹרוֹן֙ הָֽעֶלְי֔וֹן וְאֶת בֵּ֥ית חוֹר֖וֹן הַתַּחְתּ֑וֹן עָרֵ֣י מָצ֔וֹר חוֹמ֖וֹת דְּלָתַ֥יִם וּבְרִֽיחַ
Also he built Beth Horon the upper, and Beth Horon the lower, fortified cities, with walls, gates, and bars;
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί οἰκοδομέω ὁ βαιθωρων ὁ ἄνω καί ὁ βαιθωρων ὁ κάτω πόλις ὀχυρός τεῖχος πύλη καί μοχλός
And he built Baethoron the upper, and Baethoron the lower, strong cities, —they had walls, gates, and bars;
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
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2 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 14 words (10 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is tachtôwn (“lower”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on 2 Chronicles 8:5 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale Open Resources
Tyndale Open Study Notes — © Tyndale Open Resources, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Geneva Bible (1599)
Geneva Bible translators
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible (1834–1885) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
The Pulpit Commentary
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
unfoldingWord translationNotes
Door43 World Missions Community
unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.
Rashi
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)
Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.