And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store cities, which he built in Hamath.
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Gill's Exposition
Also he built Bethhoron the upper, and Bethhoron the nether,.... Only mention is made of the latter in Kg1 9:17,
fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars; fortified cities in the tribe of Ephraim.
Adam Clarke
Tadmor - Palmyra. See the note on Kg1 9:18, for an account of this superb city.
This we had Kg1 9:10-24, and therefore shall only observe here,
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Cambridge Bible
Tadmor in the wilderness Palmyra (Bädeker, p. 364) is meant, a city on an oasis N.E. of Damascus half way between Damascus and the Euphrates. Apart from this passage of Chron. it first appears in…