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2 Chronicles 8:4
New Catholic Bible
2 Chronicles 8:4
New Catholic Bible
4 After that he fortified Tadmor[a] in the wilderness and all the storage towns that he had built in Hamath.
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- 2 Chronicles 8:4 Tadmor: the Semitic name, still in use, for Palmyra, an oasis which is mentioned in an Assyrian inscription dating from a century before Solomon and which became famous in the third century A.D. In fact, however, the reference is clearly to Tamar, on the southern shore of the Dead Sea; see the parallel in 1 Ki 9:18.
