2 Chronicles 26:7
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New International Version (©2011)
God helped him against the Philistines and against the Arabs who lived in Gur Baal and against the Meunites.

New Living Translation (©2007)
God helped him in his wars against the Philistines, his battles with the Arabs of Gur, and his wars with the Meunites.

English Standard Version (©2001)
God helped him against the Philistines and against the Arabians who lived in Gurbaal and against the Meunites.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians who lived in Gur-baal, and the Meunites.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gurbaal, and the Mehunims.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
God helped him against the Philistines, the Arabs that live in Gur-baal, and the Meunites.

International Standard Version (©2012)
God helped Uzziah defeat the Philistines, the Arabians who lived in Gur-baal, and the Meunites.

NET Bible (©2006)
God helped him in his campaigns against the Philistines, the Arabs living in Gur Baal, and the Meunites.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
God helped him when he attacked the Philistines, the Arabs who lived in Gur Baal, and the Meunites.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gur-baal, and the Mehunites.

American King James Version
And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians that dwelled in Gurbaal, and the Mehunims.

American Standard Version
And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gur-baal, and the Meunim.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians, that dwelt in Gurbaal, and against the Ammonites.

Darby Bible Translation
And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gur-Baal, and the Maonites.

English Revised Version
And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gur-baal, and the Meunim.

Webster's Bible Translation
And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gur-baal, and the Mehunims.

World English Bible
God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians who lived in Gur Baal, and the Meunim.

Young's Literal Translation
And God helpeth him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians who are dwelling in Gur-Baal and the Mehunim.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

26:1-15 As long as Uzziah sought the Lord, and minded religion, God made him to prosper. Those only prosper whom God makes to prosper; for prosperity is his gift. Many have owned, that as long as they sought the Lord, and kept close to their duty, they prospered; but when they forsook God, every thing went cross. God never continues either to bless the indolent or to withhold his blessing from the diligent. He will never suffer any to seek his face in vain. Uzziah's name was famed throughout all the neighbouring countries. A name with God and good people makes truly honourable. He did not delight in war, nor addict himself to sports, but delighted in husbandry.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 7. - Gur-baal. Though nothing is known of this place (the meaning of which is "abode of Baal," perhaps from some temple of Baal), yet its companion Maon, the city of the Mehunim (2 Chronicles 22:1; Judges 10:12), shows whereabouts it was.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And God helped him against the Philistines,.... He did not do all before related of himself, and by his own strength, but by the help of God; the Targum is"the Word of the Lord helped him:"

and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gurbaal; the same with Gerar, according to the Targum; which also belonged to the Philistines, and had a king in Abraham's time, Genesis 20:1, the same with Askelon, another of the five principalities of the Philistines:

and the Mehunims; or the Minaeans, as the Septuagint, and whom Pliny (n) makes mention of among the Arabians; they seem to be the Scenite Arabs; see 2 Chronicles 20:1, or rather, as the Targum, those that dwelt in the plain of Maon, which was in Arabia Petraea.

(n) Nat. Hist. l. 6. c. 28.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

7. Gur-baal—thought by some to be Gerar, and by others Gebal.

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Uzziah's Victories
6And he went forth and warred against the Philistines, and broke down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod, and built cities about Ashdod, and among the Philistines. 7And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians that dwelled in Gurbaal, and the Mehunims. 8And the Ammonites gave gifts to Uzziah: and his name spread abroad even to the entering in of Egypt; for he strengthened himself exceedingly. …

1 Chronicles 4:41 The men whose names were listed came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah. They attacked the Hamites in their dwellings and also the Meunites who were there and completely destroyed them, as is evident to this day. Then they settled in their place, because there was pasture for their flocks.
2 Chronicles 20:1 After this, the Moabites and Ammonites with some of the Meunites came to wage war against Jehoshaphat.
2 Chronicles 21:16 The LORD aroused against Jehoram the hostility of the Philistines and of the Arabs who lived near the Cushites.