2 Samuel 8:8
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New International Version (©2011)
From Tebah and Berothai, towns that belonged to Hadadezer, King David took a great quantity of bronze.

New Living Translation (©2007)
along with a large amount of bronze from Hadadezer's towns of Tebah and Berothai.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And from Betah and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, King David took very much bronze.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
From Betah and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, King David took a very large amount of bronze.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And from Betah, and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, king David took exceeding much brass.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
King David also took huge quantities of bronze from Betah and Berothai, Hadadezer's cities.

International Standard Version (©2012)
He also confiscated a vast quantity of bronze from Betah and Berothai, cities under Hadadezer's control.

NET Bible (©2006)
From Tebah and Berothai, Hadadezer's cities, King David took a great deal of bronze.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
King David also took a large quantity of bronze from Betah and Berothai, Hadadezer's cities.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And from Betah, and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, king David took very much bronze.

American King James Version
And from Betah, and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, king David took exceeding much brass.

American Standard Version
And from Betah and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, king David took exceeding much brass.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And out of Bete, and out of Beroth, cities of Adarezer, king David took an exceeding great quantity of brass.

Darby Bible Translation
And from Betah, and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, king David took exceeding much bronze.

English Revised Version
And from Betah and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, king David took exceeding much brass.

Webster's Bible Translation
And from Betah, and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, king David took very much brass.

World English Bible
From Betah and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, king David took exceeding much brass.

Young's Literal Translation
and from Betah, and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, hath king David taken very much brass.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

8:1-8. David subdued the Philistines. They had long been troublesome to Israel. And after the long and frequent struggles the saints have with the powers of darkness, like Israel with the Philistines, the Son of David shall tread them all under foot, and make the saints more than conquerors. He smote the Moabites, and made them tributaries to Israel. Two parts he destroyed, the third part he spared. The line that was to keep alive, though it was but one, is ordered to be a full line. Let the line of mercy be stretched to the utmost. He smote the Syrians. In all these wars David was protected, for this in his psalms he often gives glory to God.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 8. - Betah... Barothai. Of these cities nothing certain is known, and in 1 Chronicles 18:8 the names are changed to Tibhath and Chun. An interesting addition is made there, inserted also by the LXX. in this place, that it was from this brass (that is, copper) that Solomon made the great laver, the pillars, and many other vessels for the temple service.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And from Betah, and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer,.... Which, in 1 Chronicles 18:8, are called Tibhath and Chun, they having different names; or their names might be changed upon this conquest of them, and the one might be the names they went by with the Syrians, and the other the Israelites called them by; the latter is the same with Berothah in Ezekiel 47:16; and the Barathena of Ptolemy (s), placed by him near Mesopotamia; in the Arabic version of 1 Chronicles 18:8, they are called Emesa and Baalbec, the former was a city of Coele-Syria, the latter was at the foot of Mount Lebanon; See Gill on Amos 1:5,

King David took exceeding much brass; whereby he was furnished and able to give the large quantity he did for the service of the temple, 1 Chronicles 29:7. The Septuagint version adds here what is expressed in 1 Chronicles 18:8,"wherewith Solomon made the brazen sea, and the pillars, and the layers, and all the vessels.''

(s) Geograph. l. 5. c. 19.

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David's Triumphs
…7And David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem. 8And from Betah, and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, king David took exceeding much brass. 9When Toi king of Hamath heard that David had smitten all the host of Hadadezer, …

2 Samuel 8:7 David took the gold shields that belonged to the officers of Hadadezer and brought them to Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 47:16 Berothah and Sibraim (which lies on the border between Damascus and Hamath), as far as Hazer Hattikon, which is on the border of Hauran.