2 Chronicles 8:6 - Exposition

Baalath (parallel 1 Kings 9:18 ). This place belonged to Dan ( Joshua 19:40-45 ). Nothing is known about it; some take it to be one with Baalah of Joshua 15:9 , Joshua 15:10 . Store cities … chariot cities … cities of the horsemen (see 2 Chronicles 16:4 ; 2 Chronicles 32:28 ; 1 Kings 4:26 ; 1 Kings 9:19 ). In the parallel some of the names of the places built, or rebuilt, or repaired by Solomon in this connection are given as "Mille and the wall of Jerusalem" (Millo's foundations occupied the hollow at the south-west corner of the hill of the temple), "and Hazer and Megiddo and Gezer" ( 1 Kings 9:15 ). All that Solomen desired to build ; i.e. for purposes of personal enjoyment or ornament.