Tadmor

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Ruins of Tadmor
City built in the wilderness by Solomon (2 Chron. 8:44And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store cities, which he built in Hamath. (2 Chronicles 8:4)). Josephus (Ant. 8. 6, 1) says it was the same as that which the Greeks called PALMYRA, and that it was built so far away because there were springs there, but no water nearer in that direction. Palmyra was situated about midway between Damascus and Tiphsah or Thapsacus on the Euphrates. It is still called Tadmur, about 34° 40' N, 38° 15' E. In the time of the Romans it was a large and splendid city, of which there are columns still standing and remarkable ruins.
In 1 Kings 9:1818And Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land, (1 Kings 9:18) a city is called in the A. V. Tadmor; but the Hebrew text is TAMAR, as in the R. V. (Tadmor being the reading of the Keri). Though this was also built by Solomon in the wilderness, it is added “in the land,” whereas Tadmor was outside. The towns also mentioned in this passage are connected with the south of the land, so that it is doubtless a different place, and may be the same as Tamar in Ezekiel 47:1919And the south side southward, from Tamar even to the waters of strife in Kadesh, the river to the great sea. And this is the south side southward. (Ezekiel 47:19) and Ezekiel 48:2828And by the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall be even from Tamar unto the waters of strife in Kadesh, and to the river toward the great sea. (Ezekiel 48:28).