making ready
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
A city of Hadarezer (1Ch_18:8) = Berethat (2Sa_8:8).
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Chun. 1Ch_18:8. Called Berothai in 2Sa_8:8. See Berothah
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
chun (כּוּן, kūn, ?founding?). See CUN.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Chun
[pron. Cun] (Heb. Kun, כּוּן, deriv. uncertain; Sept. ἐκλεκτός, Vulg. Chun), a Syrian city mentioned in connection with Tibhath, as one of the cities of Hadarezer, from which David procured brass for building the Temple (1Ch_18:8). In the parallel passage (2Sa_8:8) these two cities are called respectively Betah and BEROTHAI. It is perhaps the same with the Conna mentioned in the Itin. Antonizi as situated between Laodicea and Baalbek. The rendering of the Sept. seems to imply that instead of from Chun (מַכּוּן) it had read Berod (בְּרוֹד, q. d. בָּבוּר, i.e. בָּחוּר, choice); but Josephus supports the present Heb. text (Μάχωνι, Ant. 7, 5, 3). SEE BEROTHAH.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.