Adoraim, Lachish, Azekah,
How the ten tribes deserted the house of David we read in the foregoing chapter. They had formerly sat loose to that family (Sa2 20:1, Sa2 20:2), and now they quite threw it off, not considering how much it would weaken the common interest and take Israel down from that pitch of glory at which it had arrived in the last reign.
Commenting on 2 Chronicles 11:1-12
And he fortified the strong holds,.... Of these and other cities: and put captains in them; garrisons of soldiers, with captains over them to defend them: and store of victual, and of oil and wine; that they might be able to hold out a siege, should they be attacked.
2Ch 11:9 Adoraim (Ἂδωραΐ́μ in Joseph. Antt. viii. 10. 1), met with in 1 Macc. 13:20 as an Idumean city, Ἄδωρα, and so also frequently in Josephus, was taken by Hyrcanus, and rebuilt by Gabinius (Jos. Antt. xiii. 15. 4, and xiv. 5. 3) under the name Δῶρα, and often spoken of along with Marissa (s. Reland, Palaest. p. 547). Robinson (Pal.