1 Kings 9:15

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This is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised, to build Yahweh’s house, his own house, Millo, Jerusalem’s wall, Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.

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12Hiram came out of Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they didn’t please him.

13He said, “What cities are these which you have given me, my brother?” He called them the land of Cabul to this day.

14Hiram sent to the king one hundred twenty talents of gold.

15This is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised, to build Yahweh’s house, his own house, Millo, Jerusalem’s wall, Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.

16Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, taken Gezer, burned it with fire, killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and given it for a wedding gift to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.

17Solomon built in the land Gezer, Beth Horon the lower,

18Baalath, Tamar in the wilderness,

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