New American Standard Bible 1995

1 Kings 9:11-18

11(Hiram king of Tyre had supplied Solomon with cedar and cypress timber and gold according to all his desire), then King Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee. 12So Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him, and they 1did not please him. 13He said, “What are these cities which you have given me, my brother?” So 2they were called the land of 3 4Cabul to this day. 14 5And Hiram sent to the king 120 talents of gold.

15Now this is the account of the forced labor which King Solomon 6levied to build the house of the Lord, his own house, the 7 8Millo, the wall of Jerusalem, 9Hazor, 10Megiddo, and 11Gezer. 16For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and captured Gezer and burned it with fire, and killed the 12Canaanites who lived in the city, and had 13given it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon’s wife. 17So Solomon rebuilt Gezer and the lower 14Beth-horon 18and 15Baalath and Tamar in the wilderness, in the land of Judah,

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Notes

1. 1 Kings 9:12 Lit were not right in his sight ↩
2. 1 Kings 9:13 Lit he called them ↩
3. 1 Kings 9:13 I.e. as good as nothing ↩
4. 1 Kings 9:13 Josh 19:27 ↩
5. 1 Kings 9:14 1 Kin 9:11 ↩
6. 1 Kings 9:15 1 Kin 5:13 ↩
7. 1 Kings 9:15 I.e. citadel ↩
8. 1 Kings 9:15 2 Sam 5:9; 1 Kin 9:24 ↩
9. 1 Kings 9:15 Josh 11:1; 19:36 ↩
10. 1 Kings 9:15 Josh 17:11 ↩
11. 1 Kings 9:15 Judg 1:29 ↩
12. 1 Kings 9:16 Josh 16:10 ↩
13. 1 Kings 9:16 1 Kin 3:1; 7:8 ↩
14. 1 Kings 9:17 Josh 10:10; 16:3; 21:22; 2 Chr 8:5 ↩
15. 1 Kings 9:18 Josh 19:44 ↩

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