1 Kings 9
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New American Standard Bible 1995

1 Kings 9:15-17

15Now this is the account of the forced labor which King Solomon 1levied to build the house of the Lord, his own house, the 23Millo, the wall of Jerusalem, 4Hazor, 5Megiddo, and 6Gezer.

16For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and captured Gezer and burned it with fire, and killed the 7Canaanites who lived in the city, and had 8given it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.

17So Solomon rebuilt Gezer and the lower 9Beth-horon

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Notes

  1. 1. 1 Kings 9:15 1 Kin 5:13 ↩
  2. 2. 1 Kings 9:15 I.e. citadel ↩
  3. 3. 1 Kings 9:15 2 Sam 5:9; 1 Kin 9:24 ↩
  4. 4. 1 Kings 9:15 Josh 11:1; 19:36 ↩
  5. 5. 1 Kings 9:15 Josh 17:11 ↩
  6. 6. 1 Kings 9:15 Judg 1:29 ↩
  7. 7. 1 Kings 9:16 Josh 16:10 ↩
  8. 8. 1 Kings 9:16 1 Kin 3:1; 7:8 ↩
  9. 9. 1 Kings 9:17 Josh 10:10; 16:3; 21:22; 2 Chr 8:5 ↩

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