New American Standard Bible 2020
1 Kings 9:15-22
15Now this is the account of the forced labor which King Solomon 1conscripted 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 overthrown Gezer and burned it with fire, and killed the 7Canaanites who lived in the city; and he had 8given it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon’s wife. 17So Solomon rebuilt Gezer and the lower 9Beth-horon, 18and 10Baalath and Tamar in the wilderness, in the land of Judah, 19and all the storage cities which Solomon had, that is, 11the cities for 12his chariots and the cities for 1314his horsemen, and 1516everything that it pleased Solomon to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land 17under his rule. 20As for all the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the sons of Israel, 2118their descendants who were left after them in the land, 19whom the sons of Israel were unable to completely eliminate, 20from them Solomon conscripted 21forced laborers, as they are to this day. 22But Solomon 22did not make slaves of the sons of Israel; for they were men of war, his servants, his commanders, his charioteers, his chariot commanders, and his horsemen.
Notes
- 1. 1 Kings 9:15 1 Kin 5:13 ↩
- 2. 1 Kings 9:15 I.e., terraced structure ↩
- 3. 1 Kings 9:15 2 Sam 5:9; 1 Kin 9:24 ↩
- 4. 1 Kings 9:15 Josh 11:1; 19:36 ↩
- 5. 1 Kings 9:15 Josh 17:11 ↩
- 6. 1 Kings 9:15 Judg 1:29 ↩
- 7. 1 Kings 9:16 Josh 16:10 ↩
- 8. 1 Kings 9:16 1 Kin 3:1; 7:8 ↩
- 9. 1 Kings 9:17 Josh 10:10; 16:3; 21:22; 2 Chr 8:5 ↩
- 10. 1 Kings 9:18 Josh 19:44 ↩
- 11. 1 Kings 9:19 1 Kin 10:26; 2 Chr 1:14 ↩
- 12. 1 Kings 9:19 Lit the ↩
- 13. 1 Kings 9:19 Lit the ↩
- 14. 1 Kings 9:19 1 Kin 4:26 ↩
- 15. 1 Kings 9:19 Lit the desire of Solomon which he desired to build in Jerusalem ↩
- 16. 1 Kings 9:19 1 Kin 9:1 ↩
- 17. 1 Kings 9:19 Lit of ↩
- 18. 1 Kings 9:21 Judg 1:21-29; 3:1 ↩
- 19. 1 Kings 9:21 Josh 15:63; 17:12, 13 ↩
- 20. 1 Kings 9:21 Judg 1:28, 35 ↩
- 21. 1 Kings 9:21 Gen 9:25, 26; Ezra 2:55, 58 ↩
- 22. 1 Kings 9:22 Lev 25:39 ↩
Commentaries on 1 Kings 9
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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