This is the reason of the forced labor which King Solomon conscripted: to build the LORD’s house, his own house, Millo, Jerusalem’s wall, Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
1 Kings 9:15 in context
1 Kings 9:12–18
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Hiram came out of Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they didn’t please him.
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He said, “What cities are these which you have given me, my brother?” He called them the land of Cabul to this day.
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This is the reason of the forced labor which King Solomon conscripted: to build the LORD’s house, his own house, Millo, Jerusalem’s wall, Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.
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Pharaoh 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.
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Solomon built in the land Gezer, Beth Horon the lower,
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Baalath, Tamar in the wilderness,
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