1 Kings 9:15-24

Solomon Builds Cities and Ships

15 Now this is the account of the forced labor which King Solomon ^araised up to build the house of Yahweh, his own house, the ¹^bMillo, the wall of Jerusalem, ^cHazor, ^dMegiddo, and ^eGezer. 16 For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and captured Gezer and burned it with fire, and killed the ^aCanaanites who lived in the city, and had ^bgiven it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon’s wife. 17 So Solomon rebuilt Gezer and the lower ^aBeth-horon 18 and ^aBaalath and Tamar in the wilderness, in the land of Judah, 19 and all the storage cities which Solomon had, and ^athe cities for ¹his chariots, and the cities for ¹^bhis horsemen, and ²^call that Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land ³under his rule. 20 As 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, 21 ^anamely, their sons who were left after them in the land ^bwhom the sons of Israel were unable to devote to destruction, from ^cthem Solomon raised up ^dforced laborers to this day. 22 But Solomon ^adid not make slaves of the sons of Israel; for they were men of war, his servants, his princes, his captains, his chariot commanders, and his horsemen.
23 These were the ¹^achief deputies who were over Solomon’s work, 550, ^bwho had dominion over the people doing the work.
24 As soon as ^aPharaoh’s daughter came up from the city of David to her house which Solomon had built for her, ^bthen he built the Millo.

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