1 Kings 9:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

... and Solomon was the builder of Gezer and Beth-horon the lower,

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  • Josh 16:3 : 3 And it goes down to the west to the limit of the Japhletites, to the limit of Beth-horon the lower, as far as Gezer; ending at the sea.
  • Josh 21:22 : 22 And Kibzaim and Beth-horon with their grass-lands, four towns.
  • 2 Chr 8:4-9 : 4 And he put up the buildings of Tadmor in the waste land, and of all the store-towns in Hamath; 5 And of Beth-horon the higher and the lower, walled towns with walls and doorways and locks; 6 And of Baalath, and all the store-towns which Solomon had, and the towns where he kept his war-carriages and his horse men, and everything which it was his pleasure to put up in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land under his rule. 7 As for all the rest of the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, who were not of Israel: 8 Their men who were still living in the land, and whom the children of Israel had not put an end to, these Solomon put to forced work, as is done to this day; 9 But Solomon did not make use of the children of Israel as servants for his work; they were men of war, his chiefs and his captains, and captains of his war-carriages and his horsemen. 10 Now these were the chief men in authority whom King Solomon had: two hundred and fifty of them, in authority over the people. 11 Then Solomon made Pharaoh's daughter come up from the town of David to the house which he had made for her; for he said, I will not have my wife living in the house of David, king of Israel, because those places where the ark of the Lord has come are holy. 12 Then Solomon made burned offerings to the Lord on the altar of the Lord which he had put up in front of the covered way, 13 Offering every day what had been ordered by Moses, on the Sabbaths and at the new moon and at the regular feasts three times a year, that is at the feast of unleavened bread, the feast of weeks, and the feast of tents. 14 And he gave the divisions of the priests their places for their work, as ordered by his father David, and to the Levites he gave their work of praise and waiting on the priests, to do what was needed day by day; and he gave the door-keepers their places in turn at every door; for so David, the man of God, had given orders. 15 All the orders given by the king to the priests and Levites, in connection with any business or stores, were done with care. 16 And all the work of Solomon was complete, from the day when he put the base of the Lord's house in position, till Solomon had come to the end of building the Lord's house. 17 Then Solomon went to Ezion-geber and to Eloth by the sea in the land of Edom. 18 And Huram sent him, by his servants, ships and experienced seamen, who went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir and came back with four hundred and fifty talents of gold, which they took to King Solomon.
  • Josh 19:44 : 44 And Eltekeh and Gibbethon and Baalath
  • Josh 10:10 : 10 And the Lord made them full of fear before Israel, and they put great numbers of them to death at Gibeon, and went after them by the way going up to Beth-horon, driving them back to Azekah and Makkedah

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  • 2 Chr 8:1-6
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    81%

    1 Now at the end of twenty years, in which time Solomon had put up the house of the Lord and a house for himself,

    2 He took in hand the building up of the towns which Huram had given him, causing the children of Israel to make living-places for themselves there.

    3 And Solomon went to Hamath-zobah and overcame it.

    4 And he put up the buildings of Tadmor in the waste land, and of all the store-towns in Hamath;

    5 And of Beth-horon the higher and the lower, walled towns with walls and doorways and locks;

    6 And of Baalath, and all the store-towns which Solomon had, and the towns where he kept his war-carriages and his horse men, and everything which it was his pleasure to put up in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land under his rule.

  • 1 Kgs 9:15-16
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    79%

    15 Now, this was the way of Solomon's system of forced work for the building of the Lord's house and of the king's house, and the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and Megiddo and Gezer. ...

    16 Pharaoh, king of Egypt, came and took Gezer, burning it down and putting to death the Canaanites living in the town, and he gave it for a bride-offering to his daughter, Solomon's wife. ...

  • 1 Kgs 9:18-19
    2 verses
    74%

    18 And Baalath and Tamar in the waste land, in that land;

    19 And all the store-towns and the towns which Solomon had for his war-carriages and for his horsemen, and everything which it was his pleasure to put up in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land under his rule.

  • 1 Kgs 9:10-11
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    73%

    10 Now at the end of twenty years, in which time Solomon had put up the two houses, the house of the Lord and the king's house,

    11 (Hiram, king of Tyre, had given Solomon cedar-trees and cypress-trees and gold, as much as he had need of,) King Solomon gave Hiram twenty towns in the land of Galilee.

  • 1 Kgs 9:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1 Now when Solomon came to the end of building the house of the Lord and the king's house, and all Solomon's desires, which he had in mind were effected;

    2 The Lord came to him again in a vision, as he had done at Gibeon;

  • 2 Chr 3:1
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    1 Then Solomon made a start at building the house of the Lord on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem, where the Lord had been seen by his father David, in the place which David had made ready in the grain-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

  • 2 Chr 9:3
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    3 And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, and the house which he had made,

  • Acts 7:47
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    47 But Solomon was the builder of his house.

  • 2 Chr 8:16-17
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    16 And all the work of Solomon was complete, from the day when he put the base of the Lord's house in position, till Solomon had come to the end of building the Lord's house.

    17 Then Solomon went to Ezion-geber and to Eloth by the sea in the land of Edom.

  • 1 Kgs 5:17-18
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    69%

    17 By the king's orders great stones, stones of high price, were cut out, so that the base of the house might be made of squared stone.

    18 Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did the work of cutting them, and put edges on them, and got the wood and the stone ready for the building of the house.

  • 1 Chr 7:24
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    24 And his daughter was Sheerah, the builder of Beth-horon the lower and the higher, and Uzzen-sheerah.

  • 2 Chr 2:1
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    1 Now it was Solomon's purpose to put up a house for the name of the Lord and a house for himself as king.

  • Josh 16:3
    69%

    3 And it goes down to the west to the limit of the Japhletites, to the limit of Beth-horon the lower, as far as Gezer; ending at the sea.

  • 2 Chr 11:6-7
    2 verses
    68%

    6 He was the builder of Beth-lehem and Etam and Tekoa

    7 And Beth-zur and Soco and Adullam

  • 1 Kgs 9:24
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    24 At that time Solomon made Pharaoh's daughter come up from the town of David to the house which he had made for her: then he made the Millo.

  • Song 3:9
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    9 King Solomon made himself a bed of the wood of Lebanon.

  • 1 Kgs 7:1
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    1 Solomon was thirteen years building a house for himself till it was complete.

  • 1 Kgs 6:14
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    14 So Solomon made the building of the house complete.)

  • 1 Kgs 11:7
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    7 Then Solomon put up a high place for Chemosh, the disgusting god of Moab, in the mountain before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the disgusting god worshipped by the children of Ammon.

  • 1 Kgs 10:4
    67%

    4 And when the queen of Sheba had seen all the wisdom of Solomon, and the house which he had made,

  • 2 Chr 27:4
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    4 In addition, he made towns in the hill-country of Judah, and strong buildings and towers in the woodlands.

  • 1 Kgs 9:26
    67%

    26 And King Solomon made a sea-force of ships in Ezion-geber, by Eloth, on the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.

  • 2 Chr 11:10
    67%

    10 And Zorah and Aijalon and Hebron, walled towns in Judah and Benjamin.

  • 1 Kgs 7:8-9
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    67%

    8 And the house for his living-place, the other open square in the covered room, was made in the same way. And then he made a house like it for Pharaoh's daughter, whom Solomon had taken as his wife.

    9 All these buildings were made, inside and out, from base to crowning stone, and outside to the great walled square, of highly priced stone, cut to different sizes with cutting-instruments.

  • 2 Chr 8:12
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    12 Then Solomon made burned offerings to the Lord on the altar of the Lord which he had put up in front of the covered way,

  • 1 Kgs 3:1-2
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    67%

    1 Solomon became the son-in-law of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter as his wife, keeping her in the town of David, till the house he was building for himself, and the house of the Lord and the wall round Jerusalem, were complete.

    2 But all this time the people were making their offerings in the high places, because no house had been put up to the name of the Lord till those days.

  • Josh 18:22
    67%

    22 And Beth-arabah and Zemaraim and Beth-el

  • 2 Chr 26:6
    67%

    6 He went out and made war against the Philistines, pulling down the walls of Gath and Jabneh and Ashdod, and building towns in the country round Ashdod and among the Philistines.

  • 2 Chr 17:12
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    12 Jehoshaphat became greater and greater, and made strong towers and store-towns in Judah.

  • Josh 19:44
    66%

    44 And Eltekeh and Gibbethon and Baalath

  • 1 Kgs 9:21
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    21 Their children who were still in the land, and whom the children of Israel had not been able to put to complete destruction, them did Solomon put to forced work, to this day.

  • 1 Kgs 11:27
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    27 The way in which his hand came to be lifted up against the king was this: Solomon was building the Millo and making good the damaged parts of the town of his father David;

  • 2 Chr 7:11
    66%

    11 So Solomon came to the end of building the house of the Lord and the king's house; and everything which it was in his mind to make in the house of the Lord and for himself had been well done.

  • Josh 21:17
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    17 And from the tribe of Benjamin they gave Gibeon and Geba with their grass-lands;

  • Josh 15:27
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    27 And Hazar-gaddah, and Heshmon, and Beth-pelet;

  • 2 Chr 1:13
    66%

    13 So Solomon went back from the high place at Gibeon, from before the Tent of meeting, to Jerusalem; and he was king over Israel.