1 Kings 9:15

KJV1611 – Modern English

This is the reason for the levy which king Solomon raised; to build the house of the LORD, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    This is the account of the forced labor King Solomon conscripted to build the house of the LORD, his own palace, the Millo, the wall of Jerusalem, Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    And this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised; for to build the house of the LORD, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    And this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised, to build the house of Jehovah, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    And this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised; for to build the house of the LORD, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    And the same is the summe of the taxe, that kynge Salomon raysed to the buyldinge of the house of the LORDE, and his awne house, & Millo, and the walles of Ierusalem, and Hasor, and Megiddo, and Gaser.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    And this is the cause of the tribute why King Salomon raised tribute, to wit, to builde the house of the Lord, and his owne house, & Millo, & the wal of Ierusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    (And this is the summe whiche king Solomon raysed for a tribute when he buylded the house of the Lorde, and his owne house, and Millo, and the wall of Hierusalem, and Hazor, and Megeddo, and Gazer.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    ¶ And this [is] the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised; for to build the house of the LORD, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    This is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised, to build the house of Yahweh, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    And this `is' the matter of the tribute that king Solomon hath lifted up, to build the house of Jehovah, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer,

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised, to build the house of Jehovah, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised, to build the house of Jehovah, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    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. ...

  • World English Bible (2000)

    This is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised, to build the house of Yahweh, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    Here are the details concerning the work crews King Solomon conscripted to build the LORD’s temple, his palace, the terrace, the wall of Jerusalem, and the cities of Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.

Referenced Verses

  • Josh 17:11 : 11 Manasseh had in Issachar and in Asher Beth-shean and its towns, Ibleam and its towns, the inhabitants of Dor and its towns, the inhabitants of Endor and its towns, the inhabitants of Taanach and its towns, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns—three regions.
  • 1 Kgs 9:24 : 24 But Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of David to her house which Solomon had built for her: then he built Millo.
  • 1 Kgs 5:13 : 13 And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel, and the levy was thirty thousand men.
  • 2 Sam 5:9 : 9 So David dwelt in the fort and called it the City of David, and David built all around from Millo inward.
  • Josh 19:36 : 36 And Adamah, and Ramah, and Hazor,
  • Josh 11:1 : 1 And it happened, when Jabin king of Hazor heard these things, he sent to Jobab king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph,
  • Josh 16:10 : 10 And they did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites to this day, and serve under tribute.
  • Judg 1:29 : 29 Neither did Ephraim drive out the Canaanites who dwelt in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwelt in Gezer among them.
  • Judg 4:2 : 2 And the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor; the commander of his army was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth of the Gentiles.
  • Judg 5:19 : 19 The kings came and fought, then fought the kings of Canaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no gain of money.
  • Judg 9:6 : 6 And all the men of Shechem gathered together, and all the house of Millo, and went and made Abimelech king, by the plain of the pillar that was in Shechem.
  • Judg 9:20 : 20 But if not, let fire come out from Abimelech and devour the men of Shechem and the house of Millo; and let fire come out from the men of Shechem and from the house of Millo, and devour Abimelech.
  • Josh 21:21 : 21 For they gave them Shechem with its suburbs in mount Ephraim, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Gezer with its suburbs,
  • 1 Kgs 11:27 : 27 And this was the cause that he raised his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breaks in the city of David his father.
  • 2 Kgs 9:27 : 27 But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way of the garden house. And Jehu pursued him, and said, Strike him also in the chariot. And they did so at the going up to Gur, which is by Ibleam. And he fled to Megiddo and died there.
  • 2 Kgs 12:20 : 20 His servants arose, made a conspiracy, and killed Joash in the house of Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla.
  • 2 Kgs 15:29 : 29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, Abel Beth Maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria.
  • 2 Kgs 23:29-30 : 29 In his days Pharaoh Necho king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates. And King Josiah went out against him; and he was killed at Megiddo when he had seen him. 30 And his servants carried him dead in a chariot from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own tomb. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, anointed him, and made him king in his father's place.
  • 1 Chr 6:67 : 67 And they gave to them, of the cities of refuge, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim with its pasturelands; they also gave Gezer with its pasturelands,
  • 1 Chr 20:4 : 4 After this, war arose at Gezer with the Philistines, at which time Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Sippai, who was of the children of the giant; and they were subdued.
  • 2 Chr 8:1 : 1 And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, during which Solomon had built the house of the LORD and his own house,
  • 2 Chr 35:22 : 22 Nevertheless, Josiah would not turn his face from him but disguised himself so that he might fight with him and did not heed the words of Necho from the mouth of God and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.
  • Ps 51:18 : 18 Do good in your good pleasure to Zion; build the walls of Jerusalem.
  • Zech 12:11 : 11 In that day there shall be a great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddo.
  • 1 Kgs 4:12 : 12 Baana the son of Ahilud; to him belonged Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-shean, which is by Zartanah beneath Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah, even to the place beyond Jokneam;
  • Josh 10:33 : 33 Then Horam king of Gezer came to help Lachish; and Joshua struck him and his people, until he left none remaining.
  • 1 Kgs 6:38-7:1 : 38 And in the eleventh year, in the month of Bul, which is the eighth month, the house was finished throughout all its parts and according to all its design. Thus he took seven years in building it. 1 But Solomon was building his own house for thirteen years, and he finished all his house.
  • 1 Kgs 9:10 : 10 And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the LORD, and the king's house,
  • 1 Kgs 9:16-17 : 16 For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burned it with fire, and killed the Canaanites that dwelled in the city, and given it as a present to his daughter, Solomon's wife. 17 And Solomon built Gezer, and Lower Beth Horon,
  • 1 Kgs 9:21 : 21 Their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel were not able to utterly destroy, upon those Solomon levied a tribute of servitude to this day.

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  • 1 Kgs 9:16-17
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    16For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burned it with fire, and killed the Canaanites that dwelled in the city, and given it as a present to his daughter, Solomon's wife.

    17And Solomon built Gezer, and Lower Beth Horon,

  • 1 Kgs 5:13
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    13And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel, and the levy was thirty thousand men.

  • 1 Kgs 9:24-25
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    24But Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of David to her house which Solomon had built for her: then he built Millo.

    25Three times in a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings upon the altar which he built to the LORD, and he burnt incense upon the altar that was before the LORD. So he finished the house.

  • 1 Kgs 11:27
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    27And this was the cause that he raised his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breaks in the city of David his father.

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    1And Solomon resolved to build a house for the name of the LORD, and a house for his kingdom.

    2And Solomon selected seventy thousand men to bear burdens, and eighty thousand to cut stone in the mountain, and three thousand six hundred to oversee them.

  • 1 Kgs 9:10-11
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    10And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the LORD, and the king's house,

    11(Now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire,) that king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.

  • 1 Kgs 9:1
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    1And it happened, when Solomon had finished building the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all Solomon's desires which he was pleased to do,

  • 1 Kgs 9:19
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    19And all the storage cities that Solomon had, and cities for his chariots, and cities for his horsemen, and whatever Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.

  • 1 Kgs 9:14
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    14And Hiram sent to the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold.

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    1And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, during which Solomon had built the house of the LORD and his own house,

    2That the cities which Huram had restored to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.

  • 1 Kgs 5:15
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    15And Solomon had seventy thousand who carried burdens and eighty thousand stonecutters in the mountains,

  • 1 Kgs 5:17-18
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    17And the king commanded, and they quarried great stones, costly stones, and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house.

    18And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and the stonecutters quarried them; so they prepared timber and stones to build the house.

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    1Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD appeared to David his father, in the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

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    5Also he built upper Bethhoron and lower Bethhoron, fortified cities, with walls, gates, and bars;

    6And Baalath, and all the store cities that Solomon had, and all the chariot cities, and the cities of the horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and throughout all the land of his dominion.

  • 2 Chr 8:16
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    16Now all the work of Solomon was prepared from the day of the foundation of the house of the LORD, until it was finished. So the house of the LORD was completed.

  • 1 Chr 22:6
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    6Then he called for Solomon his son, and charged him to build a house for the LORD God of Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 7:1
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    1But Solomon was building his own house for thirteen years, and he finished all his house.

  • 1 Kgs 6:1-2
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    1And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month of Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD.

    2And the house which King Solomon built for the LORD, its length was sixty cubits, and its width twenty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.

  • 2 Chr 9:3
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    3When the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon and the house he had built,

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    9To prepare me timber in abundance, for the house which I am about to build shall be exceedingly great.

  • 2 Kgs 12:12
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    12and to masons and stonecutters, and for buying timber and hewn stone to repair the breaches of the house of the LORD, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.

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    26And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he stationed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.

    27And the king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar made he as plentiful as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland.

  • 2 Chr 1:15
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    15And the king made silver and gold at Jerusalem as plentiful as stones, and cedar trees he made as the sycamore trees that are in the valley for abundance.

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    25Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, which he stationed in the chariot cities and with the king at Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 7:11
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    11Thus Solomon finished the house of the LORD and the king's house; and all that came into Solomon's heart to make in the house of the LORD, and in his own house, he prosperously accomplished.

  • 1 Kgs 7:9
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    9All these were made of costly stones, cut to size, sawed with saws, inside and out, from the foundation to the coping, and on the outside toward the great court.

  • 1 Kgs 9:21
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    21Their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel were not able to utterly destroy, upon those Solomon levied a tribute of servitude to this day.

  • 1 Kgs 6:14
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    14So Solomon built the house and finished it.

  • 2 Chr 2:12
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    12Huram said moreover, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, who made heaven and earth, who has given to King David a wise son, endowed with prudence and understanding, that might build a house for the LORD, and a house for his kingdom.

  • 2 Chr 33:14
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    14After this, he built a wall outside the city of David on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, reaching the entrance of the Fish Gate, and encircled Ophel, raising it to a great height, and put commanders of war in all the fortified cities of Judah.

  • 1 Kgs 3:1-2
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    1And Solomon made an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had finished building his own house, and the house of the LORD, and the wall around Jerusalem.

    2But the people sacrificed at high places, because there was no house built for the name of the LORD until those days.

  • 1 Chr 22:2
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    2And David commanded to gather together the foreigners who were in the land of Israel; and he appointed masons to cut hewn stones to build the house of God.

  • 2 Chr 2:17
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    17And Solomon numbered all the strangers that were in the land of Israel, according to the census in which David his father had numbered them; and they were found to be one hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred.

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    10And you have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses you have broken down to fortify the wall.

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    9But of the children of Israel Solomon did not make servants for his work; but they were men of war, and chiefs of his captains, and captains of his chariots and horsemen.

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    6And he went out and fought against the Philistines, breaking down the wall of Gath, the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod, and built cities around Ashdod among the Philistines.

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    1Thus all the work that Solomon made for the house of the LORD was finished; and Solomon brought in all the things that his father David had dedicated: the silver, the gold, and all the instruments, he placed among the treasures of the house of God.

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    27The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars as abundant as sycamores in the low country.

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    2And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,

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    5He also strengthened himself, and rebuilt all the wall that was broken, and raised it to the towers, and built another wall outside, and repaired Millo in the city of David, and made weapons and shields in abundance.