1 Kings 9:15

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.

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  • Josh 17:11 : 11 Manasseh had three heights in Issachar, in Asher Beth Shean and its towns, and Ibleam and its towns, and the inhabitants of Dor and its towns, and the inhabitants of Endor and its towns, and the inhabitants of Taanach and its towns, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns.
  • 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 did he build Millo.
  • 1 Kgs 5:13 : 13 King Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.
  • 2 Sam 5:9 : 9 David lived in the stronghold, and called it the city of David. David built around from Millo and inward.
  • Josh 19:36 : 36 Adamah, Ramah, Hazor,
  • Josh 11:1 : 1 It happened, when Jabin king of Hazor heard of it, that he sent to Jobab king of Madon, to the king of Shimron, to the king of Achshaph,
  • Josh 16:10 : 10 They didn't drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwell in the midst of Ephraim to this day, and have become servants to do forced labor.
  • Judg 1:29 : 29 Ephraim didn't drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer; but the Canaanites lived in Gezer among them.
  • Judg 4:2 : 2 Yahweh sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose army was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth of the Gentiles.
  • Judg 5:19 : 19 "The kings came and fought, then the kings of Canaan fought at Taanach by the waters of Megiddo. They took no plunder of silver.
  • Judg 9:6 : 6 All the men of Shechem assembled themselves together, and all the house of Millo, and went and made Abimelech king, by the oak 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 They gave them Shechem with its suburbs in the hill country of Ephraim, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Gezer with its suburbs,
  • 1 Kgs 11:27 : 27 This was the reason why he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breach of 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. Jehu followed after him, and said, "Strike him also in the chariot!" They struck him at the ascent of Gur, which is by Ibleam. He fled to Megiddo, and died there.
  • 2 Kgs 12:20 : 20 His servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and struck Joash at 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, and Abel Beth Maacah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he carried them captive to Assyria.
  • 2 Kgs 23:29-30 : 29 In his days Pharaoh Necoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went against him; and [Pharaoh Necoh] killed him at Megiddo, when he had seen him. 30 His servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own tomb. The people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's place.
  • 1 Chr 6:67 : 67 They gave to them the cities of refuge, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim with its suburbs; Gezer also with its suburbs,
  • 1 Chr 20:4 : 4 It happened after this, that there arose war at Gezer with the Philistines: then Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Sippai, of the sons of the giant; and they were subdued.
  • 2 Chr 8:1 : 1 It happened at the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the house of Yahweh, and his own house,
  • 2 Chr 35:22 : 22 Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and didn't listen to the words of Neco from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.
  • Ps 51:18 : 18 Do well in your good pleasure to Zion. Build the walls of Jerusalem.
  • Zech 12:11 : 11 In that day there will be a great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.
  • 1 Kgs 4:12 : 12 Baana the son of Ahilud, in Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth Shean which is beside Zarethan, beneath Jezreel, from Beth Shean to Abel Meholah, as far as beyond Jokmeam;
  • Josh 10:33 : 33 Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua struck him and his people, until he had left him none remaining.
  • 1 Kgs 6:38-7:1 : 38 In the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all its parts, and according to all its fashion. So was he seven years in building it. 1 Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.
  • 1 Kgs 9:10 : 10 It happened at the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of Yahweh and the king's house
  • 1 Kgs 9:16-17 : 16 Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites who lived in the city, and given it for a portion to his daughter, Solomon's wife. 17 Solomon built Gezer, and Beth Horon the lower,
  • 1 Kgs 9:21 : 21 their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel were not able utterly to destroy, of them did Solomon raise a levy of bondservants to this day.

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  • 1 Kgs 9:16-17
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    16Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites who lived in the city, and given it for a portion to his daughter, Solomon's wife.

    17Solomon built Gezer, and Beth Horon the lower,

  • 1 Kgs 5:13
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    13King 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 did he build Millo.

    25Three times a year did Solomon offer burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar which he built to Yahweh, burning incense therewith, [on the altar] that was before Yahweh. So he finished the house.

  • 1 Kgs 11:27
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    27This was the reason why he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breach of the city of David his father.

  • 2 Chr 2:1-2
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    1Now Solomon purposed to build a house for the name of Yahweh, and a house for his kingdom.

    2Solomon counted out seventy thousand men to bear burdens, and eighty thousand men who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them.

  • 1 Kgs 9:10-11
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    10It happened at the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of Yahweh 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 then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.

  • 1 Kgs 9:1
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    1It happened, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of Yahweh, and the king's house, and all Solomon's desire which he was pleased to do,

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

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

  • 2 Chr 8:1-2
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    1It happened at the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the house of Yahweh, and his own house,

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

  • 1 Kgs 5:15
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    15Solomon had seventy thousand who bore burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains;

  • 1 Kgs 5:17-18
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    17The king commanded, and they cut out great stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with worked stone.

    18Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and the Gebalites did fashion them, and prepared the timber and the stones to build the house.

  • 2 Chr 3:1
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    1Then Solomon began to build the house of Yahweh at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where [Yahweh] appeared to David his father, which he prepared in the place that David had appointed, in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

  • 2 Chr 8:5-6
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    5Also he built Beth Horon the upper, and Beth Horon the lower, fortified cities, with walls, gates, and bars;

    6and Baalath, and all the storage cities that Solomon had, and all the cities for his chariots, and the cities for his horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.

  • 2 Chr 8:16
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    16Now all the work of Solomon was prepared to the day of the foundation of the house of Yahweh, and until it was finished. [So] the house of Yahweh was completed.

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

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

  • 1 Kgs 6:1-2
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    1It happened in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Ziv, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of Yahweh.

    2The house which king Solomon built for Yahweh, its length was sixty cubits, and its breadth 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 that he had built,

  • 2 Chr 2:9
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    9even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I am about to build shall be great and wonderful.

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

  • 1 Kgs 10:26-27
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    26Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, that he bestowed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.

    27The king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland, for abundance.

  • 2 Chr 1:15
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    15The king made silver and gold to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland, for abundance.

  • 2 Chr 9:25
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    25Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, that 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 Yahweh, and the king's house: and he successfully completed all that came into Solomon's heart to make in the house of Yahweh, and in his own house.

  • 1 Kgs 7:9
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    9All these were of costly stones, even of cut stone, according to measure, sawed with saws, inside and outside, even from the foundation to the coping, and so on the outside to 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 utterly to destroy, of them did Solomon raise a levy of bondservants 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 continued, "Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, that made heaven and earth, who has given to David the king a wise son, endowed with discretion and understanding, that should build a house for Yahweh, and a house for his kingdom.

  • 2 Chr 33:14
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    14Now after this he built an outer wall to the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance at the fish gate; and he encircled Ophel [with it], and raised it up to a very great height: and he put valiant captains in all the fortified cities of Judah.

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

    2Only the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was no house built for the name of Yahweh until those days.

  • 1 Chr 22:2
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    2David gave orders to gather together the foreigners who were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to cut worked stones to build the house of God.

  • 2 Chr 2:17
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    17Solomon numbered all the foreigners who were in the land of Israel, after the numbering with which David his father had numbered them; and they were found one hundred fifty-three thousand six hundred.

  • Isa 22:10
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    10You numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall.

  • 2 Chr 8:9
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    9But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no servants for his work; but they were men of war, and chief of his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen.

  • 2 Chr 26:6
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    6He went forth and warred against the Philistines, and broke down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod; and he built cities in [the country of] Ashdod, and among the Philistines.

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    1Thus all the work that Solomon did for the house of Yahweh was finished. Solomon brought in the things that David his father had dedicated, even the silver, and the gold, and all the vessels, and put them in the treasuries of the house of God.

  • 2 Chr 9:27
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    27The king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and he made cedars to be as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland, for abundance.

  • 1 Kgs 5:2
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    2Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,

  • 2 Chr 32:5
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    5He took courage, and built up all the wall that was broken down, and raised [it] up to the towers, and the other wall outside, and strengthened Millo [in] the city of David, and made weapons and shields in abundance.