15 And this is the account of (A)the forced labor that King Solomon drafted to build the house of the Lord and his own house and (B)the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and (C)Hazor and (D)Megiddo and Gezer

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24 But (A)Pharaoh's daughter went up from the city of David to (B)her own house that Solomon had built for her. (C)Then he built (D)the Millo.

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13 King Solomon drafted (A)forced labor out of all Israel, and the draft numbered 30,000 men.

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And David lived in the stronghold and called it (A)the city of David. And David built the city all around from the (B)Millo inward.

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11 Also in Issachar and in Asher (A)Manasseh had Beth-shean and its villages, and Ibleam and its villages, and the inhabitants of (B)Dor and its villages, and the inhabitants of En-dor and its villages, and the inhabitants of (C)Taanach and its villages, and the inhabitants of (D)Megiddo and its villages; (E)the third is Naphath.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 17:11 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain

Conquests in Northern Canaan

11 When Jabin, king of Hazor, heard of this, he (A)sent to Jobab king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph,

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29 (A)And Ephraim did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, so the Canaanites lived in Gezer among them.

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10 However, (A)they did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, so the Canaanites have lived in the midst of Ephraim to this day but have been made (B)to do forced labor.

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11 (A)On that day (B)the mourning in Jerusalem will be as great (C)as the mourning for Hadad-rimmon in the plain of Megiddo.

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18 (A)Do good to Zion in your good pleasure;
    (B)build up the walls of Jerusalem;

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22 Nevertheless, Josiah did not turn away from him, but (A)disguised himself in order to fight with him. He did not listen to the words of Neco from the mouth of God, but came to fight in the plain of (B)Megiddo.

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Solomon's Accomplishments

(A)At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the house of the Lord and his own house,

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Philistine Giants Killed

(A)And after this there arose war with the Philistines at Gezer. Then Sibbecai the Hushathite struck down Sippai, who was one of the descendants of the giants, and the Philistines were subdued.

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67 They were given the cities of refuge: Shechem with its pasturelands in the hill country of Ephraim, Gezer with its pasturelands,

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29 (A)In his days (B)Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt went up to the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates. King Josiah went to meet him, and Pharaoh Neco killed him at (C)Megiddo, as soon as he saw him. 30 (D)And his servants carried him dead in a chariot from (E)Megiddo and brought him to Jerusalem and buried him in his own tomb. (F)And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's place.

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29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel, (A)Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured (B)Ijon, (C)Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, (D)Kedesh, (E)Hazor, Gilead, and (F)Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and he carried the people captive to Assyria.

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20 (A)His servants arose and made a conspiracy (B)and struck down Joash in the house of (C)Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla.

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27 (A)When Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled in the direction of Beth-haggan. And Jehu pursued him and said, “Shoot him also.” And they shot him[a] in the chariot at the ascent of Gur, which is by (B)Ibleam. And he fled to (C)Megiddo and died there.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 9:27 Syriac, Vulgate (compare Septuagint); Hebrew lacks and they shot him

27 And this was the reason why he lifted up his hand against the king. (A)Solomon built the Millo, and closed up the breach of the city of David his father.

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21 (A)their descendants who were left after them in the land, (B)whom the people of Israel were unable to devote to destruction[a](C)these Solomon drafted to be (D)slaves, and so they are to this day.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 9:21 That is, set apart (devote) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction)

16 (Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and captured Gezer and burned it with fire, and had killed (A)the Canaanites who lived in the city, and had given it as dowry to (B)his daughter, Solomon's wife; 17 so Solomon rebuilt Gezer) and (C)Lower Beth-horon

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Solomon's Other Acts

10 (A)At the end of (B)twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the Lord and the king's house,

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38 And in the eleventh year, in the month of Bul, which is the eighth month, the house was finished in all its parts, and according to all its specifications. He was seven years in building it.

Solomon Builds His Palace

Solomon was (A)building his own house thirteen years, and he finished his entire house.

12 Baana the son of Ahilud, in (A)Taanach, Megiddo, and all (B)Beth-shean that is beside Zarethan below Jezreel, and from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah, as far as the other side of Jokmeam;

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