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1 Kings 9

1 Kings 9:15 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And this is the reason
dabar (Hebrew #1697)
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
KJV usage: act, advice, affair, answer, X any such (thing), because of, book, business, care, case, cause, certain rate, + chronicles, commandment, X commune(-ication), + concern(-ing), + confer, counsel, + dearth, decree, deed, X disease, due, duty, effect, + eloquent, errand, (evil favoured-)ness, + glory, + harm, hurt, + iniquity, + judgment, language, + lying, manner, matter, message, (no) thing, oracle, X ought, X parts, + pertaining, + please, portion, + power, promise, provision, purpose, question, rate, reason, report, request, X (as hast) said, sake, saying, sentence, + sign, + so, some (uncleanness), somewhat to say, + song, speech, X spoken, talk, task, + that, X there done, thing (concerning), thought, + thus, tidings, what(-soever), + wherewith, which, word, work.
Pronounce: daw-baw'
Origin: from 1696
of thed levy
mac (Hebrew #4522)
from 4549; properly, a burden (as causing to faint), i.e. a tax in the form of forced labor
KJV usage: discomfited, levy, task(-master), tribute(-tary).
Pronounce: mas
Origin: or mic {mees}
which king
melek (Hebrew #4428)
a king
KJV usage: king, royal.
Pronounce: meh'-lek
Origin: from 4427
Solomon
Shlomoh (Hebrew #8010)
peaceful; Shelomah, David's successor
KJV usage: Solomon.
Pronounce: shel-o-mo'
Origin: from 7965
raised
`alah (Hebrew #5927)
to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative (as follow)
KJV usage: arise (up), (cause to) ascend up, at once, break (the day) (up), bring (up), (cause to) burn, carry up, cast up, + shew, climb (up), (cause to, make to) come (up), cut off, dawn, depart, exalt, excel, fall, fetch up, get up, (make to) go (away, up); grow (over) increase, lay, leap, levy, lift (self) up, light, (make) up, X mention, mount up, offer, make to pay, + perfect, prefer, put (on), raise, recover, restore, (make to) rise (up), scale, set (up), shoot forth (up), (begin to) spring (up), stir up, take away (up), work.
Pronounce: aw-law'
Origin: a primitive root
; for to build
banah (Hebrew #1129)
to build (literally and figuratively)
KJV usage: (begin to) build(-er), obtain children, make, repair, set (up), X surely.
Pronounce: baw-naw'
Origin: a primitive root
the house
bayith (Hebrew #1004)
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
KJV usage: court, daughter, door, + dungeon, family, + forth of, X great as would contain, hangings, home(born), (winter)house(-hold), inside(-ward), palace, place, + prison, + steward, + tablet, temple, web, + within(-out).
Pronounce: bah'-yith
Origin: probably from 1129 abbreviated
of the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
, and his own house
bayith (Hebrew #1004)
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
KJV usage: court, daughter, door, + dungeon, family, + forth of, X great as would contain, hangings, home(born), (winter)house(-hold), inside(-ward), palace, place, + prison, + steward, + tablet, temple, web, + within(-out).
Pronounce: bah'-yith
Origin: probably from 1129 abbreviated
, and Millo
millow' (Hebrew #4407)
from 4390; a rampart (as filled in), i.e. the citadel
KJV usage: Millo. See also 1037.
Pronounce: mil-lo'
Origin: or mil-loe (2 Kings 12:20) {mil-lo'}
f, and the wall
chowmah (Hebrew #2346)
a wall of protection
KJV usage: wall, walled.
Pronounce: kho-maw'
Origin: feminine active participle of an unused root apparently meaning to join
g of Jerusalem
Yruwshalaim (Hebrew #3389)
a dual (in allusion to its two main hills (the true pointing, at least of the former reading, seems to be that of 3390)); probably from (the passive participle of) 3384 and 7999; founded peaceful; Jerushalaim or Jerushalem, the capital city of Palestine
KJV usage: Jerusalem.
Pronounce: yer-oo-shaw-lah'-im
Origin: rarely Yruwshalayim {yer-oo- shaw-lah'-yim}
, and Hazor
Chatsowr (Hebrew #2674)
village; Chatsor, the name (thus simply) of two places in Palestine and of one in Arabia
KJV usage: Hazor.
Pronounce: khaw-tsore'
Origin: a collective form of 2691
i, and Megiddo
Mgiddown (Hebrew #4023)
from 1413; rendezvous; Megiddon or Megiddo, a place in Palestine
KJV usage: Megiddo, Megiddon.
Pronounce: meg-id-done'
Origin: (Zech. 12 or Mgiddow {meg-id-do'}
j, and Gezer
Gezer (Hebrew #1507)
Gezer, a place in Palestine
KJV usage: Gazer, Gezer.
Pronounce: gheh'-zer
Origin: the same as 1506
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1 Kings 5:13• 13And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men. (1 Kings 5:13)
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2 Sam. 5:9• 9So David dwelt in the fort, and called it the city of David. And David built round about from Millo and inward. (2 Sam. 5:9)
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Psa. 51:18• 18Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem. (Psa. 51:18)
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Josh. 19:36• 36And Adamah, and Ramah, and Hazor, (Josh. 19:36)
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Josh. 17:11• 11And Manasseh had in Issachar and in Asher Beth-shean and her towns, and Ibleam and her towns, and the inhabitants of Dor and her towns, and the inhabitants of Endor and her towns, and the inhabitants of Taanach and her towns, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and her towns, even three countries. (Josh. 17:11)
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Josh. 16:10• 10And they drave not out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer: but the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites unto this day, and serve under tribute. (Josh. 16:10)
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Judg. 1:29• 29Neither did Ephraim drive out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwelt in Gezer among them. (Judg. 1:29)

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Gezer; Gezrites,
Hazor,
House,
Jerusalem,
King,
Megiddo; Megiddon,
Millo,
Solomon,
Walls

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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A.M. 2989-3029.
B.C. 1015-975.
the reason.
1 Kings 9:21• 21Their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bondservice unto this day. (1 Kings 9:21)
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1 Kings 5:13• 13And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men. (1 Kings 5:13)
to build.
1 Kings 9:10• 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, (1 Kings 9:10)
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1 Kings 6:38• 38And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it. (1 Kings 6:38)
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1 Kings 7:1• 1But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house. (1 Kings 7:1)
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2 Chron. 8:1• 1And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the house of the Lord, and his own house, (2 Chron. 8:1)
Millo.Millo is said to have been a deep valley, between the ancient city of Jebus and the city of David on mount Zion.
This Solomon filled up, and built upon; and it became a fortified place, and a place for public assemblies.
1 Kings 9:24• 24But Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of David unto her house which Solomon had built for her: then did he build Millo. (1 Kings 9:24)
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1 Kings 11:27• 27And this was the cause that he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breaches of the city of David his father. (1 Kings 11:27)
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Judg. 9:6,20• 6And 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.
 20But 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. (Judg. 9:6,20)
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2 Sam. 5:9• 9So David dwelt in the fort, and called it the city of David. And David built round about from Millo and inward. (2 Sam. 5:9)
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2 Kings 12:20• 20And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and slew Joash in the house of Millo, which goeth down to Silla. (2 Kings 12:20)
the wall.
Psa. 51:18• 18Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem. (Psa. 51:18)
Hazor.Probably the city Hazor in Naphtali, and the famous capital of Jabin, situated in the lake Merom or Semechon, and placed by Josephus south of Tyre, near Ptolemais.
Josh. 11:1• 1And it came to pass, when Jabin king of Hazor had heard those things, that he sent to Jobab king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph, (Josh. 11:1)
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Josh. 19:36• 36And Adamah, and Ramah, and Hazor, (Josh. 19:36)
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Judg. 4:2• 2And the Lord sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, that reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host was Sisera, which dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles. (Judg. 4:2)
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2 Kings 15:29• 29In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abel-beth-maachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria. (2 Kings 15:29)
Megiddo.
1 Kings 4:12• 12Baana the son of Ahilud; to him pertained Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-shean, which is by Zartanah beneath Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah, even unto the place that is beyond Jokneam: (1 Kings 4:12)
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Josh. 17:11• 11And Manasseh had in Issachar and in Asher Beth-shean and her towns, and Ibleam and her towns, and the inhabitants of Dor and her towns, and the inhabitants of Endor and her towns, and the inhabitants of Taanach and her towns, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and her towns, even three countries. (Josh. 17:11)
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Judg. 5:19• 19The kings came and fought, then fought the kings of Canaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no gain of money. (Judg. 5:19)
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2 Kings 9:27• 27But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way of the garden house. And Jehu followed after him, and said, Smite 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 Kings 9:27)
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2 Kings 23:29‑30• 29In his days Pharaoh-nechoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went against him; and he slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.
 30And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own sepulchre. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's stead. (2 Kings 23:29‑30)
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2 Chron. 35:22• 22Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and hearkened not unto the words of Necho from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo. (2 Chron. 35:22)
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Zech. 12:11• 11In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon. (Zech. 12:11)
Gezer.
1 Kings 9:16‑17• 16For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city, and given it for a present unto his daughter, Solomon's wife.
 17And Solomon built Gezer, and Beth-horon the nether, (1 Kings 9:16‑17)
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Josh. 10:33• 33Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua smote him and his people, until he had left him none remaining. (Josh. 10:33)
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Josh. 16:10• 10And they drave not out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer: but the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites unto this day, and serve under tribute. (Josh. 16:10)
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Josh. 21:21• 21For they gave them Shechem with her suburbs in mount Ephraim, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Gezer with her suburbs, (Josh. 21:21)
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Judg. 1:29• 29Neither did Ephraim drive out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwelt in Gezer among them. (Judg. 1:29)
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1 Chron. 6:67• 67And they gave unto them, of the cities of refuge, Shechem in mount Ephraim with her suburbs; they gave also Gezer with her suburbs, (1 Chron. 6:67)
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1 Chron. 20:4• 4And it came to pass after this, that there arose war at Gezer with the Philistines; at which time Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Sippai, that was of the children of the giant: and they were subdued. (1 Chron. 20:4)
• Solomon’s activity and wisdom are seen (1 Kings 9:15-23) in the establishment of store-cities, cities for chariots, and cities for horsemen. It is the external organization of the kingdom, be it for commerce and trade or be it for war. (“The Lord Speaks: 1 Kings 9:1-9” by H.L. Rossier)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And this is the account 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.