1 Kings 9:16

14 Then Hiram sent the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold.

Solomon’s Additional Achievements

15 And this is the reason for ^athe labor force which King Solomon raised: to build the house of the Lord, his own house,¹ the ^bMillo, the wall of Jerusalem, ^cHazor, ^dMegiddo, and ^eGezer.

16 (Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and taken Gezer and burned it with fire, ^ahad killed the Canaanites who dwelt in the city, and had given it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.)

17 And Solomon built Gezer, Lower ^aBeth Horon,

18 ^aBaalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land of Judah,

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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1 Kings 9:16

Pharaoh - had gone up , and taken Gezer - This city Joshua had taken from the Canaanites, Joshua 10:33; Joshua 12:12, and it was divided by lot to the tribe of Ephraim, and was intended to be one of the Levitical cities; but it appears that the Canaanites had retaken it, and kept possession till the days of Solomon, when his father-in-law, Pharaoh king of Egypt, retook it, and gave it to Solomon in dowry with his daughter.

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