King James Version (KJV)
1 Kings 9:16
“[For] 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.”
Verse in context — 1 Kings 9
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And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold.
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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.
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[For] 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.
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And Solomon built Gezer, and Bethhoron the nether,
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And Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land,
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Solomon’s reign, the temple’s construction, and the kingdom’s division.
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