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1 Kings 9:16
“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.”
Verse in context — 1 Kings 9
14
Hiram sent to the king one hundred twenty talents of gold.
15
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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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.
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Solomon built Gezer, and Beth Horon the lower,
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and Baalath, and Tamar 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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