1 Kings 9:15-17

Contemporary English Version

¹⁵After Solomon's workers had finished the temple and the palace, he ordered them to fill in the land on the east side of Jerusalem,^[a] to build a wall around the city, and to rebuild the towns of Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.

¹⁶Earlier, the king of Egypt had captured the town of Gezer; he burned it to the ground and killed the Canaanite people living there. Then he gave it to his daughter as a wedding present when she married Solomon. ¹⁷So Solomon had the town rebuilt.

Solomon ordered his workers to rebuild Lower Beth-Horon,

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Footnotes

9.15 fill … Jerusalem: The Hebrew text has “build the Millo,” which probably refers to a landfill to strengthen and extend the hill where the city was built.