And at that time Solomon held a feast, and all Israel with him, a great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt, before the Lord our God, seven days and seven days, even fourteen days.
The ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee thy calkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to occupy thy merchandise.
Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: be they better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border?
turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphra´tes.
even from the mount Halak, that goeth up to Se´ir, even unto Ba´al–gad in the valley of Lebanon under mount Hermon: and all their kings he took, and smote them, and slew them.
and to the Canaanite on the east and on the west, and to the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Per´izzite, and the Jeb´usite in the mountains, and to the Hivite under Hermon in the land of Mizpeh.
And these are the kings of the country which Joshua and the children of Israel smote on this side Jordan on the west, from Ba´al–gad in the valley of Lebanon even unto the mount Halak, that goeth up to Se´ir; which Joshua gave unto the tribes of Israel for a possession according to their divisions;