1 Kings 9:15

New American Bible - revised edition

This is an account of the conscript labor force King Solomon raised in order to build the house of the Lord, his own house, Millo, the wall of Jerusalem, Hazor, Megiddo, Gezer

Cross References

2 Samuel 5:9

David took up residence in the fortress which he called the City of David. David built up the city on all sides, from the Millo toward the center.

1 Kings 11:27

This is how he came to rebel. King Solomon was building Millo, closing up the breach of the City of David, his father.

1 Kings 12:4

“Your father put a heavy yoke on us. If you now lighten the harsh servitude and the heavy yoke your father imposed on us, we will be your servants.”

1 Kings 3:1

Solomon allied himself by marriage with Pharaoh, king of Egypt. He married the daughter of Pharaoh and brought her to the City of David, until he should finish building his own house, and the house of the Lord, and the wall around Jerusalem.

1 Kings 4:12

Baana, son of Ahilud, in Taanach and Megiddo and all Beth-shean near Zarethan below Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah to beyond Jokmeam;

1 Kings 5:13

He spoke of plants, from the cedar on Lebanon to the hyssop growing out of the wall, and he spoke about beasts, birds, reptiles, and fishes.

1 Kings 6:38

and it was finished, in all particulars, exactly according to plan, in the month of Bul, the eighth month, in the eleventh year. Thus Solomon built it in seven years.

1 Kings 9:10

After the twenty years during which Solomon built the two houses, the house of the Lord and the house of the king—

1 Kings 9:21

those of their descendants who were left in the land and whom the Israelites had not been able to destroy under the ban—these Solomon conscripted as forced laborers, as they are to this day.

1 Kings 9:24

As soon as Pharaoh’s daughter went up from the City of David to her house, which he had built for her, Solomon built Millo.

2 Kings 12:20

The rest of the acts of Joash, with all that he did, are recorded in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah.

2 Kings 15:29

In the days of Pekah, king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria, came and took Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee—all the land of Naphtali—deporting the inhabitants to Assyria.

2 Kings 9:27

Seeing what was happening, Ahaziah, king of Judah, fled toward Beth-haggan. Jehu pursued him, shouting, “Him too!” They struck him as he rode through the pass of Gur near Ibleam, but he continued his flight as far as Megiddo and died there.

1 Chronicles 20:4

Afterward there was another battle with the Philistines, at Gezer. At that time, Sibbecai the Hushathite struck down Sippai, one of the descendants of the Rephaim, and the Philistines were subdued.

2 Chronicles 35:22

But Josiah would not withdraw from him, for he was seeking a pretext to fight with him. Therefore he would not listen to the words of Neco that came from the mouth of God, but went out to fight in the plain of Megiddo.

2 Chronicles 8:1

After the twenty years during which Solomon built the house of the Lord and his own house,

Psalm 51:18

For you do not desire sacrifice or I would give it; a burnt offering you would not accept.

Zechariah 12:11

On that day the mourning in Jerusalem will be as great as the mourning for Hadadrimmon in the plain of Megiddo.

Joshua 10:33

At that time Horam, king of Gezer, came up to help Lachish, but Joshua defeated him and his people, leaving him no survivors.

Joshua 11:1

When Jabin, king of Hazor, learned of this, he sent a message to Jobab, king of Madon, to the king of Shimron, to the king of Achshaph,

Joshua 16:10

But they did not dispossess the Canaanites living in Gezer; they live within Ephraim to the present day, though they have been put to forced labor.

Joshua 16:3

and descended westward to the border of the Japhletites, to that of the Lower Beth-horon, and to Gezer, and from there to the sea. Ephraim.

Joshua 17:11

Moreover, in Issachar and in Asher Manasseh was awarded Beth-shean and its towns, Ibleam and its towns, the inhabitants of Dor and its towns, the inhabitants of Endor and its towns, the inhabitants of Taanach and its towns, the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns (the third is Naphath-dor).

Joshua 19:36

Adamah, Ramah, Hazor,

Joshua 21:21

They were assigned, with its pasture lands, the city of refuge for homicides at Shechem in the mountain region of Ephraim; also Gezer with its pasture lands,

Judges 1:29

Ephraim did not drive out the Canaanites living in Gezer, and so the Canaanites lived among them in Gezer.

Judges 4:2

So the Lord sold them into the power of the Canaanite king, Jabin, who reigned in Hazor. The general of his army was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth-ha-goiim.

Judges 5:19

The kings came and fought; then they fought, those kings of Canaan, At Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; no spoil of silver did they take.

Judges 9:20

But if not, let fire come forth from Abimelech and devour the lords of Shechem and Beth-millo, and let fire come forth from the lords of Shechem and Beth-millo and devour Abimelech.”

Judges 9:6

Then all the lords of Shechem and all Beth-millo came together and made Abimelech king by the terebinth at the memorial pillar in Shechem.