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## 1 Kings 9:15-16 in Context (Verses 12–19 KJV)
 
 [12 ](/kjv/1-kings/9/12) And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they pleased him not.*
 
 [13 ](/kjv/1-kings/9/13) And he said, What cities *are* these which thou hast given me, my brother? And he called them the land of Cabul unto this day.*
 
 [14 ](/kjv/1-kings/9/14) And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold.
 
 [15 ](/kjv/1-kings/9/15) ¶ 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.
 
 [16 ](/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.
 
 [17 ](/kjv/1-kings/9/17) And Solomon built Gezer, and Beth-horon the nether,
 
 [18 ](/kjv/1-kings/9/18) And Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land,
 
 [19 ](/kjv/1-kings/9/19) And all the cities of store that Solomon had, and cities for his chariots, and cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.*
 
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