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## 1 Kings 9:15 in Context (Verses 12–18 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,
 
[1 Kings 8](/kjv/1-kings/8) [1 Kings 10](/kjv/1-kings/10)

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