1 Kings 9:15-19

God’s Promise and Warning

¹⁵Now this is the account of the forced labor which King Solomon conscripted to build the house of the Lord, his own house, the Millo, the wall of Jerusalem, Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer. ¹⁶For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and overthrown Gezer and burned it with fire, and killed the Canaanites who lived in the city; and he had given it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon’s wife. ¹⁷So Solomon rebuilt Gezer and the lower Beth-horon, ¹⁸and Baalath and Tamar in the wilderness, in the land of Judah, ¹⁹and all the storage cities which Solomon had, that is, the cities for his chariots and the cities for his horsemen, and everything that it pleased Solomon to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land under his rule.