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Hiram sent to the king one hundred twenty talents of gold.
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This is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised, to build the house of Yahweh, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.
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Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites who lived in the city, and given it for a portion to his daughter, Solomon's wife.
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Solomon built Gezer, and Beth-horon the lower,
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and Baalath, and Tamar in the wilderness, in the land,
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and all the store-cities that Solomon had, and the cities for his chariots, and the cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
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As for all the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the children of Israel;
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their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel were not able utterly to destroy, of them did Solomon raise a levy of bondservants to this day.
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But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondservants; but they were the men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen.
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These were the chief officers who were over Solomon's work, five hundred fifty, who bore rule over the people who labored in the work.
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But Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of David to her house which [Solomon] had built for her: then did he build Millo.
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Three times a year did Solomon offer burnt offerings and peace-offerings on the altar which he built to Yahweh, burning incense therewith, [on the altar] that was before Yahweh. So he finished the house.
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King Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.
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Hiram sent in the navy his servants, sailors who had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.
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They came to Ophir, and fetched from there gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.