1 Kings 9:15

15 haec est summa expensarum quam obtulit rex Salomon ad aedificandam domum Domini et domum suam et Mello et murum Hierusalem et Eser et Mageddo et Gazer

1 Kings 9:15 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 9:15

And this is the reason of the levy which King Solomon raised,
&c.] Both of men to work, ( 1 Kings 5:13 ) , and of money to defray the expense:

it was for to build the house of the Lord;
the temple:

and his own house;
or palace:

and Millo; which he repaired: (See Gill on 1 Samuel 5:9).

and the wall of Jerusalem;
which, as Abarbinel says, was a large building, there being three walls one within another:

and Hazor;
a city in the tribe of Naphtali, and which had been a royal city with the Canaanites; see ( Joshua 11:1 ) ( 19:36 )

and Megiddo;
which was in the tribe of Manasseh, ( Joshua 17:11 )

and Gezer;
which was in the tribe of Ephraim, and formerly a royal city of the Canaanites, ( Joshua 10:33 ) ( 16:3 ) .

1 Kings 9:15 In-Context

13 et ait haecine sunt civitates quas dedisti mihi frater et appellavit eas terram Chabul usque in diem hanc

14 misit quoque Hiram ad regem centum viginti talenta auri

15 haec est summa expensarum quam obtulit rex Salomon ad aedificandam domum Domini et domum suam et Mello et murum Hierusalem et Eser et Mageddo et Gazer

16 Pharao rex Aegypti ascendit et cepit Gazer succenditque eam igni et Chananeum qui habitabat in civitate interfecit et dedit eam in dote filiae suae uxori Salomonis

17 aedificavit ergo Salomon Gazer et Bethoron inferiorem