Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Bible References

The reason

1 Kings 9:21
their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel were not able utterly to destroy, upon them did Solomon impose a tribute of bondservice until this day.
1 Kings 5:13
And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.

To build

1 Kings 9:10
And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the two houses, the house of Jehovah and the king's house,
1 Kings 6:38
and in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished in all its parts, and according to all the fashion of it. So he was seven years in building it.
1 Kings 7:1
And Solomon was thirteen years building his own house; and he finished all his house.
2 Chronicles 8:1
And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the house of Jehovah and his own house,

Hazor

Joshua 11:1
And it came to pass when Jabin king of Hazor heard this, that he sent to Jobab king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph,
Joshua 19:36
and Adamah, and Ramah, and Hazor,
Judges 4:2
And the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor; the commander of his army was Sis'era, who dwelt in Haro'sheth-ha-goiim.
2 Kings 15:29
In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria came and took Ijon, and Abel-Beth-Maachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria.

Gezer

1 Kings 9:16
Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and taken Gezer, and burned it with fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city, and given it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon's wife.
Joshua 10:33
Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua smote him and his people, until he had left him none remaining.
Joshua 16:10
But they did not dispossess the Canaanites that dwelt at Gezer; and the Canaanites dwell in the midst of Ephraim to this day, and serve under tribute.
Joshua 21:21
and they gave them the city of refuge for the slayer, Shechem and its suburbs in mount Ephraim; and Gezer and its suburbs,
Judges 1:29
And E'phraim did not drive out the Canaanites who dwelt in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwelt in Gezer among them.
1 Chronicles 6:67
they gave the city of refuge, Shechem and its suburbs in mount Ephraim; and Gezer and its suburbs,
1 Chronicles 20:4
And it came to pass after this, that there arose war at Gezer with the Philistines; then Sibbechai the Hushathite smote Sippai, one of the children of Rapha; and they were subdued.