1 Kings 9:19
And all the cities of store, that Salomon had, euen cities for charets, and cities for horsemen, and all that Salomon desired and woulde build in Ierusalem, and in Lebanon and in all the land of his dominion)
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In Context
18And Baalath and Tamor in the wildernes of the land,
Cross References
1 Kings 4:26And Salomon had fourtie thousande stalles of horses for his charets, and twelue thousand horsemen.
1 Kings 9:1When Salomon had finished the building of the house of ye Lord, and the kings palace, and all that Salomon desired and minded to do,
2 Chronicles 1:14And Salomon gathered the charets and horesemen: and he had a thousand and foure hundreth charets, and twelue thousande horsemen, whome he placed in the charet cities, and with the King at Ierusalem.
Ecclesiastes 6:9The sight of ye eye is better then to walke in ye lustes: this also is vanitie, and vexation of spirit.
Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 9:16-28
Solomon's Buildings; Solomon's Greatness. ( b. c. 991.) 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 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 And Solomon built Gezer, and Beth-horon the nether, 18 And Baalath, and… Read the whole commentary →