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reason = account, or schedule.
Levy: i.e. tribute of men. Same word as 1Ki_5:13-18; not the same word as 1Ki_9:21.
Millo = the Millo. Part of Jebusite city, or the filling up between Jebus and Moriah. Hezekiah strengthened it. Shechem had a "Millo" (Jdg_9:6). Compare 1Ki_9:24; 1Ki_11:27. 2Sa_5:9. 1Ch_11:8. 2Ch_32:54.
the wall. Begun by David (2Sa_5:9. 1Ch_11:8). Solomon closed the breaches (1Ki_11:27).
Hazor, an old Canaanitish town (Jos_11:1).
Megiddo, the same (Jos_12:21. Jdg_1:27; Jdg_5:19, and 1Ki_4:12).
Gezer. Gezer was formerly under the suzerainty of Egypt. Correspondence of the time of Amen-hotep III and IV, about 1450 B.C, has been found at Tel-el-Amarnah explorations, which mentions Yapakhi as "king" of Gezer. Letters from Abdkhiba, king of Jerusalem, complain of the Gezerites. First mentioned in Jos_10:33. Conquest only partial (Jos_16:10. Jdg_1:29). Allotted to Levites (Jos_21:21). In excavation by Palestine Exploration Fund a contract was found, dated 649 B.C. (in Assyrian). Gezer then still under an Egyptian Governor. Another contract, dated 647 B. C, was found, showing an Assyrian occupation in the time of Manasseh. This may explain the "captains" of 2Ch_38:11.