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The levy which king Solomon raised; both the levy of men, of which 1Ki_5:13, and the levy of money upon his people and subjects, which is sufficiently evident from many scriptures. And this sentence may look both backward and forward. He raised this levy, both to pay what he owed to Hiram, which is mentioned before; and to build the works here following.
Millo seems to have been an eminent, and large, and strong fort or castle in Jerusalem, as may be gathered from 1Ki_11:27 2Ch_32:5.
Hazor, in Naphtali. See Jos_11:10 Jos_19:36.
Megiddo, in that part of the tribe of Manasseh within Jordan; of which see Jos_17:11.
Gezer, in Ephraim, Jos_21:21. It now was, and long had been, in the possession of the Canaanites, Jos_16:10 Jud_1:29, and permitted so to be by David and Solomon, either by neglect, or because they were busied in greater and more necessary employments.