Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Kings 9:15

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 .

Both the Levy of Men; of which, Chap. 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.

It seems to have been an eminent, and large, and strong Fort or Castle in Ierusalem; as may be gathered from 1 King. 11. 27. 2 Chron. 32. 5.

In Napthali, See Iosh. 11. 10. and 19. 36.

In that part of the Tribe of Manasseh within Iordan: of which see Iosh. 17. 15.

In Ephraim, Iosh. 21. 21. It now was, and long had been in the possession of the Canaanites, Iosh. 16. 10. Iudg. 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.