Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Kings 9:16
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1 Kings9:16
16 For Pharaoh king of Eggpt 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, Solomons wife.
Not now, but long before this time, and presently after the Marriage of his Daughter, as is most probable; and it is here mentioned onely as the occasion of Solomon's Building it. Possibly the Canaanites of this place had been guilty of some Hainous Crime; and because Solomon thought not fit to destroy them himself, he desired Pharaoh to do it for him, or Pharaoh might offer his Service therein for his Daughters advantage.
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