Later, Solomon formed an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt by marrying his daughter. Solomon brought her to the City of David until he had finished building his palace and the house of the LORD, as well as the wall around Jerusalem. Cross References 1 Kings 2:10 Then David rested with his fathers and was buried in the City of David. 1 Kings 7:1 Solomon, however, took thirteen years to complete the construction of his entire palace. 1 Kings 7:8 And the palace where Solomon would live, set further back, was of similar construction. He also made a palace like this hall for Pharaoh's daughter, whom he had married. 1 Kings 9:10 Now at the end of the twenty years during which Solomon built these two houses, the house of the LORD and the royal palace, 1 Kings 9:15 This is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon imposed to build the house of the LORD, his own palace, the supporting terraces, and the wall of Jerusalem, as well as Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer. 1 Kings 9:16 Pharaoh king of Egypt had attacked and captured Gezer. He had set it on fire, killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and given it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon's wife. 1 Kings 9:24 As soon as Pharaoh's daughter had come up from the City of David to the palace that Solomon had built for her, he built the supporting terraces. 2 Chronicles 8:11 Solomon brought the daughter of Pharaoh up from the City of David to the palace he had built for her. For he said, "My wife must not live in the house of David king of Israel, because the places the ark of the LORD has entered are holy." Treasury of Scripture And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of the LORD, and the wall of Jerusalem round about. A. 2 Chronicles 18:1 Ezra 9:14 and took 1 Kings 7:8 1 Kings 9:24 1 Kings 11:1 the city 2 Samuel 5:7 1 Chronicles 11:7 his own 1 Kings 7:1-12 the house 1 Kings 6:1-38 1 Kings 7:13-15 2 Chronicles 2:1-4:22 the wall 1 Kings 9:15-19 |