reason. account, or schedule.
Levy: i.e. tribute of men. Same word as 1 Kings 5:13-18. not the same word as 1 Kings 9:21.
Millo. the Millo. Part of Jebusite city, or the filling up between Jebus and Moriah. Hezekiah strengthened it. Shechem had. "Millo" (Judges 9:6). Compare 1 Kings 9:24. 1Ki 11:27. 2 Samuel 5:9; 1 Chronicles 11:8. 2Ch 32:54.
the wall. Begun by David (2 Samuel 5:9; 1 Chronicles 11:8). Solomon closed the breaches (1 Kings 11:27).
Hazor, an old Canaanitish town (Joshua 11:1).
Megiddo, the same (Joshua 12:21.Judges 1:27; Judges 5:19, and 1 Kings 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 Joshua 10:33. Conquest only partial (Joshua 16:10; Judges 1:29). Allotted to Levites (Joshua 21:21). In excavation by Palestine Exploration Fund. 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.