1 Kings 9:16

For Pharaoh king of Egypt See above on 1 Kings 3:1.

and taken Gezer This incursion was probably before Solomon had taken the king's daughter to wife, though Josephus (Ant.viii. 6, i) says -he gave it to his daughter who had been married to Solomon." Philippson (die Israelitische Bibel) suggests that Solomon wishing to be rid of these Canaanites asked his father-in-law to undertake their extermination.

and given itfor a present By -present" here is meant -a wedding-portion." The noun implies -a gift on sending away" and the verb is found Joshua 12:9, where Ibzan the judge is said to have -sent abroad" (i.e. apparently, portioned out in marriage) his thirty daughters and to have taken in thirty others from abroad as wives for his sons. Though it appears to have been the more usual custom in the East for a husband to make presents to his wife's family, yet we find that Caleb (Judges 1:15) gave lands with his daughter when she was married to Othniel.