KJV King James Version
And this [was] the cause that he lifted up [his] hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, [and] repaired the breaches of the city of David his father.
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1 Kings 11:27
And this [was] the cause that he lifted up [his] hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, [and] repaired the breaches of the city of David his father.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
and this is the account of his rebellion against the king. Solomon had built the supporting terraces and repaired the gap in the wall of the city of his father David.
WEB World English Bible
This was the reason why he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breach of the city of David his father.
ASV American Standard Version
And this was the reason why he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breach of the city of David his father.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and this is the thing for which he lifted up a hand against the king: Solomon built Millo—he shut up the breach of the city of David his father,
Surrounding context — 1 Kings 11
24 And he gathered men unto him, and became captain over a band, when David slew them [of Zobah]: and they went to Damascus, and dwelt therein, and reigned in Damascus.
25 And he was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon, beside the mischief that Hadad [did]: and he abhorred Israel, and reigned over Syria.
26 And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of Zereda, Solomon’s servant, whose mother’s name [was] Zeruah, a widow woman, even he lifted up [his] hand against the king.
27 And this [was] the cause that he lifted up [his] hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, [and] repaired the breaches of the city of David his father.
28 And the man Jeroboam [was] a mighty man of valour: and Solomon seeing the young man that he was industrious, he made him ruler over all the charge of the house of Joseph.
29 And it came to pass at that time when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the way; and he had clad himself with a new garment; and they two [were] alone in the field:
30 And Ahijah caught the new garment that [was] on him, and rent it [in] twelve pieces:
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
וְזֶ֣הH2088 · zehthisהַדָּבָ֔רH1697 · da.varwordאֲשֶׁר־H834 · a.sherwhichהֵרִ֥יםH7311 · rumto exaltיָ֖דH3027 · yadhandבַּמֶּ֑לֶךְH4428 · me.lekhkingשְׁלֹמֹה֙H8010 · she.lo.mohSolomonבָּנָ֣הH1129 · ba.nahto buildאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]הַמִּלּ֔וֹאH4407 · mil.loMilloסָגַ֕רH5462 · sa.garto shutאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]פֶּ֕רֶץH6556 · pe.retsbreachעִ֖ירH5892 · irexcitementדָּוִ֥דH1732 · da.vidDavidאָבִֽיו׃H1 · avfather
Cross-references
1 Kings 9:24But Pharaoh’s daughter came up out of the city of David unto her house which [Solomon] had built for her: then did he build Millo.1 Kings 9:15And 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.2 Samuel 5:7Nevertheless David took the strong hold of Zion: the same [is] the city of David.Ezekiel 13:5Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the LORD.2 Samuel 20:21The matter [is] not so: but a man of mount Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, hath lifted up his hand against the king, [even] against David: deliver him only, and I will depart from the city. And the woman said unto Joab, Behold, his head shall be thrown to thee over the wall.Isaiah 22:9Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool.Isaiah 26:11LORD, [when] thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: [but] they shall see, and be ashamed for [their] envy at the people; yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them.Amos 9:11In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:Proverbs 30:32If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, [lay] thine hand upon thy mouth.Nehemiah 4:7But it came to pass, [that] when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, [and] that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth,Psalm 60:2Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.
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