2 Samuel 5:9 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

And David dwelt in the stronghold, and called it the city of David. And David built the city round about from the Millo inward.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

So David dwelt in the fort, and called it the city of David. And David built round about from Millo and inward.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

So David dwelt in the stronghold and called it the City of David. And he built round about from the Millo and inward.

American Standard Version (1901)

And David dwelt in the stronghold, and called it the city of David. And David built round about from Millo and inward.

Common English Bible

David occupied the fortress, so it was renamed David’s City. David built a city around it from the earthen terraces inward.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Then David lived in the stronghold, and he called it: the City of David. And he built it up on all sides, from Millo and inward.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And David dwelt in the castle, and called it, The city of David: and built round about from Mello and inwards.

2 Samuel 5:9 Cross References

2 Samuel 5:7

Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion, that is, the city of David.

2 Samuel 5:8

And David said on that day, “Whoever would smite the Jebusites, let him get up the water shaft to attack the lame and the blind, who are hated by David's soul.” Therefore it is said, “The blind and the lame shall not come into the house.”

2 Samuel 6:10

So David was not willing to take the ark of the Lord into the city of David; but David took it aside to the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.

1 Kings 11:27

And this was the reason why he lifted up his hand against the king. Solomon built the Millo, and closed up the breach of the city of David his father.

1 Kings 2:10

Then David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.

1 Kings 9:15

And this is the account of the forced labor which King Solomon levied to build the house of the Lord and his own house and the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and Hazor and Megiddo and Gezer

1 Kings 9:24

But Pharaoh's daughter went up from the city of David to her own house which Solomon had built for her; then he built the Millo.

2 Kings 12:20

His servants arose and made a conspiracy, and slew Joash in the house of Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla.

2 Kings 12:21

It was Jozacar the son of Shimeath and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, who struck him down, so that he died. And they buried him with his fathers in the city of David, and Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.

1 Chronicles 11:8

And he built the city round about from the Millo in complete circuit; and Joab repaired the rest of the city.

2 Chronicles 32:5

He set to work resolutely and built up all the wall that was broken down, and raised towers upon it, and outside it he built another wall; and he strengthened the Millo in the city of David. He also made weapons and shields in abundance.

Nehemiah 3:15

And Shallum the son of Colhozeh, ruler of the district of Mizpah, repaired the Fountain Gate; he rebuilt it and covered it and set its doors, its bolts, and its bars; and he built the wall of the Pool of Shelah of the king's garden, as far as the stairs that go down from the City of David.

Psalm 122:3

Jerusalem, built as a city which is bound firmly together,

Isaiah 29:1

Ho Ariel, Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year; let the feasts run their round.

Judges 9:20

but if not, let fire come out from Abimelech, and devour the citizens of Shechem, and Beth-millo; and let fire come out from the citizens of Shechem, and from Beth-millo, and devour Abimelech.”

Judges 9:6

And all the citizens of Shechem came together, and all Beth-millo, and they went and made Abimelech king, by the oak of the pillar at Shechem.