1 Kings 11:27 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁷ The following was the reason he rebelled against the king. Solomon built the Millo and closed up the gap in the wall of the city of his father David.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁷ And for this reason: Solomon built the Millo and repaired the breaches of the city of David his father.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁷ 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.

Common English Bible

²⁷ This is the story of why Jeroboam fought against the king: Solomon had built the stepped structure and repaired the broken wall in his father David’s City.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁷ And this is the reason for his rebellion against him: that Solomon built up Millo, and that he filled in a deep hole in the city of David, his father.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁷ And this is the cause of his rebellion against him, for Solomon built Mello, and filled up the breach of the city of David his father.

1 Kings 11:27 Cross References

2 Samuel 20:21

That is not the case! But a man of the hill country of Ephraim called Sheba son of Bichri has lifted up his hand against King David; give him up alone, and I will withdraw from the city.” The woman said to Joab, “His head shall be thrown over the wall to you.”

2 Samuel 5:7

Nevertheless, David took the stronghold of Zion, which is now the city of David.

1 Kings 9:15

This is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon conscripted to build the house of the Lord and his own house, the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem, Hazor, Megiddo, Gezer

1 Kings 9:24

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

2 Kings 12:20

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

Nehemiah 4:7

But when Sanballat and Tobiah and the Arabs and the Ammonites and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem was going forward and the gaps were beginning to be closed, they were very angry

Psalm 60:2

You have caused the land to quake; you have torn it open; repair the cracks in it, for it is tottering.

Proverbs 30:32

If you have been foolish, exalting yourself, or if you have been devising evil, put your hand on your mouth.

Isaiah 22:9

and you saw that there were many breaches in the city of David, and you collected the waters of the lower pool.

Isaiah 26:11

O Lord, your hand is lifted up, but they do not see it. Let them see your zeal for your people and be ashamed. Let the fire for your adversaries consume them.

Ezekiel 13:5

You have not gone up into the breaches or repaired a wall for the house of Israel, so that it might stand in battle on the day of the Lord.

Amos 9:11

On that day I will raise up the booth of David that is fallen and repair its breaches and raise up its ruins and rebuild it as in the days of old,