1 Kings 11:27 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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.

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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 true. But a man of the hill country of Ephraim, called Sheba the son of Bichri, has lifted up his hand against King David; give up him alone, and I will withdraw from the city.” And the woman said to Joab, “Behold, his head shall be thrown to you over the wall.”

2 Samuel 5:7

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

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 that the breaches were beginning to be closed, they were very angry;

Psalm 60:2

Thou hast made the land to quake, thou hast rent it open; repair its breaches, for it totters.

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 the breaches of the city of David were many, and you collected the waters of the lower pool,

Isaiah 26:11

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

Ezekiel 13:5

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

Amos 9:11

“In 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;