1 Kings 11:27 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²⁷ And this was the cause that he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired 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

The matter is not so: but a man of the hill country of 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.

2 Samuel 5:7

Nevertheless David took the strong hold of Zion; the same is the city of David.

1 Kings 9:15

And 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.

1 Kings 9:24

But 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.

2 Kings 12:20

And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and smote Joash at the house of Millo, on the way that goeth down to Silla.

Nehemiah 4:7

But it came to pass that, when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem went forward, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth;

Psalm 60:2

Thou hast made the land to tremble; thou hast rent it: Heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.

Proverbs 30:32

If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, Or if thou hast thought evil, Lay thine hand upon thy mouth.

Isaiah 22:9

And ye saw the breaches of the city of David, that they were many: and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool,

Isaiah 26:11

LORD, thy hand is lifted up, yet they see not: but they shall see thy zeal for the people, and be ashamed; yea, fire shall devour thine adversaries.

Ezekiel 13:5

Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the fence for the house of Israel, to stand in the battle in the day of the LORD.

Amos 9:11

In 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;