2 Samuel 5:9 - Tree of Life Version

⁹ So David ­occupied the stronghold and renamed it the City of David. Then David fortified it all round from the Millo inward.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ 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

⁹ 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)

⁹ 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

⁹ 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

⁹ 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

⁹ 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 did capture the stronghold of Zion (that is, the City of David).

2 Samuel 5:8

On that day David said, “Whoever would conquer the Jebusites must strike through the water shaft to those ‘lame and blind’ whom David’s soul despises.” That is why they used to say, “The blind or lame couldn’t get into the house.”

2 Samuel 6:10

David was unwilling to move the ark of Adonai to him, to the City of David; instead, David diverted it to the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.

1 Kings 11:27

Now the reason that he raised a hand against the king was this: Solomon built the Millo and closed the breach of the city of his father David.

1 Kings 2:10

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

1 Kings 9:15

Now this was the purpose of the forced labor that King Solomon had imposed to build Adonai’s House, his own house, the Millo, the wall of Jerusalem, Hazor, Megiddo and Gezer.

1 Kings 9:24

As soon as Pharaoh’s daughter came up out of the city of David to her house built for her, he built the Millo.

2 Kings 12:20

Now the rest of the acts of Joash and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

2 Kings 12:21

But his courtiers arose, conspired against him and assassinated Joash at Beth-Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla.

1 Chronicles 11:8

He fortified the city all around, from the Millo to the surrounding walls, and Joab repaired the rest of the city.

2 Chronicles 32:5

Then he took courage and rebuilt the entire wall that had been broken down, raised up the towers, added another outer wall, fortified the Millo in the city of David, and made plenty of weapons and shields.

Nehemiah 3:15

Shallun son of Col-hozeh, the ruler of the district of Mizpah, repaired the Fountain Gate. He built it, covered it, and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars. He also repaired the wall of the Pool of Shelah by the King’s Garden, as far as the stairs going down from the City of David.

Psalm 122:3

Jerusalem, built as a city joined together.

Isaiah 29:1

Oy , Ariel, Ariel! City where David camped. Year to year again—festivals in a cycle.

Judges 9:20

But if not, let fire come out from Abimelech and devour the lords of Shechem and Beth-millo, and let fire come out from the lords of Shechem and from Beth-millo and devour Abimelech!”

Judges 9:6

Then all the leaders of Shechem and all Beth-millo assembled themselves together and went and made Abimelech king at the terebinth of the pillar that was in Shechem.