2 Samuel 5:9

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.

Cross References

1 Kings 9:24

But Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the City of David to her house which Solomon had built for her; then he built the Millo.

1 Kings 9:15

This is the account of the levy [of forced labor] which King Solomon raised to build the house of the Lord, his own house, the Millo, the wall of Jerusalem, Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.

2 Chronicles 32:5

Also Hezekiah took courage and built up all the wall that was broken, and raised towers upon it, and he built another wall outside and strengthened the Millo in the City of David and made weapons and shields in abundance.

1 Kings 11:27

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

2 Samuel 5:7

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

1 Chronicles 11:8

He built the city from the Millo [a fortification] on around; and Joab repaired and revived the rest of the [old Jebusite] city.

Judges 9:20

But if not, let fire come out from Abimelech and devour the people of Shechem and Beth-millo, and let fire come out from the people of Shechem and Beth-millo and devour Abimelech.

Judges 9:6

And all the men of Shechem gathered together and all of Beth-millo, and they went and made Abimelech king by the oak (terebinth) of the pillar at Shechem.

2 Samuel 5:8

David said on that day, Whoever smites the Jebusites, let him get up through the water shaft and smite the lame and the blind who are detested by David's soul. So they say, The blind and the lame shall not come into the house.

2 Kings 12:20

His servants arose and made a conspiracy and slew Joash [in revenge] in the house of Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla. [II Chron. 24:22-25.]

Psalm 122:3

Jerusalem, which is built as a city that is compacted together–

Isaiah 29:1

WOE TO Ariel [Jerusalem], to Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add yet another year; let the feasts run their round [but only one year more].

2 Samuel 6:10

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

1 Kings 2:10

So David slept with his fathers and was buried in the City of David.

2 Kings 12:21

It was Jozachar son of Shimeath and Jehozabad son of Shomer, his servants, who smote him so that he died. They buried [Joash] with his fathers in the City of David. Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.

Nehemiah 3:15

The Fountain Gate was repaired by Shallum son of Col-hozeh, ruler of the district of Mizpah. He rebuilt and covered it and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars, and the wall of the Pool of Shelah (Siloam), by the King's Garden, as far as the stairs that go down [the eastern slope] from the [portion of Jerusalem known as] the City of David.