2 Samuel 5:9

Bible in Basic English 1965

So David took the strong tower for his living-place, naming it the town of David. And David took in hand the building of the town all round, starting from the Millo.

Cross References

2 Samuel 5:7

But David took the strong place of Zion, which is the town of David.

2 Samuel 5:8

And that day David said, Whoever makes an attack on the Jebusites, let him go up by the water-pipe, and put to death all the blind and feeble-footed who are hated by David. And this is why they say, The blind and feeble-footed may not come into the house.

2 Samuel 6:10

So David did not let the ark of the Lord come back to him to the town of David: but had it turned away and put into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.

1 Kings 11:27

The way in which his hand came to be lifted up against the king was this: Solomon was building the Millo and making good the damaged parts of the town of his father David;

1 Kings 2:10

Then David went to rest with his fathers, and his body was put into the earth in the town of David.

1 Kings 9:15

Now, this was the way of Solomon's system of forced work for the building of the Lord's house and of the king's house, and the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and Megiddo and Gezer (UNTRANSLATED TEXT) .

1 Kings 9:24

At that time Solomon made Pharaoh's daughter come up from the town of David to the house which he had made for her: then he made the Millo.

2 Kings 12:20

And his servants made a secret design and put Joash to death at the house of Millo on the way down to Silla.

2 Kings 12:21

And Jozacar, the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad, the son of Shomer, his servants, came to him and put him to death; and they put him into the earth with his fathers in the town of David; and Amaziah his son became king in his place.

1 Chronicles 11:8

And he took in hand the building of the town all round, starting from the Millo; and Joab put the rest of the town in order.

2 Chronicles 32:5

Then he took heart, building up the wall where it was broken down, and making its towers higher, and building another wall outside; and he made strong the Millo in the town of David, and got together a great store of all sorts of instruments of war.

Nehemiah 3:15

And Shallun, the son of Col-hozeh, the ruler of the division of Mizpah, made good the doorway of the fountain, building it up and covering it and putting up its doors, with their locks and rods, with the wall of the pool of Shelah by the king's garden, as far as the steps which go down from the town of David.

Psalm 122:3

O Jerusalem, you are like a town which is well joined together;

Isaiah 29:1

Ho! Ariel, Ariel, the town against which David made war; put year to year, let the feasts come round:

Judges 9:20

But if not, may fire come out from Abimelech, burning up the townsmen of Shechem and Beth-millo; and may fire come out from the townsmen of Shechem and Beth-millo, for the destruction of Abimelech.

Judges 9:6

And all the townsmen of Shechem and all Beth-millo came together and went and made Abimelech their king, by the oak of the pillar in Shechem.