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1 Kings 9:24

New American Bible - revised edition

As soon as Pharaoh’s daughter went up from the City of David to her house, which he had built for her, Solomon built Millo.

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David nevertheless captured the fortress of Zion, which is the City of David.

David took up residence in the fortress which he called the City of David. David built up the city on all sides, from the Millo toward the center.

This is how he came to rebel. King Solomon was building Millo, closing up the breach of the City of David, his father.

Solomon allied himself by marriage with Pharaoh, king of Egypt. He married the daughter of Pharaoh and brought her to the City of David, until he should finish building his own house, and the house of the Lord, and the wall around Jerusalem.

The house in which he lived was in another court, set in deeper than the Porch and of the same construction. (Solomon made a house like this Porch for Pharaoh’s daughter, whom he had married.)

He then looked to his defenses: he rebuilt the wall where it was broken down, raised towers upon it, and built another wall outside. He strengthened the Millo of the City of David and made a great number of spears and shields.

Solomon brought the daughter of Pharaoh up from the City of David to the house which he had built for her, for he said, “No wife of mine shall dwell in the house of David, king of Israel, for the places where the ark of the Lord has come are holy.”




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