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.

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27 Here is the account of how he rebelled against the king: Solomon had built the terraces[a](A) and had filled in the gap in the wall of the city of David his father.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 11:27 Or the Millo

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.

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24 After Pharaoh’s daughter(A) had come up from the City of David to the palace Solomon had built for her, he constructed the terraces.(B)

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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.

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15 Here is the account of the forced labor King Solomon conscripted(A) to build the Lord’s temple, his own palace, the terraces,[a](B) the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor,(C) Megiddo and Gezer.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 9:15 Or the Millo; also in verse 24

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:

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Israel’s Restoration

11 “In that day

“I will restore David’s(A) fallen shelter(B)
    I will repair its broken walls
    and restore its ruins(C)
    and will rebuild it as it used to be,(D)

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

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You have not gone up to the breaches in the wall to repair(A) it for the people of Israel so that it will stand firm in the battle on the day of the Lord.(B)

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11 Lord, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them.

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11 Lord, your hand is lifted high,(A)
    but they do not see(B) it.
Let them see your zeal(C) for your people and be put to shame;(D)
    let the fire(E) reserved for your enemies consume them.

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Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool.

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You saw that the walls of the City of David
    were broken through(A) in many places;
you stored up water
    in the Lower Pool.(B)

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32 If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, lay thine hand upon thy mouth.

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32 “If you play the fool and exalt yourself,
    or if you plan evil,
    clap your hand over your mouth!(A)

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Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.

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You have shaken the land(A) and torn it open;
    mend its fractures,(B) for it is quaking.

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

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But when Sanballat, Tobiah,(A) the Arabs, the Ammonites and the people of Ashdod heard that the repairs to Jerusalem’s walls had gone ahead and that the gaps were being closed, they were very angry.

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21 The matter is not so: but a man of mount 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.

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21 That is not the case. A man named Sheba son of Bikri, from the hill country of Ephraim, has lifted up his hand against the king, against David. Hand over this one man, and I’ll withdraw from the city.”

The woman said to Joab, “His head(A) will be thrown to you from the wall.”

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

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Nevertheless, David captured the fortress of Zion(A)—which is the City of David.(B)

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