⁸ And he built the city all around from the Millo in complete circuit, and Joab repaired the rest of the city.

² And he said in the presence of his brothers and of the army of ^(A)Samaria, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they restore it for themselves?^[a] Will they sacrifice? Will they finish up in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, and burned ones at that?”

^20 (A)His servants arose and made a conspiracy ^(B)and struck down Joash in the house of ^(C)Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla.

²⁷ And this was the reason why he lifted up his hand against the king. ^(A)Solomon built the Millo, and closed up the breach of the city of David his father.

¹⁵ And this is the account of ^(A)the forced labor that King Solomon drafted to build the house of the Lord and his own house and ^(B)the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and ^(C)Hazor and ^(D)Megiddo and Gezer

²⁰ But if not, ^(A)let fire come out from Abimelech and devour the leaders of Shechem and Beth-millo; and let fire come out from the leaders of Shechem and from Beth-millo and devour Abimelech.”

⁶ And all the leaders of Shechem came together, and all ^(A)Beth-millo, and they went and made Abimelech king, by the oak of the pillar at Shechem.