Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

and this is the thing for which he lifted up a hand against the king: Solomon built Millo -- he shut up the breach of the city of David his father,

New American Standard Bible

Now this was the reason why he rebelled against the king: Solomon built the Millo, and closed up the breach of the city of his father David.

King James Version

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.

Holman Bible

and this is the reason he rebelled against the king: Solomon had built the supporting terraces and repaired the opening in the wall of the city of his father David.

International Standard Version

and this is why he rose in rebellion against the king: Solomon had built up the terrace ramparts in the city of his father David in order to repair a weakness.

A Conservative Version

And this was the reason why he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breach of the city of David his father.

American Standard Version

And this was the reason why he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breach of the city of David his father.

Amplified

Now this is the reason why he rebelled against the king: Solomon built the Millo (fortification) and he repaired and closed the breach of the city of his father David.

Bible in Basic English

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;

Darby Translation

And this was the cause that he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon was building Millo, and closing the breach of the city of David his father;

Julia Smith Translation

And this the word for which he lifted up the hand against the king: Solomon built the fortress and shut up the breaches of the city of David his father.

King James 2000

And this was the reason that he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breaches of the city of David his father.

Lexham Expanded Bible

This [is] the reason that he rebelled against the king: [when] Solomon built the Millo, he closed the gap of the city of David his father.

Modern King James verseion

And this was the cause that he lifted up his hand against the king. Solomon built Millo and repaired the breaks of the city of David his father.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Solomon built Mello and mended broken places in the city of David his father.

NET Bible

This is what prompted him to rebel against the king: Solomon built a terrace and he closed up a gap in the wall of the city of his father David.

New Heart English Bible

This was the reason why he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breach of the City of David his father.

The Emphasized Bible

And, this, was the cause that he lifted up a hand against the king, - Solomon, built Millo, he closed up of the of David his father. the breach city

Webster

And this was the cause why he raised his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breaches of the city of David his father.

World English Bible

This was the reason why he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breach of the city of David his father.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
דּבר 
Dabar 
Usage: 1438

that he lifted up
רוּם 
Ruwm 
Usage: 189

יד 
Yad 
Usage: 1612

מלך 
melek 
Usage: 2521

שׁלמה 
Sh@lomoh 
Usage: 293

בּנה 
Banah 
Usage: 376

מלּא מלּוא 
Millow' 
Usage: 9

and repaired
סגר 
Cagar 
Usage: 93

the breaches
פּרץ 
Perets 
Usage: 20

of the city
עיר ער עיר 
`iyr 
Usage: 1094

of David
דּויד דּוד 
David 
Usage: 1074

References

Context Readings

Solomon's Enemies

26 And Jeroboam son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of Zereda -- the name of whose mother is Zeruah, a widow woman -- servant to Solomon, he also lifteth up a hand against the king; 27 and this is the thing for which he lifted up a hand against the king: Solomon built Millo -- he shut up the breach of the city of David his father, 28 and the man Jeroboam is mighty in valour, and Solomon seeth the young man that he is doing business, and appointeth him over all the burden of the house of Joseph.

Cross References

1 Kings 9:24

Only, the daughter of Pharaoh went up out of the city of David unto her house that Solomon built for her; then he built Millo.

1 Kings 9:15

And this is the matter of the tribute that king Solomon hath lifted up, to build the house of Jehovah, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer,

2 Samuel 5:7

And David captureth the fortress of Zion, it is the city of David.

2 Samuel 20:21

The matter is not so; for a man of the hill-country of Ephraim -- Sheba son of Bichri his name -- hath lifted up his hand against the king, against David; give ye up him by himself, and I go away from the city.' And the woman saith unto Joab, 'Lo, his head is cast unto thee over the wall.'

Nehemiah 4:7

And it cometh to pass, when Sanballat hath heard, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, that lengthening hath gone up to the walls of Jerusalem, that the breeches have begun to be stopped, then it is very displeasing to them,

Psalm 60:2

Thou hast caused the land to tremble, Thou hast broken it, Heal its breaches, for it hath moved.

Proverbs 30:32

If thou hast been foolish in lifting up thyself, And if thou hast devised evil -- hand to mouth!

Isaiah 22:9

And the breaches of the city of David ye have seen, For they have become many, And ye gather the waters of the lower pool,

Isaiah 26:11

O Jehovah, high is Thy hand -- they see not, They see the zeal of the people, and are ashamed, Also, the fire -- Thine adversaries, consumeth them.

Ezekiel 13:5

Ye have not gone up into breaches, Nor do ye make a fence for the house of Israel, To stand in battle in a day of Jehovah.

Amos 9:11

In that day I raise the tabernacle of David, that is fallen, And I have repaired their breaches, And its ruins I do raise up, And I have built it up as in days of old.

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