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1 Kings 11:27

in 1 Kings 11

and this is the account of his rebellion against the king. Solomon had built the supporting terraces and repaired the gap in the wall of the city of his father David.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

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.

KJV

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.

This verse in 1 Kings 11

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

He was a young man of talent and energy, who, having been appointed by Solomon superintendent of the engineering works projected around Jerusalem, had risen into public notice, and on being informed by a very significant act of the prophet Ahijah of the royal destiny which, by divine appointment, awaited him, his mind took a new turn.

This site's exposition

Jeroboam the son of Nebat

on 1 Kings 11:26-28

Jeroboam is introduced by tribe, town, and a widow's son's poverty, then by Solomon's own promotion of him, ruler over all the charge of the house of Joseph, on the strength of his industry. The third adversary is not foreign but homegrown, raised by the king's own hand before he is raised against it. Solomon builds Millo and repairs the breaches of the city of David in these same verses, public works that will shortly be paid for in forced labor, the grievance Jeroboam's own tribe carries into chapter 12.

This site's exposition

repaired the gap in the wall

The account of the rebellion opens on a building site. Albert Barnes dates the work on the supporting terraces to about Solomon's twenty-fourth or twenty-fifth year, the season of 9:15 and 9:24. John Gill reads the building as the cause of the rebellion against the king.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And this was the cause that he lifted up his hand against the king,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Millo was probably fortified in Solomon’s twenty-fourth or twenty-fifth year.

The words behind it

16 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְזֶ֣הand this

    vezehH20881180 times

  • הַדָּבָ֔ר[is] the reason

    hadavarH16971440 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־why

    ʾasher-H8345497 times

  • הֵרִ֥יםhe raised

    herimH7311190 times

  • יָ֖דa hand

    yadH30271618 times

  • בַּמֶּ֑לֶךְon the king

    bamelekhH44282525 times

  • שְׁלֹמֹה֙Solomon

    shelomohH8010291 times

  • בָּנָ֣הhe built

    banahH1129376 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • הַמִּלּ֔וֹאthe Millo

    hamilo'H44076 times

  • סָגַ֕רhe closed up

    sagarH546291 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • פֶּ֕רֶץ[the] breach of

    peretzH6556

  • עִ֖יר[the] city of

    ʾirH58921090 times

  • דָּוִ֥דDavid

    davidH1732999 times

  • אָבִֽיו׃father his

    ʾavivH11212 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    1 Kings 9:24

    As soon as Pharaoh’s daughter had come up from the City of David to the palace that Solomon had built for her, he built the supporting terraces.

    it leads to

    • 2 Samuel 5:9

      So David took up residence in the fortress and called it the City of David. He built it up all the way around, from the supporting terraces inward.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 1 Kings 7:8

      And the palace where Solomon would live, set further back, was of similar construction. He also made a palace like this hall for Pharaoh’s daughter, whom he had married.

    • 2 Chronicles 32:5

      Then Hezekiah worked resolutely to rebuild all the broken sections of the wall and to raise up towers on it. He also built an outer wall and reinforced the supporting terraces of the City…

    • 1 Kings 3:1

      Later, Solomon formed an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt by marrying his daughter. Solomon brought her to the City of David until he had finished building his palace and the house of the…

  • Through

    1 Kings 9:15

    This is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon imposed to build the house of the LORD, his own palace, the supporting terraces, and the wall of Jerusalem, as well as Hazor,…

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 5:13

      Then King Solomon conscripted a labor force of 30,000 men from all Israel.

    • Joshua 17:11

      Within Issachar and Asher, Manasseh was assigned Beth-shean, Ibleam, Dor (that is, Naphath), Endor, Taanach, and Megiddo, each with their surrounding settlements.

    • 1 Kings 9:24

      As soon as Pharaoh’s daughter had come up from the City of David to the palace that Solomon had built for her, he built the supporting terraces.

  • Through

    Proverbs 30:32

    If you have foolishly exalted yourself or if you have plotted evil, put your hand over your mouth.

    it leads to

    • Job 21:5

      Look at me and be appalled; put your hand over your mouth.

Where this verse is studied

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About 1 Kings

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); F. W. Farrar, The First Book of Kings (Expositor's Bible); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).