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1 Kings 9:24

in 1 Kings 9

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.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

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.

KJV

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.

This verse in 1 Kings 9

Commentary

4 notes on this verse
Compare the marginal reference. Solomon was not satisfied that Pharaoh’s daughter should remain in the palace of David, which was on Mount Zion, in the immediate vicinity of the temple, because he regarded the whole vicinity of the temple as made holy by the presence of the ark of God. His own palace was on the other (western) hill, probably directly opposite to the temple, the valley of the Tyropoeum running between them.

This site's exposition

came up out of the city of David

Pharaoh's daughter moves from the city of David to the house Solomon built for her, and the narrator ties the move to Millo's building in the same sentence. Barnes reads the move as Solomon keeping his Egyptian wife's residence apart from ground made holy by the ark's former presence on Zion. The verse offers no censure, though the chapter that lists Solomon's foreign wives waits at 11:1, and this is the first of them named by residence rather than by number.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

But Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of David,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

this is the reason of the levy--A levy refers both to men and money, and the necessity for Solomon making it arose from the many gigantic works he undertook to erect.

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The words behind it

15 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.

  • אַ֣ךְonly

    ʾakhH389161 times

  • בַּת־[the] daughter of

    bat-H1323588 times

  • פַּרְעֹ֗הPharaoh

    parohH6547274 times

  • עָֽלְתָה֙she went up

    ʾaltahH5927890 times

  • מֵעִ֣ירfrom [the] city of

    meirH58921090 times

  • דָּוִ֔דDavid

    davidH1732999 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H4135510 times

  • בֵּיתָ֖הּown house her

    beitahH10042046 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֣רwhich

    ʾasherH8345497 times

  • בָּֽנָה־he had built

    banah-H1129376 times

  • לָ֑הּfor her

    lah

  • אָ֖זthen

    ʾazH227141 times

  • בָּנָ֥הhe built

    banahH1129376 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • הַמִּלּֽוֹא׃the Millo

    hamilo'H44076 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 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.

    it leads to

    • 2 Chronicles 8:11

      Solomon brought the daughter of Pharaoh up from the City of David to the palace he had built for her. For he said, “My wife must not live in the house of David king…

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 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

    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.

    it leads to

    • 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,…

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 2 Samuel 5:7

      Nevertheless, David captured the fortress of Zion (that is, the City of David).

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

  • Through

    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…

    it leads to

    • 2 Chronicles 25:23

      There at Beth-shemesh, Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz. Then Jehoash brought him to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from…

    • Isaiah 22:9–10

      You saw that there were many breaches in the walls of the City of David. You collected water from the lower pool.

    • 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.

  • Through

    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…

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 11:1

      King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh—women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon, as well as Hittite women.

About 1 Kings

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.