1 Kings 11:27
New International Version
Here is the account of how he rebelled against the king: Solomon had built the terraces and had filled in the gap in the wall of the city of David his father.

New Living Translation
This is the story behind his rebellion. Solomon was rebuilding the supporting terraces and repairing the walls of the city of his father, David.

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

Berean Standard Bible
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.

King James Bible
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.

New King James Version
And this is what caused him to rebel against the king: Solomon had built the Millo and repaired the damages to 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.

NASB 1995
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.

NASB 1977
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.

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

Amplified Bible
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.

Christian Standard 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.

Holman Christian Standard 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.

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.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And this was the matter which lifted up the hand against King Solomon, when he built Melu and he shut the breach of the city of David.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And this was the occasion of his lifting up his hands against king Solomon: now king Solomon built the citadel, he completed the fortification of the city of David his father.

Contemporary English Version
Here is how it happened: While Solomon's workers were filling in the land on the east side of Jerusalem and repairing the city walls,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And this is the cause of his rebellion against him, for Solomon built Mello, and filled up the breach of the city of David his father.

English Revised Version
And this was the cause that he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breach of the city of David his father.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
This was the situation when he rebelled against the king: Solomon was building the Millo and repairing a break in the [wall of] the City of David.

Good News Translation
This is the story of the revolt. Solomon was filling in the land on the east side of Jerusalem and repairing the city walls.

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.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And this was the cause that he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breach of the city of David his father.

Literal Standard Version
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 his father David,

Majority Standard Bible
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.

New American Bible
This is how he came to rebel. King Solomon was building Millo, closing up the breach of 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 Revised Standard Version
The following was the reason he rebelled against the king. Solomon built the Millo, and closed up the 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.

Webster's Bible Translation
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 his father David’s city.

Young's 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,

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Context
Jeroboam's Rebellion
26Now Jeroboam son of Nebat was an Ephraimite from Zeredah whose mother was a widow named Zeruah. Jeroboam was a servant of Solomon, but he rebelled against the king, 27and 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. 28Now Jeroboam was a mighty man of valor. So when Solomon noticed that the young man was industrious, he put him in charge of the whole labor force of the house of Joseph.…

Cross References
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, Megiddo, and Gezer.

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.

2 Kings 12:20
And the servants of Joash rose up and formed a conspiracy and killed him at Beth-millo, on the road down to Silla.


Treasury of Scripture

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.

lifted up

2 Samuel 20:21
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.

Proverbs 30:32
If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, lay thine hand upon thy mouth.

Isaiah 26:11
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.

Solomon

1 Kings 9:15,24
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…

repaired [heb] closed

Amos 9:11
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:

the breaches

Nehemiah 4:7
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,

Psalm 60:2
Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.

Isaiah 22:9
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.

the city

2 Samuel 5:7
Nevertheless David took the strong hold of Zion: the same is the city of David.

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1 Kings 11
1. Solomon's wives and concubines
4. In his old age they draw him to idolatry
9. God threatens him,
14. Solomon's adversaries were Hadad, who was entertained in Egypt
23. Rezon, who reigned in Damascus
26. And Jeroboam, to whom Ahijah prophesied
41. Solomon's acts, reign, and death. Rehoboam succeeds him














(27) Solomon built Millo.--See 1Kings 9:15; 1Kings 9:24. This was apparently after he had built the Temple and the palace, some twenty years after his accession, when the delight in magnificence of building apparently grew upon him, and with it the burdens of the people.

Verse 27. - And this was the cause [or, this is the account; this is how it came about. Same words Joshua 5:4, and 1 Kings 9:15. We have here a long parenthesis, explaining the origin, etc., of Jeroboam's disaffection] that he lifted up his hand [Heb. a hand] against the king. Solomon built Millo [see on 1 Kings 9:15], and repaired the breaches [These words convey the impression that Solomon renewed the decayed or destroyed parts of the wall. But

(1) סָגַר does not mean repair, except indirectly. It means he closed, shut. And

(2) פֶּרֶץ sing, refers to one breach or opening. Moreover

(3) it was not so long since the wall was built (2 Samuel 5:9). It could hardly, therefore, have decayed, and there had been no siege to cause a breach. We must understand the word, consequently, not of a part broken down, but of a portion unbuilt. We have elsewhere suggested that this was the breach in the line of circumvallation, caused by the Tyropsson valley, and that the Millo was the bank, or rampart which closed it. And to this view the words of the text lend some confirmation] of the city of David his father. [As Millo was built about the 25th year of Solomon's reign (ch. 9:15), we are enabled to fix approximately the date of Jeroboam's rebellion. It was apparently about ten or twelve years before Solomon's death.

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Hebrew
and this
וְזֶ֣ה (wə·zeh)
Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - masculine singular
Strong's 2088: This, that

is the account
הַדָּבָ֔ר (had·dā·ḇār)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1697: A word, a matter, thing, a cause

of his rebellion
הֵרִ֥ים (hê·rîm)
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7311: To be high actively, to rise, raise

against the king.
בַּמֶּ֑לֶךְ (bam·me·leḵ)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4428: A king

Solomon
שְׁלֹמֹה֙ (šə·lō·mōh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 8010: Solomon -- David's son and successor to his throne

had built
בָּנָ֣ה (bā·nāh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1129: To build

the supporting terraces
הַמִּלּ֔וֹא (ham·mil·lō·w)
Article | Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 4407: Millo -- a rampart, the citadel

and repaired
סָגַ֕ר (sā·ḡar)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5462: To shut up, to surrender

the gap in the wall
פֶּ֕רֶץ (pe·reṣ)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 6556: A bursting forth, breach

of the city
עִ֖יר (‘îr)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 5892: Excitement

of his father
אָבִֽיו׃ (’ā·ḇîw)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 1: Father

David.
דָּוִ֥ד (dā·wiḏ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 1732: David -- perhaps 'beloved one', a son of Jesse


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