1 Chronicles 11:8
He built the city all around from the Millo and back to the surrounding wall. Joab restored the rest of the city.
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7Then David began to live in the stronghold. So they called it the city of David.
9David became greater and greater because Yahweh of hosts was with him.
Cross References
Judges 9:6All the leaders of Shechem and Beth Millo came together and they went and made Abimelech king, beside the oak near the pillar which is in Shechem.
1 Kings 9:15This is the account of the forced labor which King Solomon imposed to build the temple of Yahweh and his own palace, the Millo, the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.
2 Kings 12:20His servants arose and plotted together; they attacked Joash in Beth Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla.
Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 11:2-10
David's Accession to the Throne. ( b. c. 1055.) 1 Then all Israel gathered themselves to David unto Hebron, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh. 2 And moreover in time past, even when Saul was king, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the Lord thy God said unto thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be ruler over my people Israel. 3 Therefore came all the elders of Israel to the king to Hebron; and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before the Lord ; and… Read the whole commentary →