1 Kings 11:27

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.

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In The 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.

In Context

26Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite of Zeredah, a servant of Solomon, whose mother's name was Zeruah, a widow, he also lifted up his hand against the king.

28The man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valor; and Solomon saw the young man that he was industrious, and he put him in charge of all the labor of the house of Joseph.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 20:21The matter is not so. But a man of the hill country of Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, has lifted up his hand against the king, even against David. Deliver him only, and I will depart from the city."The woman said to Joab, "Behold, his head shall be thrown to you over the wall."

1 Kings 9:24But Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of David to her house which Solomon had built for her: then he built Millo.

Psalms 60:2You have made the land tremble.You have torn it.Mend its fractures,for it quakes.

Isaiah 22:9You saw the breaches of the city of David, that they were many; and you gathered together the waters of the lower pool.

Ezekiel 13:5You have not gone up into the gaps, neither built up the wall for the house of Israel, to stand in the battle in the day of the Lord."

Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 11:27-41

Jeroboam's Promotion Foretold. ( b. c. 977.) 26 And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of Zereda, Solomon's servant, whose mother's name was Zeruah, a widow woman, even he lifted up his hand against the king. 27 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. 28 And the man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valour: and Solomon seeing the young man that he was industrious, he made him ruler over all the charge of… Read the whole commentary →

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