1 Kings 11:27
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.
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2 Samuel 20:21The 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 to Joab, Behold, his head shall be thrown to thee over the wall.
1 Kings 9:24But Pharaoh's daughter came up from the city of David to her house which Solomon had built for her: then he built Millo.
Psalms 60:2Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal its breaches; for it shaketh.
Isaiah 22:9Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and ye collected the waters of the lower pool.
Ezekiel 13:5Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge 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 →