Devine Scripture

1 Kings 11:27

1 Kings chapter 11 · verse 27 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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.

Context

v.26And Jeroboam 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.

v.27This passage

v.28And the man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valor; and Solomon saw the young man that he was industrious, and he gave him charge over all the labor of the house of Joseph.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 1 Kings 9:24

    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.

  • 2 Samuel 20:21

    The matter is not so: but a man of the hill-country of 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.

  • Isaiah 22:9

    And ye saw the breaches of the city of David, that they were many; and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool;

  • Psalms 60:2

    Thou hast made the land to tremble; thou hast rent it: Heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.

  • 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 repairing of the walls of Jerusalem went forward, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth;

  • 2 Samuel 5:7

    Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion; the same is the city of David.