1 Kings 11:27

What does 1 Kings 11:27 mean?

A plain-English look at 1 Kings 11:27 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

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.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

The way in which his hand came to be lifted up against the king was this: Solomon was building the Millo and making good the damaged parts of the town of his father David;

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

and this <FI>is<Fi> the thing <FI>for<Fi> which he lifted up a hand against the king: Solomon built Millo--he shut up the breach of the city of David his father,

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

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.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

And this was the cause that he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon was building Millo, and closing 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.

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