1 Kings 11:27

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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;

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  • 1 Kgs 9:24 : 24 At that time Solomon made Pharaoh's daughter come up from the town of David to the house which he had made for her: then he made the Millo.
  • 1 Kgs 9:15 : 15 Now, this was the way of Solomon's system of forced work for the building of the Lord's house and of the king's house, and the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and Megiddo and Gezer. ...
  • 2 Sam 5:7 : 7 But David took the strong place of Zion, which is the town of David.
  • 2 Sam 20:21 : 21 Not so: but a man of the hill-country of Ephraim, Sheba, son of Bichri, by name, has taken up arms against the king, against David: give up this man only, and I will go away from the town. And the woman said to Joab, His head will be dropped over the wall to you.
  • Neh 4:7 : 7 But when it came to the ears of Sanballat and Tobiah and the Arabians and the Ammonites and the Ashdodites, that the building of the walls of Jerusalem was going forward and the broken places were being made good, they were full of wrath;
  • Ps 60:2 : 2 By the power of your hand the earth is shaking and broken; make it strong again, for it is moved.
  • Prov 30:32 : 32 If you have done foolishly in lifting yourself up, or if you have had evil designs, put your hand over your mouth.
  • Isa 22:9 : 9 And you saw all the broken places in the wall of the town of David: and you got together the waters of the lower pool.
  • Isa 26:11 : 11 Lord, your hand is lifted up, but they do not see: let them see ... yes, your haters will be burned up in the fire.
  • Ezek 13:5 : 5 You have not gone up into the broken places or made up the wall for the children of Israel to take your place in the fight in the day of the Lord.
  • Amos 9:11 : 11 In that day I will put up the tent of David which has come down, and make good its broken places; and I will put up again his damaged walls, building it up as in the past;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Kgs 11:25-26
    2 verses
    80%

    25He was a trouble to Israel all through the days of Solomon. And this is the damage Hadad did: he was cruel to Israel while he was ruler over Edom.

    26And there was Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite from Zeredah, a servant of Solomon, whose mother was Zeruah, a widow; and his hand was lifted up against the king.

  • 1 Kgs 9:15
    76%

    15Now, this was the way of Solomon's system of forced work for the building of the Lord's house and of the king's house, and the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and Megiddo and Gezer. ...

  • 1 Kgs 9:24
    73%

    24At that time Solomon made Pharaoh's daughter come up from the town of David to the house which he had made for her: then he made the Millo.

  • 1 Kgs 11:28
    73%

    28And Jeroboam was an able and responsible man; and Solomon saw that he was a good worker and made him overseer of all the work given to the sons of Joseph.

  • 1 Chr 11:8
    72%

    8And he took in hand the building of the town all round, starting from the Millo; and Joab put the rest of the town in order.

  • 2 Chr 32:5
    72%

    5Then he took heart, building up the wall where it was broken down, and making its towers higher, and building another wall outside; and he made strong the Millo in the town of David, and got together a great store of all sorts of instruments of war.

  • 2 Chr 13:6-8
    3 verses
    71%

    6But Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon, the son of David, took up arms against his lord.

    7And certain foolish and good-for-nothing men were joined with him, and made themselves strong against Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, when he was young and untested and not able to keep them back.

    8And now it is your purpose to put yourselves against the authority which the Lord has put into the hands of the sons of David, and you are a very great number, and you have with you the gold oxen which Jeroboam made to be your gods.

  • 1 Kgs 11:40-41
    2 verses
    71%

    40And Solomon was looking for a chance to put Jeroboam to death; but he went in flight to Egypt, to Shishak, king of Egypt, and was in Egypt till the death of Solomon.

    41Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all he did, and his wisdom, are they not recorded in the book of the acts of Solomon?

  • 1 Kgs 11:10-14
    5 verses
    69%

    10And had given him orders about this very thing, that he was not to go after other gods; but he did not keep the orders of the Lord.

    11So the Lord said to Solomon, Because you have done this, and have not kept my agreement and my laws, which I gave you, I will take the kingdom away from you by force and will give it to your servant.

    12I will not do it in your life-time, because of your father David, but I will take it from your son.

    13Still I will not take all the kingdom from him; but I will give one tribe to your son, because of my servant David, and because of Jerusalem, the town of my selection.

    14So the Lord sent Hadad the Edomite to make trouble for Solomon: he was of the king's seed in Edom.

  • 2 Chr 8:1-2
    2 verses
    69%

    1Now at the end of twenty years, in which time Solomon had put up the house of the Lord and a house for himself,

    2He took in hand the building up of the towns which Huram had given him, causing the children of Israel to make living-places for themselves there.

  • 1 Kgs 12:25-27
    3 verses
    68%

    25Then Jeroboam made the town of Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim a strong place, and was living there; and from there he went out and did the same to Penuel.

    26And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now the kingdom will go back to the family of David:

    27If the people go up to make offerings in the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, their heart will be turned again to their lord, to Rehoboam, king of Judah; and they will put me to death and go back to Rehoboam, king of Judah.

  • 1 Kgs 11:6-7
    2 verses
    68%

    6And Solomon did evil in the eyes of the Lord, not walking in the Lord's ways with all his heart as David his father did.

    7Then Solomon put up a high place for Chemosh, the disgusting god of Moab, in the mountain before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the disgusting god worshipped by the children of Ammon.

  • 2 Chr 27:3-4
    2 verses
    67%

    3He put up the higher doorway of the house of the Lord, and did much building on the wall of the Ophel.

    4In addition, he made towns in the hill-country of Judah, and strong buildings and towers in the woodlands.

  • 1 Kgs 5:13
    67%

    13Then King Solomon got together men for the forced work through all Israel, thirty thousand men in number;

  • 1 Kgs 2:25
    67%

    25And King Solomon sent Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, and he made an attack on him and put him to death.

  • 2 Chr 3:1
    67%

    1Then Solomon made a start at building the house of the Lord on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem, where the Lord had been seen by his father David, in the place which David had made ready in the grain-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

  • 2 Chr 2:1
    67%

    1Now it was Solomon's purpose to put up a house for the name of the Lord and a house for himself as king.

  • 1 Kgs 2:46
    67%

    46So the king gave orders to Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada; and he went out and, falling on him, put him to death. And Solomon's authority over the kingdom was complete.

  • 2 Sam 5:9
    67%

    9So David took the strong tower for his living-place, naming it the town of David. And David took in hand the building of the town all round, starting from the Millo.

  • 2 Chr 11:5
    67%

    5Now Rehoboam kept in Jerusalem, building walled towns in Judah.

  • 2 Chr 10:2
    66%

    2And when Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, had news of it, (for he was in Egypt where he had gone in flight from King Solomon,) he came back from Egypt.

  • 1 Chr 22:6
    66%

    6Then he sent for his son Solomon, and gave him orders for the building of a house for the Lord, the God of Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 11:31
    66%

    31And he said to Jeroboam, Take ten of the parts, for this is what the Lord has said: See, I will take the kingdom away from Solomon by force, and will give ten tribes to you;

  • 2 Chr 11:3
    66%

    3Say to Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin,

  • 1 Kgs 9:10
    66%

    10Now at the end of twenty years, in which time Solomon had put up the two houses, the house of the Lord and the king's house,

  • 2 Kgs 14:22
    66%

    22He was the builder of Elath, which he got back for Judah after the death of the king.

  • 1 Kgs 9:17
    66%

    17... and Solomon was the builder of Gezer and Beth-horon the lower,

  • 2 Kgs 23:13
    66%

    13And the high places before Jerusalem, on the south side of the mountain of destruction, which Solomon, king of Israel, had made for Ashtoreth, the disgusting god of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh, the disgusting god of Moab, and for Milcom, the disgusting god of the children of Ammon, the king made unclean.

  • 1 Kgs 12:2
    66%

    2And, hearing of it, Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who was still in Egypt, where he had gone in flight from Solomon, and was living there, came back to his town Zeredah, in the hill-country of Ephraim;

  • 1 Kgs 2:23
    66%

    23Then King Solomon took an oath by the Lord, saying, May God's punishment be on me if Adonijah does not give payment for these words with his life.

  • 2 Chr 33:14
    66%

    14After this he made an outer wall for the town of David, on the west side of Gihon in the valley, as far as the way into the town by the fish doorway; and he put a very high wall round the Ophel; and he put captains of the army in all the walled towns of Judah.

  • 1 Kgs 13:4
    65%

    4Then the king, hearing the man of God crying out against the altar at Beth-el, put out his hand from the altar, saying, Take him prisoner. And his hand, stretched out against him, became dead, and he had no power of pulling it back.

  • 1 Kgs 5:2
    65%

    2And Solomon sent back word to Hiram, saying,

  • 2 Kgs 12:20
    65%

    20And his servants made a secret design and put Joash to death at the house of Millo on the way down to Silla.

  • 1 Kgs 11:43
    65%

    43And Solomon went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth in the town of David his father: and Solomon went to rest with his fathers and Rehoboam his son became king in his place.

  • 2 Chr 10:15
    65%

    15So the king did not give ear to the people; for this came about by the purpose of God, so that the Lord might give effect to his word which he had said by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam, the son of Nebat.

  • 1 Kgs 6:11
    65%

    11(And the word of the Lord came to Solomon, saying,