1 Kings 9:24

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • 2 Sam 5:9 : 9 So 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.
  • 1 Kgs 7:8 : 8 And the house for his living-place, the other open square in the covered room, was made in the same way. And then he made a house like it for Pharaoh's daughter, whom Solomon had taken as his wife.
  • 1 Kgs 11:27 : 27 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;
  • 2 Chr 32:5 : 5 Then 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.
  • 1 Kgs 3:1 : 1 Solomon became the son-in-law of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter as his wife, keeping her in the town of David, till the house he was building for himself, and the house of the Lord and the wall round Jerusalem, were complete.
  • 1 Kgs 9:15-16 : 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. ... 16 Pharaoh, king of Egypt, came and took Gezer, burning it down and putting to death the Canaanites living in the town, and he gave it for a bride-offering to his daughter, Solomon's wife. ...
  • 2 Chr 8:11 : 11 Then Solomon made Pharaoh's daughter come up from the town of David to the house which he had made for her; for he said, I will not have my wife living in the house of David, king of Israel, because those places where the ark of the Lord has come are holy.

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  • 1 Kgs 9:15-17
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    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. ...

    16Pharaoh, king of Egypt, came and took Gezer, burning it down and putting to death the Canaanites living in the town, and he gave it for a bride-offering to his daughter, Solomon's wife. ...

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

  • 1 Kgs 3:1-2
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    1Solomon became the son-in-law of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter as his wife, keeping her in the town of David, till the house he was building for himself, and the house of the Lord and the wall round Jerusalem, were complete.

    2But all this time the people were making their offerings in the high places, because no house had been put up to the name of the Lord till those days.

  • 2 Chr 8:11-12
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    11Then Solomon made Pharaoh's daughter come up from the town of David to the house which he had made for her; for he said, I will not have my wife living in the house of David, king of Israel, because those places where the ark of the Lord has come are holy.

    12Then Solomon made burned offerings to the Lord on the altar of the Lord which he had put up in front of the covered way,

  • 1 Kgs 11:27
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    27The 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;

  • 1 Kgs 7:8
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    8And the house for his living-place, the other open square in the covered room, was made in the same way. And then he made a house like it for Pharaoh's daughter, whom Solomon had taken as his wife.

  • 2 Sam 5:9
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    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.

  • 1 Chr 11:8
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    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 8:1-2
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    70%

    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 9:10-11
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    69%

    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,

    11(Hiram, king of Tyre, had given Solomon cedar-trees and cypress-trees and gold, as much as he had need of,) King Solomon gave Hiram twenty towns in the land of Galilee.

  • 1 Kgs 9:1
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    1Now when Solomon came to the end of building the house of the Lord and the king's house, and all Solomon's desires, which he had in mind were effected;

  • 2 Chr 9:3
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    3And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, and the house which he had made,

  • 2 Chr 2:1
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    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 10:4
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    4And when the queen of Sheba had seen all the wisdom of Solomon, and the house which he had made,

  • 1 Kgs 6:14
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    14So Solomon made the building of the house complete.)

  • 1 Chr 22:5-7
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    5And David said, Solomon my son is young and untested, and the house which is to be put up for the Lord is to be very great, a thing of wonder and glory through all countries; so I will make ready what is needed for it. So David got ready a great store of material before his death.

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

    7And David said to Solomon, My son, it was my desire to put up a house for the name of the Lord my God.

  • 1 Kgs 9:25
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    25Three times in the year it was Solomon's way to give burned offerings and peace-offerings on the altar he had made to the Lord, causing his fire-offering to go up on the altar before the Lord.

  • 2 Chr 3:1
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    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 2:12
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    12And Huram said, Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, maker of heaven and earth, who has given to David the king a wise son, full of wisdom and good sense, to be the builder of a house for the Lord and a house for himself as king.

  • Acts 7:47
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    47But Solomon was the builder of his house.

  • 2 Chr 8:16-17
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    16And all the work of Solomon was complete, from the day when he put the base of the Lord's house in position, till Solomon had come to the end of building the Lord's house.

    17Then Solomon went to Ezion-geber and to Eloth by the sea in the land of Edom.

  • 1 Kgs 7:1
    65%

    1Solomon was thirteen years building a house for himself till it was complete.

  • 1 Chr 22:10
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    10He will be the builder of a house for my name; he will be to me a son, and I will be to him a father; and I will make the seat of his rule over Israel certain for ever.

  • 2 Chr 8:6
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    6And of Baalath, and all the store-towns which Solomon had, and the towns where he kept his war-carriages and his horse men, and everything which it was his pleasure to put up in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land under his rule.

  • 1 Chr 29:1
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    1And David the king said to all the people, Solomon my son, the only one who has been marked out by God, is still young and untested, and the work is great, for this great house is not for man, but for the Lord God.

  • 2 Chr 32:5
    64%

    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.

  • 1 Kgs 5:18
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    18Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did the work of cutting them, and put edges on them, and got the wood and the stone ready for the building of the house.

  • 2 Chr 6:10
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    10And the Lord has kept his word; for I have taken my father David's place on the seat of the kingdom of Israel, as the Lord gave his word; and I have made the house for the name of the Lord the God of Israel.

  • 1 Chr 28:11
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    11Then David gave to his son Solomon the design of the doorway of the house of God and of its houses and its store-houses, and the higher rooms and the inner rooms and the place for the mercy-seat;

  • 1 Kgs 6:11
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    11(And the word of the Lord came to Solomon, saying,

  • 2 Chr 7:11
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    11So Solomon came to the end of building the house of the Lord and the king's house; and everything which it was in his mind to make in the house of the Lord and for himself had been well done.

  • 2 Chr 8:4
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    4And he put up the buildings of Tadmor in the waste land, and of all the store-towns in Hamath;

  • 1 Kgs 9:19
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    19And all the store-towns and the towns which Solomon had for his war-carriages and for his horsemen, and everything which it was his pleasure to put up in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land under his rule.

  • 2 Sam 5:11
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    11And Hiram, king of Tyre, sent men to David, with cedar-trees and woodworkers and stoneworkers: and they made David a house.

  • 1 Kgs 5:5
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    5And so it is my purpose to make a house for the name of the Lord my God, as he said to David my father, Your son, whom I will make king in your place, will be the builder of a house for my name.

  • 1 Kgs 5:2
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    2And Solomon sent back word to Hiram, saying,

  • 2 Chr 6:2
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    2So I have made for you a living-place, a house in which you may be for ever present.

  • 2 Chr 9:26
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    26And he was ruler over all the kings from the River to the land of the Philistines, as far as the limit of Egypt.

  • 1 Kgs 8:20
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    20And the Lord has made his word come true; for I have taken my father David's place on the seat of the kingdom of Israel, as the Lord gave his word; and I have made a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.

  • Song 3:11
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    11Go out, O daughters of Jerusalem, and see King Solomon, with the crown which his mother put on his head on the day when he was married, and on the day of the joy of his heart.

  • 2 Sam 12:24
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    24And David gave comfort to his wife Bath-sheba, and he went in to her and had connection with her: and she had a son to whom she gave the name Solomon. And he was dear to the Lord.

  • 2 Chr 1:13
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    13So Solomon went back from the high place at Gibeon, from before the Tent of meeting, to Jerusalem; and he was king over Israel.