1 Kings 11:27

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

This is the reason Jeroboam raised his hand against the king: Solomon had built the Millo and repaired the breach of the city of David, his father.

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    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.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    And this was the cause that he raised his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breaks in the city of David his father.

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    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.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    And this was the reason{H1697} why he lifted up{H7311} his hand{H3027} against the king:{H4428} Solomon{H8010} built{H1129} Millo,{H4407} and repaired{H5462} the breach of the city{H5892} of David{H1732} his father.{H1}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    And this was the cause{H1697} that he lifted up{H7311}{(H8689)} his hand{H3027} against the king{H4428}: Solomon{H8010} built{H1129}{(H8804)} Millo{H4407}, and repaired{H5462}{(H8804)} the breaches{H6556} of the city{H5892} of David{H1732} his father{H1}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    And this is the cause wherfore he lifte vp his hande agaynst the kynge: Whan Salomon buylded Millo, he shut vp a gappe in the cite of Dauid his father.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    And this was the cause that he lift vp his hande against the King, When Salomon built Millo, he repared the broken places of the citie of Dauid his father.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    But this was the cause that he lift vp his hande against the king: Solomon buylt Mello, and mended the broken places of the citie of Dauid his father.

  • Authorized 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.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    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.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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;

  • World English Bible (2000)

    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.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    This is what prompted him to rebel against the king: Solomon built a terrace and he closed up a gap in the wall of the city of his father David.

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 9:24 : 24 As soon as Pharaoh's daughter went up from the City of David to the palace Solomon had built for her, he built the Millo.
  • 1 Kgs 9:15 : 15 This is the account of the forced labor King Solomon conscripted to build the house of the LORD, his own palace, the Millo, the wall of Jerusalem, Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.
  • 2 Sam 5:7 : 7 But David captured the stronghold of Zion, which is now the City of David.
  • 2 Sam 20:21 : 21 That is not the case. A man named Sheba, son of Bichri, from the hill country of Ephraim, has raised his hand against King David. Hand him over, and I will withdraw from the city." The woman said to Joab, "His head will be thrown to you from the wall."
  • Neh 4:7 : 7 So I stationed people in the lowest parts behind the wall, in the open areas, and I positioned them by families with their swords, spears, and bows.
  • Ps 60:2 : 2 When he fought against Aram-Naharaim and Aram-Zobah, and Joab returned and struck down twelve thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt.
  • Prov 30:32 : 32 If you have acted foolishly by exalting yourself, or if you have devised evil, put your hand over your mouth.
  • Isa 22:9 : 9 You saw the breaches in the city of David were many, and you gathered together water from the lower pool.
  • Isa 26:11 : 11 LORD, Your hand is lifted high, but they do not see it. They will see Your zeal for Your people and be ashamed; the fire reserved for Your enemies will consume them.
  • Ezek 13:5 : 5 You have not gone up to the breaches or repaired the wall for the house of Israel, so that it can stand firm in battle on the day of the LORD.
  • Amos 9:11 : 11 On that day, I will raise up the fallen booth of David. I will repair its breaches and restore its ruins, and I will rebuild it as it was in days of old.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

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

    25 Rezon was Israel's adversary as long as Solomon lived, causing trouble along with Hadad. He ruled over Aram and loathed Israel.

    26 Then Jeroboam son of Nebat, an Ephraimite from Zeredah, whose mother, a widow named Zeruah, was one of Solomon’s officials, rebelled against the king.

  • 1 Kgs 9:15
    76%

    15 This is the account of the forced labor King Solomon conscripted to build the house of the LORD, his own palace, the Millo, the wall of Jerusalem, Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.

  • 1 Kgs 9:24
    73%

    24 As soon as Pharaoh's daughter went up from the City of David to the palace Solomon had built for her, he built the Millo.

  • 1 Kgs 11:28
    73%

    28 Jeroboam was a capable man, and when Solomon saw how well the young man did his work, he appointed him over all the forced labor of the house of Joseph.

  • 1 Chr 11:8
    72%

    8 He built up the city all around, from the terraces to the surrounding area, and Joab restored the rest of the city.

  • 2 Chr 32:5
    72%

    5 Hezekiah took courage and rebuilt all the broken sections of the wall. He built towers on it and constructed another wall outside it. He strengthened the Millo in the City of David and made plenty of weapons and shields.

  • 2 Chr 13:6-8
    3 verses
    71%

    6 But Jeroboam son of Nebat, a servant of Solomon son of David, rose up and rebelled against his master.

    7 Then worthless and reckless men gathered around him and opposed Rehoboam, son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and inexperienced and could not stand against them.

    8 And now you think you can stand firm against the kingdom of the LORD in the hands of David’s descendants because you have a great multitude and golden calves that Jeroboam made for you as gods.

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

    40 Solomon sought to kill Jeroboam, but Jeroboam arose and fled to Egypt, to Shishak, king of Egypt. He stayed in Egypt until Solomon died.

    41 As for the rest of the acts of Solomon—all that he did and his wisdom—are they not written in the book of the acts of Solomon?

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

    10 Although He commanded Solomon not to follow other gods, Solomon did not keep the LORD's command.

    11 So the LORD said to Solomon, 'Since this is your attitude and you have not kept My covenant and decrees, which I commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom away from you and give it to one of your subordinates.'

    12 'Nevertheless, for the sake of David your father, I will not do it during your lifetime. I will tear it out of the hand of your son.'

    13 'However, I will not tear away the entire kingdom. I will give one tribe to your son for the sake of David My servant and for the sake of Jerusalem, which I have chosen.'

    14 Then the LORD raised up an adversary against Solomon, Hadad the Edomite, from the royal line of Edom.

  • 2 Chr 8:1-2
    2 verses
    69%

    1 After twenty years during which Solomon built the house of the Lord and his own house,

    2 he rebuilt the cities that Huram had given to him and settled the people of Israel in them.

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

    25 Then Jeroboam fortified Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim and lived there. From there he went out and built up Penuel.

    26 Jeroboam said to himself, "The kingdom will now likely return to the house of David.

    27 If these people go up to worship at the temple of the LORD in Jerusalem, they will again give their allegiance to their lord, Rehoboam king of Judah. They will kill me and return to King Rehoboam of Judah.

  • 1 Kgs 11:6-7
    2 verses
    68%

    6 So Solomon did evil in the eyes of the LORD; he did not fully follow the LORD as David his father had done.

    7 At that time Solomon built a high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, on the hill east of Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the Ammonites.

  • 2 Chr 27:3-4
    2 verses
    67%

    3 He built the Upper Gate of the house of the LORD and carried out extensive construction on the wall of the Ophel.

    4 He also built cities in the hill country of Judah, and in the forests, he constructed fortresses and towers.

  • 1 Kgs 5:13
    67%

    13 He spoke about trees, from the cedar in Lebanon to the hyssop that grows out of walls. He also spoke about animals, birds, creeping things, and fish.

  • 1 Kgs 2:25
    67%

    25 Then King Solomon sent Benaiah son of Jehoiada, who struck down Adonijah, and he died.

  • 2 Chr 3:1
    67%

    1 Then Solomon began building the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David, at the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

  • 2 Chr 2:1
    67%

    1 Solomon assigned seventy thousand men to carry burdens, eighty thousand men to cut stone in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred supervisors to oversee them.

  • 1 Kgs 2:46
    67%

    46 Then the king gave the order to Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and he went out and struck Shimei down, and he died. So the kingdom was firmly established in Solomon’s hands.

  • 2 Sam 5:9
    67%

    9 David took up residence in the stronghold and named it the City of David. He built it up all around, from the Millo inward.

  • 2 Chr 11:5
    67%

    5 Rehoboam lived in Jerusalem, and he built cities for defense in Judah.

  • 2 Chr 10:2
    66%

    2 When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard this—he was in Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon—he returned from Egypt.

  • 1 Chr 22:6
    66%

    6 Then he called for his son Solomon and instructed him to build a house for the Lord, the God of Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 11:31
    66%

    31 Then he said to Jeroboam, 'Take ten pieces for yourself, for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Behold, I am about to tear the kingdom out of Solomon’s hand and give you ten tribes.'

  • 2 Chr 11:3
    66%

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

  • 1 Kgs 9:10
    66%

    10 At the end of twenty years, during which Solomon had built the temple of the LORD and the royal palace,

  • 2 Kgs 14:22
    66%

    22 He built Elath and restored it to Judah after the king rested with his ancestors.

  • 1 Kgs 9:17
    66%

    17 Then Solomon rebuilt Gezer, Lower Beth-horon,

  • 2 Kgs 23:13
    66%

    13 The king also defiled the high places east of Jerusalem, on the south of the Mount of Corruption, which Solomon, the king of Israel, had built for Ashtoreth, the detestable idol of the Sidonians, for Chemosh, the detestable idol of Moab, and for Milcom, the abomination of the Ammonites.

  • 1 Kgs 12:2
    66%

    2 When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard about this—he was still in Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon—he remained in Egypt.

  • 1 Kgs 2:23
    66%

    23 Then King Solomon took an oath by the LORD: 'May God punish me ever so severely if Adonijah has not made this request at the cost of his own life!

  • 2 Chr 33:14
    66%

    14 Afterward, he rebuilt the outer wall of the City of David west of Gihon in the valley, as far as the entrance of the Fish Gate and surrounding the Ophel. He made it much higher. He also placed military commanders in all the fortified cities in Judah.

  • 1 Kgs 13:4
    65%

    4 When King Jeroboam heard the message from the man of God who cried out against the altar at Bethel, he stretched out his hand from the altar and said, 'Seize him!' But his hand, which he had stretched out against the man, withered so that he could not pull it back to himself.

  • 1 Kgs 5:2
    65%

    2 Solomon's daily provisions were thirty measures of the finest flour and sixty measures of regular flour.

  • 2 Kgs 12:20
    65%

    20 The rest of the acts of Joash and all that he did are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah.

  • 1 Kgs 11:43
    65%

    43 Then Solomon rested with his fathers and was buried in the city of David, his father. And Rehoboam, his son, reigned in his place.

  • 2 Chr 10:15
    65%

    15 So the king did not listen to the people, for this turn of events was from God, to fulfill the word the Lord had spoken through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat.

  • 1 Kgs 6:11
    65%

    11 Then the word of the LORD came to Solomon, saying:

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