1 Kings 11:27

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.

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  • 1 Kgs 9:24 : 24 But Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of David to her house which [Solomon] had built for her: then did he build Millo.
  • 1 Kgs 9:15 : 15 This is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised, to build the house of Yahweh, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.
  • 2 Sam 5:7 : 7 Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion; the same is the city of David.
  • 2 Sam 20:21 : 21 The matter is not so. But a man of the hill country of Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, has lifted up his hand against the king, even against David. Deliver him only, and I will depart from the city." The woman said to Joab, "Behold, his head shall be thrown to you over the wall."
  • Neh 4:7 : 7 But it happened that when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabians, 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 angry;
  • Ps 60:2 : 2 You have made the land tremble. You have torn it. Mend its fractures, for it quakes.
  • Prov 30:32 : 32 "If you have done foolishly in lifting up yourself, or if you have thought evil, put your hand over your mouth.
  • Isa 22:9 : 9 You saw the breaches of the city of David, that they were many; and you gathered together the waters of the lower pool.
  • Isa 26:11 : 11 Yahweh, your hand is lifted up, yet they don't see; but they will see your zeal for the people, and be disappointed. Yes, fire will consume your adversaries.
  • Ezek 13:5 : 5 You have not gone up into the gaps, neither built up the wall for the house of Israel, to stand in the battle in the day of Yahweh.
  • Amos 9:11 : 11 In that day I will raise up the tent of David who is fallen, and close up its breaches, and I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old;

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

    25 He was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon, besides the mischief that Hadad [did]: and he abhorred Israel, and reigned over Syria.

    26 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.

  • 1 Kgs 9:15
    76%

    15 This is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised, to build the house of Yahweh, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.

  • 1 Kgs 9:24
    73%

    24 But Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of David to her house which [Solomon] had built for her: then did he build Millo.

  • 1 Kgs 11:28
    73%

    28 The man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valor; and Solomon saw the young man that he was industrious, and he put him in charge of all the labor of the house of Joseph.

  • 1 Chr 11:8
    72%

    8 He built the city all around, from Millo even around; and Joab repaired the rest of the city.

  • 2 Chr 32:5
    72%

    5 He took courage, and built up all the wall that was broken down, and raised [it] up to the towers, and the other wall outside, and strengthened Millo [in] the city of David, and made weapons and shields in abundance.

  • 2 Chr 13:6-8
    3 verses
    71%

    6 Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon the son of David, rose up, and rebelled against his lord.

    7 There were gathered to him worthless men, base fellows, who strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tenderhearted, and could not withstand them.

    8 "Now you think to withstand the kingdom of Yahweh in the hand of the sons of David; and you are a great multitude, and there are with you the golden calves which Jeroboam made you for gods.

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

    40 Solomon sought therefore to kill Jeroboam; but Jeroboam arose, and fled into Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon.

    41 Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom, aren't they written in the book of the acts of Solomon?

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

    10 and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods: but he didn't keep that which Yahweh commanded.

    11 Therefore Yahweh said to Solomon, "Because this is done by you, and you have not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you, and will give it to your servant.

    12 Notwithstanding I will not do it in your days, for David your father's sake; but I will tear it out of the hand of your son.

    13 However I will not tear away all the kingdom; but I will give one tribe to your son, for David my servant's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake which I have chosen."

    14 Yahweh raised up an adversary to Solomon, Hadad the Edomite: he was of the king's seed in Edom.

  • 2 Chr 8:1-2
    2 verses
    69%

    1 It happened at the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the house of Yahweh, and his own house,

    2 that the cities which Huram had given to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.

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

    25 Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and lived in it; and he went out from there, and built Penuel.

    26 Jeroboam said in his heart, "Now the kingdom will return to the house of David.

    27 If this people goes up to offer sacrifices in the house of Yahweh at Jerusalem, then the heart of this people will turn again to their lord, even to Rehoboam king of Judah; and they will kill me, and return to Rehoboam king of Judah."

  • 1 Kgs 11:6-7
    2 verses
    68%

    6 Solomon did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and didn't go fully after Yahweh, as did David his father.

    7 Then did Solomon build a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, on the mountain that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon.

  • 2 Chr 27:3-4
    2 verses
    67%

    3 He built the upper gate of the house of Yahweh, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.

    4 Moreover he built cities in the hill country of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.

  • 1 Kgs 5:13
    67%

    13 King Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.

  • 1 Kgs 2:25
    67%

    25 King Solomon sent by Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell on him, so that he died.

  • 2 Chr 3:1
    67%

    1 Then Solomon began to build the house of Yahweh at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where [Yahweh] appeared to David his father, which he prepared in the place that David had appointed, in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

  • 2 Chr 2:1
    67%

    1 Now Solomon purposed to build a house for the name of Yahweh, and a house for his kingdom.

  • 1 Kgs 2:46
    67%

    46 So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he went out, and fell on him, so that he died. The kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.

  • 2 Sam 5:9
    67%

    9 David lived in the stronghold, and called it the city of David. David built around from Millo and inward.

  • 2 Chr 11:5
    67%

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

  • 2 Chr 10:2
    66%

    2 It happened, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it, (for he was in Egypt, where he had fled from the presence of king Solomon), that Jeroboam returned out of Egypt.

  • 1 Chr 22:6
    66%

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

  • 1 Kgs 11:31
    66%

    31 He said to Jeroboam, "Take ten pieces; for thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, 'Behold, I will tear the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to you

  • 2 Chr 11:3
    66%

    3 "Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying,

  • 1 Kgs 9:10
    66%

    10 It happened at the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of Yahweh and the king's house

  • 2 Kgs 14:22
    66%

    22 He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.

  • 1 Kgs 9:17
    66%

    17 Solomon built Gezer, and Beth Horon the lower,

  • 2 Kgs 23:13
    66%

    13 The high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mountain of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.

  • 1 Kgs 12:2
    66%

    2 It happened, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it (for he was yet in Egypt, where he had fled from the presence of king Solomon, and Jeroboam lived in Egypt,

  • 1 Kgs 2:23
    66%

    23 Then king Solomon swore by Yahweh, saying, "God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah has not spoken this word against his own life.

  • 2 Chr 33:14
    66%

    14 Now after this he built an outer wall to the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance at the fish gate; and he encircled Ophel [with it], and raised it up to a very great height: and he put valiant captains in all the fortified cities of Judah.

  • 1 Kgs 13:4
    65%

    4 It happened, when the king heard the saying of the man of God, which he cried against the altar in Bethel, that Jeroboam put out his hand from the altar, saying, "Seize him!" His hand, which he put out against him, dried up, so that he could not draw it back again to himself.

  • 1 Kgs 5:2
    65%

    2 Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,

  • 2 Kgs 12:20
    65%

    20 His servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and struck Joash at the house of Millo, [on the way] that goes down to Silla.

  • 1 Kgs 11:43
    65%

    43 Solomon slept 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 didn't listen to the people; for it was brought about of God, that Yahweh might establish his word, which he spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

  • 1 Kgs 6:11
    65%

    11 The word of Yahweh came to Solomon, saying,