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.
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Gill's Exposition
And the man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valour,.... A man of great strength of body, and fortitude of mind:
and Solomon seeing the young man that he was industrious; in what he was set about in the…
Barnes' Notes
Millo was probably fortified in Solomon’s twenty-fourth or twenty-fifth year.
We have here the first mention of that infamous name Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that made Israel to sin; he is here brought upon the stage as an adversary to Solomon, whom God had expressly told (Kg1…
Cambridge Bible
Millo Read the Millo. See above on 1Ki 9:15.
and repaired the breaches of the city of David The verb signifies -to close up" and the noun is in the singular. Hence -to close up the breach" has been…
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