But Pharaoh’s daughter came up out of David’s city to her house which Solomon had built for her. Then he built Millo.
Parallel translations
- KJV But Pharaoh’s daughter came up out of the city of David unto her house which Solomon had built for her: then did he build Millo.
- BSB As soon as Pharaoh’s daughter had come up from the City of David to the palace that Solomon had built for her, he built the supporting terraces.
- NKJV But Pharaoh’s daughter came up from the City of David to her house which Solomon had built for her. Then he built the Millo.
- NASB As soon as Pharaoh’s daughter came up from the city of David to her house which Solomon had built for her, he then built the Millo.
- NLT Solomon moved his wife, Pharaoh’s daughter, from the City of David to the new palace he had built for her. Then he constructed the supporting terraces.
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Quick answer
Pharaoh's daughter moved into the house Solomon built for her, after which he built the Millo. It quietly notes the foreign marriage that would prove spiritually dangerous.
Overview
Solomon had married Pharaoh's daughter as a political alliance, and here she settles into her own palace, while he continues fortifying Jerusalem with the Millo (a supporting terrace structure). The narrator records this matter-of-factly, but it foreshadows the great problem of chapter 11, where foreign wives turn Solomon's heart from the LORD. Even at the height of glory, the seeds of compromise were being planted.
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- 1 Kgs 7:8His house where he was to dwell, the other court within the porch, was of the like work. He made also a house for Pharaoh’s daughter (whom Solomon had taken as wife), like this porch.
- 1 Kgs 11:27This was the reason why he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breach of his father David’s city.
- 2 Chr 32:5He took courage, built up all the wall that was broken down, and raised it up to the towers, with the other wall outside, and strengthened Millo in David’s city, and made weapons and shields in abundance.
- 2 Sam 5:9David lived in the stronghold, and called it David’s city. David built around from Millo and inward.
- 1 Kgs 3:1Solomon made an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh’s daughter, and brought her into David’s city, until he had finished building his own house, Yahweh’s house, and the wall around Jerusalem.
- 1 Kgs 9:15–16This is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised, to build Yahweh’s house, his own house, Millo, Jerusalem’s wall, Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.
- 2 Chr 8:11Solomon brought up Pharaoh’s daughter out of David’s city to the house that he had built for her; for he said, “My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places where Yahweh’s ark has come are holy.”
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