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.
Parallel translations
- WEB But Pharaoh’s daughter came up out of David’s city to her house which Solomon had built for her. Then he built Millo.
- 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.
- 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 7:8And the palace where Solomon would live, set further back, was of similar construction. He also made a palace like this hall for Pharaoh’s daughter, whom he had married.
- 1 Kgs 11:27and this is the account of his rebellion against the king. Solomon had built the supporting terraces and repaired the gap in the wall of the city of his father David.
- 2 Chr 32:5Then Hezekiah worked resolutely to rebuild all the broken sections of the wall and to raise up towers on it. He also built an outer wall and reinforced the supporting terraces of the City of David, and he produced an abundance of weapons and shields.
- 2 Sam 5:9So David took up residence in the fortress and called it the City of David. He built it up all the way around, from the supporting terraces inward.
- 1 Kgs 3:1Later, Solomon formed an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt by marrying his daughter. Solomon brought her to the City of David until he had finished building his palace and the house of the LORD, as well as the wall around Jerusalem.
- 1 Kgs 9:15–16This is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon imposed to build the house of the LORD, his own palace, the supporting terraces, and the wall of Jerusalem, as well as Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.
- 2 Chr 8:11Solomon brought the daughter of Pharaoh up from the City of David to the palace he had built for her. For he said, “My wife must not live in the house of David king of Israel, because the places the ark of the LORD has entered are holy.”
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