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.
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.
- 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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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 his house where he dwelt had another court within the porch, which was of the like work. Solomon made also an house for Pharaoh’s daughter, whom he had taken to wife, like unto this porch.
- 1 Kgs 11:27And 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.
- 2 Chr 32:5Also he strengthened himself, and built up all the wall that was broken, and raised it up to the towers, and another wall without, and repaired Millo in the city of David, and made darts and shields in abundance.
- 2 Sam 5:9So David dwelt in the fort, and called it the city of David. And David built round about from Millo and inward.
- 1 Kgs 3:1And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh’s daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of the LORD, and the wall of Jerusalem round about.
- 1 Kgs 9:15–16And this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised; for to build the house of the LORD, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.
- 2 Chr 8:11And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David unto 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 are holy, whereunto the ark of the LORD hath come.
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