So David dwelt in the fort, and called it the city of David. And David built round about from Millo and inward.
Parallel translations
- WEB David lived in the stronghold, and called it David’s city. David built around from Millo and inward.
- BSB So 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.
- NKJV Then David dwelt in the stronghold, and called it the City of David. And David built all around from the Millo and inward.
- NASB So David lived in the stronghold, and called it the city of David. And David built all around from the Millo and inward.
- NLT So David made the fortress his home, and he called it the City of David. He extended the city, starting at the supporting terraces and working inward.
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Quick answer
David settles in the stronghold, names it the city of David, and begins building it up. He establishes and fortifies his new capital.
Overview
David takes up residence in the captured fortress, renames it the city of David, and undertakes construction from the Millo inward. This building activity signals the permanence and growth of his kingdom centered in Jerusalem. The city David founds becomes the enduring throne-city of his dynasty and a type of the everlasting kingdom of Christ.
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Cross-references · 8
- 1 Kgs 9:24But 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.
- 1 Kgs 9:15And 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.
- 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 Sam 5:7Nevertheless David took the strong hold of Zion: the same is the city of David.
- 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.
- 1 Chr 11:8And he built the city round about, even from Millo round about: and Joab repaired the rest of the city.
- Judg 9:20But if not, let fire come out from Abimelech, and devour the men of Shechem, and the house of Millo; and let fire come out from the men of Shechem, and from the house of Millo, and devour Abimelech.
- Judg 9:6And all the men of Shechem gathered together, and all the house of Millo, and went, and made Abimelech king, by the plain of the pillar that was in Shechem.
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