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Clementine Latin Vulgate

4 Regum 5:9

Illis autem circumducentibus eam, fiebat manus Domini per singulas civitates interfectionis magnæ nimis : et percutiebat viros uniuscujusque urbis, a parvo usque ad majorem, et computrescebant prominentes extales eorum. Inieruntque Gethæi consilium, et fecerunt sibi sedes pelliceas.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Armies;   Jebusites;   Jerusalem;   Millo;   Siege;   Zion;   Thompson Chain Reference - Fortresses;   Forts;   Millo;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Fortresses;   Jerusalem;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Joab;   Millo;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Israel;   Jebusites;   Jerusalem;   Zion;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Devote, Devoted;   Psalms, Theology of;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Jerusalem;   Joab;   Millo;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Jebus;   Jeroboam;   Jerusalem;   Millo;   Zion;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Call, Calling;   Castle;   City of David;   Jerusalem;   Samuel, Books of;   Tribes of Israel, the;   Zion;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Castle;   Fortification and Siegecraft;   Israel;   Jerusalem;   Samuel, Books of;   Solomon;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Jerusalem ;   Millo;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Jebus;   Jerusalem;   Millo;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Da'vid;   Mil'lo;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Division of the Earth;   Jerusalem;   Millo;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Amorites;   Fortification;   Jebus;   Jerusalem;   Joab;   Millo;   Names, Proper;   Samuel, Books of;   Zion;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Fortress;   Jerusalem;   Samuel, Books of;  

Parallel Translations

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Habitavit autem David in arce, et vocavit eam civitatem David: et ædificavit per gyrum a Mello et intrinsecus.
Nova Vulgata (1979)
Habitavit autem David in arce et vocavit eam Civitatem David; et aedificavit per gyrum a Mello et intrinsecus.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

city: 2 Samuel 5:7

Millo: Judges 9:6, Judges 9:20, 1 Kings 9:15, 1 Kings 9:24, 1 Kings 11:27, 1 Chronicles 11:8, 2 Chronicles 32:5

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 12:20 - the house of Millo 1 Chronicles 11:5 - the city 1 Chronicles 15:1 - houses Psalms 122:3 - builded Isaiah 16:5 - in the Isaiah 29:1 - the city Ezekiel 21:20 - the defenced Zephaniah 1:10 - from

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So David dwelt in the fort,.... The strong hold of Zion, which he took:

and called it the city of David; from his own name, to keep up the memory of his taking it, and of his habitation in it:

and David built round about, from Millo and inward; built a wall about it, and enlarged the place, increased the buildings both within and without. Millo is supposed to be a ditch round the fort, full of water, from whence it had its name; or was a large hollow place which divided the fort from the lower city, and which afterwards Solomon filled up, and made it a level, and therefore is called so here by anticipation; though Jarchi says it was done by David. According to Dr. Lightfoot o, it was a part or Sion, or some hillock, east up against it on the west side; his first sense is best, Millo being no other than the fortress or citadel; which, as Josephus says p, David joined to the lower city, and made them one body, and erecting walls about it made Joab superintendent of them; and this was the "round about", or circuit, which David made, reaching from Millo, or the citadel, to that again, which is meant by "inward", or "to the house" q, as it should be rendered; that is, to the house of Millo, as in 2 Kings 12:20; and so it is said 1 Chronicles 11:8; that David built the city "from Millo round about"; that is, to the same place from whence he began r.

o Works, vol. 2. Chorograph. Cent. c. 24. p. 25. p Antiqu. l. 7. c. 3. sect. 2. q וביתה "et ad domum". r See Dr. Kennicott, ut supra, (Dissert. 1.) p. 49, &c.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

David dwelt in the fort - or stronghold, (as in 2 Samuel 5:7) i. e. eventually, when the buildings were completed, which may not have been for two or three years. Millo appears to have been a fortress of some kind, the northern defense of the city of David, and to have been a part of the original Canaanite defenses of Zion, as appears probable also from there having been a fortress called the house of Millo in the Canaanite city of Shechem. (Judges 9:6 note, and 2 Samuel 9:1-20.) Millo may be the native name. Some identify it with the great platform called the Haram es Sherif.

David built round about - Probably meaning built his own house and other houses and streets, all, in short, that caused it to be coiled the city of David. (Compare 1 Chronicles 11:8.) The buildings were within, on the south of Millo, so as to be protected by it on the north, as they were east, west. and south, by the precipitous ravines.


 
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