God’s Word Translation
1 Chronicles 11:8
8He built the city ⌞of Jerusalem⌟ around it, starting from the Millo and making a complete circuit. Joab rebuilt the rest of the city.
1 Chronicles 11:8 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And he built the city round about, even from Millo round about: and Joab repaired the rest of the city.
- New International Version (NIV)He built up the city around it, from the terraces to the surrounding wall, while Joab restored the rest of the city.
- English Standard Version (ESV)And he built the city all around from the Millo in complete circuit, and Joab repaired the rest of the city.
- New King James Version (NKJV)And he built the city around it, from the Millo to the surrounding area. Joab repaired the rest of the city.
Context of 1 Chronicles 11:8
6Now, David said, “Whoever is the first to kill a Jebusite will be made a general and a prince.” Zeruiah’s son Joab was the first to go ⌞into Jerusalem⌟, so he became the general. 7David lived in the fortress, so it was called the City of David. He built the city ⌞of Jerusalem⌟ around it, starting from the Millo and making a complete circuit. Joab rebuilt the rest of the city. 9David continued to grow more powerful because the Lord of Armies was with him. 10Now, these were the commanders of David’s fighting men, who exercised power with him in his kingdom, and with all Israel they made him king according to the Lord’s word to Israel.
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וַיִּ֤בֶן הָעִיר֙ מִסָּבִ֔יב מִן־הַמִּלּ֖וֹא וְעַד־הַסָּבִ֑יב וְיוֹאָ֕ב יְחַיֶּ֖ה אֶת־שְׁאָ֥ר הָעִֽיר׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for 1 Chronicles 11:8
- Judges 9:6All the citizens from Shechem and Beth Millo united. They went to the oak tree that was still standing in Shechem and proclaimed Abimelech king.
- 1 Kings 9:15This is the record of the forced laborers whom King Solomon drafted to build the Lord’s house, his own house, the Millo, the walls of Jerusalem, and ⌞the cities of⌟ Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.
- 1 Kings 11:27This was the situation when he rebelled against the king: Solomon was building the Millo and repairing a break in the ⌞wall of⌟ the City of David.
- 2 Kings 12:20His own officials plotted against him and killed him at Beth Millo on the road that goes down to Silla.
- Nehemiah 4:2In front of his allies and the army from Samaria, he said, “What do these miserable Jews think they’re doing? Can they rebuild it by themselves? Are they going to offer sacrifices? Can they finish it in a day? Will they get the stones out of the rubbish heaps, burned as these stones are, and give them new strength?”
Commentaries on 1 Chronicles 11:8
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6-8Verses 6-8 The narrative here given fills out a manifest defect in 2 Samuel 5:8 where something has evidently dropped out of the text. The prowess of Joab on this occasion, and the part which he took in the building of the city of David 1 Chronicles 11:8, are known to us only from this passage of Chronicles.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 4-9David conquered and rebuilt Jerusalem, making it the capital city of his rule over all of Israel.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 88. Joab repaired the rest of the city--David built a new town to the north of the old one on Mount Zion; but Joab was charged with a commission to restore the part that had been occupied by the ancient Jebus, to repair the breaches made during the siege, to rebuild the houses which had been demolished or burned in the sacking of the town, and to preserve all that had escaped the violence of the soldiery. This work of reconstruction is not noticed…Read the comment
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Commentaries on 1 Chronicles 11
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
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