²⁷ The way in which his hand came to be lifted up against the king was this: Solomon was building the Millo and making good the damaged parts of the town of his father David;

²⁴ At that time Solomon made Pharaoh's daughter come up from the town of David to the house which he had made for her: then he made the Millo.

¹⁵ Now, this was the way of Solomon's system of forced work for the building of the Lord's house and of the king's house, and the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and Megiddo and Gezer. ...

¹¹ In that day I will put up the tent of David which has come down, and make good its broken places; and I will put up again his damaged walls, building it up as in the past;

⁵ You have not gone up into the broken places or made up the wall for the children of Israel to take your place in the fight in the day of the Lord.

¹¹ Lord, your hand is lifted up, but they do not see: let them see ... yes, your haters will be burned up in the fire.

⁹ And you saw all the broken places in the wall of the town of David: and you got together the waters of the lower pool.

³² If you have done foolishly in lifting yourself up, or if you have had evil designs, put your hand over your mouth.

² By the power of your hand the earth is shaking and broken; make it strong again, for it is moved.

⁷ But when it came to the ears of Sanballat and Tobiah and the Arabians and the Ammonites and the Ashdodites, that the building of the walls of Jerusalem was going forward and the broken places were being made good, they were full of wrath;

²¹ Not so: but a man of the hill-country of Ephraim, Sheba, son of Bichri, by name, has taken up arms against the king, against David: give up this man only, and I will go away from the town. And the woman said to Joab, His head will be dropped over the wall to you.

⁷ But David took the strong place of Zion, which is the town of David.