Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Samuel 5:9
So David dwelt in the fort, and called it the city of David. And David built round about from Millo and inward.
9. in the fort ] In the strong hold, the same word as in 2Sa 5:7, and in 1Ch 11:5 (E. V. castle).
Millo ] The Millo. See Additional Note VI., p. 241.
and inward ] Within or under the protection of the Millo, which was the outermost defence of the city.
Chron. adds “And Joab repaired the rest of the city.”
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
David dwelt in the fort – or stronghold, (as in 2Sa 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. (Jdg 9:6 note, and 2Sa 9:1-13 :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 1Ch 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.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Millo seems to have been some large and well fortified building, Jdg 9:6; 2Ch 32:5, adjoining or near to the wall of the city of Zion.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
9. David dwelt in the fort,&c.Having taken it by storm, he changed its name to “thecity of David,” to signify the importance of the conquest, andto perpetuate the memory of the event.
David built round about fromMillo and inwardprobably a row of stone bastions placed on thenorthern side of Mount Zion, and built by David to secure himself onthat side from the Jebusites, who still lived in the lower part ofthe city. The house of Millo was perhaps the principal corner towerof that fortified wall.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole 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 2Ki 12:20; and so it is said 1Ch 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 “et ad domum”. r See Dr. Kennicott, ut supra, (Dissert. 1.) p. 49, &c.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(9) The fort.The same word as strong hold in 2Sa. 5:7.
Millo.A word always used in Hebrew with the definite article (except in Jdg. 9:6; Jdg. 9:20), the Millo. It is probably an old Canaanitish name for the fortification on the northern end of Mount Zion, inward from which the palace was situated. Subsequent kings, as Solomon (1Ki. 11:27) and Hezekiah (2Ch. 32:5), saw its importance and added to its strength. On all other sides Zion was protected by precipitous ravines. There is, however, some difference of opinion about the topography of ancient Jerusalem.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
9. Built round about from Millo and inward Millo was a fortress or rampart of ancient Zion, apparently so called from having been filled in ( ) with earth and stones. The article connected with the Hebrew word serves to designate it as some well known fortress, and it was evidently a noted stronghold before the city was occupied by David. It was afterwards built up again and strengthened by Solomon, (1Ki 9:15; 1Ki 9:24 ; 1Ki 11:27,) and later still by Hezekiah. 2Ch 32:5. It seems to have been situated on the northern side of Zion, where the natural defences were less strong than on the other sides; and from it, as a bulwark, David built all round the northern side a strong wall, and fortified it inward towards the south, so as to make it more secure against assault than it had ever been before.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
2Sa 5:9. David built round about from Millo David, having possessed himself of the castle of Zion, joined the castle to the town beneath it, by building houses from one to the other, and made thereby one regular city. Millo is a word that has greatly perplexed the commentators: but it seems to have been the name of the castle of Zion, or the fortress of the city of David. The LXX generally render it, as in the text, by , a citadel. And in 2Ch 32:5 we read, he fortified Millo in the city of David; or rather, “he fortified the castle or citadel of the city of David.” Thus Dr. Lightfoot tells us, Millo was a part of Zion, vol. 2: p. 25 and Josephus uses the word , for Millo, when he speaks of this very circumstance. Antiq. lib. 7: cap. 3: What we render and inward, the LXX render and his house. See 1Ch 11:8. 2Ki 12:20. According to Dr. Kennicott, this passage should be translated, and David built a circuit from Millo, and round to the house; i.e. even to the house of the citadel, or to Millo, from which the works were first begun. What puts this interpretation (says he) out of all doubt, is the use of this word at the end of the preceding verse; and as it there most certainly means the house of Millo, or the citadel, from the walls of which the blind and lame shouted, David shall not come into this house; so it must mean the same house of Millo here. See Kenn. diss. 1: p. 50.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
2Sa 5:9 So David dwelt in the fort, and called it the city of David. And David built round about from Millo and inward.
Ver. 9. So David dwelt in the fort. ] After that he had slain all the old inhabitants, save one Araunah, saith Josephus, who afterwards proved his very friend.
And called it, The city of David.
And David built round about, from Millo.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
fort = the “strong hold” of 2Sa 5:7. Citadel.
round about = the wall, which was continued by Solomon (1Ki 9:15, 1Ki 9:24; 1Ki 11:27), afterward by Hezekiah (2Ch 32:5), and extended by Manasseh (2Ch 33:14).
Millo = the Millo, or the filling up: i.e. of the valley between Moriah and Jebus.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
city: 2Sa 5:7
Millo: Jdg 9:6, Jdg 9:20, 1Ki 9:15, 1Ki 9:24, 1Ki 11:27, 1Ch 11:8, 2Ch 32:5
Reciprocal: 2Ki 12:20 – the house of Millo 1Ch 11:5 – the city 1Ch 15:1 – houses Psa 122:3 – builded Isa 16:5 – in the Isa 29:1 – the city Eze 21:20 – the defenced Zep 1:10 – from
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
2Sa 5:9-10. From Millo Which seems to have been the town-hall, or state-house, near the wall of the city of Zion; or, as some think, a tower or armory. The Lord God of hosts was with him This was the cause of his great prosperity, that God, who commands all the armies of heaven and earth, directed and blessed him in all his enterprises.
Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
5:9 So David dwelt in the fort, and called it the city of David. And David built round about from {e} Millo and inward.
(e) He built from the town house round about to his own house 1Ch 11:8.