1 Kings 11:27

Millo Read the Millo. See above on 1 Kings 9:15.

and repaired the breaches of the city of David The verb signifies -to close up" and the noun is in the singular. Hence -to close up the breach" has been thought to mean the building a wall across the valley between Zion and Moriah, and so making the ravine between these mountains inclosed within the walls. This valley was known at a later time as the Tyropœon. This makes the statement harmonize with 1 Kings 9:15, where Solomon's object is said to have been -to build the walls of Jerusalem."