Millo: meaning of the name

Places named Millo

• Millo

Millo in Scripture

“Millo” appears in 9 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

• Judges 9:6

  And all the men of Shechem gathered together, and all the house of Millo, and went, and made Abimelech king, by the plain of the pillar that was in Shechem.

• Judges 9:20

  But if not, let fire come out from Abimelech, and devour the men of Shechem, and the house of Millo; and let fire come out from the men of Shechem, and from the house of Millo, and devour Abimelech.

• 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.

• 1 Kings 9:15

  And this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised; for to build the house of the Lord, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.

• 1 Kings 9:24

  But Pharaoh’s daughter came up out of the city of David unto her house which Solomon had built for her: then did he build Millo.

• 1 Kings 11:27

  And this was the cause that he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breaches of the city of David his father.

• 2 Kings 12:20

  And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and slew Joash in the house of Millo, which goeth down to Silla.

• 1 Chronicles 11:8

  And he built the city round about, even from Millo round about: and Joab repaired the rest of the city.