Millo

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Map of Davidic Jerusalem, with the location of the Millo indicated.
Stepped stone structure/millo with the House of Ahiel to the left

The Millo (

Large Stone Structure
which she discovered in 2005.

Hebrew Bible

In the

Jebusites.[4] The New King James Version identifies Millo as literally "The Landfill",[5] while the New International Version translates it to "supporting terraces".[6]

Kidron Valley viewed from the Old City of Jerusalem, with Millo (Area G) to the lower right.

Hezekiah's repair of the Millo is mentioned within a list of repairs to military fortifications, and several scholars generally believe that it was something connected to military activity, such as a tower, citadel, or simply a significant part of a wall.[7][8] However, taking into account that the potentially cognate term mulu, from Assyrian, refers to earthworks,[8] it is considered more likely that it was an embankment which flattened the slope between Ophel and the Temple Mount.[7]

Archaeology

A recent excavation by

Large Stone Structure.[9] Mazar presents evidence that the Large Stone Structure was an Israelite royal palace in continuous use from the tenth century until 586 BC. Her conclusion that the stepped stone structure and the large stone structure are parts of a single, massive royal palace makes sense of the biblical reference to the millo as the House of Millo in 2 Kings 12:20 and in 2 Chronicles 24:25 as the place where King Joash was assassinated in 799 BC while he slept in his bed. Millo is derived from "fill", (Hebrew milui). The stepped stone support structure is built of fills.[10] This identification has also been supported by Nadav Na'aman.[11]

More recently, some scholars have proposed a location of the biblical millo in the fortified area surrounding the Gihon Spring.[12]

References

  1. ^ Blank, W., Bible Study – The Millo Archived 2014-02-26 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 9 October 2017
  2. ^ 1 Kings 9:24
  3. ^ 2 Chronicles 32:4–5
  4. ^ 2 Samuel 5:9
  5. ^ 2 Samuel 5:9 (NKJV)
  6. ^ 2 Samuel 5:9 (NIV)
  7. ^ a b Peake's Commentary on the Bible[full citation needed]
  8. ^ a b  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainSinger, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). "Jerusalem". The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.
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  10. ^ Mazar, Eilat, "Excavations at the Summit of the City of David, Preliminary Report of Seasons 2005–2007", Shoham, Jerusalem and New York, 2009, p. 67.
  11. ^ Na'aman, Nadav (January–February 2014). "The Interchange Between Bible and Archaeology". Biblical Archaeology Review. 40 (1): 57–62.
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