29 BIBLICAL AND HISTORICAL JERUSALEM 1 Kgs 9,15: “This is the account of the levy that King Solomon raised to build the House of YHWH, his house, the Millo, the wall of Jerusalem …”. 1 Kgs 3,1b: “He [Solomon] married Pharaoh’s daughter and brought her into the City of David, until he had finished building his house and the House of YHWH and the wall of Jerusalem round about”. 1 Kgs 9,24: “But the daughter of Pharaoh went up from the City of David to her house, which he had built for her. Then he built the Millo”. 1 Kgs 8,1: “Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel … to bring up the Ark of the covenant of YHWH from the city of David, that is, Zion”. 1 Kgs 11,27b: “Solomon built the Millo (and) closed the breach of the City of David, his father”. The first reference summarizes the building operations of Solomon in Jerusalem and then enumerates other building projects he carried out throughout his kingdom. References (2) and (3) open and close a distinctive topic: the residence of Pharaoh’s daughter in Jerusalem. The princess temporarily stayed in a residence in the fortified quarter of the City of David (2 Sam 5,9-10), until the completion of the con- struction operations in the Temple Mount and its fortification (refer- ence 2). Only then did she move to the new palace (reference 3; 1 Kgs 7,8b), and the ark was transferred to the new temple (reference 4). The construction of the wall of Jerusalem (references 1-2) refers to the Temple Mount alone since the story of David indicates that he had al- ready fortified the City of David. The construction of the Millo took place later (reference 3), and when completed, Solomon closed the breach that was left in the City of David (reference 5). When searching for the Millo, the Stepped Stone Structure con- structed in an elevated place in order to support the royal residence immediately comes to mind 22. Scholars suggested identifying the Millo with either the terrace system built on the city’s eastern flank or the fill that levels the area between the Temple Mount and the City of David 23. However, the fortified nature of the Millo is clearly 22 L.E. STAGER, “The Archaeology of the East Slope of Jerusalem and the Terraces of the Kidron”, JNES 41 (1982) 112-113, 121; cf. R.C. STEINER, “New Light on the Biblical Millo from Hatran Inscriptions”, BASOR 276 (1989) 15-23. 23 See the literature cited by STAGER, “East Slope”, 112 n. 8; KENYON, Digging up Jerusalem, 100-103; W.H. MARE, “Millo”, ABD IV, 834b-835a.