2 Samuel 5:7

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Summary

2 Samuel 5:7

Nevertheless David took the strong hold of Zion: the same is the city of David.

Zion

The same

General references

Joshua 15:63

Judges 1:21

Bible References

Zion

“But as for Me, I have installed My King
Upon Zion, My holy mountain.”

Sing praises to the Lord, who dwells in Zion;

Declare among the peoples His deeds.

Walk about Zion and go around her;
Count her towers;

By Your favor do good to Zion;

Build the walls of Jerusalem.

The Lord

loves the gates of Zion

More than all the other dwelling places of Jacob.

For the Lord has chosen Zion;
He has desired it for His habitation.

Cry aloud and shout for joy, O inhabitant of Zion,

For great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel.

“A Redeemer will come to Zion,
And to those who turn from transgression in Jacob,” declares the Lord.

Many nations will come and say,

“Come and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord
And to the house of the God of Jacob,
That He may teach us about His ways
And that we may walk in His paths.”
For from Zion will go forth the law,
Even the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

just as it is written,
“Behold, I lay in Zion

a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense,

And he who believes in Him

will not be

disappointed.”

But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels,

Then I looked, and behold, the Lamb was standing on Mount Zion, and with Him one hundred and forty-four thousand, having His name and the name of His Father written on their foreheads.

The same

So David lived in the stronghold and called it the city of David. And David built all around from the

Millo and inward.

And David was unwilling to move the ark of the Lord into the city of David with him; but David took it aside to the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.

Then David slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David.

Then Solomon formed a marriage alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh’s daughter and brought her to the city of David until he had finished building his own house and the house of the Lord and the wall around Jerusalem.

Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the leaders of the fathers’ households of the sons of Israel, to King Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord from the city of David, which is Zion.

Then David dwelt in the stronghold; therefore it was called the city of David.

Then Solomon assembled to Jerusalem the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the leaders of the fathers’ households of the sons of Israel, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the city of David, which is Zion.

They buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done well in Israel and to God and His house.

General references

Now as for the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the sons of Judah could not drive them out; so the Jebusites live with the sons of Judah at Jerusalem until this day.

But the sons of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites who lived in Jerusalem; so the Jebusites have lived with the sons of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day.