2 Samuel 5:6-16 - The Capture And Growth Of Jerusalem

⁶ The king and his men went to Jerusalem to attack the Jebusites, who lived in that region. The Jebusites told David: You will never get in here. Even the blind and the lame could turn you away. In other words he could not enter there.

⁷ However, David captured the fortress Zion, that is, the City of David. ⁸ That day David said: Whoever wants to defeat the Jebusites must reach the lame and the blind that hate me by using the water tunnel. So there is a saying: The blind and the lame will not get into the palace.

⁹ David lived in the fortress and called it the City of David. He built the city of Jerusalem around it from the stronghold (citadel) to the palace. ¹⁰ David continued to grow more powerful because Jehovah God of Hosts was with him. ¹¹ King Hiram of Tyre sent some officials to David. Carpenters and stone workers came with them. They brought cedar logs so they could build a palace for David. ¹² David knew that Jehovah made him king of Israel and that he had made him a powerful ruler for the good of his people.

¹³ David left Hebron and moved to Jerusalem. He married many women from Jerusalem, and he had a lot of children. ¹⁴ The following are the names of his sons born in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon, ¹⁵ Ibhar, Elishua, Nepheg, Japhia, ¹⁶ Elishama, Eliada, and Eliphelet.