1 Chronicles 11:5

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And the inhabitants of Jebus said to David, Thou shalt not come hither. Nevertheless David took the castle of Zion, which is the city of David.

Thou shalt

1 Samuel 17:9

The castle

The city

General references

Joshua 15:63

Bible References

Thou shalt

If he be able to fight with me, and kill me, then will we be your servants; but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then you will be our servants, and serve us."

The castle

Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers' [houses] of the children of Israel, to king Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh out of the city of David, which is Zion.

Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers' [houses] of the children of Israel, to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh out of the city of David, which is Zion.

"Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion."

Sing praises to Yahweh, who dwells in Zion, and declare among the people what he has done.

Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, on the north sides, the city of the great King.

But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved.

Yahweh loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

Those who trust in Yahweh are as Mount Zion, which can't be moved, but remains forever.

For Yahweh has chosen Zion. He has desired it for his habitation.

Yahweh has accomplished his wrath, he has poured out his fierce anger; He has kindled a fire in Zion, which has devoured its foundations.

even as it is written, "Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed."

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

I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him a number, one hundred forty-four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads.

The city

David lived in the stronghold; therefore they called it the city of David.

David lived in the stronghold, and called it the city of David. David built around from Millo and inward.

So David would not move the ark of Yahweh to be with him in the city of David; but David carried it aside into the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite.

For there are set thrones for judgment, the thrones of David's house.

General references

As for the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah couldn't drive them out; but the Jebusites live with the children of Judah at Jerusalem to this day.