2 Samuel 5:7

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2 Samuel 5:7

Nevertheless, David captured the stronghold (fortress) of Zion, that is, the City of David.

1 Kings 2:10

So David lay down with his fathers [in death] and was buried in the City of David.

Now King David was told, “The Lord has blessed the house of Obed-edom and all that belongs to him, because of the ark of God.” So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-edom into the City of David with rejoicing and gladness.

2 Samuel 6:16

Then, as the ark of the Lord came into the City of David, Michal, Saul’s daughter [David’s wife], looked down from the window above and saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord; and she felt contempt for him in her heart [because she thought him undignified].

2 Samuel 5:9

So David lived in the stronghold and called it the City of David. And he built all around [the surrounding area] from the Millo [fortification] and inward.

2 Samuel 6:10

David was unwilling to move the ark of the Lord into the City of David with him; instead he took it aside to the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.

1 Kings 3:1

Now Solomon became a son-in-law to Pharaoh king of Egypt [and formed an alliance] by taking Pharaoh’s daughter [in marriage]. He brought her to the City of David [where she remained temporarily] until he had finished building his own house (palace) and the house of the Lord and the wall around Jerusalem.

1 Kings 8:1

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.

1 Chronicles 11:7

Then David lived in the stronghold; so it was called the City of David.

2 Chronicles 5:2

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

2 Chronicles 24:16

They buried him in the City of David among the kings, because he had done good [things] in Israel and toward God and His house.

Psalm 2:6

“Yet as for Me, I have anointed and firmly installed My King
Upon Zion, My holy mountain.”

Psalm 9:11

Sing praises to the Lord, who dwells in Zion;
Declare among the peoples His [great and wondrous] deeds.

Psalm 48:12

Walk about Zion, go all around her;
Count her towers,

Psalm 51:18

By Your favor do good to Zion;
May You rebuild the walls of Jerusalem.

Psalm 87:2

The Lord loves the gates of Zion
More than all the dwellings of Jacob (Israel).

Psalm 132:13

For the Lord has chosen Zion;
He has desired it for His dwelling place:

Isaiah 12:6

Rejoice and shout for joy, O inhabitant of Zion,
For great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 59:20

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

Micah 4:2

And many nations shall come and say,
“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
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 the law shall go forward from Zion,
And the word of the Lord [the revelation about Him and His truth] from Jerusalem.

Romans 9:33

As it is written and forever remains written,

“Behold I am laying in Zion a Stone of stumbling and a Rock of offense;
And he who believes in Him [whoever adheres to, trusts in, and relies on Him] will not be disappointed [in his expectations].”

Hebrews 12:22

But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels [in festive gathering],

Revelation 14:1

Then I looked, and this is what I saw: the Lamb stood [firmly established] on Mount Zion, and with Him a hundred and forty-four thousand who had His name and His Father’s name inscribed on their foreheads [signifying God’s own possession].

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

“Yet as for Me, I have anointed and firmly installed My King
Upon Zion, My holy mountain.”

Sing praises to the Lord, who dwells in Zion;
Declare among the peoples His [great and wondrous] deeds.

Walk about Zion, go all around her;
Count her towers,

By Your favor do good to Zion;
May You rebuild the walls of Jerusalem.

The Lord loves the gates of Zion
More than all the dwellings of Jacob (Israel).

For the Lord has chosen Zion;
He has desired it for His dwelling place:

Rejoice and shout for joy, O inhabitant of Zion,
For great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel.

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

But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels [in festive gathering],

The same

So David lived in the stronghold and called it the City of David. And he built all around [the surrounding area] from the Millo [fortification] and inward.

David was unwilling to move the ark of the Lord into the City of David with him; instead he took it aside to the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.

So David lay down with his fathers [in death] and was buried in the City of David.

Then David lived in the stronghold; so it was called the City of David.

They buried him in the City of David among the kings, because he had done good [things] in Israel and toward God and His house.

General references

But as for the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the [tribe of the] sons of Judah were not able to drive them out; so the Jebusites live with the sons of Judah in Jerusalem to this day.

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