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

Yet, I, have installed my king, - on Zion my holy mountain.

Sing ye praise to Yahweh, who is seated in Zion, Tell among the peoples his doings.

Go round Zion, and compass her about, Reckon up her towers;

Do good, in thy good-pleasure, unto Zion, Wilt thou build the walls of Jerusalem!

Yahweh loveth the gates of Zion, More than all the dwellings of Jacob.

For Yahweh hath chosen Zion, - He hath desired it as a dwelling for himself:

Make shrill thy voice and sing out thou inhabitress of Zion, - That great in the midst of thee, is the Holy One of Israel.

So shall come in for Zion, a Redeemer, Even for such as are turning from transgression in Jacob, - Declareth Yahweh.

Yea many nations, shall go, and say - come ye, and let us ascend unto the mountain of Yahweh, and unto the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us of his ways, and we may walk in his paths, - for, out of Zion, shall go forth a law, and, the word of Yahweh, out of Jerusalem;

Even as it is written - Lo! I lay in Zion, a stone to strike against and a rock to stumble over, and, he that resteth faith thereupon, shall not be put to shame.

But ye have approached - unto Zion's mountain, and unto the city of a Living God, a heavenly Jerusalem, - and unto myriads of messengers,

And I saw, and lo! the Lamb, standing upon the mount Zion, - and, with him, a hundred and forty-four thousand, having his name and his Father's name written upon their foreheads.

The same

So then David dwelt in the citadel, and called it, The City of David, - and David built round about, from Millo and inwards.

So David would not remove unto him the ark of Yahweh, unto the city of David, - but David took it aside to the house of Obed-edom, the Gittite.

So then David slept with his fathers, - and was buried in the city of David.

And Solomon contracted an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt, - and took the daughter of Pharaoh, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of Yahweh, and the wall of Jerusalem, round about.

Then, did Solomon call together the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, chiefs of the fathers of the sons of Israel, unto King Solomon in Jerusalem, - that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, out of the city of David, the same is Zion.

And David dwelt in the citadel, - for this cause, did they call it, The City of David.

Then, Solomon called together the elders of Israel, and all the chiefs of the tribes, the ancestral leaders of the sons of Israel, unto Jerusalem, - to bring up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh out of the city of David, the same, is Zion.

And they buried him in the city of David, with the kings, - because he had done good in Israel, both toward God and his house.

General references

But, as for the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the sons of Judah could not dispossess them, - so the Jebusites have dwelt with the sons of Judah, in Jerusalem, until this day.

But, the Jebusites dwelling in Jerusalem, the sons of Benjamin did not drive out, - but the Jebusites have dwelt with the sons of Benjamin, in Jerusalem, unto this day.