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

“I have consecrated My King
on Zion, My holy mountain.”

Sing to the Lord, who dwells in Zion;
proclaim His deeds among the nations.

Go around Zion, encircle it;
count its towers,

In Your good pleasure, cause Zion to prosper;
build the walls of Jerusalem.

The Lord loves the gates of Zion
more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

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

Cry out and sing, citizen of Zion,
for the Holy One of Israel is among you
in His greatness.”

“The Redeemer will come to Zion,
and to those in Jacob who turn from transgression.”
This is the Lord’s declaration.

and many nations will come and say,
“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
to the house of the God of Jacob.
He will teach us about His ways
so we may walk in His paths.”
For instruction will go out of Zion
and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

As it is written:

Look! I am putting a stone in Zion to stumble over
and a rock to trip over,
yet the one who believes on Him

will not be put to shame.

Instead, you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God (the heavenly Jerusalem), to myriads of angels in festive gathering,

Then I looked, and there on Mount Zion stood the Lamb, and with Him were 144,000 who had His name and His Father’s name written on their foreheads.

The same

David took up residence in the stronghold, which he named the city of David. He built it up all the way around from the supporting terraces inward.

So he was not willing to move the ark of the Lord to the city of David; instead, he took it to the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.

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

Solomon made an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt by marrying Pharaoh’s daughter. Solomon brought her to live in the city of David until he finished building his palace, the Lord’s temple, and the wall surrounding Jerusalem.

At that time Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, all the tribal heads and the ancestral leaders of the Israelites before him at Jerusalem in order to bring the ark of the Lord’s covenant from the city of David, that is Zion.

Then David took up residence in the stronghold; therefore, it was called the city of David.

At that time Solomon assembled at Jerusalem the elders of Israel—all the tribal heads, the ancestral chiefs of the Israelites—in order to bring the ark of the covenant of the Lord up from the city of David, that is, Zion.

He was buried in the city of David with the kings because he had done what was good in Israel with respect to God and His temple.

General references

But the descendants of Judah could not drive out the Jebusites who lived in Jerusalem. So the Jebusites live in Jerusalem among the descendants of Judah to this day.

At the same time the Benjaminites did not drive out the Jebusites who were living in Jerusalem. The Jebusites have lived among the Benjaminites in Jerusalem to this day.