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 have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.

Sing praises to the LORD, who dwelleth in Zion: declare among the people his doings.

Walk about Zion, and go round her: number her towers.

Do good in thy good pleasure to Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.

The LORD loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

For the LORD hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his habitation.

Cry aloud and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.

And the Redeemer will come to Zion, and to them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.

And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth from Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumbling-stone, and rock of offense: and whoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.

But ye are come to mount Sion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,

And I looked, and lo, a lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him a hundred and forty four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads.

The same

So David dwelt in the fort, and called it the city of David. And David built around from Millo and inward.

So David would not remove the ark of the LORD to him into the city of David: but David carried it aside into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.

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

And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of the LORD, and the wall of Jerusalem on every side.

Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, to king Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion.

And David dwelt in the castle; therefore they called it, The city of David.

Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD from the city of David, which is Zion.

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

General references

As for the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah could not expel them: but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Judah at Jerusalem to this day.

And the children of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites that inhabited Jerusalem; but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day.