2 Samuel 5:7

7 Nevertheless, David captured the fortress of Zion—which is the City of David.

2 Samuel 5:7 in Other Translations

7 Nevertheless David took the strong hold of Zion: the same is the city of David.

7 Nevertheless, David took the stronghold of Zion, that is, the city of David.

7 But David captured the fortress of Zion, which is now called the City of David.

7 But David went right ahead and captured the fortress of Zion, known ever since as the City of David.

7 Yet David did capture the stronghold of Zion, the city of David.

2 Samuel 5:7 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 5:7

Nevertheless, David took the strong hold of Zion
A fortress without the city, and separate from it, and which was very strong; and the taking it might facilitate the taking of the city, which yet as appears by what follows, was very difficult to do:

the same [is] the city of David;
it was afterwards so called, where he built an house, and dwelt.

2 Samuel 5:7 In-Context

5 In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem he reigned over all Israel and Judah thirty-three years.

6 The king and his men marched to Jerusalem to attack the Jebusites, who lived there. The Jebusites said to David, “You will not get in here; even the blind and the lame can ward you off.” They thought, “David cannot get in here.”

7 Nevertheless, David captured the fortress of Zion—which is the City of David.

8 On that day David had said, “Anyone who conquers the Jebusites will have to use the water shaft to reach those ‘lame and blind’ who are David’s enemies. ” That is why they say, “The ‘blind and lame’ will not enter the palace.”

9 David then took up residence in the fortress and called it the City of David. He built up the area around it, from the terraces inward.

Cross References

• 1. Psalms 76:2
• 2. Jeremiah 21:13
• 3. 2 Samuel 6:12,16; 1 Kings 2:10; 1 Kings 8:1; Isaiah 29:1; Jeremiah 25:29