2 Samuel 5:8

Overview - 2 Samuel 5
The tribes come to Hebron and anoint David over Israel.
David's age.
He taking Zion from the Jebusites, dwells in it.
11 Hiram sends to David.
13 Eleven sons are born to him in Jerusalem.
17 David, directed by God, smites the Philistines at Baal-perazim;
22 and again at the mulberry trees.
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2 Samuel 5:8  (King James Version)
And David said on that day, Whosoever getteth up to the gutter, and smiteth the Jebusites, and the lame and the blind, that are hated of David's soul, he shall be chief and captain. Wherefore they said, The blind and the lame shall not come into the house.
 


Whosoever
Joshua 15:16 Joshua 15:17 ; 1 Samuel 17:25

he shall be
1 Chronicles 11:6-9

Wherefore, etc or, Because they had said, even the blind
and the lame, he shall not come into the house.