2 Samuel 5:7

7 Nevertheless, David captured the stronghold of Zion, that is ¹the 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.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

2 Samuel 5:7 In-Context

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

6 Now the king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, and they said to David, "You shall not come in here, but the blind and lame will turn you away "; thinking, "David cannot enter here."

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

8 David said on that day, "Whoever would strike the Jebusites, let him reach the lame and the blind, who are hated by David's soul, through the water tunnel." Therefore they say, "The blind or the lame shall not come into the house."

9 So David lived in the stronghold and called it the city of David. And David built all around from the Millo and inward.

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1. 2 Samuel 6:12, 16; 1 Kings 2:10; 1 Kings 9:24

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2 Samuel 5:7 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 5:7 In-Context

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