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And David said on that day, Whosoever smiteth the Jebusites, let him get up to the watercourse, [a]and smite the lame and the blind, [b]that are hated of David’s soul. Wherefore they say, [c]There are the blind and the lame; he cannot come into the house. And David dwelt in the stronghold, and called it the city of David. And David built round about from Millo and inward. 10 And David waxed greater and greater; for Jehovah, the God of hosts, was with him.

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  1. 2 Samuel 5:8 Or, and as for the lame and the blind, that are hated of David’s soul—
  2. 2 Samuel 5:8 Another reading is, that hate David’s soul.
  3. 2 Samuel 5:8 Or, The blind and the lame shall not come into the house