Now David had said the same day, Whosoever smiteth the Jebusites, and getteth up to the gutters and smiteth the lame and blind, which David’s soul hateth, I will prefer him: (A)therefore they said, The blind and the lame shall not [a]come into that house.

So David dwelt in that fort, and called it the city of David, and David built round about it, from [b]Millo, and inward.

10 And David prospered and grew: for the Lord God of hosts was with him.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 5:8 The idols should enter no more into that place.
  2. 2 Samuel 5:9 He built from the town house round about to his own house, 1 Chron. 11:8.

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