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.

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  1. 2 Samuel 5:8 The idols should enter no more into that place.

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

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  1. 2 Samuel 5:8 Or are hated by David