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.

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.”

David then took up residence in the fortress and called it the City of David. He built up the area around it, from the terraces[b](C) inward. 10 And he became more and more powerful,(D) because the Lord God Almighty(E) was with him.(F)

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 5:8 Or are hated by David
  2. 2 Samuel 5:9 Or the Millo