2 Samuel 5:7
Nevertheless, David captured the fortress of Zion (that is, the City of David).
BSB
ASV
Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion; the same is the city of David.
KJV
Nevertheless David took the strong hold of Zion: the same is the city of David.
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.
The stronghold of Zion - Or castle 1Ch 11:5, 1Ch 11:7. The ancient Zion was the hill on which the temple stood, and the castle seems to have been immediately to the north of the temple. The modern Zion lies to the southwest of the temple. The same is the city of David - The name afterward given to it 2Sa 5:9, and by which it was known in the writer’s time.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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2 Samuel 6:16As the ark of the LORD was entering the City of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked down from a window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD, and she despised him…
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The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
As the ark of the covenant of the LORD was entering the City of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked down from a window and saw King David dancing and celebrating, and she despised him…
Then David sent messengers to say to Ish-bosheth son of Saul, “Give me back my wife, Michal, whom I betrothed to myself for a hundred Philistine foreskins.”
But others mocked them and said, “They are drunk on new wine!”
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Psalms 51:18In Your good pleasure, cause Zion to prosper; build up the walls of Jerusalem.
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For the LORD will rebuild Zion; He has appeared in His glory.
For it is God who works in you to will and to act on behalf of His good purpose.
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1 Kings 2:10Then David rested with his fathers and was buried in the City of David.
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Brothers, I can tell you with confidence that the patriarch David died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.
For when David had served God’s purpose in his own generation, he fell asleep. His body was buried with his fathers and saw decay.
