Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion. This is David’s city.
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Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion. This is David’s city.
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Nevertheless David took the strong hold of Zion: the same is the city of David.
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Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion; the same is the city of David.
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Passages linked to 2 Samuel 5:7 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 1 Kings 2:10 David slept with his fathers, and was buried in David’s city.
- 2 Samuel 6:12 King David was told, “Yahweh has blessed the house of Obed-Edom, and all that belongs to him, because of God’s ark.” So David went and brought up God’s ark from the house of Obed-Edom into David’s city with joy.
- 2 Samuel 6:16 As Yahweh’s ark came into David’s city, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out through the window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before Yahweh; and she despised him in her heart.
- 2 Samuel 5:9 David lived in the stronghold, and called it David’s city. David built around from Millo and inward.
- 2 Samuel 6:10 So David would not move Yahweh’s ark to be with him in David’s city; but David carried it aside into Obed-Edom the Gittite’s house.
- 1 Kings 3:1 Solomon made an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh’s daughter, and brought her into David’s city, until he had finished building his own house, Yahweh’s house, and the wall around Jerusalem.
- 1 Kings 8:1 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, with all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers’ households of the children of Israel, to king Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of Yahweh’s covenant out of David’s city, which is Zion.
- 1 Chronicles 11:7 David lived in the stronghold; therefore they called it David’s city.
- 2 Chronicles 5:2 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers’ households of the children of Israel, to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of Yahweh’s covenant out of David’s city, which is Zion.
- 2 Chronicles 24:16 They buried him in David’s city among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, and toward God and his house.
- Psalms 2:6 “Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion.”
- Psalms 9:11 Sing praises to Yahweh, who dwells in Zion, and declare among the people what he has done.
- Psalms 48:12 Walk about Zion, and go around her. Number its towers.
- Psalms 51:18 Do well in your good pleasure to Zion. Build the walls of Jerusalem.
- Psalms 87:2 Yahweh loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
- Psalms 132:13 For Yahweh has chosen Zion. He has desired it for his habitation.
- Isaiah 12:6 Cry aloud and shout, you inhabitant of Zion; for the Holy One of Israel is great among you!”
- Isaiah 59:20 “A Redeemer will come to Zion, and to those who turn from disobedience in Jacob,” says Yahweh.
- Micah 4:2 Many nations will go and say, “Come! Let’s go up to the mountain of Yahweh, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For the law will go out of Zion, and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem;
- Romans 9:33 even as it is written, “Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed.”
- Hebrews 12:22 But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels,
- Revelation 14:1 I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him a number, one hundred forty-four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 2Sa 5:7 Nevertheless David took the strong hold of…
2Sa 5:7 Nevertheless David took the strong hold of Zion: the same [is] the city of David.
Ver. 7. Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion.] And the rather for their carnal confidence which God had rejected, and David soon after confuted; wherein also he became a lively type of Christ, perfectly triumphing over all our enemies, and treading Satan under our feet. {Rom 16:20}
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain The strong hold of Zion; either,
The strong hold of Zion; either,
1. A very strong fort which fitly had built upon Mount Zion; which being taken, the city quickly yielded. Or,
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2. The city of Zion, which was very strongly fortified.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Nevertheless, David took the strong hold of Zion,.... A…
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.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain The stronghold of Zion - Or castle 1Ch 11:5,…
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.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Castle: "the lower city," (Josephus) spread over Mount Sion.
Castle: "the lower city," (Josephus) spread over Mount Sion.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain the stronghold of Zion--Whether Zion be the southwestern hill…
the stronghold of Zion--Whether Zion be the southwestern hill commonly so-called, or the peak now level on the north of the temple mount, it is the towering height which catches the eye from every quarter--"the hill fort," "the rocky hold" of Jerusalem.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 7. Nevertheless] Heb. simply, And.
7. Nevertheless] Heb. simply, And.
the strong hold of Zion] See Additional Note VI. p. 239.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain The stronghold of Zion: the same is the city…
The stronghold of Zion: the same is the city of David. Zion was the hill on the southwestern side of the city; but we learn from ver. 9 that the Jebusites had not occupied the whole of it, but a part only, which was their stronghold, round which there would be scattered dwellings, as the whole tribe dwelt there. The total area of the hill top was about sixty acres, and it was now quickly covered with houses, and called "the city of David," after its captor. The view of Dr. Birch and others, that the stronghold of Zion was Ophel, is rendered untenable by the fact that this southern tongue of Mount Moriah is completely commanded by other parts of the hill. According to Gesenius, Zion means "sunny;" others render it "the dry hill;" others, "lofty;" and Furst, "the castle." None of these derivations is of any real value, as the word is probably Hittite.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 5:7 the fortress of Zion: At this time Jerusalem…
5:7 the fortress of Zion: At this time Jerusalem was probably a small site of nine to twelve square acres. The Jebusites’ arrogance, and the fact that the city had not been conquered previously, suggests that it was well fortified.
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