2 Samuel 5:9

And David dwelleth in the fortress, and calleth it — City of David, and David buildeth round about, from Millo and inward,

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

So David dwelt in the fort, and called it the city of David. And David built round about from Millo and inward.

In Context

8And David saith on that day, 'Any one smiting the Jebusite, (let him go up by the watercourse), and the lame and the blind — the hated of David's soul,' — because the blind and lame say, 'He doth not come into the house.'

10and David goeth, going on and becoming great, and Jehovah, God of Hosts, [is] with him.

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Cross References

Judges 9:20and if not — fire cometh out from Abimelech and devoureth the masters of Shechem and the house of Millo, and fire cometh out from the masters of Shechem and from the house of Millo, and devoureth Abimelech.'

2 Samuel 6:10And David hath not been willing to turn aside unto himself the ark of Jehovah, to the city of David, and David turneth it aside to the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite,

1 Kings 9:15And this [is] the matter of the tribute that king Solomon hath lifted up, to build the house of Jehovah, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer,

1 Kings 11:27and this [is] the thing [for] which he lifted up a hand against the king: Solomon built Millo — he shut up the breach of the city of David his father,

1 Chronicles 11:8and he buildeth the city round about, from Millo, and unto the circumference, and Joab restoreth the rest of the city.

Nehemiah 3:15And the gate of the fountain hath Shallum son of Col-Hozeh, head of the district of Mizpah, strengthened: he doth build it, and cover it, and set up its doors, its locks, and its bars, and the wall of the pool of Siloah, to the garden of the king, and unto the steps that are going down from the city of David.

Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 5:7-11

David Takes Mount Sion. ( b. c. 1047.) 6 And the king and his men went to Jerusalem unto the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land: which spake unto David, saying, Except thou take away the blind and the lame, thou shalt not come in hither: thinking, David cannot come in hither. 7 Nevertheless David took the strong hold of Zion: the same is the city of David. 8 And David said on that day, Whosoever getteth up to the gutter, and smiteth the Jebusites, and the lame and the blind, that are hated of David's soul, he… Read the whole commentary →

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