1 Chronicles 11:7

KJV1611 – Modern English

Then David lived in the stronghold; therefore, they called it the city of David.

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  • 2 Sam 5:7 : 7 Nevertheless, David took the stronghold of Zion, which is the City of David.
  • 1 Chr 11:5 : 5 And the inhabitants of Jebus said to David, You shall not enter here. Nevertheless, David took the stronghold of Zion, which is the city of David.
  • Ps 2:6 : 6 Yet I have set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.

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  • 2 Sam 5:6-12
    7 verses
    88%

    6And the king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, who spoke to David, saying, Unless you take away the blind and the lame, you will not come in here; thinking, David cannot come in here.

    7Nevertheless, David took the stronghold of Zion, which is the City of David.

    8And David said on that day, Whoever gets up through the water shaft and strikes the Jebusites, the lame and the blind, who are hated by David's soul, he shall be chief and captain. Therefore, they said, The blind and the lame shall not come into the house.

    9So David dwelt in the fort and called it the City of David, and David built all around from Millo inward.

    10And David went on and grew great, and the LORD God of hosts was with him.

    11And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and carpenters, and masons; and they built David a house.

    12And David perceived that the LORD had established him king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom for the sake of his people Israel.

  • 1 Chr 11:3-6
    4 verses
    85%

    3Therefore, all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron; and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before the LORD, and they anointed David king over Israel, according to the word of the LORD through Samuel.

    4Then David and all Israel went to Jerusalem, which is Jebus, where the Jebusites were, the inhabitants of the land.

    5And the inhabitants of Jebus said to David, You shall not enter here. Nevertheless, David took the stronghold of Zion, which is the city of David.

    6And David said, Whoever strikes the Jebusites first shall be chief and captain. So Joab the son of Zeruiah went up first and became chief.

  • 1 Chr 11:8-9
    2 verses
    78%

    8And he built the city all around, from Millo around, and Joab repaired the rest of the city.

    9So David grew greater and greater, for the LORD of hosts was with him.

  • 1 Chr 15:1
    77%

    1And David made himself houses in the city of David, and prepared a place for the ark of God, and pitched a tent for it.

  • 1 Chr 11:16
    76%

    16And David was then in the stronghold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then at Bethlehem.

  • 1 Sam 23:29
    76%

    29And David went up from there, and lived in strongholds at Engedi.

  • 2 Chr 6:6-7
    2 verses
    74%

    6But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.

    7Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.

  • 2 Sam 23:14
    74%

    14And David was then in a stronghold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem.

  • 2 Sam 12:28-29
    2 verses
    73%

    28Now therefore gather the rest of the people together, encamp against the city, and take it: unless I take the city, and it be called by my name.

    29David gathered all the people together, went to Rabbah, fought against it, and took it.

  • 1 Chr 22:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1Then David said, This is the house of the LORD God, and this is the altar of the burnt offering for Israel.

    2And David commanded to gather together the foreigners who were in the land of Israel; and he appointed masons to cut hewn stones to build the house of God.

  • 2 Sam 2:3
    73%

    3And David brought up the men who were with him, every man with his household: and they lived in the cities of Hebron.

  • 1 Kgs 8:16-17
    2 verses
    72%

    16Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house, that my name might be there; but I chose David to be over my people Israel.

    17And it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.

  • 2 Chr 11:7
    72%

    7Bethzur, Shoco, and Adullam,

  • 2 Sam 5:17
    72%

    17But when the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king over Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David. And David heard of it and went down to the stronghold.

  • 1 Sam 27:5
    72%

    5And David said to Achish, If I have now found favor in your eyes, let them give me a place in some town in the country, that I may dwell there. For why should your servant dwell in the royal city with you?

  • 1 Sam 17:54
    71%

    54David took the head of the Philistine and brought it to Jerusalem, but he put the Philistine's armor in his tent.

  • 1 Sam 22:1
    71%

    1David therefore departed from there, and escaped to the cave Adullam: and when his brothers and all his father's house heard it, they went down there to him.

  • 1 Chr 14:16
    71%

    16David therefore did as God commanded him, and they struck down the Philistine army from Gibeon to Gezer.

  • 1 Sam 23:10
    71%

    10Then David said, O LORD God of Israel, your servant has certainly heard that Saul seeks to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake.

  • 1 Kgs 2:10-11
    2 verses
    71%

    10So David rested with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.

    11And the days that David reigned over Israel were forty years: seven years he reigned in Hebron, and thirty-three years he reigned in Jerusalem.

  • 1 Chr 23:25
    71%

    25For David said, The LORD God of Israel has given rest to his people, that they may dwell in Jerusalem forever:

  • 2 Sam 7:17
    71%

    17According to all these words and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak to David.

  • 1 Sam 23:7
    71%

    7And it was told Saul that David had come to Keilah. And Saul said, God has delivered him into my hand; for he is shut in, by entering into a town that has gates and bars.

  • 2 Sam 6:10
    71%

    10So David would not move the ark of the LORD to him into the city of David, but David carried it aside into the house of Obededom the Gittite.

  • 2 Sam 5:20
    71%

    20And David came to Baal Perazim, and David struck them there and said, The LORD has broken forth upon my enemies before me like the breakthrough of waters. Therefore he called the name of that place Baal Perazim.

  • 1 Chr 17:1
    71%

    1Now it happened, as David sat in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Look, I live in a house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of the LORD remains under curtains.

  • 1 Chr 17:7
    71%

    7Now therefore thus shall you say to my servant David, Thus says the LORD of hosts, I took you from the sheepfold, even from following the sheep, that you should be ruler over my people Israel:

  • 1 Sam 24:22
    71%

    22And David swore to Saul. And Saul went home; but David and his men went up to the stronghold.

  • 1 Sam 30:31
    71%

    31And to them who were in Hebron, and to all the places where David himself and his men were accustomed to dwell.

  • 2 Sam 3:10
    71%

    10To transfer the kingdom from the house of Saul, and to set up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan even to Beersheba.

  • 2 Chr 11:10-11
    2 verses
    71%

    10Zorah, Aijalon, and Hebron, which are fortified cities in Judah and Benjamin.

    11And he fortified the strongholds, and put captains in them, and provisions of food, oil, and wine.

  • 1 Chr 14:2
    70%

    2And David understood that the LORD had established him as king over Israel, for his kingdom was exalted because of his people Israel.

  • 2 Sam 7:8
    70%

    8Now therefore, so shall you say to my servant David, Thus says the LORD of hosts, I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel:

  • 2 Sam 7:5
    70%

    5Go and tell my servant David, Thus says the LORD, Shall you build me a house for me to dwell in?