Verse 5

The residents of Jebus said to David,“You cannot invade this place!” But David captured the fortress of Zion(that is, the City of David).

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Sam 17:9-9 : 9 If he is able to fight with me and strike me down, we will become your servants. But if I prevail against him and strike him down, you will become our servants and will serve us.” 10 Then the Philistine said,“I defy Israel’s troops this day! Give me a man so we can fight each other!”
  • 1 Sam 17:26 : 26 David asked the men who were standing near him,“What will be done for the man who strikes down this Philistine and frees Israel from this humiliation? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he defies the armies of the living God?”
  • 1 Sam 17:36 : 36 Your servant has struck down both the lion and the bear. This uncircumcised Philistine will be just like one of them. For he has defied the armies of the living God!”
  • 2 Sam 5:9 : 9 So David lived in the fortress and called it the City of David. David built all around it, from the terrace inwards.
  • 2 Sam 6:10 : 10 So David was no longer willing to bring the ark of the LORD to be with him in the City of David. David left it in the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite.
  • 2 Sam 6:12 : 12 King David was told,“The LORD has blessed the family of Obed-Edom and everything he owns because of the ark of God.” So David went and joyfully brought the ark of God from the house of Obed-Edom to the City of David.
  • 1 Kgs 8:1 : 1 Solomon Moves the Ark into the Temple Then Solomon convened in Jerusalem Israel’s elders, all the leaders of the Israelite tribes and families, so they could witness the transferal of the ark of the LORD’s covenant from the City of David(that is, Zion).
  • 1 Chr 11:7 : 7 David lived in the fortress; for this reason it is called the City of David.
  • 2 Chr 5:2 : 2 Solomon Moves the Ark into the Temple Then Solomon convened Israel’s elders– all the leaders of the Israelite tribes and families– in Jerusalem, so they could witness the transferal of the ark of the covenant of the LORD from the City of David(that is, Zion).
  • Ps 2:6 : 6 “I myself have installed my king on Zion, my holy hill.”
  • Ps 9:11 : 11 Sing praises to the LORD, who rules in Zion! Tell the nations what he has done!
  • Ps 48:2 : 2 It is lofty and pleasing to look at, a source of joy to the whole earth. Mount Zion resembles the peaks of Zaphon; it is the city of the great king.
  • Ps 48:12-13 : 12 Walk around Zion! Encircle it! Count its towers! 13 Consider its defenses! Walk through its fortresses, so you can tell the next generation about it!
  • Ps 78:68 : 68 He chose the tribe of Judah, and Mount Zion, which he loves.
  • Ps 87:2 : 2 The LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwelling places of Jacob.
  • Ps 87:5 : 5 But it is said of Zion’s residents,“Each one of these was born in her, and the Most High makes her secure.”
  • Ps 122:5 : 5 Indeed, the leaders sit there on thrones and make legal decisions, on the thrones of the house of David.
  • Ps 125:1-2 : 1 A song of ascents. Those who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved and will endure forever. 2 As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the LORD surrounds his people, now and forevermore.
  • Ps 132:13 : 13 Certainly the LORD has chosen Zion; he decided to make it his home.
  • Lam 4:11-12 : 11 כ(Kaf) The LORD fully vented his wrath; he poured out his fierce anger. He started a fire in Zion; it consumed her foundations. 12 ל(Lamed) Neither the kings of the earth nor the people of the lands ever thought that enemy or foe would enter the gates of Jerusalem.
  • Rom 9:33 : 33 just as it is written,“Look, I am laying in Zion a stone that will cause people to stumble and a rock that will make them fall, yet the one who believes in him will not be put to shame.”
  • Heb 12:22 : 22 But you have come to Mount Zion, the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels, to the assembly
  • Rev 14:1 : 1 An Interlude: The Song of the 144,000 Then I looked, and here was the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him were one hundred and forty-four thousand, who had his name and his Father’s name written on their foreheads.