2 Samuel 5:7
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New International Version (©2011)
Nevertheless, David captured the fortress of Zion--which is the City of David.

New Living Translation (©2007)
But David captured the fortress of Zion, which is now called the City of David.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Nevertheless, David took the stronghold of Zion, that is, the city of David.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Nevertheless, David captured the stronghold of Zion, that is the city of David.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Nevertheless David took the strong hold of Zion: the same is the city of David.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Yet David did capture the stronghold of Zion, that is, the city of David.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Even so, David captured the stronghold of Zion, which is now known as the City of David.

NET Bible (©2006)
But David captured the fortress of Zion (that is, the city of David).

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
But David captured the fortress Zion (that is, the City of David).

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion: the same is the city of David.

American King James Version
Nevertheless David took the strong hold of Zion: the same is the city of David.

American Standard Version
Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion; the same is the city of David.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But David took the castle of Sion, the same is the city of David.

Darby Bible Translation
But David took the stronghold of Zion, which is the city of David.

English Revised Version
Nevertheless David took the strong hold of Zion; the same is the city of David.

Webster's Bible Translation
Nevertheless, David took the strong hold of Zion: the same is the city of David.

World English Bible
Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion; the same is the city of David.

Young's Literal Translation
And David captureth the fortress of Zion, it is the city of David.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

5:6-10 The enemies of God's people are often very confident of their own strength, and most secure when their day to fall draws nigh. But the pride and insolence of the Jebusites animated David, and the Lord God of hosts was with him. Thus in the day of God's power, Satan's strong-hold, the human heart, is changed into a habitation of God through the Spirit, and into a throne on which the Son of David rules, and brings every thought into obedience to himself. May He thus come, and claim, and cleanse, each of our hearts; and, destroying every idol, may he reign there for ever!

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 7. - 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.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

7. 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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David Conquers Jerusalem
6And the king and his men went to Jerusalem to the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land: which spoke to David, saying, Except you take away the blind and the lame, you shall not come in here: thinking, David cannot come in here. 7Nevertheless David took the strong hold of Zion: the same is the city of David. 8And David said on that day, Whoever gets up to the gutter, and smites the Jebusites, and the lame and the blind that are hated of David's soul, he shall be chief and captain. Why they said, The blind and the lame shall not come into the house. …

2 Samuel 5:8 On that day David had said, "Anyone who conquers the Jebusites will have to use the water shaft to reach those 'lame and blind' who are David's enemies." That is why they say, "The 'blind and lame' will not enter the palace."
2 Samuel 5:9 David then took up residence in the fortress and called it the City of David. He built up the area around it, from the terraces inward.
2 Samuel 6:12 Now King David was told, "The LORD has blessed the household of Obed-Edom and everything he has, because of the ark of God." So David went to bring up the ark of God from the house of Obed-Edom to the City of David with rejoicing.
2 Samuel 6:16 As the ark of the LORD was entering the City of David, Michal daughter of Saul watched from a window. And when she saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD, she despised him in her heart.
1 Kings 2:10 Then David rested with his ancestors and was buried in the City of David.
1 Kings 8:1 Then King Solomon summoned into his presence at Jerusalem the elders of Israel, all the heads of the tribes and the chiefs of the Israelite families, to bring up the ark of the LORD's covenant from Zion, the City of David.
1 Kings 9:24 After Pharaoh's daughter had come up from the City of David to the palace Solomon had built for her, he constructed the terraces.
Jeremiah 21:13 I am against you, Jerusalem, you who live above this valley on the rocky plateau, declares the LORD-- you who say, "Who can come against us? Who can enter our refuge?"