2 Samuel 5:7 Nevertheless, David captured the fortress of Zion--which is the City of David.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Nevertheless, David captured the fortress of Zion--which is the City of David.

English Standard Version
Nevertheless, David took the stronghold of Zion, that is, the city of David.

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

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

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

International Standard Version
Even so, David captured the stronghold of Zion, which is now known as 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.

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

Cross References

2 Samuel 5:8
And 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 5:9
So David dwelled in the fort, and called it the city of David. And David built round about from Millo and inward.

2 Samuel 6:12
And it was told king David, saying, The LORD has blessed the house of Obededom, and all that pertains to him, because of the ark of God. So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obededom into the city of David with gladness.

2 Samuel 6:16
And as the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal Saul's daughter looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart.

1 Kings 2:10
So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.

1 Kings 8:1
Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, to king Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion.

1 Kings 9:24
But Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of David to her house which Solomon had built for her: then did he build Millo.

Jeremiah 21:13
Behold, I am against you, O inhabitant of the valley, and rock of the plain, said the LORD; which say, Who shall come down against us? or who shall enter into our habitations?

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's 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!

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

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.