2 Samuel 5:7 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ Nevertheless David took the strong hold of Zion: the same is the city of David.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion; the same is the city of David.

Common English Bible

⁷ But David did capture the fortress of Zion—which became David’s City.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ But David seized the stronghold of Zion; the same is the city of David.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ But David took the castle of Sion. The same is the city of David.

2 Samuel 5:7 Cross References

2 Samuel 5:8

David had said on that day, “Whoever would strike down the Jebusites, let him get up the water shaft to attack the lame and the blind, those whom David hates.” Therefore it is said, “The blind and the lame shall not come into the house.”

2 Samuel 5:9

David occupied the stronghold and named it the city of David. David built the city all around from the Millo inward.

2 Samuel 6:10

So David was unwilling to take the ark of the Lord into his care in the city of David; instead, David took it to the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.

2 Samuel 6:12

It was told King David, “The Lord has blessed the household of Obed-edom and all that belongs to him because of the ark of God.” So David went and brought 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 came into the city of David, Michal daughter of Saul looked out of the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, and she despised him in her heart.

1 Kings 2:10

Then David slept with his ancestors and was buried in the city of David.

1 Kings 3:1

Solomon made a marriage alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt; he took Pharaoh’s daughter and brought her into the city of David until he had finished building his own house and the house of the Lord and the wall around Jerusalem.

1 Kings 8:1

Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the leaders of the ancestral houses of the Israelites, before King Solomon in Jerusalem, to 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 went up from the city of David to her own house that Solomon had built for her; then he built the Millo.

1 Chronicles 11:7

David resided in the stronghold; therefore it was called the city of David.

2 Chronicles 24:16

And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good in Israel and for God and his house.

2 Chronicles 5:2

Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the leaders of the ancestral houses of the people of Israel, in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the city of David, which is Zion.

Nehemiah 3:15

And Shallum son of Col-hozeh, ruler of the district of Mizpah, repaired the Fountain Gate; he rebuilt it and covered it and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars, and he built the wall of the Pool of Shelah of the King’s Garden, as far as the stairs that go down from the city of David.

Psalm 132:13

For the Lord has chosen Zion; he has desired it for his habitation:

Psalm 2:6

“I have set my king on Zion, my holy hill.”

Psalm 48:12

Walk about Zion; go all around it; count its towers;

Psalm 48:3

Within its citadels God has shown himself a sure defense.

Psalm 51:18

Do good to Zion in your good pleasure; rebuild the walls of Jerusalem;

Psalm 87:2

the Lord loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

Psalm 9:11

Sing praises to the Lord, who dwells in Zion. Declare his deeds among the peoples.

Isaiah 12:6

Shout aloud and sing for joy, O royal Zion, for great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel.”

Isaiah 59:20

And he will come to Zion as Redeemer, to those in Jacob who turn from transgression, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 21:13

See, I am against you, O inhabitant of the valley, O rock of the plain, says the Lord; you who say, “Who can come down against us, or who can enter our places of refuge?”

Micah 4:2

and many nations shall come and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths.” For out of Zion shall go forth instruction, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

Romans 9:33

as it is written, “See, I am laying in Zion a stone that will make people stumble, a rock that will make them fall, and whoever trusts in him will not be put to shame.”

Hebrews 12:22

But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering,

Revelation 14:1

Then I looked, and there was the Lamb, standing on Mount Zion! And with him were one hundred forty-four thousand who had his name and his Father’s name written on their foreheads.