2 Samuel 5:7

Modern English Version

Nevertheless, David overthrew the stronghold of Zion, which is now the City of David.

Cross References

2 Samuel 5:8

David said on that day, “Whoever defeats the Jebusites, let him go through the water shaft to reach the lame and the blind, who are despised by David.” Therefore, it is said, “The blind and lame shall not come into the house.”

2 Samuel 5:9

So David occupied the stronghold, and he called it the City of David. He built on all sides from the terraces inward.

2 Samuel 6:10

So David did not allow the ark of the Lord to be brought to him in the City of David. Instead, David redirected it to the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite.

2 Samuel 6:12

When it was reported to King David, “The Lord has blessed Obed-Edom and everything that belongs to him, for the sake of the ark of God,” 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

When the ark of the Lord entered the City of David, Michal the daughter of Saul looked down from the window, and upon seeing King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, she thought contemptuously of him in her mind.

1 Kings 2:10

So David slept with his fathers and was buried in the City of David.

1 Kings 3:1

Solomon made a treaty with Pharaoh king of Egypt. He married Pharaoh’s daughter and brought her to the City of David until he finished building his palace, 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 chief of the fathers of the Israelites, before King Solomon in Jerusalem, so that they could ensure that the ark of the covenant of the Lord would be brought out of the City of David in Zion.

1 Kings 9:24

But Pharaoh’s daughter moved out of the City of David to her house which Solomon had built for her, and he then built Millo.

1 Chronicles 11:7

Then David dwelt in the stronghold, which is why they called it the City of David,

2 Chronicles 24:16

So they buried him in the City of David with the kings, because he had done good in Israel, both toward God and His house.

2 Chronicles 5:2

Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes and the leaders of the houses of the fathers among the Israelites to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord from the City of David, which is Zion.

Nehemiah 3:15

And Shallun the son of Col-hozeh, commander of the Mizpah district, made repairs to the Fountain Gate. He rebuilt it, covered it, erected its doors, and installed the locks and bars for it. He also repaired the wall of the pool of Shelah by the king’s garden as far as the steps going down from the City of David.

Psalm 132:13

For the Lord has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His dwelling place:

Psalm 2:6

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

Psalm 48:12

Walk about Zion, and go all around her; count her towers;

Psalm 48:3

Within her citadels God is known as a refuge.

Psalm 51:18

Do good to Zion in Your good pleasure; build the walls of Jerusalem.

Psalm 87:2

The Lord loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwelling places of Jacob.

Psalm 9:11

Sing praises to the Lord who dwells in Zion; declare His deeds among the people.

Isaiah 12:6

Cry out and shout for joy, O inhabitant of Zion. For great is the Holy One of Israel in your midst.

Isaiah 59:20

The Redeemer shall come to Zion and to those who turn from transgression in Jacob, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 21:13

Behold, I am against you, O inhabitant of the valley, O rocky plain, says the Lord, you men who say, “Who shall come down against us? Or who shall enter our dwellings?”

Micah 4:2

And many nations will come and say, “Come, that we might go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob, that He might teach us His ways, and that we might walk in His paths.” For from Zion will go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

Romans 9:33

As it is written: “Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and rock of offense, and whoever believes in Him will not be ashamed.”

Hebrews 12:22

But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels;

Revelation 14:1

Then I looked. And behold, the Lamb was standing on Mount Zion and with Him one hundred and forty-four thousand having His Father’s name written on their foreheads.