2 Samuel 5:6

New American Bible - revised edition

Then the king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites who inhabited the land. They told David, “You shall not enter here: the blind and the lame will drive you away!” which was their way of saying, “David shall not enter here.”

Cross References

Genesis 14:18

Melchizedek, king of Salem, brought out bread and wine. He was a priest of God Most High.

2 Samuel 22:30

With you I can rush an armed band, with my God to help I can leap a wall.

Proverbs 21:22

The wise person storms the city of the mighty, and overthrows the stronghold in which they trust.

Jeremiah 21:13

Beware! I am against you, Ruler of the Valley, Rock of the Plain—oracle of the Lord. You say, “Who will attack us, who can storm our defenses?”

Jeremiah 37:10

Even if you could defeat the whole Chaldean army that is now attacking you, and only the wounded remained, each in his tent, these would rise up and destroy the city with fire.

Hebrews 7:1

This “Melchizedek, king of Salem and priest of God Most High,” “met Abraham as he returned from his defeat of the kings” and “blessed him.”

Joshua 10:3

So Adonizedek, king of Jerusalem, sent to Hoham, king of Hebron, Piram, king of Jarmuth, Japhia, king of Lachish, and Debir, king of Eglon, with this message:

Joshua 15:63

But the Jebusites who lived in Jerusalem the Judahites could not dispossess; so the Jebusites dwell in Jerusalem beside the Judahites to the present day.

Joshua 18:28

Zela, Haeleph, the Jebusite city (that is, Jerusalem), Gibeah, and Kiriath; fourteen cities and their villages. This was the heritage of the clans of Benjaminites.

Judges 1:21

As for the Jebusites dwelling in Jerusalem, the Benjaminites did not dispossess them, so that the Jebusites live with the Benjaminites in Jerusalem to the present day.

Judges 1:8

The Judahites fought against Jerusalem, captured it, and put it to the sword, setting the city itself on fire.