2 Samuel 5:9New Messianic Version BibleSo David [beloved] dwelt in the fort, and called it the city of David [beloved]. And David [beloved] built round about from Millo [fortification (defensive structure) or mound] and inward. See the chapter |
And this [is] the reason of the levy which king Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] raised; for to build the house of the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and his own house, and Millo [fortification (defensive structure) or mound], and the wall of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], and Hatzor [Castle], and Megiddo [Place of Crowds], and Gezer [Portion].
But if not, let fire come out from Avi-Melekh [My Father is King], and devour the men of Sh’khem [Shoulder], and the Beit-Millo [fortification (defensive structure) or mound] [House of the Fortification (defensive structure)]; and let fire come out from the men of Sh’khem [Shoulder], and from the Beit-Millo [fortification (defensive structure) or mound] [House of the Fortification (defensive structure)], and devour Avi-Melekh [My Father is King].
And David [beloved] said on that day, Whosoever gets up to the gutter, and smites the Y’vusi [Threshers, Trampled Under Foot], and the lame and the blind, [that are] hated of David’s [beloved]’s soul, [he shall be chief and captain]. For what reason they said, The blind and the lame shall not come into the house.
But the gate of the fountain repaired Shalun [retribution] the son of Kol-Hozah [all-seeing], the ruler of part of Mitzpah [watchtower]; he built it, and covered it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof, and the wall of the Pool of Shelach [sent] by the king’s garden, and unto the stairs that go down from the city of David [beloved].