2 Samuel 5:8 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

⁸ He said that day, ‘Whoever attacks the Jebusites must go through the water shaft to reach the lame and the blind who are despised by David.’  For this reason it is said, ‘The blind and the lame will never enter the house.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ And David said on that day, Whosoever getteth up to the gutter, and smiteth the Jebusites, and the lame and the blind, that are hated of David's soul, he shall be chief and captain. Wherefore they said, The blind and the lame shall not come into the house.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ David said on that day, Whoever smites the Jebusites, let him get up through the water shaft and smite the lame and the blind who are detested by David's soul. So they say, The blind and the lame shall not come into the house.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ And David said on that day, Whosoever smiteth the Jebusites, let him get up to the watercourse, and smite the lame and the blind, that are hated of David’s soul. Wherefore they say, There are the blind and the lame; he cannot come into the house.

Common English Bible

⁸ “On that day,” David said, “whoever attacks the Jebusites should strike the windpipe because David hates the lame and the blind.” That is why people say, “The blind and the lame will not enter the temple.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ For David had proposed, on that day, a reward to him who had struck the Jebusites and who had reached to the gutters of the rooftops, and who had taken away the blind and the lame that hated the soul of David. Therefore, it is said in the proverb, "The blind and the lame shall not enter into the temple."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ For David had offered that day a reward to whosoever should strike the Jebusites and get up to the gutters of the tops of the houses, and take away the blind and the lame that hated the soul of David. Therefore it is said in the proverb: The blind and the lame shall not come into the temple.

2 Samuel 5:8 Tagairtí Cros

2 Samuel 5:7

Yet David did capture the stronghold of Zion, that is, the city of David.

2 Samuel 5:9

David took up residence in the stronghold, which he named the city of David. He built it up all the way round from the supporting terraces inward.

1 Samuel 17:25

Previously, an Israelite man had declared, ‘Do you see this man who keeps coming out? He comes to defy Israel. The king will make the man who kills him very rich and will give him his daughter.  The king will also make the family of that man’s father exempt from paying taxes in Israel.’