1 Chronicles 11:5

The Jebusites taunted that David could not enter, yet he captured the stronghold of Zion, which became the City of David. Human boasting cannot stand against God's purposes.

Cross-references · 23

• Ps 132:13For the LORD has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His home:
• 2 Sam 5:9So David took up residence in the fortress and called it the City of David. He built it up all the way around, from the supporting terraces inward.
• Ps 48:12–13March around Zion, encircle her, count her towers,
• Lam 4:11–12The LORD has exhausted His wrath; He has poured out His fierce anger; He has kindled a fire in Zion, and it has consumed her foundations.
• 1 Chr 11:7So David took up residence in the fortress; that is why it was called the City of David.
• Ps 125:1–2A song of ascents. Those who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion. It cannot be moved; it abides forever.
• Rom 9:33as it is written: “See, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense; and the one who believes in Him will never be put to shame.”
• Ps 122:5For there the thrones of judgment stand, the thrones of the house of David.
• Ps 87:2The LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
• Ps 9:11Sing praises to the LORD, who dwells in Zion; proclaim His deeds among the nations.
• 2 Sam 6:10So he was unwilling to move the ark of the LORD to the City of David; instead, he took it aside to the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.
• Rev 14:1Then I looked and saw the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with Him 144,000 who had His name and His Father’s name written on their foreheads.
• 1 Sam 17:36Your servant has killed lions and bears; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, for he has defied the armies of the living God.”
• 1 Sam 17:26David asked the men who were standing with him, “What will be done for the man who kills this Philistine and removes this disgrace from Israel? Just who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?”
• Ps 48:2Beautiful in loftiness, the joy of all the earth, like the peaks of Zaphon is Mount Zion, the city of the great King.
• Ps 2:6“I have installed My King on Zion, upon My holy mountain.”
• Ps 87:5And it will be said of Zion: “This one and that one were born in her, and the Most High Himself will establish her.”
• 2 Sam 6:12Now it was reported to King David, “The LORD has blessed the house of Obed-edom and all that belongs to him, because of the ark of God.” So David went and had the ark of God brought up from the house of Obed-edom into the City of David with rejoicing.
• 1 Kgs 8:1At that time Solomon assembled before him in Jerusalem the elders of Israel—all the tribal heads and family leaders of the Israelites—to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD from Zion, the City of David.
• Ps 78:68But He chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which He loved.
• Heb 12:22Instead, you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to myriads of angels
• 1 Sam 17:9–10If he is able to fight me and kill me, then we will be your servants. But if I prevail against him and kill him, then you shall be our servants and labor for us.”
• 2 Chr 5:2At that time Solomon assembled in Jerusalem the elders of Israel—all the tribal heads and family leaders of the Israelites—to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD from Zion, the City of David.

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