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 hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his habitation.
• 2 Sam 5:9So David dwelt in the fort, and called it the city of David. And David built round about from Millo and inward.
• Ps 48:12–13Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.
• Lam 4:11–12The LORD hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof.
• 1 Chr 11:7And David dwelt in the castle; therefore they called it the city of David.
• Ps 125:1–2They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever.
• Rom 9:33As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
• Ps 122:5For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house of David.
• Ps 87:2The LORD loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
• Ps 9:11Sing praises to the LORD, which dwelleth in Zion: declare among the people his doings.
• 2 Sam 6:10So David would not remove the ark of the LORD unto him into the city of David: but David carried it aside into the house of Obededom the Gittite.
• Rev 14:1And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father’s name written in their foreheads.
• 1 Sam 17:36Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God.
• 1 Sam 17:26And David spake to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?
• Ps 48:2Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.
• Ps 2:6Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
• Ps 87:5And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her: and the highest himself shall establish her.
• 2 Sam 6:12And it was told king David, saying, The LORD hath blessed the house of Obededom, and all that pertaineth unto him, because of the ark of God. So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obededom into the city of David with gladness.
• 1 Kgs 8:1Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion.
• Ps 78:68But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.
• Heb 12:22But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
• 1 Sam 17:9–10If he be able to fight with me, and to kill me, then will we be your servants: but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then shall ye be our servants, and serve us.
• 2 Chr 5:2Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion.

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