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 Yahweh has chosen Zion. He has desired it for his habitation.
• 2 Sam 5:9David lived in the stronghold, and called it David’s city. David built around from Millo and inward.
• Ps 48:12–13Walk about Zion, and go around her. Number its towers.
• Lam 4:11–12Yahweh has accomplished his wrath, he has poured out his fierce anger; He has kindled a fire in Zion, which has devoured its foundations.
• 1 Chr 11:7David lived in the stronghold; therefore they called it David’s city.
• Ps 125:1–2A Song of Ascents. Those who trust in Yahweh are as Mount Zion, which can’t be moved, but remains forever.
• Rom 9:33even as it is written, “Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed.”
• Ps 122:5For there are set thrones for judgment, the thrones of David’s house.
• Ps 87:2Yahweh loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
• Ps 9:11Sing praises to Yahweh, who dwells in Zion, and declare among the people what he has done.
• 2 Sam 6:10So David would not move Yahweh’s ark to be with him in David’s city; but David carried it aside into Obed-Edom the Gittite’s house.
• Rev 14:1I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him a number, one hundred forty-four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads.
• 1 Sam 17:36Your servant struck both the lion and the bear. This uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, since he has defied the armies of the living God.”
• 1 Sam 17:26David spoke to the men who stood by him, saying, “What shall be done to the man who kills this Philistine, and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?”
• Ps 48:2Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, on the north sides, the city of the great King.
• Ps 2:6“Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion.”
• Ps 87:5Yes, of Zion it will be said, “This one and that one was born in her”; the Most High himself will establish her.
• 2 Sam 6:12King David was told, “Yahweh has blessed the house of Obed-Edom, and all that belongs to him, because of God’s ark.” So David went and brought up God’s ark from the house of Obed-Edom into David’s city with joy.
• 1 Kgs 8:1Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, with all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers’ households of the children of Israel, to king Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of Yahweh’s covenant out of David’s city, which is Zion.
• Ps 78:68But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved.
• Heb 12:22But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels,
• 1 Sam 17:9–10If he is able to fight with me and kill me, then will we be your servants; but if I prevail against him and kill him, then you will be our servants and serve us.”
• 2 Chr 5:2Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers’ households of the children of Israel, to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of Yahweh’s covenant out of David’s city, which is Zion.

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