2 Samuel 5:7

Despite the boast, David captures the stronghold of Zion, which becomes the city of David. The conquest secures his capital.

Cross-references · 22

• 1 Kgs 2:10So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.
• 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.
• 2 Sam 6:16And as the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal Saul’s daughter looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart.
• Ps 132:13For the LORD hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his habitation.
• Isa 12:6Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.
• 1 Kgs 3:1And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh’s daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of the LORD, and the wall of Jerusalem round about.
• Ps 9:11Sing praises to the LORD, which dwelleth in Zion: declare among the people his doings.
• Ps 87:2The LORD loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
• 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 51:18Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.
• 1 Chr 11:7And David dwelt in the castle; therefore they called it the city of David.
• 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 48:12Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.
• 2 Chr 24:16And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, both toward God, and toward his house.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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,
• Ps 2:6Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
• Isa 59:20And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.
• Mic 4:2And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
• 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.

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