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 2:10David slept with his fathers, and was buried in David’s city.
• 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.
• 2 Sam 6:16As Yahweh’s ark came into David’s city, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out through the window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before Yahweh; and she despised him in her heart.
• Ps 132:13For Yahweh has chosen Zion. He has desired it for his habitation.
• Isa 12:6Cry aloud and shout, you inhabitant of Zion; for the Holy One of Israel is great among you!”
• 1 Kgs 3:1Solomon made an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh’s daughter, and brought her into David’s city, until he had finished building his own house, Yahweh’s house, and the wall around Jerusalem.
• Ps 9:11Sing praises to Yahweh, who dwells in Zion, and declare among the people what he has done.
• Ps 87:2Yahweh loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
• 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 51:18Do well in your good pleasure to Zion. Build the walls of Jerusalem.
• 1 Chr 11:7David lived in the stronghold; therefore they called it David’s city.
• 2 Sam 5:9David lived in the stronghold, and called it David’s city. David built around from Millo and inward.
• Ps 48:12Walk about Zion, and go around her. Number its towers.
• 2 Chr 24:16They buried him in David’s city among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, and toward God and his house.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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,
• Ps 2:6“Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion.”
• Isa 59:20“A Redeemer will come to Zion, and to those who turn from disobedience in Jacob,” says Yahweh.
• Mic 4:2Many nations will go and say, “Come, and let us go up to the mountain of Yahweh, 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 will go out of Zion, and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem;
• 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.

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