2 Samuel 5:6-9
When the king and his men went
to Jerusalem to attack the Jebusites who lived there, the Jebusites said
to David, “You can’t get inside our city. Even the blind and the crippled
can stop you.” They thought David could not enter their city. But David
did take the city of Jerusalem with its strong walls, and it became the
City of David.
That day David said to his men,
“To defeat the Jebusites you must go through the water tunnel. Then you
can reach those ‘crippled’ and ‘blind’ enemies...”
So David lived in the strong, walled
city and called it the City of David. David built more buildings around
it, beginning where the land was filled in. He also built more buildings
inside the city.
1 Chronicles 11:4-8
David and all the Israelites went
to the city of Jerusalem. At that time Jerusalem was called Jebus, and
the people living there were named Jebusites. They said to David, “You
can’t get inside our city.” But David did take the city of Jerusalem with
its strong walls, and it became the City of David.
David had said, “The person who
leads the attack against the Jebusites will become the commander over all
my army.” Joab son of Zeruiah led the attack, so he became the commander
of the army.
Then David made his home in the
strong, walled city, which is why it was named the City of David.
David rebuilt the city, beginning where the land was filled in and going
to the wall that was around the city. Joab repaired the other parts of
the city.