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2 Samuel 5:7-9
Good News Translation
2 Samuel 5:7-9
Good News Translation
(7 But David did capture their fortress of Zion, and it became known as “David's City.”)
8 That day David said to his men, “Does anybody here hate the Jebusites as much as I do? Enough to kill them? Then go up through the water tunnel and attack those poor blind cripples.” (That is why it is said, “The blind and the crippled cannot enter the Lord's house.”)[a]
9 After capturing the fortress, David lived in it and named it “David's City.” He built the city around it, starting at the place where land was filled in on the east side of the hill.
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- 2 Samuel 5:8 Verse 8 in Hebrew is unclear.
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