2 Samuel 5:7
New International Version
Nevertheless, David captured the fortress of Zion—which is the City of David.

New Living Translation
But David captured the fortress of Zion, which is now called the City of David.

English Standard Version
Nevertheless, David took the stronghold of Zion, that is, the city of David.

Berean Standard Bible
Nevertheless, David captured the fortress of Zion (that is, the City of David).

King James Bible
Nevertheless David took the strong hold of Zion: the same is the city of David.

New King James Version
Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion (that is, the City of David).

New American Standard Bible
Nevertheless, David captured the stronghold of Zion, that is, the city of David.

NASB 1995
Nevertheless, David captured the stronghold of Zion, that is the city of David.

NASB 1977
Nevertheless, David captured the stronghold of Zion, that is the city of David.

Legacy Standard Bible
Nevertheless, David captured the fortress of Zion, that is the city of David.

Amplified Bible
Nevertheless, David captured the stronghold (fortress) of Zion, that is, the City of David.

Christian Standard Bible
Yet David did capture the stronghold of Zion, that is, the city of David.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Yet David did capture the stronghold of Zion, that is, the city of David.

American Standard Version
Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion; the same is the city of David.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And David seized Metsruth of Zion, this is the city of David

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And David took first the hold of Sion: this is the city of David.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But David took the castle of Sion, the same is the city of David.

English Revised Version
Nevertheless David took the strong hold of Zion; the same is the city of David.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
But David captured the fortress Zion (that is, the City of David).

Good News Translation
But David did capture their fortress of Zion, and it became known as "David's City.")

International Standard Version
Even so, David captured the stronghold of Zion, which is now known as the City of David.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion; the same is the city of David.

Literal Standard Version
And David captures the fortress of Zion, it [is] the City of David.

Majority Standard Bible
Nevertheless, David captured the fortress of Zion (that is, the City of David).

New American Bible
David nevertheless captured the fortress of Zion, which is the City of David.

NET Bible
But David captured the fortress of Zion (that is, the city of David).

New Revised Standard Version
Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion, which is now the city of David.

New Heart English Bible
Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion, that is, the City of David.

Webster's Bible Translation
Nevertheless, David took the strong hold of Zion: the same is the city of David.

World English Bible
Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion. This is David’s city.

Young's Literal Translation
And David captureth the fortress of Zion, it is the city of David.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
David Conquers Jerusalem
6Now the king and his men marched to Jerusalem against the Jebusites who inhabited the land. The Jebusites said to David: “You will never get in here. Even the blind and lame can repel you.” For they thought, “David cannot get in here.” 7Nevertheless, David captured the fortress of Zion (that is, the City of David). 8On that day he said, “Whoever attacks the Jebusites must use the water shaft to reach the lame and blind who are despised by David.” That is why it is said, “The blind and the lame will never enter the palace.”…

Cross References
2 Samuel 5:8
On that day he said, "Whoever attacks the Jebusites must use the water shaft to reach the lame and blind who are despised by David." That is why it is said, "The blind and the lame will never enter the palace."

2 Samuel 5:9
So David took up residence in the fortress and called it the City of David. He built it up all the way around, from the supporting terraces inward.

2 Samuel 6:12
Now it was reported to King David, "The LORD has blessed the house of Obed-edom and all that belongs to him, because of the ark of God." So David went and had the ark of God brought up from the house of Obed-edom into the City of David with rejoicing.

2 Samuel 6:16
As the ark of the LORD was entering the City of David, Saul's daughter Michal looked down from a window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD, and she despised him in her heart.

1 Kings 2:10
Then David rested with his fathers and was buried in the City of David.

1 Kings 8:1
At that time Solomon assembled before him in Jerusalem the elders of Israel--all the tribal heads and family leaders of the Israelites--to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD from Zion, the City of David.

1 Kings 9:24
As soon as Pharaoh's daughter had come up from the City of David to the palace that Solomon had built for her, he built the supporting terraces.


Treasury of Scripture

Nevertheless David took the strong hold of Zion: the same is the city of David.

Zion

Psalm 2:6
Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.

Psalm 9:11
Sing praises to the LORD, which dwelleth in Zion: declare among the people his doings.

Psalm 48:12
Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.

the same

2 Samuel 5:9
So David dwelt in the fort, and called it the city of David. And David built round about from Millo and inward.

2 Samuel 6:10
So 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.

1 Kings 2:10
So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.

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2 Samuel 5
1. The tribes come to Hebron and anoint David over Israel,
4. David's age
6. Taking Zion from the Jebusites, he dwells in it
11. Hiram sends to David,
13. Eleven sons are born to him in Jerusalem
17. David, directed by God, smites the Philistines at Baal-perazim
22. And again at the mulberry trees














Verse 7. - The stronghold of Zion: the same is the city of David. Zion was the hill on the southwestern side of the city; but we learn from ver. 9 that the Jebusites had not occupied the whole of it, but a part only, which was their stronghold, round which there would be scattered dwellings, as the whole tribe dwelt there. The total area of the hill top was about sixty acres, and it was now quickly covered with houses, and called "the city of David," after its captor. The view of Dr. Birch and others, that the stronghold of Zion was Ophel, is rendered untenable by the fact that this southern tongue of Mount Moriah is completely commanded by other parts of the hill. According to Gesenius, Zion means "sunny;" others render it "the dry hill;" others, "lofty;" and Furst, "the castle." None of these derivations is of any real value, as the word is probably Hittite.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Nevertheless, David
דָּוִ֔ד (dā·wiḏ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 1732: David -- perhaps 'beloved one', a son of Jesse

captured
וַיִּלְכֹּ֣ד (way·yil·kōḏ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3920: To catch, to capture, occupy, to choose, to cohere

the fortress
מְצֻדַ֣ת (mə·ṣu·ḏaṯ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 4686: A net, capture, a fastness

of Zion
צִיּ֑וֹן (ṣî·yō·wn)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 6726: Zion -- a mountain in Jerusalem, also a name for Jerusalem

(that is,
הִ֖יא (hî)
Pronoun - third person feminine singular
Strong's 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are

the City
עִ֥יר (‘îr)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 5892: Excitement

of David).
דָּוִֽד׃ (dā·wiḏ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 1732: David -- perhaps 'beloved one', a son of Jesse


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