Devine Scripture

2 Samuel 5:9

2 Samuel chapter 5 · verse 9 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

And David dwelt in the stronghold, and called it the city of David. And David built round about from Millo and inward.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

And David dwelt in the stronghold, and called it the city of David. And David built round about from Millo and inward.

Context

v.8And David said on that day, Whosoever smiteth the Jebusites, let him get up to the watercourse, and smite the lame and the blind, that are hated of David’s soul. Wherefore they say, There are the blind and the lame; he cannot come into the house.

v.9This passage

v.10And David waxed greater and greater; for Jehovah, the God of hosts, was with him.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Judges 9:6

    And all the men of Shechem assembled themselves together, and all the house of Millo, and went and made Abimelech king, by the oak of the pillar that was in Shechem.

  • 1 Kings 9:15

    And this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised, to build the house of Jehovah, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.

  • 1 Kings 11:27

    And this was the reason why he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breach of the city of David his father.

  • 2 Chronicles 32:5

    And he took courage, and built up all the wall that was broken down, and raised it up to the towers, and the other wall without, and strengthened Millo in the city of David, and made weapons and shields in abundance.

  • 1 Kings 9:24

    But Pharaoh’s daughter came up out of the city of David unto her house which Solomon had built for her: then did he build Millo.

  • 2 Samuel 5:7

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