The inhabitants of Jebus said to David, “You will not come in here!” Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion. The same is David’s city.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 5. Here. In 2 Kennicott. 5:6, the passage is much fuller, and attended with many difficulties. Kennicott would correct and translate it: “And they spake unto David, saying, Thou shalt not come hither: for the blind and the lame shall keep thee off, by saying David shall not come hither. But David took the stronghold of Sion,” (different from the citadel. Josephus) “which is the city of David. And David said, on that day, whosoever (first) smiteth the Jebusites, and, through the subterraneous passage, reacheth the blind and the lame, which are hated of David’s soul, because the blind and the lame continue to say, he shall not come into this house—shall be head and captain. So Joab, the son of Zeruiah, went up first, and was head.”