Nevertheless, David took the stronghold of Zion, that is, the city of David.
Then David slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David.
As the ark of the Lord came into the city of David, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out of the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, and she despised him in her heart.
And it was told King David, “The Lord has blessed the household of Obed-edom and all that belongs to him, because of the ark of God.” So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-edom to the city of David with rejoicing.
Then I looked, and behold, on Mount Zion stood the Lamb, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads.
But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering,
as it is written, “Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense; and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.”
and many nations shall come, and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths.” For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
“And a Redeemer will come to Zion, to those in Jacob who turn from transgression,” declares the Lord.
Shout, and sing for joy, O inhabitant of Zion, for great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel.”
For the Lord has chosen Zion; he has desired it for his dwelling place:
the Lord loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwelling places of Jacob.
Do good to Zion in your good pleasure; build up the walls of Jerusalem;
Walk about Zion, go around her, number her towers,
Sing praises to the Lord, who sits enthroned in Zion! Tell among the peoples his deeds!
“As for me, I have set my King on Zion, my holy hill.”
And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, and toward God and his house.
Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the leaders of the fathers' houses of the people of Israel, in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the city of David, which is Zion.
And David lived in the stronghold; therefore it was called the city of David.
Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the leaders of the fathers' houses of the people of Israel, before King Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the city of David, which is Zion.
Solomon made a marriage alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt. He took Pharaoh's daughter and brought her into the city of David until he had finished building his own house and the house of the Lord and the wall around Jerusalem.
So David was not willing to take the ark of the Lord into the city of David. But David took it aside to the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.
And David lived in the stronghold and called it the city of David. And David built the city all around from the Millo inward.
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