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Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion (the same is the City of David).

And David said on that day, “Whosoever getteth up through the gutter and smiteth the Jebusites, and the lame and the blind, who are hated in David’s soul, he shall be chief and captain.” Therefore they said, “The blind and the lame shall not come into the house.”

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

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