10 They tunnel through the rock;(A)
    their eyes see all its treasures.(B)

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10 He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing.

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On that day David had said, “Anyone who conquers the Jebusites will have to use the water shaft(A) to reach those ‘lame and blind’(B) who are David’s enemies.[a]” That is why they say, “The ‘blind and lame’ will not enter the palace.”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 5:8 Or are hated by David

And David said on that day, Whosoever getteth up to the gutter, and smiteth the Jebusites, and the lame and the blind that are hated of David's soul, he shall be chief and captain. Wherefore they said, The blind and the lame shall not come into the house.

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