“The king and his men marched to Jerusalem to attack the Jebusites, who l
ived there. The Jebusites said to David,

“You will not get in here; even the blind and the lame can ward you off.”

They thought, “David cannot get in here.”

Nevertheless, David captured the fortress of Zion—which is the City of David.
On that day David had said, “Anyone who conquers the Jebusites will have to use the water shaft to reach those ‘lame and blind’ who are David’s enemies.”

That is why they say, “The ‘blind and lame’ will not enter the palace.”

David then took up residence in the fortress and called it the City of David. He built up the area around it, from the terraces^[b] inward.

And he became more and more powerful, because the Lord God Almightywas with him.”

2Samuel 5:6-10