City of David

Where is City of David?

Approx. 31.7736, 35.2356 · OpenStreetMap · Google Maps

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Verses that mention City of David

• 2 Samuel 5:7

  Nevertheless David took the strong hold of Zion: the same is the city of David.

• 2 Samuel 5:9

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

• 2 Samuel 6:10

  So David would not remove the ark of the Lord unto him into the city of David: but David carried it aside into the house of Obed–edom the Gittite.

• 2 Samuel 6:12

  And it was told king David, saying, The Lord hath blessed the house of Obed–edom, and all that pertaineth unto him, because of the ark of God. So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed–edom into the city of David with gladness.

• 2 Samuel 6:16

  And as the ark of the Lord came into the city of David, Michal Saul’s daughter looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the Lord; and she despised him in her heart.

• 1 Kings 2:10

  So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.

• 1 Kings 3:1

  And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh’s daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of the Lord, and the wall of Jerusalem round about.

• 1 Kings 8:1

  Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the city of David, which is Zion.

• 1 Kings 9:24

  But Pharaoh’s daughter came up out of the city of David unto her house which Solomon had built for her: then did he build Millo.

• 1 Kings 11:27

  And this was the cause that he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breaches of the city of David his father.