⁵ The inhabitants of Jebus said to David, You shall not come in here. Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion; the same is the city of David.

⁹ If he be able to fight with me, and kill me, then will we be your servants; but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then shall you be our servants, and serve us.

¹⁰ The Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together.

⁶⁸ But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved.

² Yahweh loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

⁵ Yes, of Zion it will be said, "This one and that one was born in her;" The Most High himself will establish her.

⁵ For there are set thrones for judgment, The thrones of David's house.

¹ > Those who trust in Yahweh are as Mount Zion, Which can't be moved, but remains forever.

² As the mountains surround Jerusalem, So Yahweh surrounds his people from this time forth and forevermore.

¹³ For Yahweh has chosen Zion. He has desired it for his habitation.

¹¹ Yahweh has accomplished his wrath, he has poured out his fierce anger; He has kindled a fire in Zion, which has devoured the foundations of it.

¹² The kings of the earth didn't believe, neither all the inhabitants of the world, That the adversary and the enemy would enter into the gates of Jerusalem.

³³ even as it is written, "Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; And no one who believes in him will be disappointed."

²² But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable hosts of angels,

¹² Walk about Zion, and go around her. Number its towers;

¹³ Mark well her bulwarks. Consider her palaces, That you may tell it to the next generation.

² Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, Is Mount Zion, on the north sides, The city of the great King.

¹¹ Sing praises to Yahweh, who dwells in Zion, And declare among the people what he has done.

²⁶ David spoke to the men who stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man who kills this Philistine, and takes away the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?

³⁶ Your servant struck both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he has defied the armies of the living God.

⁹ David lived in the stronghold, and called it the city of David. David built round about from Millo and inward.

¹⁰ So David would not remove the ark of Yahweh to him into the city of David; but David carried it aside into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.

¹² It was told king David, saying, Yahweh has blessed the house of Obed-edom, and all that pertains to him, because of the ark of God. David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-edom into the city of David with joy.

¹ Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers' [houses] of the children of Israel, to king Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh out of the city of David, which is Zion.

⁷ David lived in the stronghold; therefore they called it the city of David.

² Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers' [houses] of the children of Israel, to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh out of the city of David, which is Zion.

⁶ "Yet I have set my king on my holy hill of Zion."

¹ I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him a number, one hundred forty-four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads.