(Now the children of Judah had fought against Jerusalem, and hath taken it and smitten it with the edge of the sword, and had set the [a]city on fire.)

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  1. Judges 1:8 Which was afterward built again, and possessed by the Jebusites, 2 Sam. 5:6.

¶ The King also and his men went to Jerusalem unto the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land: who spake unto David, saying, Except thou take away the [a]blind and the lame, thou shalt not come in hither: thinking that David could not come thither:

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  1. 2 Samuel 5:6 The children of God called idols blind and lame guides: therefore the Jebusites meant that they should prove that their gods were neither blind nor lame.

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