Joshua 15:63 Cross References
Joshua 15:63
63: But the tribe of Judah could not drive out the Jebusites, who lived in the city of Jerusalem, so the Jebusites live there among the people of Judah to this day.
Judges 1:21
- The tribe of Benjamin, however, failed to drive out the Jebusites, who were living in Jerusalem. So to this day the Jebusites live in Jerusalem among the people of Benjamin.
Judges 1:8
- The men of Judah attacked Jerusalem and captured it, killing all its people and setting the city on fire.
2 Samuel 5:6
- David then led his troops to Jerusalem to fight against the Jebusites. "You'll never get in here," the Jebusites taunted. "Even the blind and lame could keep you out!" For the Jebusites thought they were safe.
- But David captured the fortress of Zion, now called the City of David.
- When the insulting message from the defenders of the city reached David, he told his own troops, "Go up through the water tunnel into the city and destroy those `lame' and `blind' Jebusites. How I hate them." That is the origin of the saying, "The blind and the lame may not enter the house."
- So David made the fortress his home, and he called it the City of David. He built additional fortifications around the city, starting at the Millo and working inward.
1 Chronicles 11:4
- Then David and all Israel went to Jerusalem (or Jebus, as it used to be called), where the Jebusites, original inhabitants of the land, lived.
- The people of Jebus said to David, "You will never get in here!" But David captured the fortress of Zion, now called the City of David.
- David had said to his troops, "Whoever leads the attack against the Jebusites will become the commander of my armies!" And Joab, the son of David's sister Zeruiah, led the attack, so he became the commander of David's armies.
- David made the fortress his home, and that is why it is called the City of David.
- He extended the city from the Millo to the surrounding area, while Joab rebuilt the rest of Jerusalem.
Romans 7:14
- The law is good, then. The trouble is not with the law but with me, because I am sold into slavery, with sin as my master.
- I don't understand myself at all, for I really want to do what is right, but I don't do it. Instead, I do the very thing I hate.
- I know perfectly well that what I am doing is wrong, and my bad conscience shows that I agree that the law is good.
- But I can't help myself, because it is sin inside me that makes me do these evil things.
- I know I am rotten through and through so far as my old sinful nature is concerned. No matter which way I turn, I can't make myself do right. I want to, but I can't.