Mais David s’empara de la forteresse de Sion, qu’on appelle la Cité de David. Ce jour-là, David avait déclaré à ses hommes : Celui qui veut battre les Yebousiens n’a qu’à grimper par le canal souterrain pour les atteindre. Quant à ces boiteux et ces aveugles, je les déteste. C’est de là que vient le dicton : Les aveugles et les boiteux n’entreront pas dans ma maison[a].

David s’installa dans la forteresse qu’il appela la Cité de David. Il fit des constructions tout autour, depuis les terrasses aménagées pour les cultures jusque vers l’intérieur.

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  1. 5.8 Autre traduction : dans le Temple.

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

And David said on that day, Whosoever getteth up to the gutter, and smiteth the Jebusites, and the lame and the blind that are hated of David's soul, he shall be chief and captain. Wherefore they said, The blind and the lame shall not come into the house.

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

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Nevertheless, David captured the fortress of Zion(A)—which is the City of David.(B)

On that day David had said, “Anyone who conquers the Jebusites will have to use the water shaft(C) to reach those ‘lame and blind’(D) who are David’s enemies.[a]” 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](E) inward.

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  1. 2 Samuel 5:8 Or are hated by David
  2. 2 Samuel 5:9 Or the Millo