Now David said on that day, “Whoever climbs up by way of the water shaft and defeats the Jebusites (the lame and the blind, who are hated by David’s soul), (A)he shall be chief and captain.” Therefore they say, “The blind and the lame shall not come into the house.”

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On that day David had said, “Anyone who conquers the Jebusites will have to use the water shaft(A) to reach those ‘lame and blind’(B) who are David’s enemies.[a]” That is why they say, “The ‘blind and lame’ will not enter the palace.”

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Footnotes

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

18 (A)Their soul abhorred all manner of food,
And they (B)drew near to the gates of death.

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18 They loathed all food(A)
    and drew near the gates of death.(B)

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therefore thus says the Lord God: (A)“Surely I have spoken in My burning jealousy against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, (B)who gave My land to themselves as a possession, with wholehearted joy and [a]spiteful minds, in order to plunder its open country.” ’

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 36:5 Lit. scorning souls

this is what the Sovereign Lord says: In my burning(A) zeal I have spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, for with glee and with malice in their hearts they made my land their own possession so that they might plunder its pastureland.’(B)

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