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

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

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

Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear; and this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, seeing he has reproached the ranks of the living God.

Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the chief fathers of the children of Israel, unto King Solomon at Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of Jehovah out of the City of David, which is Zion.

And Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the chief fathers of the children of Israel, to Jerusalem, to bring the ark of the covenant of Jehovah up from the City of David, which is Zion.

Yet, I have set My King on My holy hill of Zion.

Sing praises to Jehovah, who dwells in Zion; declare His deeds among the nations.

Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the Great King.

Walk around Zion, and go all around it; count the towers of it;

set your heart on its bulwarks, pass by its fortress; so that you may recount it to the following generation.

but chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which He loved.

Jehovah loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man have been born in her; and the Most High shall establish her.

i1 [A Song of Ascents.] i0 par Those who trust in Jehovah are like Mount Zion, which is not shaken, but remains forever.

As the mountains are around Jerusalem, so Jehovah is around His people from this time forth and forever.

For Jehovah has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His dwelling place.

Jehovah has fulfilled His fury; He has poured out His fierce anger, and has kindled a fire in Zion, and it has devoured its foundations.

The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy would have entered the gates into Jerusalem.

As it is written: Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and rock of offense, and everyone believing on Him will not be put to shame.

But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the Heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable multitude of angels,

Then I looked, and behold, a Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with Him one hundred and forty-four thousand, having His Father's name written on their foreheads.

And David dwelt in the stronghold; therefore they called it the City of David.

So David dwelt in the stronghold, and called it the City of David. And David built all around from the fortifications and inward.

So David was not willing to remove the ark of Jehovah to himself into the City of David; but David turned it aside into the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite.

And it was reported to King David, saying, Jehovah has blessed the house of Obed- Edom and all that belongs to him, because of the ark of God. So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-Edom to the City of David with gladness.

For thrones are set there for judgment, the thrones of the house of David.