2 Samuel 5:8 meaning and explanation
On that day he said, “Whoever attacks the Jebusites must use the water shaft to reach the lame and blind who are despised by David.” That is why it is said, “The blind and the lame will never enter the palace.”
2 Samuel 5:8, Berean Standard Bible
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David is capturing Jerusalem from the Jebusites, who taunted him that even the blind and lame could hold the city against him. The Hebrew text of this verse is famously difficult, and the water shaft (a vertical tunnel giving access to the city's spring) was the route his men used to get inside.
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