Holy Scripture
1 Chronicles 11:5
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“You have a great intellect and an inexhaustible store of language, your diction is fluent and pure, your fluency and purity are mingled with wisdom. Your head is clear and all your senses keen. Were you to add to this wisdom and eloquence a careful study and knowledge of Scripture, I should soon see you holding our ci…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
5Thou shalt not enter in hither. But he took the stronghold of Zion: this is the city of David.
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3And all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and King David made a covenant with them in Hebron before the Lord: and they anointed David to be king over Israel, according to the word of the Lord by Samuel.
4And the king and his men went to Jerusalem, this is Jebus; and there the Jebusites the inhabitants of the land said to David,
— 1 Chronicles 11:5 —
6And David said, Whoever first smites the Jebusite, even he shall be chief and captain. And Joab the son of Zeruiah went up first, and became chief.
7And David dwelt in the stronghold; therefore he called it the city of David.