Anyone Attack Blind Can't Captain Chief Conquers David David's Death Enemies Enter Feeble-footed Gets Getteth Gutter Hated Jebusite Jebusites Jeb'usites Lame Makes Palace Reach Shaft Smite Smites Smiteth Smiting Soul Strike Strikes Taketh Tunnel Watercourse Water-pipe Wherefore
5:8 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 {d} come into the house.
(d) The idols should no longer enter into that place.
5:8 To the gutter - That is, whosoever scaleth the fort, or getteth up to the top of it, where the gutter was. That are hated - The Jebusites, and the lame, and the blind, Who had probably themselves insulted him, and blasphemed God. He shall be - These words are fitly supplied out of 1Chron 11:6, where they are expressed. They said and c. - That is, whence it became a proverb, or a common saying, used by David, and others, the blind and the lame Jebusites, were set to keep the house, that is, the fort of Zion; and to keep others from coming into it; but now they are shut out of it, and none of them, either of the Jebusites, or of blind and lame persons, shall be admitted to come into it again. Which David might ordain, to keep up the memory of this great exploit, and of the insolent carriage of the Jebusites.
5:6-10 The enemies of God's people are often very confident of their own strength, and most secure when their day to fall draws nigh. But the pride and insolence of the Jebusites animated David, and the Lord God of hosts was with him. Thus in the day of God's power, Satan's strong-hold, the human heart, is changed into a habitation of God through the Spirit, and into a throne on which the Son of David rules, and brings every thought into obedience to himself. May He thus come, and claim, and cleanse, each of our hearts; and, destroying every idol, may he reign there for ever!
Blind Captain Chief David David's Enter Getteth Gutter Hated House Jebusites Lame Palace Reach Smiteth Soul Strike Strikes Tunnel Water Watercourse
Blind Captain Chief David David's Enter Getteth Gutter Hated House Jebusites Lame Palace Reach Smiteth Soul Strike Strikes Tunnel Water Watercourse
