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2 Samuel 5
All the tribes come to Hebron and anoint David king over Israel, at thirty years old. He takes the stronghold of Zion from the Jebusites and makes it the City of David; Hiram of Tyre builds him a house, and he defeats the Philistines.
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David took “the strong hold of Zion” and built round about from the Millo inward.
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The Bible speaks of the Millo, built from by David and rebuilt by Solomon; whether this is it is uncertain.
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Hiram of Tyre sent cedar, carpenters and masons, and they built David a house.
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David told his men to go up “to the gutter” (Hebrew tsinnor) to take the city; many have linked that word with this shaft.
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David's "gutter" (2 Samuel 5:8): KJV reads "gutter" and the 和合本 「水溝」 for the rare Hebrew tsinnor. Its meaning is uncertain: older commentators proposed a water channel, an underground passage (Kennicott, after Josephus) or a waterfall (Keil and Delitzsch), and the Pulpit Commentary links it with the shaft Charles Warren found leading down to the spring.
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David's "gutter" and Warren's Shaft (2 Samuel 5:8): KJV reads "gutter" and the 和合本 「水溝」 for the rare Hebrew tsinnor, whose meaning is uncertain (a channel, an underground passage, a waterfall). Warren and many after him linked it with his shaft; Reich and Shukron showed the shaft was not open in David's day.