8. That day David said, “Whoever wants to defeat the Jebusites must reach the lame and the blind who hate me by using the water shaft.” So there is a saying, “The blind and the lame will not get into the palace.”
9. David lived in the fortress and called it the City of David. He built the city ⌊of Jerusalem⌋ around it from the Millo to the palace.
10. David continued to grow more powerful because the Lord God of Armies was with him.
11. Then King Hiram of Tyre sent messengers to David, along with cedarwood, carpenters, and stonemasons. They built a palace for David.
12. So David realized that the Lord had established him as king of Israel and made his kingship famous for the sake of Israel, the Lord’s people.
13. David married more concubines and wives from Jerusalem after he had come there from Hebron, and he fathered more sons and daughters.
14. These are the names of the children born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon,