Jerusalem in 2 Samuel

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1. 5:5

   In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three years over all Israel and Judah.

2. 5:6

   Now the king and his men marched to Jerusalem against the Jebusites who inhabited the land. The Jebusites said to David: “You will never get in here. Even the blind and lame can repel you.” For they thought, “David cannot get in here.”

3. 5:13

   After he had arrived from Hebron, David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem, and more sons and daughters were born to him.

4. 5:14

   These are the names of the children born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon,

5. 8:7

   And David took the gold shields that belonged to the officers of Hadadezer and brought them to Jerusalem.

6. 9:13

   So Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem, because he always ate at the king’s table, and he was lame in both feet.

7. 10:14

   When the Ammonites saw that the Arameans had fled, they too fled before Abishai, and they entered the city. So Joab returned from fighting against the Ammonites and came to Jerusalem.

8. 11:1

   In the spring, at the time when kings march out to war, David sent out Joab and his servants with the whole army of Israel. They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah, but David remained in Jerusalem.

9. 11:12

   “Stay here one more day,” David said to Uriah, “and tomorrow I will send you back.” So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day and the next.

10. 12:31

    David brought out the people who were there and put them to work with saws, iron picks, and axes, and he made them work at the brick kilns. He did the same to all the Ammonite cities. Then David and all his troops returned to Jerusalem.

11. 14:23

    So Joab got up, went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.

12. 14:28

    Now Absalom lived in Jerusalem two years without seeing the face of the king.

13. 15:8

    For your servant made a vow while dwelling in Geshur of Aram, saying: ‘If indeed the LORD brings me back to Jerusalem, I will worship the LORD in Hebron.’”

14. 15:11

    Two hundred men from Jerusalem accompanied Absalom. They had been invited as guests and they went along innocently, for they knew nothing about the matter.

15. 15:14

    And David said to all the servants with him in Jerusalem, “Arise and let us flee, or we will not escape from Absalom! We must leave quickly, or he will soon overtake us, heap disaster on us, and put the city to the sword.”

16. 15:29

    So Zadok and Abiathar returned the ark of God to Jerusalem and stayed there.

17. 15:37

    So David’s friend Hushai arrived in Jerusalem just as Absalom was entering the city.

18. 16:3

    “Where is your master’s grandson?” asked the king. And Ziba answered, “Indeed, he is staying in Jerusalem, for he has said, ‘Today, the house of Israel will restore to me the kingdom of my grandfather.’”

19. 16:15

    Then Absalom and all the men of Israel came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel was with him.

20. 17:20

    When Absalom’s servants came to the woman at the house, they asked, “Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?” “They have crossed over the brook,” she replied. The men searched but did not find them, so they returned to Jerusalem.

21. 19:19

    and said, “My lord, do not hold me guilty, and do not remember your servant’s wrongdoing on the day my lord the king left Jerusalem. May the king not take it to heart.

22. 19:25

    And he came from Jerusalem to meet the king, who asked him, “Mephibosheth, why did you not go with me?”

23. 19:33

    The king said to Barzillai, “Cross over with me, and I will provide for you at my side in Jerusalem.”

24. 19:34

    But Barzillai replied, “How many years of my life remain, that I should go up to Jerusalem with the king?

25. 20:2

    So all the men of Israel deserted David to follow Sheba son of Bichri. But the men of Judah stayed by their king all the way from the Jordan to Jerusalem.

26. 20:3

    When David returned to his palace in Jerusalem, he took the ten concubines he had left to take care of the palace, and he placed them in a house under guard. He provided for them, but he no longer slept with them. They were confined until the day of their death, living as widows.

27. 20:7

    So Joab’s men, along with the Cherethites, the Pelethites, and all the mighty men, marched out of Jerusalem in pursuit of Sheba son of Bichri.

28. 20:22

    Then the woman went to all the people with her wise counsel, and they cut off the head of Sheba son of Bichri and threw it to Joab. So he blew the ram’s horn and his men dispersed from the city, each to his own home. And Joab returned to the king in Jerusalem.

29. 24:8

    At the end of nine months and twenty days, having gone through the whole land, they returned to Jerusalem.

30. 24:16

    But when the angel stretched out his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the LORD relented from the calamity and said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand now!” At that time the angel of the LORD was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.