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Joshua 15 notes that the Jebusites could not be driven out of Jerusalem and stayed there. 2 Samuel 5 closes that gap when David captures the Jebusite fortress of Zion and makes it the City of David, his capital.
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Joshua 15:63
Hebrew Bible
62 Nibshan, the City of Salt, and En Gedi—a total of six cities and their towns. 63 The men of Judah were unable to conquer the Jebusites living in Jerusalem. The Jebusites live with the people of Judah in Jerusalem to this very day.
2 Samuel 5:7
Hebrew Bible
6 Then the king and his men advanced to Jerusalem against the Jebusites who lived in the land. The Jebusites said to David, “You cannot invade this place! Even the blind and the lame will turn you back, saying, ‘David cannot invade this place!’” 7 But David captured the fortress of Zion (that is, the City of David). 8 David said on that day, “Whoever attacks the Jebusites must approach the ‘lame’ and the ‘blind’ who are David’s enemies by going through the water tunnel.” For this reason it is said, “The blind and the lame cannot enter the palace.”
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... What is more important, however, is that in this way (by the combination of 1:8 and 1:21), not only the negative picture of Judah in Joshua 15:63 could be corrected; it also left room for the later report of David taking the city of Jerusalem and making it his capital (2 Samuel 5:6–8). Note that in the story of David the Jebusites are explicitly mentioned: “the king and his men went to Jerusalem unto the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land”. The way in which the source text of Joshua is handled here and the way the connection is made to the book of Samuel, can be regarded as typical for the motives and methods of the author of the book of Judges. It also corroborates the suggestion that the book of Judges is related to the book of Joshua in the same way as it appears to be related to the books of Samuel. ...
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