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Building · The United Kingdom1046 BC

David builds the city of David

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True span4004 BC – AD 100
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2 Samuel 5:9–12David lived in the stronghold, and called it David’s city. David built around from Millo and inward.1 Chronicles 11:7–9David lived in the stronghold; therefore they called it David’s city.
Opening words from the World English Bible (public domain); the passage list is in-house

Who and where

DavidJoabHiramZion ›
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How we know the date

Ussher's Annals (1650) gives 1046 BC (its year of the world 2958 b).

Written in-house from the sources below · every year is a quotation

The sources, word for word

“2958. b. David eedificavit civitatem Sionis circumquaque, tam munitionem, quam circuitum ejus: Joab vero instauravit reliquumn civitatis®.”

Ussher, Annales Veteris Testamenti (1650), Latin text in The Whole Works of James Ussher, vols. VIII–XI (Dublin, 1864) · vol. VIII, AM 2958 b · gives 1046 BC

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