The Jebusites dwell with the children of Judah at Jerusalem unto this day] The parallel passage in Judges 1:21 has 'Benjamin' for 'Judah,' which may be an earlier form. At first sight this v. seems to belong to a time anterior, or at latest to the time when David (2 Samuel 5:6.) captured from the Jebusites the citadel of Zion. But that capture did not mean expulsion, as is clear from the later incident of Araunah (2 Samuel 24:16 cp. 1 Chronicles 21:15; Cp. also the mention of Jebusites as late as Zechariah 9:7); and in a sense it may be true that Judahite and Jebusite only began to live together in Jerusalem when David made it his capital, though Judges 1:21 may represent an earlier state of things.

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