1 Chronicles 11:4

4 9 (2 Samuel 5:6-10). The "City of David" captured and made a royal residence

4. David and all Israel In Samuel (more accurately) "The king and his men," i.e. his household and body-guard; cp. 1 Chronicles 10:6, note. A picked force, not a large one, was necessary.

whichis Jebus R.V. ( the same is Jebus). Jerusalem (or Jebus) consisted, it seems (cp. 1 Chronicles 11:8; Judges 1:21), of a citadel inhabited by Jebusites and of a lower city inhabited by a mixed population of Jebusites and Benjamites. It was the citadel only which David stormed.

where the Jebusiteswere, the inhabitants of the land R.V. and the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, were there. The Jebusites are called "inhabitants of the land," because they were one of the "seven nations" dispossessed by Israel at the conquest (Deuteronomy 7:1).