• 2 Samuel 5:8
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures

    • 8 So David said on that day: “Those who attack the Jebʹu·sites should go through the water tunnel to strike down both ‘the lame and the blind,’ who are hateful to David!”* That is why it is said: “The blind and the lame will never enter the house.”

  • 2 Samuel 5:8
    The Bible in Living English

    • 8* and David said that day “Anyone who strikes down a Jebusite and gets to the conduit; and the lame and the blind, hateful to David’s soul—.” For this reason they say “One blind or lame shall not come into the house.”

  • 2 Samuel 5:8
    American Standard Version

    • 8 And David said on that day, Whosoever smiteth the Jebusites, let him get up to the watercourse, and smite the lame and the blind, that are hated of David’s soul. Wherefore they say, There are the blind and the lame; he cannot come into the house.

  • 2 Samuel 5:8
    The Emphasized Bible

    • 8 And David said on that day—Whosoever is smiting the Jebusites, then let him reach as far as the aqueduct. But as for the lame and the blind, they were the hated of David’s soul,—for which cause they kept on saying, Blind and lame! he will not enter the place.

  • 2 Samuel 5:8
    King James Version

    • 8 And David said on that day, Whosoever getteth up to the gutter, and smiteth the Jebusites, and the lame and the blind, that are hated of David’s soul, he shall be chief and captain. Wherefore they said, The blind and the lame shall not come into the house.