The siege of Jebus is described in passages of the
Hebrew Bible
The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh (;"Tanach" ''
Israelites
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, led by King
David
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, besieged and conquered the
Canaan
Canaan (; Phoenician: 𐤊𐤍𐤏𐤍 – ; he, כְּנַעַן – , in pausa – ; grc-bib, Χανααν – ;The current scholarly edition of the Greek Old Testament spells the word without any accents, cf. Septuaginta : id est Vetus Te ...
ite city of
Jerusalem
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, then known as ''Jebus'' (, , ). The Israelites gained access to the city by conducting a surprise assault, and Jebus (or Jerusalem) was subsequently installed as the capital city of the United Kingdom of Israel under its initial name as the City of David.
The identification of Jebus with Jerusalem has been challenged.
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biblical scholar
Niels Peter Lemche
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notes that every non-biblical mention of Jerusalem found in the
ancient Near East
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refers to the city with the name of Jerusalem, offering as an example the
Amarna letters
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, which are dated to the 14th century BCE and refer to Jerusalem as . He states that "There is no evidence of Jebus and the
Jebusites
The Jebusites (; ISO 259-3 ''Ybusi'') were, according to the books of Joshua and Samuel from the Tanakh, a Canaanite tribe that inhabited Jerusalem, then called Jebus (Hebrew: ''Yəḇūs'', "trampled place") prior to the conquest initiated b ...
outside of the
Old Testament
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. Some scholars reckon Jebus to be a different place from Jerusalem; other scholars prefer to see the name of Jebus as a kind of pseudo-ethnic name without any historical background".
Biblical description
The capture of Jebus is mentioned in and with similar wordings:
See also
*
Siege of Jerusalem (disambiguation)
Siege of Jerusalem, fall of Jerusalem, or sack of Jerusalem may refer to:
Battles
* Siege of Jebus (1010 BC), a siege by David, king of the United Kingdom of Israel, from biblical narrative
* Sack of Jerusalem (925 BC), by Pharaoh Shishak, fro ...