Jebusite
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The remains of a Jebusite wall and tower they found are believed to be the mysterious "Millo" mentioned in II Samuel, V, 9, "And David built round about from Millo and inward."
From Time Magazine Archive
It was this event, perhaps, which made Jerusalem a Jebusite city.
From Patriarchal Palestine by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
It is the old boast of the Jebusite, when they told David they could defend Jerusalem by a garrison of the blind and lame.
From Days of Heaven Upon Earth by A. B. (Albert B.) Simpson
Jdt 5:16 And they cast forth before them the Chanaanite, the Pherezite, the Jebusite, and the Sychemite, and all the Gergesites, and they dwelt in that country many days.
From Deuterocanonical Books of the Bible Apocrypha by Anonymous
Such are the stone at Delphi, or the great rock, now enshrined in a Muhammadan mosque, which no doubt caused men to go up to Jerusalem in Jebusite days, before Israel came out of Egypt.
From The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London by P. S. (Percy Stafford) Allen
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