Charles Ellicott Commentary


Charles Ellicott Commentary
"And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem (the same is Jebus); and the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, were there." — 1 Chronicles 11:4 (ASV)
And David ... land. —Samuel is briefer: “And the king and his men went to Jerusalem, to the Jebusite, the inhabitant of the land.” The chronicler adds the explanatory “that is Jebus,” because of the later mention of the Jebusite. He then further modifies the form of the original statement, continuing “and there (lived) the Jebusite (collect.), the inhabitants,” and so on.
Jerusalem means city of Salem; Assyrian, Ursalimmê. But in Hebrew the name has been so modified as to suggest “vision of peace.” In Greek the name became Hierosolyma, “Sacred Solyma.”
Inhabitants of the land. —A standard term for the native Canaanites, and equivalent to indigenæ, or Ἀυτόχθονες.