Dict: easton - Jebus

easton:

Jebus @ trodden hard, or fastness, or "the waterless hill", the name of the Canaanitish city which stood on Mount Zion kjv@Joshua:15:8 kjv@Joshua:18:16 kjv@Joshua:18:28). It is identified with Jerusalem (q.v.) in kjv@Judges:19:10, and with the castle or city of David ( kjv@1Chronicles:11:4-5). It was a place of great natural strength, and its capture was one of David's most brilliant achievements ( kjv@2Samuel:5:8).

Jebusites @ the name of the original inhabitants of Jebus, mentioned frequently among the seven nations doomed to destruction kjv@Genesis:10:16 kjv@Genesis:15:21; kjv@Exodus:3:8 kjv@Exodus:3:17 kjv@Exodus:13:5, etc.). At the time of the arrival of the Israelites in Palestine they were ruled by Adonizedek kjv@Joshua:10:1-23). They were defeated by Joshua, and their king was slain; but they were not entirely driven out of Jebus till the time of David, who made it the capital of his kingdom instead of Hebron. The site on which the temple was afterwards built belonged to Araunah, a Jebusite, from whom it was purchased by David, who refused to accept it as a free gift ( kjv@2Samuel:24:16-25; kjv@1Chronicles:21:24-25).