2 Samuel 5:9

So David dwelt in the fort,.... The strong hold of Zion, which he took:

and called it the city of David; from his own name, to keep up the memory of his taking it, and of his habitation in it:

and…

David dwelt in the fort - or stronghold, (as in 2Sa 5:7) i. e. eventually, when the buildings were completed, which may not have been for two or three years. Millo appears to have been a fortress of…

If Salem, the place of which Melchizedec was king, was Jerusalem (as seems probable from Psa 76:2), it was famous in Abraham's time. Joshua, in his time, found it the chief city of the south part of…

in the fort In the strong hold, the same word as in 2Sa 5:5, and in 1Ch 11:5 (E. V. castle).

Millo The Millo. See Additional Note VI., p. 241.

and inward Within or under the protection of the Millo,…