1. 2 Samuel 5:8 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

Who are the blind and lame that David was talking about?

2 Samuel 5:8 (ESV)

8 And David said on that day, “Whoever would strike the Jebusites, let him get up the water shaft to attack ‘the lame and the blind,’ who are hated by David’s soul.” Therefore it is said, “The blind and the lame shall not come into the house.”

The blind and lame is most likely a reference to the jeering Jebusites.1 David was encouraging his men to make a plan to reach these Jebusites and take the city from them.