The oldest part of Jerusalem, east of the Old City and south of the temple mount, where David captured and renamed a Jebusite fortress (2 Samuel 5:6-11); not to be confused with Bethlehem, which is also referred to as the City of David (Luke 2:11).
About City of David
A southeastern hill (also called Ophel) in the present-day city of Jerusalem. It was the site occupied by King David as his royal city. It is also called Zion (for example, in 1 Kings 8:1). David captured the Jebusite fortress of Jerusalem and transferred his capital to it from Hebron (2 Samuel 5:1–10).
See Jerusalem.
Key References
Now the king and his men marched to Jerusalem against the Jebusites who inhabited the land. The Jebusites said to David: “You will never get in here. Even the blind and lame can repel you.” For they thought, “David cannot get in here.”
As the ark of the LORD was entering the City of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked down from a window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD, and she despised him in her heart.
Then David rested with his fathers and was buried in the City of David.
So David took up residence in the fortress; that is why it was called the City of David.
David constructed buildings for himself in the City of David, and he prepared a place for the ark of God and pitched a tent for it.