2 Samuel 5:8

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2 Samuel 5:8 (WEB)
David said on that day, “Whoever strikes the Jebusites, let him go up to the watercourse and strike those lame and blind, who are hated by David’s soul.” Therefore they say, “The blind and the lame can’t come into the house.”

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Tertullian, The Five Books Against Marcion IV.36Book IV
“…is one of Marcion’s Antitheses): whereas David in old time, in the capture of Sion, was offended by the blind who opposed his admission (into the stronghold)—in which respect (I should rather say) that they were a type of people equally blind, who in after-times would not admit Christ to be the son of David—so, on…” — editor's note: See 2 Sam. v. 6–8.
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