And David said on that day, Whosoever getteth up to the gutter, and smiteth the Jebusites, and the lame and the blind, that are hated of David's soul, he shall be chief and captain. Wherefore they said, The blind and the lame shall not come into the house.
Whosoever getteth up to the gutter, and smiteth the Jebusites х kaal (H3605) makeeh (H5221) Yªbuciy (H2983), whosoever smiteth a Jebusite: so also the Septuagint, Pas tuptoon Iebousaion, everyone striking a Jebusite; wªyiga` (H5060) batsinowr (H6794), and reacheth by the watercourse (Psalms 42:8) the lame and the blind, etc.] Stanley ('Sinai and Palestine,' p. 171, note) renders these words, 'dasheth them against the precipice'-not correctly. Kennicott's translation of this passage is-`And David said on that day, Whosoever (first) smiteth the Jebusites, and through the subterranean passage, or gutter, reacheth the blind and the lame, which are hated by David's soul-because the blind and the lame continued to say, "He shall not come into the house" - shall be head and captain; so Joab, the son of Zeruiah, went up first, and was made chief captain' (1 Chronicles 11:6).
Wherefore they said, The blind and the lame shall not come into the house. The question here is, Who said this? Those who ascribe it to the Jebusites consider it as meaning, that if the idols did not protect their fort, they should not commit the safety of their fortress to such incompetent guardianship in future. But others, regarding the words as spoken by the Hebrews, interpret it as a determination that they (namely, the blind and the lame) should not come into the house (i:e., of the Lord) (cf. Deuteronomy 23:1-3). [The Septuagint renders the whole passage thus: Pas-haptesthoo en paraxifidi kai tous choolous kai tous tuflous kai tous misountas teen psucheen Dauid; dia touto erousi, Tufloi kai chooloi ouk eiseleusontai eis oikon kuriou-Whosoever shall touch with his dagger the lame and the blind, and those who hate David's life; wherefore they say, Blind and lame people shall not enter into the house of the Lord.]