Jebusites

The Jebusites were a Canaanite people descended from Canaan son of Ham, listed in the Table of Nations (Genesis 10:16). They inhabited Jerusalem—which they called Jebus—and maintained control of the city through the period of the judges and early monarchy, repelling Israelite attempts at conquest (Joshua 15:63; Judges 1:21). David captured the fortress of Zion from them and made it his capital (2 Samuel 5:6–9; 1 Chronicles 11:4–7). Araunah (or Ornan) the Jebusite, from whom David purchased the threshing floor that became the site of Solomon's temple, is the most prominent individual Jebusite in the biblical narrative (2 Samuel 24:18–25).