Jeb’usites, The. (descendants of Jebus). The Jebusites were descended from the third son of Canaan. Gen 10:16; 1Ch 1:14. The actual people first appear in the invaluable report of the spies. Num 13:29. When Jabin organized his rising against Joshua, the Jebusites joined him. Jos 11:3.
"Jebus, which is Jerusalem," lost its king, in the slaughter of Beth-horon, Jos 10:1; Jos 10:5; Jos 10:26, compare Jos 12:10, was sacked and burned by the men of Judah, Jdg 1:21, and its citadel finally scaled, and occupied by David. 2Sa 5:6.
After this, they emerge from the darkness, but once, in the person of Araunah, the Jebusite, "Araunah, the king," who appears before us in true kingly dignity, in his well-known transaction with David. 2Sa 24:23; 1Ch 21:24-25.