going to favor his home tribes? he's going to choose a capital that will be a compromise. >> he settles on a small-mountain enclave built by canaanites over 2,000 years earlier. jerusalem. >> jerusalem is a particularly unpromising spot to have become as important as it became. it doesn't have a strategic location. it's not even on a waterway, on a river, or anything like that. >> jerusalem was chosen as a capital city because of where it lay. it was right in the middle. kind of, like, washington, d.c. and the united states. >> the great thing about jerusalem was it was impregnable. it was a fortified-strong point, which made it very attractive.