2SA-5:1 Then came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron,

and spake, saying, Behold, we [are] thy bone and thy flesh.

2SA-5:2 Also in time past, when Saul was king over us, thou wast

he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the LORD said

to thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be a

captain over Israel.

2SA-5:3 So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron;

and king David made a league with them in Hebron before the LORD:

 and they anointed David king over Israel.

2SA-5:4 David [was] thirty years old when he began to reign,

[and] he reigned forty years.

2SA-5:5 In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six

months: and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years over

all Israel and Judah.

2SA-5:6 And the king and his men went to Jerusalem unto the

Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land: which spake unto David,

saying, Except thou take away the blind and the lame, thou shalt

not come in hither: thinking, David cannot come in hither.

2SA-5:7 Nevertheless David took the strong hold of Zion: the

same [is] the city of David.

2SA-5:8 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.

2SA-5:9 So David dwelt in the fort, and called it the city of

David. And David built round about from Millo and inward.

2SA-5:10 And David went on, and grew great, and the LORD God of

hosts [was] with him.

2SA-5:11 And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and

cedar trees, and carpenters, and masons: and they built David an

house.

2SA-5:12 And David perceived that the LORD had established him

king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom for his

people Israel's sake.

2SA-5:13 And David took [him] more concubines and wives out of

Jerusalem, after he was come from Hebron: and there were yet

sons and daughters born to David.

2SA-5:14 And these [be] the names of those that were born unto

him in Jerusalem; Shammuah, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon,

2SA-5:15 Ibhar also, and Elishua, and Nepheg, and Japhia,

2SA-5:16 And Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphalet.

2SA-5:17 But when the Philistines heard that they had anointed

David king over Israel, all the Philistines came up to seek

David; and David heard [of it], and went down to the hold.

2SA-5:18 The Philistines also came and spread themselves in the

valley of Rephaim.

2SA-5:19 And David inquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I go up

to the Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into mine hand? And

the LORD said unto David, Go up: for I will doubtless deliver

the Philistines into thine hand.

2SA-5:20 And David came to Baalperazim, and David smote them

there, and said, The LORD hath broken forth upon mine enemies

before me, as the breach of waters. Therefore he called the name

of that place Baalperazim.

2SA-5:21 And there they left their images, and David and his men

burned them.

2SA-5:22 And the Philistines came up yet again, and spread

themselves in the valley of Rephaim.

2SA-5:23 And when David inquired of the LORD, he said, Thou

shalt not go up; [but] fetch a compass behind them, and come

upon them over against the mulberry trees.

2SA-5:24 And let it be, when thou hearest the sound of a going

in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt bestir

thyself: for then shall the LORD go out before thee, to smite

the host of the Philistines.

2SA-5:25 And David did so, as the LORD had commanded him; and

smote the Philistines from Geba until thou come to Gazer.

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