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1 Then came all the tribes of
Israel to David unto Hebron, and spake, saying, Behold, we are thy bone
and thy flesh.
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.
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.
4 David was thirty years old when
he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.
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.
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.
7 Nevertheless David took the strong hold
of Zion: the same is the city of David.
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.
9 So David dwelt in the fort, and called
it the city of David. And David built round about from Millo and inward.
10 And David went on, and grew great, and
the LORD God of hosts was with him.
11 And Hiram king of Tyre
sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and carpenters, and masons: and they
built David an house.
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.
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.
14 And these be the names of those
that were born unto him in Jerusalem; Shammua, and Shobab, and Nathan, and
Solomon,
15 Ibhar also, and Elishua, and Nepheg,
and Japhia,
16 And Elishama, and Eliada, and
Eliphalet.
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.
18 The Philistines also came and spread
themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
19 And David enquired 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.
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.
21 And there they left their images, and
David and his men burned them.
22 And the Philistines came up yet again,
and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
23 And when David enquired 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.
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.
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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