1 Then came all the tribes of Israel to David to Hebron, and spoke,
saying, Behold, we are your bone and your flesh. 2 In times past, when
Saul was king over us, it was you who led out and brought in Israel: and
Yahweh said to you, You shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall
be prince over Israel. 3 So all the elders of Israel came to the king to
Hebron; and king David made a covenant with them in Hebron before Yahweh: 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-three
years over all Israel and Judah. 6 The king and his men went to Jerusalem
against the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, who spoke to David,
saying, Except you take away the blind and the lame, you shall not come in
here; thinking, David can’t come in here. 7 Nevertheless David took the
stronghold of Zion; the same is the city of David. 8 David said on that
day, Whoever strikes the Jebusites, let him get up to the watercourse, and
strike the lame and the blind, who are hated of David’s soul.
Therefore they say, There are the blind and the lame; he can’t come into the
house. 9 David lived in the stronghold, and called it the city of David.
David built round about from Millo and inward. 10 David grew greater and
greater; for Yahweh, the God of hosts, was with him. 11 Hiram king of Tyre
sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and carpenters, and masons; and
they built David a house. 12 David perceived that Yahweh had established
him king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom for his people
Israel’s sake. 13 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 These are the names of those who were born to
him in Jerusalem: Shammua, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon, 15 and
Ibhar, and Elishua, and Nepheg, and Japhia, 16 and Elishama, and Eliada,
and Eliphelet. 17 When the Philistines heard that they had anointed David
king over Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David; and David heard
of it, and went down to the stronghold. 18 Now the Philistines had come
and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim. 19 David inquired of
Yahweh, saying, Shall I go up against the Philistines? will you deliver them
into my hand? Yahweh said to David, Go up; for I will certainly deliver the
Philistines into your hand. 20 David came to Baal Perazim, and David
struck them there; and he said, Yahweh has broken my enemies before me, like
the breach of waters. Therefore he called the name of that place Baal
Perazim. 21 They left their images there; and David and his men took them
away. 22 The Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in the
valley of Rephaim. 23 When David inquired of Yahweh, he said, You shall
not go up: make a circuit behind them, and come on them over against the
mulberry trees. 24 It shall be, when you hear the sound of marching in the
tops of the mulberry trees, that then you shall bestir yourself; for then is
Yahweh gone out before you to strike the host of the Philistines. 25 David
did so, as Yahweh commanded him, and struck the Philistines from Geba until
you come to Gezer.
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