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Then came
all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron,
and spake, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and
thy flesh.
02 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.
03 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.
04 David was thirty years old when he began to
reign, and he reigned forty years.
05 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.
06 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.
07 Nevertheless David took the strong hold of
Zion: the same is the city of David.
08 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.
09 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.
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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; Shammuah, 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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