David Becomes King Over Israel
5:1 Then came all the tribes
of Israel to David unto Hebron, and spake, saying, Behold,
we are thy bone and thy flesh.
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.
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.
5:4 David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and
he reigned forty years.
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.
David Conquers Jerusalem
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.
5:7 Nevertheless David took the strong hold of Zion: the
same is the city of David.
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.
5:9 So David dwelt in the fort, and called it the city of
David. And David built round about from Millo and inward.
5:10 And David went on, and grew great, and the LORD God of
hosts was with him.
5:11 And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and
cedar trees, and carpenters, and masons: and they built
David an house.
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.
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.
5:14 And these be the names of those that were born unto
him in Jerusalem; Shammuah, and Shobab, and Nathan, and
Solomon,
5:15 Ibhar also, and Elishua, and Nepheg, and Japhia,
5:16 And Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphalet.
David Defeats the Philistines
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.
5:18 The Philistines also came and spread themselves in the
valley of Rephaim.
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.
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.
5:21 And there they left their images, and David and his
men burned them.
5:22 And the Philistines came up yet again, and spread
themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
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.
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.
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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