1Then came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron , and spake, saying, Behold , we are thy bone and thy flesh . 2In times past , when Saul was king over us , it was thou that leddest out and broughtest in Israel : and Jehovah said to thee , Thou shalt be shepherd of my people Israel , and thou shalt be prince over Israel . 3So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron ; and king David made a covenant with them in Hebron before Jehovah : and they anointed David king over Israel . 4David was thirty years old when he began to reign , and he reigned forty years . 5In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months ; and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years over all Israel and Judah .
The Capture of Jerusalem
6And the king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites , the inhabitants of the land, who 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 . 7Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion ; the same is the city of David . 8And David said on that day , Whosoever smiteth the Jebusites , let him get up to the watercourse, and smite the lame and the blind , that are hated of David ’s soul . Wherefore they say, There are the blind and the lame ; he cannot come into the house . 9And David dwelt in the stronghold , and called it the city of David . And David built round about from Millo and inward . 10And David waxed greater and greater ; for Jehovah , the God of hosts , was with him .
David's Growing Power and Influence
11And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David , and cedar-trees, and carpenters , and masons ; and they built David a house . 12And David perceived that Jehovah had established him king over Israel , and that he had exalted his kingdom for his people Israel ’s sake . 13And 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 . 14And these are the names of those that were born unto him in Jerusalem : Shammua , and Shobab , and Nathan , and Solomon , 15and Ibhar , and Elishua, and Nepheg , and Japhia , 16and Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphelet.
David's Family and Legacy
17And 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 . 18Now the Philistines had come and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim . 19And David inquired of Jehovah , saying, Shall I go up against the Philistines ? wilt thou deliver them into my hand ? And Jehovah said unto David , Go up ; for I will certainly deliver the Philistines into thy hand . 20And David came to Baal-perazim , and David smote them there ; and he said , Jehovah hath broken mine enemies before me , like the breach of waters . Therefore he called the name of that place Baal-perazim . 21And they left their images there ; and David and his men took them away . 22And the Philistines came up yet again , and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim . 23And when David inquired of Jehovah , he said, Thou shalt not go up : make a circuit behind them , and come upon them over against the mulberry-trees. 24And it shall be , when thou hearest the sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry-trees, that then thou shalt bestir thyself; for then is Jehovah gone out before thee to smite the host of the Philistines . 25And David did so , as Jehovah commanded him , and smote the Philistines from Geba until thou come to Gezer .