1Then came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron , and spake , saying , Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh . 2Also 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 . 3So 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 . 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 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. 7Nevertheless David took the strong hold of Zion : the same is the city of David . 8And 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 . 9So David dwelt in the fort , and called it the city of David . And David built round about from Millo and inward . 10And David went on , and grew great , and the LORD 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 an house . 12And David perceived that the LORD 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 be the names of those that were born unto him in Jerusalem ; Shammua , and Shobab , and Nathan , and Solomon , 15Ibhar also, and Elishua , and Nepheg , and Japhia , 16And Elishama , and Eliada , and Eliphalet .
David's Family and Legacy
17But 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 . 18The Philistines also came and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim . 19And 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 . 20And David came to Baal-perazim , 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 Baal-perazim . 21And there they left their images , and David and his men burned them. 22And the Philistines came up yet again , and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim . 23And 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 . 24And 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 . 25And David did so , as the LORD had commanded him; and smote the Philistines from Geba until thou come to Gazer .