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Chapter 5 |
| 1 | Then came all
the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron, and spake, saying, Behold, we are
thy bone and thy flesh. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 and three years
over all Israel and Judah. |
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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. |
| 7 | Nevertheless
David took the strong hold of Zion: the same is the city of David. |
| 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. |
| 9 | 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. |
| 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. |
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18 | The Philistines also came
and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
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22 | And the Philistines
came up yet again, and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim. |
| 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.
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| 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. |
