David becomes king over all Israel
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📚Then all the tribes✭ of Israel came to David at Hebron and spoke, saying, “Look, we are your bone and your flesh. 2 📚✭Also in time past, when Saul was king over us, you were the one who led Israel out and brought them in. And the LORD said to you, ‘You will shepherd my people Israel and you will be a ruler over Israel.’ ”3 📚So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and King David made a covenant 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-three years over all Israel and Judah.
David conquers Jerusalem and makes his home there
6 📚✭And the king and his men went to Jerusalem to the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land. They spoke to David, saying, “You will not come in here, for the blind and the lame will turn you away”, thinking, “David cannot get in here”. 7 📚Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion, that is, the city of David.
8 📚And David said on that day, “Anyone who would strike down the Jebusites, and those ‘lame’ and the ‘blind’, whom David’s soul loathes, should go up by the water channel”. Therefore they said, “The blind and the lame shall not come into the house”.
9 📚So David lived in the fortress, and called it the city of David. And David built all around from Millo and inward. 10 📚And David went on to become great, and the LORD God of hosts✭ was with him✭.
Hiram's Recognition of David
11 📚And Hiram✭ king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees and carpenters and masons; and they built David a 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.
David's Children Born at Jerusalem
13 📚✭And David took for himself more concubines and wives from Jerusalem, after he had come from Hebron, and more sons and daughters were born to David. 14 📚And these are the names of those who were born to him in Jerusalem: Shammuah and Shobab and Nathan and Solomon 15 📚and Ibhar and Elishua and Nepheg and Japhia 16 📚and Elishama and Eliada and Eliphalet.
David defeats the Philistines
17 📚✭But when the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king over Israel, all the Philistines came up to search for David. And David heard of it, and went down to the stronghold. 18 📚And the Philistines came and spread out in the valley of Rephaim. 19 📚And David inquired of the LORD, saying, “Shall I go up to the Philistines? Will you deliver them into my hands?” And the LORD said to David, “Go up, for I will certainly deliver the Philistines into your hands”.
20 📚✭And David came to Baal-Perazim and David defeated them there, and said, “The LORD has broken out against my enemies before me, like waters break out”. Therefore he called the name of that place Baal-Perazim. 21 📚✭And they left their idols there, and David and his men burned them.
22 📚And the Philistines came up again and spread out in the valley of Rephaim. 23 📚And when David inquired✭ of the LORD, he said, “You shall not go up, but circle around behind them, and come on them opposite the mulberry trees. 24 📚And it is to be like this: when you hear the sound of marching✭ in the tops of the mulberry trees, then you must move quickly, for then the LORD will go out before you to strike the army of the Philistines”. 25 📚✭And David did just as the LORD commanded him, and struck down the Philistines from Geba until you come to Gazer.