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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1After this, all of the tribes of Israel assembled with David at Hebron and declared, "Look, we're your own flesh and blood! |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Even back when Saul was our king, it was you who kept on leading Israel out to battle and bringing them back again. The LORD told you, 'You yourself will shepherd my people Israel and serve as Commander-in-Chief over Israel.'" |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3So all the elders of Israel approached the king at Hebron, where King David entered into a covenant with them in the presence of the LORD. Then they anointed David to be king over Israel. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4David began to reign when he was 30 years old, and he reigned 40 years. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5He reigned over Judah for seven years and six months in Hebron, and he reigned over all of Israel including Judah for 33 years in Jerusalem. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Later, the king and his army marched on Jerusalem against the Jebusites, who were inhabiting the territory at that time and who had told David, "You're not coming in here! Even the blind and the lame could turn you away!" because they were thinking "David can't come here." |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Even so, David captured the stronghold of Zion, which is now known as the City of David. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8At that time, David had said, "Whoever intends to attack the Jebusites will have to climb up the water shaft to attack the lame and blind, who hate David." Therefore they say, "The blind and lame are never to come into the house." |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9David occupied the fortress, naming it the City of David. He built up the surroundings from the terrace ramparts inward. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10David became more and more esteemed because the LORD God of the Heavenly Armies was with him. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Later, King Hiram of Tyre sent a delegation to David, accompanied by cedar logs, carpenters, and stone masons. They built a palace for David. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12So David concluded that the LORD had established him as king over Israel and that he had exalted his kingdom in order to benefit his people Israel. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13But after arriving in Jerusalem after leaving Hebron, David took more wives and mistresses, and more sons and daughters were born to David. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14These are the names of those who were born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon, |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Ibhar, Elishua, Nepheg, Japhia, |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Elishama, Eliada, and Eliphelet. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17When the Philistines eventually learned that Israel had anointed David to be king over Israel, they marched out in search of him. But David heard about it and retreated to his stronghold. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Meanwhile, the Philistines arrived and encamped in the Rephaim Valley, |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19so David asked the LORD, "Am I to go attack the Philistines? Will you give me victory over them?" "Go get them," the LORD replied to David, "because I'm going to put the Philistines right into your hand!" |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20So David went to Baal-perazim and defeated them there. He called the place Baal-perazim, because he said, "Like a bursting flood, the LORD has jumped out in front of me to fight my enemies." |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21The Philistines abandoned their idols there, and David and his army carried them off. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Later, the Philistines once again marched out and encamped in the Rephaim Valley. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23When David asked the LORD about it, he said, "Don't attack them directly. Instead, go around to the rear and attack them opposite those balsam trees. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24When you hear the sound of marching coming from the tops of the balsam trees, then be sure to act quickly, since the LORD will have gone out ahead of you to cut down the Philistine army." |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25So David did exactly what the LORD ordered him to do, and he struck down the Philistines from Geba to Gezer. |
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