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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1All the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said, "We are your own flesh and blood. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2In the past, while Saul was king over us, you were the one who led Israel on their military campaigns. And the LORD said to you, 'You will shepherd my people Israel, and you will become their ruler.'" |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3When all the elders of Israel had come to King David at Hebron, the king made a covenant with them at Hebron before the LORD, and they anointed David king over Israel. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4David was thirty years old when he became king, and he reigned forty years. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem he reigned over all Israel and Judah thirty-three years. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6The king and his men marched to Jerusalem to attack the Jebusites, who lived there. The Jebusites said to David, "You will not get in here; even the blind and the lame can ward you off." They thought, "David cannot get in here." |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Nevertheless, David captured the fortress of Zion--which is the City of David. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8On that day David had said, "Anyone who conquers the Jebusites will have to use the water shaft to reach those 'lame and blind' who are David's enemies." That is why they say, "The 'blind and lame' will not enter the palace." |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9David then took up residence in the fortress and called it the City of David. He built up the area around it, from the terraces inward. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10And he became more and more powerful, because the LORD God Almighty was with him. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Now Hiram king of Tyre sent envoys to David, along with cedar logs and carpenters and stonemasons, and they built a palace for David. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Then David knew that the LORD had established him as king over Israel and had exalted his kingdom for the sake of his people Israel. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13After he left Hebron, David took more concubines and wives in Jerusalem, and more sons and daughters were born to him. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14These are the names of the children born to him there: 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 heard that David had been anointed king over Israel, they went up in full force to search for him, but David heard about it and went down to the stronghold. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Now the Philistines had come and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim; |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19so David inquired of the LORD, "Shall I go and attack the Philistines? Will you deliver them into my hands?" The LORD answered him, "Go, for I will surely deliver the Philistines into your hands." |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20So David went to Baal Perazim, and there he defeated them. He said, "As waters break out, the LORD has broken out against my enemies before me." So that place was called Baal Perazim. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21The Philistines abandoned their idols there, and David and his men carried them off. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Once more the Philistines came up and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim; |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23so David inquired of the LORD, and he answered, "Do not go straight up, but circle around behind them and attack them in front of the poplar trees. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24As soon as you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the poplar trees, move quickly, because that will mean the LORD has gone out in front of you to strike the Philistine army." |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25So David did as the LORD commanded him, and he struck down the Philistines all the way from Gibeon to Gezer. |
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