1Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said, “Here we are, your own flesh and blood.[ † ]2 Samuel 3:321 Chronicles 11:1-3 2Even in times past, while Saul was king over us, you were the one who led Israel out and brought them back. And to you the Lord said, ‘You will shepherd My people Israel, and you will be ruler over them.’”[ † ]Genesis 29:14Judges 9:22 Samuel 19:12-131 Samuel 18:5-13, 16
3So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, where King David made with them a covenant before the Lord. And they anointed him king over Israel.[ † ]1 Samuel 16:12 Samuel 3:171 Chronicles 11:32 Samuel 2:42 Samuel 3:212 Kings 11:17
4David was thirty years old when he became king, and he reigned forty years.[ † ]Judges 11:111 Samuel 23:18Genesis 41:46Numbers 4:3Luke 3:23 5In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three years over all Israel and Judah.[ † ]1 Kings 2:111 Chronicles 26:311 Chronicles 29:27
6Now the king and his men marched to Jerusalem against the Jebusites who inhabited the land. The Jebusites said to David: “You will never get in here. Even the blind and lame can repel you.” For they thought, “David cannot get in here.”[ † ]2 Samuel 2:111 Chronicles 3:41 Chronicles 29:27Judges 1:21
7Nevertheless, David captured the fortress of Zion (that is, the City of David).[ † ]Joshua 15:63Judges 1:8Judges 19:11-12 8On that day he said, “Whoever attacks the Jebusites must use the water shaft to reach the lame and blind who are despised by David.” That is why it is said, “The blind and the lame will never enter the palace.”[ † ]2 Samuel 6:12-161 Kings 2:101 Kings 8:11 Kings 9:24
9So David took up residence in the fortress and called it the City of David. He built it up all the way around, from the supporting terraces inward.[ † ]1 Chronicles 11:6-9 10And David became greater and greater, for the Lord God of Hosts was with him.[ † ]2 Samuel 5:71 Kings 9:15-241 Samuel 17:45
11Now Hiram king of Tyre sent envoys to David, along with cedar logs, carpenters, and stonemasons, and they built a palace for David.[ † ]1 Samuel 18:12-281 Kings 5:1-18
12And David realized that the Lord had established him as king over Israel and had exalted his kingdom for the sake of His people Israel.[ † ]1 Chronicles 14:1Numbers 24:7
13After he had arrived from Hebron, David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem, and more sons and daughters were born to him.[ † ]Isaiah 45:4 14These are the names of the children born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon,[ † ]Deuteronomy 17:171 Chronicles 3:91 Chronicles 3:5-8 15Ibhar, Elishua, Nepheg, Japhia, 16Elishama, Eliada, and Eliphelet.
17When the Philistines heard that David had been anointed king over Israel, they all went in search of him; but David learned of this and went down to the stronghold.[ † ]2 Samuel 12:241 Chronicles 11:16
18Now the Philistines had come and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim.[ † ]2 Samuel 23:14
19So David inquired of the Lord, “Should I go up against the Philistines? Will You deliver them into my hand?” “Go up,” replied the Lord, “for I will surely deliver the Philistines into your hand.”[ † ]Genesis 14:5Joshua 15:81 Chronicles 11:15Isaiah 17:5
20So David went to Baal-perazim, where he defeated the Philistines and said, “Like a bursting flood, the Lord has burst out against my enemies before me.” So he called that place Baal-perazim.[ † ]1 Samuel 23:22 Samuel 2:1 21There the Philistines abandoned their idols, and David and his men carried them away.[ † ]1 Chronicles 14:11Isaiah 28:21
22Once again the Philistines came up and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim.[ † ]Deuteronomy 7:5-25 23So David inquired of the Lord, who answered, “Do not march straight up, but circle around behind them and attack them in front of the balsam trees.[ † ]1 Chronicles 14:13 24As soon as you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the balsam trees, move quickly, because this will mean that the Lord has gone out before you to strike the camp of the Philistines.”[ † ]2 Samuel 5:192 Kings 7:61 Chronicles 14:15
25So David did as the Lord had commanded him, and he struck down the Philistines all the way from Gibeon to Gezer.[ † ]Judges 4:141 Chronicles 14:16