2 Samuel 5

¹ Then came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron, and spake, saying, Behold, we [are] thyWe are of your kindred and closely related to you.bone and thy flesh.

² And in time past when Saul was our King, thou leddest Israel in and out: and the Lord hath sayde to thee, Thou shalt feede my people Israel, and thou shalt be a captaine ouer Israel.

³ So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and king David made a league with them in HebronThat is, taking the Lord to witness: for the ark was still in Abinadab's house.before the LORD: and they anointed David king over Israel.

⁴ Dauid was thirtie yeere olde when he began to reigne: and hee reigned fortie yeere.

⁵ In Hebron hee reigned ouer Iudah seuen yeere, and sixe moneths: and in Ierusalem hee reigned thirtie and three yeeres ouer all Israel and Iudah.

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 theThe children of God called idols blind and lame guides: therefore the Jebusites meant that they should prove that their gods were neither blind nor lame.blind and the lame, thou shalt not come in hither: thinking, David cannot come in hither.

⁷ But Dauid tooke the fort of Zion: this is the citie of Dauid.

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 notThe idols should no longer enter into that place.come into the house.

⁹ So David dwelt in the fort, and called it the city of David. And David built round about fromHe built from the town house round about to his own house (1Ch_11:8).Millo and inward.

¹⁰ And Dauid prospered and grewe: for the Lord God of hostes was with him.

¹¹ Hiram also king of Tyrus sent messengers to Dauid, and cedar trees, and carpenters, and masons for walles: and they built Dauid an house.

¹² Then Dauid knewe that the Lorde had stablished him King ouer Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdome for his people Israels sake.

¹³ And Dauid tooke him mo concubines & wiues out of Ierusalem, after hee was come from Hebron, & mo sonnes and daughters were borne to Dauid.

¹⁴ And these bee the names of the sonnes that were borne vnto him in Ierusale: Shammua, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Salomon,

¹⁵ And Ibhar, and Elishua, and Nepheg, and Iaphia,

¹⁶ And Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphalet.

¹⁷ But when the Philistims hearde that they had anoynted Dauid King ouer Israel, all the Philistims came vp to seeke Dauid: and when Dauid heard, he went downe to a fort.

¹⁸ But the Philistims came, and spred themselues in the valley of Rephaim.

¹⁹ And DavidBy Abiathar the priest.enquired 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 Then Dauid came to Baal-perazim, & smote them there, and sayde, The Lorde hath deuided mine enemies asunder before mee, as waters be deuided asunder: therefore he called the name of that place, Baal-perazim.

²¹ And there they left their images, and Dauid and his men burnt them.

²² And the Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in the valley ofMeaning the valley of giants, which David called Baalperazim, because of his victory.Rephaim.

²³ And when Dauid asked counsell of the Lorde, hee answered, Thou shalt not goe vp, but turne about behinde them, and come vpon them ouer against the mulberie trees.

²⁴ And when thou hearest the noyse of one going in the toppes of the mulberie trees, then remoue: for then shall the Lord goe out before thee, to smite the hoste of the Philistims.

²⁵ And David did so, as the LORD had commanded him; and smote the Philistines from Geba until thou come toWhich was in the tribe of Benjamin, but the Philistines possessed it.Gazer.