2 Samuel Chapter 5

2 Samuel Chapter 5
1 Then came all the tribes of Israel to
David unto Hebron, and said thus,
Behold, we are thy bones and thy flesh.
2 And in time past when Saul was our
king, thou leddest Israel in and out: and
the Lord hath said to thee, Thou shalt
feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be
a captain over Israel.
3 So all the elders of Israel came to the
king to 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 and three years over all
Israel and Judah. 6 The king also and his
men went to Jerusalem unto the
Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land:
who spake unto David, saying, Except
thou take away the blind and the lame,
thou shalt not come in hither: thinking
that David could not come thither.
7 But David took the fort of Zion: this is
the city of David.
8 Now David had said the same day,
Whosoever smiteth the Jebusites, and
getteth up to the gutters and smiteth the
lame and blind, which David's soul
hateth, I will prefer him: therefore they
said, The blind and the lame shall not
come into that house.
9 So David dwelt in that fort, and called
it the city of David, and David built
round about it, from Millo, and inward.
10 And David prospered and grew: for
the Lord God of hosts was with him. 11
Hiram also king of Tyrus sent
messengers to David, and cedar trees,
and carpenters, and masons for walls:
and they built David an house. 12 Then
David knew that the Lord had stablished
him king over Israel, and that he had
exalted his kingdom for his people
Israel's sake.
13 And David took him more concubines
and wives out of Jerusalem, after he was
come from Hebron, and more sons and
daughters were born to David. 14 And
these be the names of the sons that were
born unto 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.
17 But when the Philistines heard that
they had anointed David king over
Israel, all the Philistines came up to seek
David: and when David heard, he went
down to a fort.
18 But the Philistines came, and spread
themselves in the valley of Rephaim. 19
Then David asked counsel of the Lord,
saying, Shall I go up to the Philistines?
Wilt thou deliver them into mine hands?
And the Lord answered David, Go up:
for I will doubtless deliver the
Philistines into thine hands. 20 Then
David came to Baal-perazim, and smote
them there, and said, The Lord hath
divided mine enemies asunder before
me, as waters be divided asunder:
therefore he called the name of that
place, Baal-perazim. 21 And there they
left their images, and David and his men
burned them. 22 Again the Philistines
came up, and spread themselves in the
valley of Rephaim.
23 And when David asked counsel of the
Lord, he answered, Thou shalt not go up
, but turn about behind them, and come
upon them over against the mulberry
trees.
24 And when thou hearest the noise of
one going in the tops of the mulberry
trees, then remove: for then shall the
Lord go out before thee, to smite the host
of the Philistines.
25 Then David did so as the Lord had
commanded him, and smote the
Philistines from Geba, until thou come to
Gazer.