2 Samuel 5

And all the tribes of Israel came to David in Hebron and said to him, Behold, we are your bones and your flesh.

"Both yesterday and the day before, when Saul was king over us, you were the one who led Israel out and brought them in. And the Lord said to you: You shall shepherd my people Israel, and you shall be leader over Israel."

And all the elders of Israel come to the king at Chebron, and King David made a covenant with them in Chebron before the Lord, and they anoint David as king over all Israel.

David was thirty years old when he became king, and he reigned forty years.

Seven years and six months he reigned in Chebron over Judah, and thirty-three years he reigned over all Israel and Judah in Jerusalem.

And David and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusite who was inhabiting the land. And it was said to David: You shall not enter here, for the blind and the lame withstood him, saying: David shall not enter here.

But David captured the stronghold of Sion; this is the city of David.

And David said on that day: Everyone who strikes a Jebusite, let him lay hold of him with a dagger — both the lame and the blind and those who hate David's soul. Therefore they will say: The blind and the lame shall not enter into the house of the Lord.

And David dwelt in the stronghold, and this was called the city of David. And he built the city round about, from the citadel, and his own house.

And David went on, advancing and growing great, and the Lord Almighty was with him.

And Chiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar timbers and carpenters of wood and craftsmen of stone, and they built a house for David.

And David knew that the Lord had established him as king over Israel, and that his kingdom was exalted for the sake of his people Israel.

And David took yet more wives and concubines out of Jerusalem after he came from Chebron, and there were born to David yet more sons and daughters.

And these are the names of those born to him in Jerusalem: Sammous and Sobab and Nathan and Salomon,

and Ebear and Elisous and Naphek and Iephies,

and Elisama and Elidae and Eliphalath, Samae, Iessibath, Nathan, Galamaan, Iebaar, Theesous, Elphalat, Naged, Naphek, Ianatha, Leasamys, Baalimath, Eliphalath.

And the Philistines heard that David had been anointed king over Israel, and all the Philistines went up to seek David. And David heard, and he went down to the stronghold.

And the Philistines come and fell upon the valley of the Titans.

And David inquired through the Lord, saying: Shall I go up against the Philistines, and will you deliver them into my hands? And the Lord said to David: Go up, for in delivering I will deliver the Philistines into your hands.

And David came from the Upper Breaches and cut down the Philistines there. And David said: The Lord has broken through my enemies the Philistines before me, as waters are broken through. Therefore the name of that place was called Upper Breaches.

And they leave their gods there, and David and the men with him took them.

And the Philistines yet again went up, and fell upon in the valley of the Titans.

And David inquired through the Lord, and the Lord said: You shall not go up to meet them; turn away from them, and you shall come upon them near the Place of Weeping.

And it shall be, when you hear the sound of the closing in of the grove of the Place of Weeping, then you shall go down against them, for then the Lord will go out before you to cut them down in the battle of the Philistines.

And David did just as the Lord commanded him, and he struck the Philistines from Gabaon as far as the land of Gazera.