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          DASV: 2 Samuel 5    

1 Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron, and
said, "Look, we are your own flesh and bone.
2 In the past, when Saul was king over us, you were the one who
led Israel in and out to battle. The LORD said to you, 'You
will shepherd my people Israel, and you will be ruler over
Israel.'"
3 So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron. King
David made a covenant with them before the LORD at Hebron.
There they anointed David king over Israel.

4 David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he
reigned for forty years.
5 He reigned over Judah seven years and six months in Hebron;
then he reigned thirty-three years over all Israel and Judah
in Jerusalem.

6 The king and his men marched on Jerusalem against the Jebusites,
the inhabitants of that region. They taunted David, "You'll
never get in here, even the blind and the lame could hold you
off." They thought "There's no way David can get in here."
7 But David captured the fortress of Zion, that is now called the
City of David.
8 David said on that day, "Whoever will strike down the Jebusites,
will have to go up the water tunnel to attack the "lame" and
"blind" enemies of David." That is why they still say,
"The blind and the lame cannot enter the palace."
9 David lived in the fortress, and called it the City of David.
David built all around it from the Millo terraces inward.

10 David grew greater and greater; for the LORD, the God of hosts,
was with him.
11 Hiram, king of Tyre, sent messengers to David, along with cedar
trees, carpenters and masons. They built a palace for David.
12 David realized that the LORD had established him king over Israel,
and that he had exalted his kingdom for the sake of his people Israel.

13 David married more concubines and wives from Jerusalem, after he
came up from Hebron. There even more sons and daughters were born
to David.
14 These are the names of those who were born to him in Jerusalem:
Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon,
15 Ibhar, Elishua, Nepheg, Japhia,
16 Elishama, Eliada and Eliphelet.

17 When the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king
over Israel, all the Philistines went up in search of David. But
David heard about it and went down to the fortress.
18 Now the Philistines had come and spread out in the valley
of Rephaim.
19 David inquired of the LORD, "Should I go up against the Philistines?
Will you deliver them into my hand?" The LORD answered David,
"Go up. For I will certainly deliver the Philistines into your
hand."
20 Then David came to Baal-perazim, and defeated them there. He said,
"The LORD has burst out on my enemies before me, like the burst of
a flood before me." Therefore he called the name of that place
Baal-perazim [the Lord burst out].
21 The Philistines abandoned their images there, and David and
his men carried them away.

22 Then the Philistines came up again, and spread out in the valley
of Rephaim.
23 When David inquired of the LORD, he said, "Do not attack
them straight on but circle around behind them and attack
them across from the poplar trees.
24 When you hear the sound of marching on the tops of the poplar
trees, then act decisively; for then the LORD is going before
you to strike the army of the Philistines."
25 So David did just as the LORD commanded him, and he struck
down the Philistines from Gibeon all the way to Gezer.

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