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Then came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron, and spake, saying,
Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh. 2 Also in time past, when Saul was king
over us, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the LORD
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 league 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 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 the blind and the lame,
thou shalt not come in hither: thinking, David cannot come in hither. 7
Nevertheless David took the strong hold of Zion: the same is the city of David.