2 Samuel 5
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David Becomes King of Israel
(1 Chronicles 11.1-3)
1Israel's leaders met with David at Hebron and said, “We are your relatives. 2Even when Saul was king, you led our nation in battle. And the Lord promised that someday you would rule Israel and take care of us like a shepherd.”
3During the meeting, David made an agreement with the leaders and asked the Lord to be their witness. Then the leaders poured olive oil on David's head to show that he was now the king of Israel.
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1 K 2.10,11; 1 Ch 3.1-4; 29.27. David was 30 years old when he became king, and he ruled for 40 years. 5He lived in Hebron for the first seven and a half years and ruled only Judah. Then he moved to Jerusalem, where he ruled both Israel and Judah for 33 years.
How David Captured Jerusalem
(1 Chronicles 11.4-9; 14.1,2)
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Js 15.63; Jg 1.21. The Jebusites lived in Jerusalem, and David led his army there to attack them. The Jebusites did not think he could get in, so they told him, “You can't get in here! We could keep you out, even if we couldn't see or walk!”
7-9David told his troops, “You will have to go up through the water tunnel to get those Jebusites. I hate people like them#5.7-9 You will … them: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text. who can't walk or see.”
That's why there is still a rule that says, “Only people who can walk and see are allowed in the temple.”#5.7-9 temple: Or “palace.”
David captured the fortress on Mount Zion, then he moved there and named it David's City. He had the city rebuilt, starting with the landfill to the east. 10David became a great and strong ruler, because the Lord All-Powerful was on his side.
11King Hiram of Tyre sent some officials to David. Carpenters and stone workers came with them, and they brought cedar logs so they could build David a palace.
12David knew that the Lord had made him king of Israel and that he had made him a powerful ruler for the good of his people.
David's Sons Born in Jerusalem
(1 Chronicles 14.3-7)
13After David left Hebron and moved to Jerusalem, he married many women#5.13 married many women: Some of these women were second-class wives (see the note at 3.7). from Jerusalem,#5.13 from Jerusalem: Or “in Jerusalem.” and he had a lot of children. 14His sons who were born there were Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon, 15Ibhar, Elishua, Nepheg, Japhia, 16Elishama, Eliada,#5.16 Eliada: See 1 Chronicles 3.6-8. First Chronicles 14.7 has “Beeliada.” and Eliphelet.
David Fights the Philistines
(1 Chronicles 14.8-17)
17The Philistines heard that David was now king of Israel, and they came into the hill country to try and capture him. But David found out and went into his fortress.#5.17 fortress: Probably the fortress of Adullam, which was David's former hideout (see 1 Samuel 22.1,4; 24.22). Or it could refer to the older walled city of Jerusalem, called the “fortress on Mount Zion” in verses 7-9. 18So the Philistines camped in Rephaim Valley.#5.18 Rephaim Valley: A few kilometers southwest of Jerusalem.
19David asked the Lord, “Should I attack the Philistines? Will you let me win?”
The Lord told David, “Attack! I will let you win.”
20David attacked the Philistines and defeated them. Then he said, “I watched the Lord break through my enemies like a mighty flood.” So he named the place “The Lord Broke Through.”#5.20 The Lord Broke Through: Or “Baal-Perazim.” 21David and his troops also carried away the idols that the Philistines had left behind.
22Some time later, the Philistines came back into the hill country and camped in Rephaim Valley. 23David asked the Lord what he should do, and the Lord answered:
Don't attack them from the front. Circle around behind and attack from among the balsam#5.23 balsam: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text. trees. 24Wait until you hear a sound in the treetops like marching troops. Then attack quickly! That sound will mean I have marched out ahead of you to fight the Philistine army.
25David obeyed the Lord and defeated the Philistines. He even chased them all the way from Geba to the entrance to Gezer.
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2 Samuel 5
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1And all the tribes of Israel come unto David, to Hebron, and speak, saying, ‘Lo, we [are] thy bone and thy flesh;
2also heretofore, in Saul's being king over us, thou hast been he who is bringing out and bringing in Israel, and Jehovah saith to thee, Thou dost feed My people Israel, and thou art for leader over Israel.’
3And all the elders of Israel come unto the king, to Hebron, and king David maketh with them a covenant in Hebron before Jehovah, and they anoint David for king over Israel.
4A son of thirty years [is] David in his being king; forty years he hath reigned;
5in Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years, over all Israel and Judah.
6And the king goeth, and his men, to Jerusalem, unto the Jebusite, the inhabitant of the land, and they speak to David, saying, ‘Thou dost not come in hither, except thou turn aside the blind and the lame;’ saying, ‘David doth not come in hither.’
7And David captureth the fortress of Zion, it [is] the city of David.
8And David saith on that day, ‘Any one smiting the Jebusite, (let him go up by the watercourse), and the lame and the blind — the hated of David's soul,’ — because the blind and lame say, ‘He doth not come into the house.’
9And David dwelleth in the fortress, and calleth it — City of David, and David buildeth round about, from Millo and inward,
10and David goeth, going on and becoming great, and Jehovah, God of Hosts, [is] with him.
11And Hiram king of Tyre sendeth messengers unto David, and cedar-trees, and artificers of wood, and artificers of stone, for walls, and they build a house for David,
12and David knoweth that Jehovah hath established him for king over Israel, and that He hath lifted up his kingdom, because of His people Israel.
13And David taketh again concubines and wives out of Jerusalem, after his coming from Hebron, and there are born again to David sons and daughters.
14And these [are] the names of those born to him in Jerusalem: Shammuah, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon,
15and Ibhar, and Elishua, and Nepheg, and Japhia,
16and Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphalet.
17And the Philistines hear that they have anointed David for king over Israel, and all the Philistines come up to seek David, and David heareth, and goeth down unto the fortress,
18and the Philistines have come, and are spread out in the valley of Rephaim.
19And David asketh of Jehovah, saying, ‘Do I go up unto the Philistines? dost Thou give them into my hand?’ And Jehovah saith unto David, ‘Go up, for I certainly give the Philistines into thy hand.’
20And David cometh in to Baal-Perazim, and David smiteth them there, and saith, ‘Jehovah hath broken forth [on] mine enemies before me, as the breaking forth of waters;’ therefore he hath called the name of that place Baal-Perazim.
21And they forsake there their idols, and David and his men lift them up.
22And the Philistines add again to come up, and are spread out in the valley of Rephaim,
23and David asketh of Jehovah, and He saith, ‘Thou dost not go up, turn round unto their rear, and thou hast come to them over-against the mulberries,
24and it cometh to pass, in thy hearing the sound of a stepping in the tops of the mulberries, then thou dost move sharply, for then hath Jehovah gone out before thee to smite in the camp of the Philistines.’
25And David doth so, as Jehovah commanded him, and smiteth the Philistines from Geba unto thy coming to Gazer.
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