2 Samuel Chapter 5

David Becomes King of Israel

            ¹ All the tribes came to David in Hebron and said,

“We’re your flesh and bones. ² When Saul was king, you were the one that led Israel out and back. Yahveh told you you’d shepherd his people.”

 ³ Israel’s elders came, and King David made a treaty with them in Yahveh’s presence. They anointed him king over Israel. ⁴ David was 30 and ruled for 40 years. ⁵ He ruled Judah for 7½ years in Hebron and ruled Judah and Israel for 33 years in Jerusalem. 

David Conquers Jerusalem

⁶ The king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites. They told David. “You won’t get in here. The blind and lame will stop you.” They thought he couldn’t do it, ⁷ but he captured the Zion fortress, The City of David. ⁸ He said that day, “Whoever strikes the Jebusites, reach ‘the lame and blind’ [that David hated] through the water tunnel.” That’s why people say,“‘The blind and lame’ won’t get into the house.” ⁹ David lived in the fortress and named it The City of David [Ir-David]. He built all around from the Millo inward. ¹⁰ He kept getting greater because Yahveh God of Hosts was with him.                                                                                                    2 Sam 5:1-10

            ¹¹ Then Hiram, king of Tyre, sent ambassadors to David with cedar timber, carpenters, and stonemasons to build him a palace. ¹² He realized that Yahveh had established him as king and that he’d honored his kingdom for Israel’s sake.

¹³ Meantime, David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem after he came from Hebron and had more sons and daughters. ¹⁴ The ones born in Jerusalem were Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon, ¹⁵ Ibhar, Elishua, Nepheg, Japhia, ¹⁶ Elishama, Eliada, and Eliphelet.                                                                                                                                                                      

2 Sam 5:11-16

David Defeats the Philistines

¹⁷ When the Philistines heard they’d anointed David king over Israel, they went up to look for him.  He heard about it and went down to the fortress. ¹⁸ The Philistines came and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim. ¹⁹ David asked Yahveh, “Should I attack the Philistines? Will you deliver them to me?”

“Yes.”

²⁰ He went to Baal-perazim and defeated them, “‘Yahveh has broken through’ my enemies like a flash flood”; so he named the place Baal-perazim. ²¹ The Philistines abandoned their idols; David and his men carried them away.                                         

²² The Philistines came up again and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim. ²³ When David asked Yahveh, he said,

“Don’t go up directly. Circle around behind them and come at them by the balsam trees. ²⁴ When you hear marching in the balsam treetops, act immediately. I will have gone out ahead of you to strike them.”

²⁵ David did that and struck them down from Geba to Gezer.

2 Sam 5:17-25