Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and spoke, saying, “Behold, we are your bone and your flesh. 1Ch 11:1-32Sa 19:13Gen 29:14Eph 5:301Ch 12:23-40Deu 17:15Heb 2:14Jdg 9:2 In times past, when Saul was king over us, it was you who led Israel out and in. The LORD said to you, ‘You will be shepherd of my people Israel, and you will be prince over Israel.’” Mat 2:6Mic 5:4Ezk 34:23Ezk 37:24-25Jhn 10:112Sa 7:7Isa 40:111Sa 25:30 So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron, and King David made a covenant with them in Hebron before the LORD; and they anointed David king over Israel. 2Sa 2:41Sa 16:131Sa 23:182Ki 11:172Sa 3:21Jdg 11:111Ch 11:31Sa 11:15
David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years. 1Ch 29:271Ch 26:311Ki 2:11Luk 3:231Ch 3:4 In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three years over all Israel and Judah. 2Sa 2:111Ch 3:41Ki 2:11
The king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, who spoke to David, saying, “The blind and the lame will keep you out of here,” thinking, “David can’t come in here.” Jdg 1:81Ch 11:4-9Jdg 1:21Jer 37:10Jos 15:63Jos 18:28Heb 7:1Jdg 19:10-12 Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion. This is David’s city. 1Ki 2:102Sa 6:122Sa 6:161Ch 11:71Ki 3:11Ki 8:12Ch 24:162Ch 5:2 David said on that day, “Whoever strikes the Jebusites, let him go up to the watercourse and strike those lame and blind, who are hated by David’s soul.” Therefore they say, “The blind and the lame can’t come into the house.” 1Ch 11:6-9Jos 15:16-171Sa 17:25
David lived in the stronghold, and called it David’s city. David built around from Millo and inward. 1Ki 9:151Ki 9:241Ki 11:272Ch 32:52Sa 5:71Ch 11:8Jdg 9:20Jdg 9:6 David grew greater and greater, for the LORD, the God of Armies, was with him. 2Sa 3:1Psa 46:11Rom 8:31Dan 2:44-45Isa 9:7Luk 2:52Pro 4:18Psa 46:7 Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, with cedar trees, carpenters, and masons; and they built David a house. 1Ch 14:11Ki 5:1-21Ki 5:181Ki 5:8-101Ki 7:1-122Sa 7:2Ecc 2:4-11Jer 22:14-16 David perceived that the LORD had established him king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom for his people Israel’s sake. 2Sa 7:161Ki 10:91Ch 14:22Ch 2:11Dan 2:30Est 4:14Isa 1:25-27
David took more concubines and wives for himself out of Jerusalem, after he had come from Hebron; and more sons and daughters were born to David. 1Ch 3:9Deu 17:171Ch 14:3-72Ch 11:18-212Ch 13:21Gen 25:5-6 These are the names of those who were born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon, 1Ch 3:5-91Ch 14:42Sa 12:1-72Sa 12:24-25Luk 2:31Mat 1:6 Ibhar, Elishua, Nepheg, Japhia, 1Ch 14:51Ch 3:6 Elishama, Eliada, and Eliphelet. 1Ch 14:71Ch 3:8
When the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king over Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David, but David heard about it and went down to the stronghold. 2Sa 23:141Ch 11:161Ch 14:8-9Psa 2:1-5Rev 11:15-18 Now the Philistines had come and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim. Jos 15:82Sa 23:13Gen 14:5Jos 17:15Isa 17:5Jos 18:161Ch 11:15 David inquired of the LORD, saying, “Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will you deliver them into my hand?” 2Sa 2:11Sa 23:22Sa 5:23Jdg 20:28Pro 3:61Ki 22:15-231Sa 23:41Sa 30:7-8
The LORD said to David, “Go up; for I will certainly deliver the Philistines into your hand.”
David came to Baal Perazim, and David struck them there. Then he said, “The LORD has broken my enemies before me, like the breach of waters.” Therefore he called the name of that place Baal Perazim. 1 Isa 28:21 They left their images there, and David and his men took them away. 1Ch 14:11-12Deu 7:51Sa 5:2-6Deu 7:25Isa 37:19Isa 46:1-2Jer 43:12
The Philistines came up yet again and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim. 1Ch 14:131Ki 20:222Sa 5:18 When David inquired of the LORD, he said, “You shall not go up. Circle around behind them, and attack them in front of the mulberry trees. 1Ch 14:14Jhn 9:6-7Mat 8:23-25Mat 9:29-30Jos 8:2Jos 8:7 When you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry trees, then stir yourself up; for then the LORD has gone out before you to strike the army of the Philistines.” 2Ki 7:6Jdg 4:14Jdg 7:151Ch 14:151Sa 14:9-12Php 2:11-12
David did so, as the LORD commanded him, and struck the Philistines all the way from Geba to Gezer. 1Ch 14:16Isa 28:21Jos 16:10