5 Dauid is made King ouer all Iſraél. 7 He taketh the forte of Zión 19 He aſketh counſel of the Lord, 20 And ouercometh the Philiſtims twiſe.

1.THen ^* came all the tribes of Iſraél to Dauid vnto Hebrón, & ſaid thus, Beholde, we are thy ^a bones and thy fleſh.

2.And in time paſt when Saúl was our King, thou leddeſt Iſraél in and out: and the Lord hathe ſaid to thee, ^* Thou ſhalt feede my people Iſraél, and thou ſhalt be a captaine ouer Iſraél.

3.So all the Elders of Iſraél came to the King to Hebrón: and King Dauid made a couenant with them in Hebrón ^b before the Lord: and they anointed Dauid King ouer Iſraél.

4.¶Dauid was thirty yere olde when he began to reigne: and he reigned fourty yere.

5.In Hebrón he reigned ouer Iudáh ^* ſeue yere, and ſix moneths: and in Ieruſalém he reigned thirty and thre yeres ouer all Iſraél and Iudáh.

6.¶ The King alſo and his men went to Ieruſalém vnto the Iebuſites, y^e inhabitãts of of the land: who ſpake vnto Dauid, ſaying, Except thou take away the ^c blinde and the lame, thou ſhalt not come in hither: thinking y^t Dauid colde not come thither.

7.7 But Dauid toke the forte of Zión: this is the citie of Dauid.

8.8 Now Dauid had ſaid y^e ſame day, Whoſoeuer ſmiteth the Iebuſites, & getteth vp to the gutters & ſmiteth the lame & blinde, which Dauids ſoule hateth, I wil preferre him: ^* therefore they ſaid, The blinde and the lame ſhal not ^d come into that houſe.

9.9 So Dauid dwelt in that forte, and called it the citie of Dauid, and Dauid buylt roũd about it, from ^e Milló, and inwarde.

10.10 And Dauid proſpered and grewe : for the Lord God of hoſtes was with him.

11.11 ¶ ^* Hirám alſo King of ^" Tyrus ſent meſſẽgers to Dauid, and cedar trees, and carpẽters, and maſons for walles: and thei buylt Dauid an houſe.

12.12 Then Dauid knewe, that the Lord had ſtabliſhed him King ouer Iſraél, and that he had exalted his kingdome for his people Iſraéls ſake.

13.13 And Dauid toke him mo ^* concubines & wiues out of Ieruſalém, after he was come from Hebrón: and mo ſonnes and daughters were borne to Dauid.

14.14 ^* And theſe be the names of the ſonnes that were borne vnto him in Ieruſalém: Sammúa, and Shobáb, and Nathán, and Solomón,

15.15 And Ibhár, and Eliſhúa, and Népheg, and Iaphía,

16.16 And Eliſhamá, & Eliadá, and Eliphálet.

17.17 ¶ ^* But when the Philiſtims heard that they had anointed Dauid King ouer Iſraél, all the Philiſtims came vp to ſeke Dauid: and when Dauid heard, he wẽt downe to a forte.

18.18 But the Philiſtims came, and ſpred them ſelues in the valley of Repháim.

19.19 Then Dauid ^f aſked coũſel of the Lord, ſaying, Shal I go vp to the Philiſtims? wilt thou deliuer them into mine hands? And the Lord anſwered Dauid, Go vp: for I wil doutles deliuer the Philiſtims into thine hands.

20.20 ¶ ^* Then Dauid came to Baal perazím, and ſmote them there, & ſaid, The Lord hathe deuided mine enemies aſondre before me, as waters be deuided aſondre: therefore he called the name of that place, ^" Baal-perazím.

21.21 And there they left their images, & Dauid and his men ^* burnt them.

22.22 Againe the Philiſtims came vp, & ſpred them ſelues in the valley of ^g Repháim.

23.23 And when Dauid aſked counſel of the Lord, He anſwered, Thou ſhalt not go vp, but turne about behinde thẽ, & come vpon them ouer againſt the mulbery trees.

24.24 And whẽ thou heareſt the noyſe of one going in the toppes of the mulbery trees, then remoue: for then ſhal the Lord go out before thee, to ſmite the hoſte of the Philiſtims.

25.25 Then Dauid did ſo as the Lord had cõmanded him, and ſmote the Philiſtims frõ Géba, vntil thou come to ^h Gázer.

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