2 Samuel 5

¹Then came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron, and spake, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Chr 11:1-32 Sam 19:13Gen 29:14Eph 5:301 Chr 12:23-40Deut 17:15Heb 2:14Judg 9:2

²Also 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Matt 2:6Mic 5:4Ezek 34:23Ezek 37:24-25John 10:112 Sam 7:7Isa 40:111 Sam 25:301 Sam 16:1Isa 55:4

³So 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Sam 2:41 Sam 16:131 Sam 23:182 Kgs 11:172 Sam 3:21Judg 11:111 Chr 11:31 Sam 11:152 Chr 23:16Exod 3:16

⁴David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Chr 29:271 Chr 26:311 Kgs 2:11Luke 3:231 Chr 3:4

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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Sam 2:111 Chr 3:41 Kgs 2:11

⁶And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Judg 1:81 Chr 11:4-9Jer 37:10Josh 15:63Josh 18:28Judg 1:21Heb 7:1Judg 19:10-12Gen 14:18

⁷Nevertheless David took the strong hold of Zion: the same is the city of David. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Kgs 2:102 Sam 6:122 Sam 6:161 Chr 11:71 Kgs 3:11 Kgs 8:12 Chr 24:162 Chr 5:22 Sam 5:92 Sam 6:10

⁸And David said on that day, Whosoever getteth up to the gutter, and smiteth the Jebusites, and the lame and the blind, that are hated of David’s soul, he shall be chief and captain. Wherefore they said, The blind and the lame shall not come into the house. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Chr 11:6-9Josh 15:16-171 Sam 17:25

⁹So David dwelt in the fort, and called it the city of David. And David built round about from Millo and inward. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Kgs 9:151 Kgs 9:241 Kgs 11:272 Chr 32:52 Sam 5:71 Chr 11:8Judg 9:20Judg 9:6

¹⁰And David went on, and grew great, and the Lord God of hosts was with him. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Sam 3:1Ps 46:11Rom 8:31Dan 2:44-45Isa 9:7Luke 2:52Prov 4:18Ps 46:7Gen 21:22Isa 8:9-10

¹¹And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and carpenters, and masons: and they built David an house. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Chr 14:11 Kgs 5:1-21 Kgs 5:181 Kgs 5:8-101 Kgs 7:1-122 Sam 7:2Eccl 2:4-11Jer 22:14-16

¹²And David perceived that the Lord had established him king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom for his people Israel’s sake. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Sam 7:161 Kgs 10:91 Chr 14:22 Chr 2:11Dan 2:30Esth 4:14Isa 1:25-27

¹³And David took him more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem, after he was come from Hebron: and there were yet sons and daughters born to David. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Chr 3:9Deut 17:171 Chr 14:3-72 Chr 11:18-212 Chr 13:21Gen 25:5-6

¹⁴And these be the names of those that were born unto him in Jerusalem; Shammua, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon, Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Chr 3:5-91 Chr 14:42 Sam 12:1-72 Sam 12:24-25Luke 2:31Matt 1:6

¹⁵Ibhar also, and Elishua, and Nepheg, and Japhia, Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Chr 14:51 Chr 3:6

¹⁶And Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphalet. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Chr 14:71 Chr 3:8

¹⁷But when the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king over Israel, all the Philistines came up to seek David; and David heard of it, and went down to the hold. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Sam 23:141 Chr 11:161 Chr 14:8-9Ps 2:1-5Rev 11:15-18

¹⁸The Philistines also came and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 15:82 Sam 23:13Gen 14:5Josh 17:15Isa 17:5Josh 18:161 Chr 11:15

¹⁹And David enquired of the Lord, saying, Shall I go up to the Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into mine hand? And the Lord said unto David, Go up: for I will doubtless deliver the Philistines into thine hand. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Sam 2:11 Sam 23:22 Sam 5:23Judg 20:28Prov 3:61 Kgs 22:15-231 Sam 23:41 Sam 30:7-81 Kgs 22:6Jas 4:15

²⁰And David came to Baal–perazim, and David smote them there, and said, The Lord hath broken forth upon mine enemies before me, as the breach of waters. Therefore he called the name of that place Baal–perazim. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Isa 28:21

²¹And there they left their images, and David and his men burned them. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Chr 14:11-12Deut 7:51 Sam 5:2-6Deut 7:25Isa 37:19Isa 46:1-2Jer 43:12

²²And the Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Chr 14:131 Kgs 20:222 Sam 5:18

²³And when David enquired of the Lord, he said, Thou shalt not go up; but fetch a compass behind them, and come upon them over against the mulberry trees. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Chr 14:14John 9:6-7Matt 8:23-25Matt 9:29-30Josh 8:2Josh 8:7

²⁴And let it be, when thou hearest the sound of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt bestir thyself: for then shall the Lord go out before thee, to smite the host of the Philistines. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Kgs 7:6Judg 4:14Judg 7:151 Chr 14:151 Sam 14:9-12Phil 2:11-12

²⁵And David did so, as the Lord had commanded him; and smote the Philistines from Geba until thou come to Gazer. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Chr 14:16Isa 28:21Josh 16:10