Then acame all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron, and spake, saying, Behold, bwe are thy bone and thy flesh. 2 Also in time past, when Saul was king over us, cthou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the Lord said to thee, dThou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be a captain over Israel. 3 So all the elders of Israel came to the king to eHebron; fand king David made a league with them in Hebron gbefore the Lord: and they anointed David king over Israel.

4 *David was thirty years old when he began to reign, hand he reigned forty years. 5 In Hebron he reigned over Judah iseven years and six months: and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years over all Israel and Judah.

6 And the king and his men went kto Jerusalem unto lthe 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. 7 Nevertheless David took the strong hold of Zion: mthe same is the city of David. 8 And David said on that day, Whosoever getteth up to nthe gutter, and smiteth the Jebusites, and the lame and the blind, that are hated of David’s soul, ohe shall be chief and captain. ||Wherefore they said, The blind and the lame shall not come into the house.