1 Toe kom al die stamme van Israel na Dawid in Hebron, en hulle spreek en sê: Hier is ons, u been en u vlees is ons!
2 Gister sowel as eergister toe Saul koning oor ons was, het u Israel uit-- en ingelei; en die HERE het aan u gesê: Jy moet my volk Israel oppas, en jy moet 'n vors wees oor Israel.
3 So het dan al die oudstes van Israel na die koning in Hebron gekom; en koning Dawid het met hulle 'n verbond in Hebron gesluit voor die aangesig van die HERE, en hulle het Dawid as koning oor Israel gesalf.
4 Dertig jaar was Dawid oud toe hy koning geword het; veertig jaar het hy geregeer.
5 In Hebron het hy oor Juda sewe jaar en ses maande geregeer, en in Jerusalem het hy drie en dertig jaar oor die hele Israel en Juda geregeer.
6 Toe die koning met sy manne na Jerusalem wegtrek teen die Jebusiete, die bewoners van die land, het hulle met Dawid gespreek en gesê: Jy sal hier nie inkom nie, maar die blindes en lammes sal jou verdrywe -- dit wil sê: Dawid sal hier nie inkom nie.
7 Maar Dawid het die bergvesting Sion ingeneem; dit is die stad van Dawid.
8 En Dawid het daardie dag gesê: Elkeen wat 'n Jebusiet verslaan, laat hom in die waterkanaal neerwerp die lammes sowel as die blindes, van wie Dawid se siel 'n afkeer het! Daarom sê hulle: 'n Blinde en 'n lamme mag nie in die huis kom nie.
9 En Dawid het in die bergvesting gaan woon en dit die stad van Dawid genoem; en Dawid het rondom, van Millo af na die binnekant, gebou.
10 En Dawid het gedurigdeur groter geword, en die HERE, die God van die leërskare, was met hom.
11 Toe stuur Hiram, die koning van Tirus, boodskappers na Dawid met sederhout en skrynwerkers en klipkappers, en hulle het vir Dawid 'n huis gebou.
12 So het Dawid dan gewaar geword dat die HERE hom as koning oor Israel bevestig en sy koningskap verhef het ter wille van sy volk Israel.
13 En Dawid het uit Jerusalem meer byvroue en vroue geneem, nadat hy uit Hebron gekom het; en vir Dawid is meer seuns en dogters gebore.
14 En dit is die name van die wat vir hom in Jerusalem gebore is: S mmua en Sobab en Natan en Salomo,
15 en Jibhar en Elisua en Nefeg en J fia,
16 en Elis ma en Âljada en Elif,let.
17 Toe die Filistyne hoor dat Dawid as koning oor Israel gesalf was, het al die Filistyne opgetrek om Dawid te soek, maar Dawid het dit gehoor en afgetrek na die bergvesting.
18 En die Filistyne het gekom en hulle versprei in die dal Ref im.
19 Toe het Dawid die HERE geraadpleeg en gesê: Sal ek optrek teen die Filistyne? Sal U hulle in my hand gee? En die HERE het aan Dawid gesê: Trek op, want Ek sal die Filistyne verseker in jou hand gee.
20 Daarop het Dawid na Ba„l-P,rasim gegaan, en Dawid het hulle daar verslaan en gesê: Die HERE het voor my heen deur my vyande gebreek soos water deurbreek; daarom het hy die plek Ba„l-P,rasim genoem.
21 En hulle het hul afgode daar agtergelaat, en Dawid en sy manne het dit saamgeneem.
22 Maar die Filistyne het nog weer opgetrek en hulle in die dal Ref im versprei.
23 Toe raadpleeg Dawid die HERE, en Hy sê: Jy moet nie optrek nie: trek agter hulle om en val hulle aan vlak voor die balsembosse.
24 En as jy 'n geruis van voetstappe in die toppe van die balsembosse hoor, moet jy gou maak, want dan het die HERE voor jou uitgetrek om die leër van die Filistyne te verslaan.
25 En Dawid het gedoen net soos die HERE hom beveel het, en hy het die Filistyne verslaan van G¡beon af tot naby Geser.
1 Then all the tribes of Israel came to David in Hebron and said, Truly, we are your bone and your flesh.
2 In the past when Saul was king over us, it was you who went at the head of Israel when they went out or came in: and the Lord said to you, You are to be the keeper of my people Israel and their ruler.
3 So all the responsible men of Israel came to the king at Hebron; and King David made an agreement with them in Hebron before the Lord: and they put the holy oil on David and made him king over Israel.
4 David was thirty years old when he became king, and he was king for forty years,
5 Ruling over Judah in Hebron for seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem, over all Israel and Judah, for thirty-three years.
6 And the king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the people of the land: and they said to David, You will not come in here, but the blind and the feeble-footed will keep you out; for they said, David will not be able to come in here.
7 But David took the strong place of Zion, which is the town of David.
8 And that day David said, Whoever makes an attack on the Jebusites, let him go up by the water-pipe, and put to death all the blind and feeble-footed who are hated by David. And this is why they say, The blind and feeble-footed may not come into the house.
9 So David took the strong tower for his living-place, naming it the town of David. And David took in hand the building of the town all round, starting from the Millo.
10 And David became greater and greater; for the Lord, the God of armies, was with him.
11 And Hiram, king of Tyre, sent men to David, with cedar-trees and woodworkers and stoneworkers: and they made David a house.
12 And David saw that the Lord had made his position safe as king over Israel, and that he had made his kingdom great because of his people Israel.
13 And David took more women and wives in Jerusalem, after he had come from Hebron: and he had more sons and daughters.
14 These are the names of those whose birth took place in Jerusalem: Shammua and Shobab and Nathan and Solomon
15 And Ibhar and Elishua and Nepheg and Japhia
16 And Elishama and Eliada and Eliphelet.
17 And when the Philistines had news that David had been made king over Israel, they all went up in search of David; and David, hearing of it, went down to the strong place.
18 And when the Philistines came, they went in every direction in the valley of Rephaim.
19 And David, desiring directions from the Lord, said, Am I to go up against the Philistines? will you give them up into my hands? And the Lord said, Go up, for I will certainly give up the Philistines into your hands.
20 And David went to Baal-perazim, and overcame them there; and he said, The Lord has let the forces fighting against me be broken before me as a wall is broken by rushing waters. So that place was named Baal-perazim.
21 And the Philistines, when they went in flight, did not take their images with them, and David and his men took them away.
22 And the Philistines came up again, and went in every direction in the valley of Rephaim.
23 And when David went for directions to the Lord, he said, You are not to go up against them in front; but make a circle round them from the back and come on them opposite the spice-trees.
24 Then at the sound of footsteps in the tops of the trees, go forward quickly, for the Lord has gone out before you to overcome the army of the Philistines.
25 And David did as the Lord had said; and he overcame the Philistines, attacking them from Gibeon to near Gezer.