1 以色列众支派都到希伯仑来见大卫， 说： "看哪！ 我们都是你的骨肉至亲。 2 从前扫罗作我们的王的时候， 领导以色列人行动的是你。耶和华也曾对你说： ‘你要牧养我的子民以色列， 要作以色列的领袖。’" 3 以色列的众长老都到希伯仑来见王。大卫王在希伯仑耶和华面前与他们立约， 他们就膏立大卫作以色列的王。 4 大卫登基的时候是三十岁， 在位共四十年。 5 他在希伯仑作犹大的王七年零六个月； 在耶路撒冷作全以色列和犹大的王三十三年。 6 大卫和随从他的人到了耶路撒冷， 要攻打住在那地的耶布斯人。耶布斯人对大卫说： "你不能进这里来， 这些瞎眼的、跛脚的就能把你抵挡住。"他们心里想： "大卫决不能进那里去。" 7 大卫却攻取了锡安的保障， 就是大卫的城。 8 那一天大卫说： "攻打耶布斯人的， 要把大卫心中恨恶的‘瞎子’和‘瘸子’丢进水沟里。"因此有句俗语说： "瞎眼的或瘸腿的， 都不能进殿里。" 9 后来大卫住在保障里， 称保障为"大卫的城"。大卫又从米罗向里面周围筑墙。 10 大卫渐渐强大， 因为耶和华万军的 神与他同在。 11 推罗王希兰差派使者来见大卫， 又送来香柏木、木匠和石匠， 他们就给大卫建造宫殿。 12 大卫就知道耶和华已经立他作以色列的王， 又因自己的子民以色列的缘故， 使他的国兴盛。 13 大卫离开希伯仑后， 在耶路撒冷又娶了多位妃嫔， 并且生了很多儿女。 14 以下这些就是他在耶路撒冷所生的孩子的名字： 沙母亚、朔罢、拿单、所罗门、 15 益辖、以利书亚、尼斐、雅非亚、 16 以利沙玛、以利雅大、以利法列。 17 非利士人听见有人膏立了大卫作王统治以色列人， 就全体上来搜寻大卫。大卫听见了， 就下到保障去。 18 非利士人来到， 散布在利乏音谷。 19 大卫求问耶和华说： "我可以上去攻打非利士人吗？你会把他们交在我手里吗？"耶和华对大卫说： "你可以上去， 我必把非利士人交在你手里。" 20 于是大卫来到巴力．毗拉心， 在那里击败了非利士人， 说： "耶和华在我面前冲破我的敌人， 好像洪水冲破堤岸一般。"因此他给那地方起名叫巴力．毗拉心。 21 非利士人把他们的神像遗弃在那里， 大卫和跟随他的人就把它们拿走了。 22 非利士人又上来， 散布在利乏音谷。 23 大卫又求问耶和华， 耶和华说： "你不要直接上去， 要绕到他们后面， 从桑林对面攻打他们。 24 你一听到桑林树梢上有脚步的声音， 就要赶快行动， 因为那时耶和华已经在你前面出去击杀非利士人的军队了。" 25 于是大卫照着耶和华所吩咐他的去作， 击杀非利士人， 从迦巴直到基色。

1 And all the tribes of Israel come unto David, to Hebron, and speak, saying, `Lo, we [are] thy bone and thy flesh;2 also heretofore, in Saul`s being king over us, thou hast been he who is bringing out and bringing in Israel, and Jehovah saith to thee, Thou dost feed My people Israel, and thou art for leader over Israel.`3 And all the elders of Israel come unto the king, to Hebron, and king David maketh with them a covenant in Hebron before Jehovah, and they anoint David for king over Israel.4 A son of thirty years [is] David in his being king; forty years he hath reigned;5 in Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years, over all Israel and Judah.6 And the king goeth, and his men, to Jerusalem, unto the Jebusite, the inhabitant of the land, and they speak to David, saying, `Thou dost not come in hither, except thou turn aside the blind and the lame;` saying, `David doth not come in hither.`7 And David captureth the fortress of Zion, it [is] the city of David.8 And David saith on that day, `Any one smiting the Jebusite, (let him go up by the watercourse), and the lame and the blind -- the hated of David`s soul,` -- because the blind and lame say, `He doth not come into the house.`9 And David dwelleth in the fortress, and calleth it -- City of David, and David buildeth round about, from Millo and inward,10 and David goeth, going on and becoming great, and Jehovah, God of Hosts, [is] with him.11 And Hiram king of Tyre sendeth messengers unto David, and cedar-trees, and artificers of wood, and artificers of stone, for walls, and they build a house for David,12 and David knoweth that Jehovah hath established him for king over Israel, and that He hath lifted up his kingdom, because of His people Israel.13 And David taketh again concubines and wives out of Jerusalem, after his coming from Hebron, and there are born again to David sons and daughters.14 And these [are] the names of those born to him in Jerusalem: Shammuah, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon,15 and Ibhar, and Elishua, and Nepheg, and Japhia,16 and Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphalet.17 And the Philistines hear that they have anointed David for king over Israel, and all the Philistines come up to seek David, and David heareth, and goeth down unto the fortress,18 and the Philistines have come, and are spread out in the valley of Rephaim.19 And David asketh of Jehovah, saying, `Do I go up unto the Philistines? dost Thou give them into my hand?` And Jehovah saith unto David, `Go up, for I certainly give the Philistines into thy hand.`20 And David cometh in to Baal-Perazim, and David smiteth them there, and saith, `Jehovah hath broken forth [on] mine enemies before me, as the breaking forth of waters;` therefore he hath called the name of that place Baal-Perazim.21 And they forsake there their idols, and David and his men lift them up.22 And the Philistines add again to come up, and are spread out in the valley of Rephaim,23 and David asketh of Jehovah, and He saith, `Thou dost not go up, turn round unto their rear, and thou hast come to them over-against the mulberries,24 and it cometh to pass, in thy hearing the sound of a stepping in the tops of the mulberries, then thou dost move sharply, for then hath Jehovah gone out before thee to smite in the camp of the Philistines.`25 And David doth so, as Jehovah commanded him, and smiteth the Philistines from Geba unto thy coming to Gazer.