2 Samuel 5:1-25, NLT
2 Samuel 5
David Becomes King of All Israel
1Then all the tribes of Israel went to David at Hebron and told him, “We are your own flesh and blood.
3So there at Hebron, King David made a covenant before the Lord with all the elders of Israel. And they anointed him king of Israel.
4David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in all.
David Captures Jerusalem
6David then led his men to Jerusalem to fight against the Jebusites, the original inhabitants of the land who were living there. The Jebusites taunted David, saying, “You’ll never get in here! Even the blind and lame could keep you out!” For the Jebusites thought they were safe.
8On the day of the attack, David said to his troops, “I hate those ‘lame’ and ‘blind’ Jebusites.*5:8a Or Those ‘lame’ and ‘blind’ Jebusites hate me. Whoever attacks them should strike by going into the city through the water tunnel.*5:8b Or with scaling hooks. The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.” That is the origin of the saying, “The blind and the lame may not enter the house.”*5:8c The meaning of this saying is uncertain.
9So David made the fortress his home, and he called it the City of David. He extended the city, starting at the supporting terraces*5:9 Hebrew the millo. The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain. and working inward.
11Then King Hiram of Tyre sent messengers to David, along with cedar timber and carpenters and stonemasons, and they built David a palace.
13After moving from Hebron to Jerusalem, David married more concubines and wives, and they had more sons and daughters.
David Conquers the Philistines
17When the Philistines heard that David had been anointed king of Israel, they mobilized all their forces to capture him. But David was told they were coming, so he went into the stronghold.
The Lord replied to David, “Yes, go ahead. I will certainly hand them over to you.”
20So David went to Baal-perazim and defeated the Philistines there. “The Lord did it!” David exclaimed. “He burst through my enemies like a raging flood!” So he named that place Baal-perazim (which means “the Lord who bursts through”).
22But after a while the Philistines returned and again spread out across the valley of Rephaim.