3. All the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and King David made a covenant with them at Hebron in the presence of Yahweh; then they anointed David as king over Israel.
4. David was thirty years old when he began to reign; he reigned forty years.
5. He reigned over Judah at Hebron for seven years and six months; and he reigned over all Israel and Judah at Jerusalem for thirty-three years.
6. The king and his men went to Jerusalem, to the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land. They said to David, “You will not come here, for even the blind and the lame can turn you back, saying, ‘David cannot come here.’ ”
7. David captured the fortress of Zion, the city of David.
8. David had said, “On that day when we attack the Jebusites, one must attack the lame and the blind, those who hate the soul of David, by means of the water supply.” For thus the blind and the lame would say, “He cannot come into the house.”
9. David occupied the fortress and called it the city of David. And David built all around it from the Millo and inward.
10. David continued growing stronger and stronger, and Yahweh the God of hosts was with him.
11. So Hiram, the king of Tyre, sent messengers to David, along with cedar trees and craftsmen skilled in wood and in stone masonry, and they built a house for David.
12. David realized that Yahweh had established him as king over Israel and that he had exalted his kingdom because of his people Israel.
13. David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem after he came from Hebron, and more sons and daughters were born to him.
14. These are the names of the ones born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua and Shobab and Nathan and Solomon;
15. Ibhar and Elishua and Nepheg and Japhia;
16. Elishama and Eliada and Eliphelet.
17. When the Philistines heard that they had anointed David as king over Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David, but David heard and went down to the stronghold.
18. Now the Philistines had come, and they spread out in the Valley of Rephaim.