Elders Anoint David Over All Israel

1Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said, “Look, we are your bone and your flesh.”

2Also previously, when Saul was king over us, you were the one who led Israel out and brought them in. And Yahweh said to you, ‘You shall shepherd my people Israel, and you shall be ruler over Israel.’

3So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and King David made a covenant with them at Hebron before Yahweh, and they anointed David king over Israel.

4David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.

5In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three years over all Israel and Judah.