1. Then all Israel gathered themselves to David in Hebron, saying: We are thy bone, and thy flesh.
2. Yesterday also, and the day before when Saul was king, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: for the Lord thy God said to thee: Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt; be ruler over them.
3. So all the ancients of Israel came to the king to Hebron, and David made a covenant with them before the Lord: and they anointed him king over Israel, according to the word of the Lord which he spoke in the hand of Samuel.
4. And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem, which is Jebus, where the Jebusites were the inhabitants of the land.