1. Then all Israel gathered themselves to David in Hebron, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.
2. And moreover yesterday and the day before yesterday, when Saul was king, it was thou that led out and brought in Israel; and the Lord thy God hath said unto thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be ruler over my people Israel.
3. Therefore, all the elders of Israel came to the king in Hebron, and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before the Lord, and they anointed David king over Israel, according to the word of the Lord by the hand of Samuel.
4. Then David and all Israel went to Jerusalem, which is Jebus, for there the Jebusites were, the inhabitants of that land.
5. And the inhabitants of Jebus said to David, Thou shalt not enter here. Nevertheless, David took the fortress of Zion, which is the city of David.
6. And David said, Whoever smites the Jebusites first shall be head and prince. So Joab, the son of Zeruiah, went up first and was made the head.
7. And David dwelt in the fortress; therefore, they called it the city of David.
8. And he built the city round about, even from Millo round about, and Joab restored the rest of the city.
9. So David waxed greater and greater, for the Lord of the hosts was with him.
10. These also are the chief of the mighty men whom David had, who strengthened him in his kingdom, with all Israel, to make him king over Israel, according to the word of the Lord.
11. And this is the number of the mighty men whom David had: Jashobeam, of Hachmoni, the chief of the captains; he lifted up his spear against three hundred slain at one time and killed them.
12. And after him was Eleazar, the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, who was one of the three mighties.
13. He was with David at Pasdammim, and there the Philistines were gathered together to battle, where there was an inheritance of land full of barley; and as the people fled from before the Philistines,