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2 Samuel 5 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:1 - Then all the tribes of Israel came to David in Hebron and said, Truly, we are your bone and your flesh.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:2 - In the past when Saul was king over us, it was you who went at the head of Israel when they went out or came in: and the Lord said to you, You are to be the keeper of my people Israel and their ruler.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:3 - So all the responsible men of Israel came to the king at Hebron; and King David made an agreement with them in Hebron before the Lord: and they put the holy oil on David and made him king over Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:4 - David was thirty years old when he became king, and he was king for forty years,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:5 - Ruling over Judah in Hebron for seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem, over all Israel and Judah, for thirty-three years.
(1Ch 11:4–9; 14:1–7 )

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:6 - And the king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the people of the land: and they said to David, You will not come in here, but the blind and the feeble-footed will keep you out; for they said, David will not be able to come in here.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:7 - But David took the strong place of Zion, which is the town of David.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:8 - And that day David said, Whoever makes an attack on the Jebusites, let him go up by the water-pipe, and put to death all the blind and feeble-footed who are hated by David. And this is why they say, The blind and feeble-footed may not come into the house.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:9 - So David took the strong tower for his living-place, naming it the town of David. And David took in hand the building of the town all round, starting from the Millo.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:10 - And David became greater and greater; for the Lord, the God of armies, was with him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:11 - And Hiram, king of Tyre, sent men to David, with cedar-trees and woodworkers and stoneworkers: and they made David a house.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:12 - And David saw that the Lord had made his position safe as king over Israel, and that he had made his kingdom great because of his people Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:13 - And David took more women and wives in Jerusalem, after he had come from Hebron: and he had more sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:14 - These are the names of those whose birth took place in Jerusalem: Shammua and Shobab and Nathan and Solomon

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:15 - And Ibhar and Elishua and Nepheg and Japhia

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:16 - And Elishama and Eliada and Eliphelet.

War with the Philistines

(1Ch 14:8–17 )

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:17 - And when the Philistines had news that David had been made king over Israel, they all went up in search of David; and David, hearing of it, went down to the strong place.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:18 - And when the Philistines came, they went in every direction in the valley of Rephaim.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:19 - And David, desiring directions from the Lord, said, Am I to go up against the Philistines? will you give them up into my hands? And the Lord said, Go up, for I will certainly give up the Philistines into your hands.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:20 - And David went to Baal-perazim, and overcame them there; and he said, The Lord has let the forces fighting against me be broken before me as a wall is broken by rushing waters. So that place was named Baal-perazim.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:21 - And the Philistines, when they went in flight, did not take their images with them, and David and his men took them away.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:22 - And the Philistines came up again, and went in every direction in the valley of Rephaim.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:23 - And when David went for directions to the Lord, he said, You are not to go up against them in front; but make a circle round them from the back and come on them opposite the spice-trees.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:24 - Then at the sound of footsteps in the tops of the trees, go forward quickly, for the Lord has gone out before you to overcome the army of the Philistines.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:25 - And David did as the Lord had said; and he overcame the Philistines, attacking them from Gibeon to near Gezer.
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The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
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2 Samuel Chapter 5 — Additional Translations:

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