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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.
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.
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.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:4 - David was thirty years old when he became king, and he was king for forty years,
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.
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.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:7 - But David took the strong place of Zion, which is the town of David.
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.
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.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:10 - And David became greater and greater; for the Lord, the God of armies, was with him.
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.
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.
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
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:15 - And Ibhar and Elishua and Nepheg and Japhia
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:16 - And Elishama and Eliada and Eliphelet.

War with the Philistines

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.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:18 - And when the Philistines came, they went in every direction in the valley of Rephaim.
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.
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.
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.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:22 - And the Philistines came up again, and went in every direction in the valley of Rephaim.
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.
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.
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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