2 Samuel 5:1-10

11Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and 2said, “Behold, we are 3your bone and your flesh. 2Previously, when Saul was king over us, 4you were the one who led Israel out and in. And the Lord said to you, ‘5You will shepherd My people Israel, and you will be 6a ruler over Israel.’” 3So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and King David 7made a covenant with them before the Lord at Hebron; then 8they anointed David king over Israel. 4David was 9thirty years old when he became king, and 10he reigned forty years. 5At Hebron 11he reigned over Judah seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three years over all Israel and Judah.

612Now the king and his men went to 13Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, and they said to 14David, “You shall not come in here, but the blind and lame will turn you away”; 15thinking, “David cannot enter here.” 7Nevertheless, David captured the stronghold of Zion, that is 16the city of David. 8David said on that day, “Whoever would strike the Jebusites, let him reach the lame and the blind, who are hated by David’s soul, through the water tunnel.” Therefore they say, “The blind or the lame shall not come into the house.” 9So David lived in the stronghold and called it 17the city of David. And David built all around from the 1819Millo and inward. 1020David became greater and greater, for the Lord God of hosts was with him.