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 5out and in. And the Lord said to you, ‘6You will shepherd My people Israel, and you will be 7a leader over Israel.’” 3So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and King David 8made a covenant with them before the Lord in Hebron; then 9they anointed David king over Israel. 4David was 10thirty years old when he became king, and 11he reigned for forty years. 5At Hebron 12he reigned over Judah for seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem he reigned for thirty-three years over all Israel and Judah.

613Now the king and his men went to 14Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land; and they said to 15David, “You shall not come in here, but even those who are blind and those who limp will turn you away,” 16thinking, “David cannot enter here.” 7Nevertheless, David captured the stronghold of Zion, that is, 17the city of David. 8And David said on that day, “Whoever strikes the Jebusites is to reach those who limp and those who are blind, who are hated by David’s soul, through the water tunnel.” For that reason they say, “People who are blind and people who limp shall not come into the house.” 9So David lived in the stronghold, and called it 18the city of David. And David built all around from the 1920Millo and inward. 1021David became greater and greater, for the Lord God of armies was with him.