David Becomes King Over Israel^(A)

11 All Israel^(B) came together to David at Hebron^(C) and said, “We are your own flesh and blood.

³ David also took the men who were with him,^(A) each with his family, and they settled in Hebron^(B) and its towns. ⁴ Then the men of Judah came to Hebron,^(C) and there they anointed^(D) David king over the tribe of Judah.

When David was told that it was the men from Jabesh Gilead^(E) who had buried Saul,

David Becomes King Over Israel^(A)

5 All the tribes of Israel^(B) came to David at Hebron and said, “We are your own flesh and blood.^(C)