CLV(i)
4 A son of thirty years [is] David in his being king; forty years he has reigned;
5 in Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years, over all Israel and Judah.
6 And the king goes, and his men, to Jerusalem, unto the Jebusite, the inhabitant of the land, and they speak to David, saying, `You do not come in hither, except you turn aside the blind and the lame;' saying, `David does not come in hither..
7 And David captures the fortress of Zion, it [is] the city of David.
8 And David said on that day, `Any one smiting the Jebusite, (let him go up by the watercourse), and the lame and the blind--the hated of David's soul,' --because the blind and lame say, `He does not come into the house..
9 And David dwells in the fortress, and calls it--City of David, and David builds round about, from Millo and inward,
10 and David goes, going on and becoming great, and Yahweh, Elohim of Hosts, [is] with him.
11 And Hiram king of Tyre sends messengers unto David, and cedar-trees, and artificers of wood, and artificers of stone, for walls, and they build a house for David,
12 and David knows that Yahweh has established him for king over Israel, and that He has lifted up his kingdom, because of His people Israel.
13 And David takes again concubines and wives out of Jerusalem, after his coming from Hebron, and there are born again to David sons and daughters.
14 And these [are] the names of those born to him in Jerusalem:Shammuah, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon,
15 and Ibhar, and Elishua, and Nepheg, and Japhia,
16 and Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphalet.
17 And the Philistines hear that they have anointed David for king over Israel, and all the Philistines come up to seek David, and David hears, and goes down unto the fortress,
18 and the Philistines have come, and are spread out in the valley of Rephaim.
19 And David asks of Yahweh, saying, `Do I go up unto the Philistines? do You give them into my hand?' And Yahweh said unto David, `Go up, for I certainly give the Philistines into your hand..
20 And David comes in to Baal-Perazim, and David smites them there, and said, `Yahweh has broken forth [on] mine enemies before me, as the breaking forth of waters;' therefore he has called the name of that place Baal-Perazim.
21 And they forsake there their idols, and David and his men lift them up.
22 And the Philistines add again to come up, and are spread out in the valley of Rephaim,
23 and David asks of Yahweh, and He said, `You do not go up, turn round unto their rear, and you have come to them over-against the mulberries,
24 and it comes to pass, in your hearing the sound of a stepping in the tops of the mulberries, then you do move sharply, for then has Yahweh gone out before you to smite in the camp of the Philistines..
25 And David does so, as Yahweh commanded him, and smites the Philistines from Geba unto your coming to Gazer.