5: 2 In times past, when Saul was king over us, it was thou that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and Jehovah said to thee, Thou shalt be shepherd of my people Israel, and thou shalt be 34prince over Israel.
34Or, leader over Israel.
5: 3 So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and king David made a covenant with them in Hebron before Jehovah: and they anointed David king over Israel.
5: 4 David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.
5: 5 In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months; and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three years over all Israel and Judah.
5: 6 And the king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, who spake unto David, saying, 35Except thou take away the blind and the lame, thou shalt not come in hither; thinking, David cannot come in hither.
35Or, Thou shalt not come in hither, but the blind and the lame shall turn thee away;
5: 7 Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion; the same is the city of David.
5: 8 And David said on that day, Whosoever smiteth the Jebusites, let him get up to the watercourse, 36and smite these lame and these blind, 37that are hated of David’s soul. Wherefore they say, 38There are the blind and the lame; he cannot come into the house.
36Or, and as for the lame and the blind, that are hated of David’s soul ─ ... [Likely sarcasm.] Lamsa says, and whosoever strikes with a weapon the blind and the lame, he is a hater of David’s soul.
37So Hbtxt 4Sama. Hbmg Sept. (Vg.) read that hate David’s soul. (ואנש vs. יאו נש)
38Or, The blind and the lame shall not come into the house.
5: 9 And David dwelt in the stronghold, and called it the city of David. And David built round about from Millo and inward.
5: 10 And David waxed greater and greater; for Jehovah, the God of hosts, was with him.
5: 11 And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and carpenters, and masons; and they built David a house.
5: 12 And David perceived that Jehovah had established him king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom for his people Israel’s sake.
5: 13 And David took him more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem, after he was come from Hebron; and there were yet sons and daughters born to David.
5: 14 And these are the names of those that were born unto him in Jerusalem: Shammua, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon,
5: 15 and Ibhar, and Elishua, and Nepheg, and Japhia,
5: 16 and Elishama, and 39Eliada, and Eliphelet.
39In 1Chr 14:7, Beeliada,
5: 17 And when the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king over Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David; and David heard of it, and went down to the stronghold.
5: 18 Now the Philistines had come and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
5: 19 And David inquired of 40Jehovah, saying, Shall I go up against the Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into my hand? And Jehovah said unto David, Go up; for I will certainly deliver the Philistines into thy hand.
40Sopherim changed Jehovah to Elohim (God) in vss. 19-25, and in ch. 6:9-17.
5: 20 And David came to Baal-perazim, and David smote them there; and he said, Jehovah hath 41broken mine enemies before me, like the breach of waters. Therefore he called the name of that place 42Baal-perazim.
41Or, broken forth upon mine enemies,
42That is, The place of breakings forth.
5: 21 And they left their images there; and David and his men took them away.
5: 22 And the Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
5: 23 And when David inquired of Jehovah, he said, Thou shalt not go up: make a circuit behind them, and come upon them over against the 43mulberry trees.
43Or, balsam trees. Also in vs. 24.
5: 24 And it shall be, when thou hearest the sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt bestir thyself; for then is Jehovah gone out before thee to smite the host of the Philistines.
5: 25 And David did so, as Jehovah commanded him, and smote the Philistines from 44Geba until thou come to Gezer.
44In 1Chr 14:16, Gibeon
