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1 Chronicles 11:2-4
New English Translation

2 In the past, even when Saul was king, you were Israel’s commanding general.[a] The Lord your God said to you, ‘You will shepherd my people Israel; you will rule over my people Israel.’” 3 When all the leaders[b] of Israel came to the king at Hebron, David made a covenant with them in Hebron before the Lord. They anointed David king over Israel, in keeping with the Lord’s message that came through Samuel.[c]

David Conquers Jerusalem

4 David and the whole Israelite army[d] advanced to Jerusalem (that is, Jebus).[e] (The Jebusites, the land’s original inhabitants, lived there.)[f]

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 11:2 tn Heb “you were the one who led out and the one who brought in Israel.”
  2. 1 Chronicles 11:3 tn Heb “elders.”
  3. 1 Chronicles 11:3 tn Heb “by the hand of Samuel.”
  4. 1 Chronicles 11:4 tn Heb “all Israel.”
  5. 1 Chronicles 11:4 sn Jebus was an older name for the city of Jerusalem (cf. Josh 15:8; Judg 1:21).
  6. 1 Chronicles 11:4 tn Heb “and there [were] the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land.”
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