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You have always guided and protected Israel, even when Saul was our king and it was not your responsibility, because the Eternal your God decided, “You will be the shepherd of My people Israel, the prince over all of them.”[a]

So all the elders of Israel came to coronate their king at Hebron. David made a covenant with them that the Eternal One witnessed; and they anointed him king over Israel, as the Eternal had commanded them to do through the seer, Samuel.

Then David and his subjects traveled from Hebron to Jebus, which is now known as Jerusalem, where the Jebusites lived.

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  1. 11:2 2 Samuel 5:2

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