³¹ and Hebron;^(A) and to those in all the other places where he and his men had roamed.

³⁵ I will raise up for myself a faithful priest,^(A) who will do according to what is in my heart and mind. I will firmly establish his priestly house, and they will minister before my anointed^(B) one always.

³ When all the elders of Israel had come to King David at Hebron, the king made a covenant^(A) with them at Hebron before the Lord, and they anointed^(B) David king over Israel.

⁴ David was thirty years old^(C) when he became king, and he reigned^(D) forty^(E) years. ⁵ In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months,^(F) and in Jerusalem he reigned over all Israel and Judah thirty-three years.

¹¹ When the people of Jabesh Gilead^(A) heard what the Philistines had done to Saul, ¹² all their valiant men^(B) marched through the night to Beth Shan. They took down the bodies of Saul and his sons from the wall of Beth Shan and went to Jabesh, where they burned^(C) them. ¹³ Then they took their bones^(D) and buried them under a tamarisk^(E) tree at Jabesh, and they fasted^(F) seven days.^(G)