2 Samuel 5:2-5

Living Bible

² “And even when Saul was our king you were our real leader. The Lord has said that you should be the shepherd and leader of his people.”

³ So David made a contract before the Lord with the leaders of Israel there at Hebron, and they crowned him king of Israel. ^4-5 (He had already been the king of Judah for seven years, since the age of thirty. He then ruled thirty-three years in Jerusalem as king of both Israel and Judah; so he reigned for forty years altogether.)