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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>2 Samuel 5 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/2_samuel/5.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/2_samuel/5-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</a> > 2 Samuel 5</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../2_samuel/4.htm" title="2 Samuel 4">◄</a> 2 Samuel 5 <a href="../2_samuel/6.htm" title="2 Samuel 6">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s">David Becomes King of Israel and Judah</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="1CH 11:1-9">1 Chronicles 11.1-9</ref>; <ref loc="1CH 14:1-7">14.1-7</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v10_5_1"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.5.1" class="v10_5_1">1</span>Then all the tribes of Israel went to David at Hebron and said to him, “We are your own flesh and blood. </span><span class="v10_5_2"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.5.2" class="v10_5_2">2</span>In the past, even when Saul was still our king, you led the people of Israel in battle, and the <span class="nd">Lord</span> promised you that you would lead his people and be their ruler.” </span><span class="v10_5_3"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.5.3" class="v10_5_3">3</span>So all the leaders of Israel came to King David at Hebron. He made a sacred alliance with them, they anointed him, and he became king of Israel. </span><span class="v10_5_4"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.5.4" class="v10_5_4">4</span><a href="#fn" id="link_2Sam.5.4!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> David was thirty years old when he became king, and he ruled for forty years. </span><span class="v10_5_5"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.5.5" class="v10_5_5">5</span>He ruled in Hebron over Judah for seven and a half years, and in Jerusalem over all Israel and Judah for thirty-three years.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v10_5_6"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.5.6" class="v10_5_6">6</span><a href="#fn" id="link_2Sam.5.6!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> The time came when King David and his men set out to attack Jerusalem. The Jebusites, who lived there, thought that David would not be able to conquer the city, and so they said to him, “You will never get in here; even the blind and the crippled could keep you out.” ( </span><span class="v10_5_7"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.5.7" class="v10_5_7">7</span>But David did capture their fortress of Zion, and it became known as “David's City.”)</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v10_5_8"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.5.8" class="v10_5_8">8</span>That day David said to his men, “Does anybody here hate the Jebusites as much as I do? Enough to kill them? Then go up through the water tunnel and attack those poor blind cripples.” (That is why it is said, “The blind and the crippled cannot enter the <span class="nd">Lord</span>'s house.”)<a href="#fn" id="link_2Sam.5.8!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="par"><span class="v10_5_9"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.5.9" class="v10_5_9">9</span>After capturing the fortress, David lived in it and named it “David's City.” He built the city around it, starting at the place where land was filled in on the east side of the hill. </span><span class="v10_5_10"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.5.10" class="v10_5_10">10</span>He grew stronger all the time, because the <span class="nd">Lord</span> God Almighty was with him.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v10_5_11"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.5.11" class="v10_5_11">11</span>King Hiram of Tyre sent a trade mission to David; he provided him with cedar logs and with carpenters and stone masons to build a palace. </span><span class="v10_5_12"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.5.12" class="v10_5_12">12</span>And so David realized that the <span class="nd">Lord</span> had established him as king of Israel and was making his kingdom prosperous for the sake of his people.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v10_5_13"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.5.13" class="v10_5_13">13</span>After moving from Hebron to Jerusalem, David took more concubines and wives, and had more sons and daughters. </span><span class="v10_5_14"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.5.14" class="v10_5_14">14</span>The following children were born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon, </span><span class="v10_5_15"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.5.15" class="v10_5_15">15</span>Ibhar, Elishua, Nepheg, Japhia, </span><span class="v10_5_16"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.5.16" class="v10_5_16">16</span>Elishama, Eliada, and Eliphelet.</span></p><h3 class="s">Victory over the Philistines</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="1CH 14:8-17">1 Chronicles 14.8-17</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v10_5_17"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.5.17" class="v10_5_17">17</span>The Philistines were told that David had been made king of Israel, so their army set out to capture him. When David heard of it, he went down to a fortified place. </span><span class="v10_5_18"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.5.18" class="v10_5_18">18</span>The Philistines arrived at Rephaim Valley and occupied it. </span><span class="v10_5_19"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.5.19" class="v10_5_19">19</span>David asked the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, “Shall I attack the Philistines? Will you give me the victory?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v10_5_19">“Yes, attack!” the <span class="nd">Lord</span> answered. “I will give you the victory!”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v10_5_20"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.5.20" class="v10_5_20">20</span>So David went to Baal Perazim and there he defeated the Philistines. He said, “The <span class="nd">Lord</span> has broken through my enemies like a flood.” And so that place is called Baal Perazim.<a href="#fn" id="link_2Sam.5.20!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span><span class="v10_5_21"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.5.21" class="v10_5_21">21</span>When the Philistines fled, they left their idols behind, and David and his men carried them away.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v10_5_22"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.5.22" class="v10_5_22">22</span>Then the Philistines went back to Rephaim Valley and occupied it again. </span><span class="v10_5_23"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.5.23" class="v10_5_23">23</span>Once more David consulted the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, who answered, “Don't attack them from here, but go around and get ready to attack them from the other side, near the balsam trees. </span><span class="v10_5_24"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.5.24" class="v10_5_24">24</span>When you hear the sound of marching in the treetops, then attack because I will be marching ahead of you to defeat the Philistine army.” </span><span class="v10_5_25"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.5.25" class="v10_5_25">25</span>David did what the <span class="nd">Lord</span> had commanded, and was able to drive the Philistines back from Geba all the way to Gezer.</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">5.8: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Verse 8 in Hebrew is unclear.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">5.20: </char><char style="fk" closed="false">Baal Perazim: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">This name in Hebrew means “Lord of the Breakthrough.”</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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