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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://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 NLT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></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="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NLT</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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/2_samuel/5.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">David Becomes King of All Israel</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/5-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then all the tribes of Israel went to David at Hebron and told him, “We are your own flesh and blood. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/5-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>In the past,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> when Saul was our king, you were the one who really led the forces of Israel. And the LORD told you, ‘You will be the shepherd of my people Israel. You will be Israel’s leader.’”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/5-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>So there at Hebron, King David made a covenant before the LORD with all the elders of Israel. And they anointed him king of Israel.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/5-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in all. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>He had reigned over Judah from Hebron for seven years and six months, and from Jerusalem he reigned over all Israel and Judah for thirty-three years.</p><p class="hdg">David Captures Jerusalem</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/5-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>David then led his men to Jerusalem to fight against the Jebusites, the original inhabitants of the land who were living there. The Jebusites taunted David, saying, “You’ll never get in here! Even the blind and lame could keep you out!” For the Jebusites thought they were safe. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>But David captured the fortress of Zion, which is now called the City of David.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>On the day of the attack, David said to his troops, “I hate those ‘lame’ and ‘blind’ Jebusites.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a> Whoever attacks them should strike by going into the city through the water tunnel.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a>” That is the origin of the saying, “The blind and the lame may not enter the house.”<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">d</span></a></p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>So David made the fortress his home, and he called it the City of David. He extended the city, starting at the supporting terraces<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">e</span></a> and working inward. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And David became more and more powerful, because the LORD God of Heaven’s Armies was with him.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Then King Hiram of Tyre sent messengers to David, along with cedar timber and carpenters and stonemasons, and they built David a palace. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And David realized that the LORD had confirmed him as king over Israel and had blessed his kingdom for the sake of his people Israel.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>After moving from Hebron to Jerusalem, David married more concubines and wives, and they had more sons and daughters. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>These are the names of David’s sons who were born in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/5-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Ibhar, Elishua, Nepheg, Japhia, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/5-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Elishama, Eliada, and Eliphelet.</p><p class="hdg">David Conquers the Philistines</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/5-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>When the Philistines heard that David had been anointed king of Israel, they mobilized all their forces to capture him. But David was told they were coming, so he went into the stronghold. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/5-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>The Philistines arrived and spread out across the valley of Rephaim. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/5-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>So David asked the LORD, “Should I go out to fight the Philistines? Will you hand them over to me?”</p><p class="reg">The LORD replied to David, “Yes, go ahead. I will certainly hand them over to you.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/5-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>So David went to Baal-perazim and defeated the Philistines there. “The LORD did it!” David exclaimed. “He burst through my enemies like a raging flood!” So he named that place Baal-perazim (which means “the Lord who bursts through”). <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/5-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>The Philistines had abandoned their idols there, so David and his men confiscated them.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/5-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>But after a while the Philistines returned and again spread out across the valley of Rephaim. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/5-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And again David asked the LORD what to do. “Do not attack them straight on,” the LORD replied. “Instead, circle around behind and attack them near the poplar<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">f</span></a> trees. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/5-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>When you hear a sound like marching feet in the tops of the poplar trees, be on the alert! That will be the signal that the LORD is moving ahead of you to strike down the Philistine army.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/5-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>So David did what the LORD commanded, and he struck down the Philistines all the way from Gibeon<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">g</span></a> to Gezer.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">5:2 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">For some time.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">5:8a </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">Those ‘lame’ and ‘blind’ Jebusites hate me.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">5:8b </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">with scaling hooks.</span><span class="ft"> The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.</span><br><span class="fn">d</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">5:8c </span><span class="ft">The meaning of this saying is uncertain.</span><br><span class="fn">e</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">5:9 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">the millo.</span><span class="ft"> The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.</span><br><span class="fn">f</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">5:23 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">aspen,</span><span class="ft"> or </span><span class="it">balsam;</span><span class="ft"> also in 5:24. The exact identification of this tree is uncertain.</span><br><span class="fn">g</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">5:25 </span><span class="ft">As in Greek version (see also 1 Chr 14:16); Hebrew reads </span><span class="it">Geba.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of <a href="http://www.tyndale.com">Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.</a>, Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. 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