11:1 All Israel joined David at Hebron and said, “Look, we are your very flesh and blood! 1 11:2 In the past, even when Saul was king, you were Israel’s commanding general. 2 The Lord your God said to you, ‘You will shepherd my people Israel; you will rule over my people Israel.’” 11:3 When all the leaders 3 of Israel came to the king at Hebron, David made an agreement 4 with them in Hebron before the Lord. They anointed 5 David king over Israel, just as the Lord had announced through Samuel. 6
11:4 David and the whole Israelite army 7 advanced to Jerusalem (that is, Jebus). 8 (The Jebusites, the land’s original inhabitants, lived there.) 9
1 tn Heb “look, your bone and your flesh [are] we.”
2 tn Heb “you were the one who led out and the one who brought in Israel.”
3 tn Heb “elders.”
4 tn Or “covenant.”
5 tn Or “They poured olive oil on David to designate him as king.”
6 tn Heb “according to the word of the
7 tn Heb “all Israel.”
8 sn Jebus was an older name for the city of Jerusalem (cf. Josh 15:8; Judg 1:21).
9 tn Heb “and there [were] the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land.”