2 Samuel 2:5-7

2:5 So David sent messengers to the people of Jabesh Gilead and told them, “May you be blessed by the Lord because you have shown this kindness ¹  to your lord Saul by burying him. 2:6 Now may the Lord show you true kindness! ²  I also will reward you, ³  because you have done this deed. 2:7 Now be courageous ⁴  and prove to be valiant warriors, for your lord Saul is dead. The people of Judah have anointed me as king over them.”

2 Samuel 2:1

David is Anointed King

2:1 Afterward David inquired of the Lord, “Should I go up to one of the cities of Judah?” The Lord told him, “Go up.” David asked, “Where should I go?” The Lord replied, ⁵  “To Hebron.”

2 Samuel 1:11-13

1:11 David then grabbed his own clothes ⁶  and tore them, as did all the men who were with him. 1:12 They lamented and wept and fasted until evening because Saul, his son Jonathan, the Lord’s people, and the house of Israel had fallen by the sword.

1:13 David said to the young man who told this to him, “Where are you from?” He replied, “I am an Amalekite, the son of a resident foreigner.” ⁷ 

¹ tn Or “loyalty.”

² tn Or “loyalty and devotion.”

³ tn Heb “will do with you this good.”

⁴ tn Heb “let your hands be strong.”

⁵ tn Heb “he said.” The referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons.

⁶ tc The present translation follows the Qere and many medieval Hebrew mss in reading “his garments,” rather than “his garment,” the reading of the Kethib.

⁷ tn The Hebrew word used here refers to a foreigner whose social standing was something less than that of native residents of the land, but something more than that of a nonresident alien who was merely passing through.