All the officers and warriors, as well as all of King David&#8217;s sons, pledged their allegiance to King Solomon.<n id="1" />

Recorded there are all the facts about his reign and accomplishments, and an account of the events that involved him, Israel, and all the neighboring kingdoms.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">These were all the sons of David, not counting the sons of his concubines.<n id="1" /> Tamar was their sister.p>

So Saul and his three sons died; his whole household<n id="1" /> died together.

<t /><p class="bodytext">David consulted with his military officers, including those who led groups of a thousand and those who led groups of a hundred.<n id="1" />

<p class="poetry">Sing to him! Make music to him!p> <p class="poetry">Tell about all his miraculous deeds!p>

<p class="poetry">Tell the nations about his splendor,p> <p class="poetry">tell<n id="1" /> all the nations about his miraculous deeds!p>

<p class="poetry">For all the gods of the nations are worthless,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">but the <sc>Lordsc> made the heavens.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Let the sea and everything in it shout!p> <p class="poetry">Let the fields and everything in them celebrate!p>

<p class="bodytext">David ordered all the officials of Israel to support<n id="1" /> his son Solomon.

<p class="bodytext">David<n id="1" /> assembled all the leaders of Israel, along with the priests and the Levites.

<t /><p class="bodytext">David son of Jesse reigned over all Israel.

<p class="bodytext">All these men were warriors who were ready to march.<n id="1" /> They came to Hebron to make David king over all Israel by acclamation;<n id="2" /> all the rest of the Israelites also were in agreement that David should become king.<n id="3" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">David assembled in Jerusalem<n id="1" /> all the officials of Israel, including the commanders of the tribes, the commanders of the army divisions that served the king, the commanders of units of a thousand and a hundred, the officials who were in charge of all the property and livestock of the king and his sons, the eunuchs, and the warriors, including the most skilled of them.p>

Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.p>

<p class="bodytext">The sons of Midian:p> <p class="bodytext">Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the sons of Keturah.p>

<p class="bodytext">Tamar, Judah&#8217;s<n id="1" /> daughter-in-law, bore to him Perez and Zerah. Judah had five sons in all.p>

<p class="bodytext">The sons of Zerah:p> <p class="bodytext">Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Kalkol, Dara<n id="1" /> &#8211; five in all.p>

They also lived in all the settlements that surrounded these towns as far as Baal.<n id="1" /> These were their settlements; they kept genealogical records.p>

They lived in Gilead, in Bashan and its surrounding settlements, and in the pasturelands of Sharon to their very borders.<n id="1" />