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Then Abner said to David, "I will now go and assemble all Israel for my master the king, that they may enter into an agreement with you, and that you may reign over all those you want to rule." (2 Samuel 3, 21)
Just then, David's men and Joab arrived from a raid taking along with them a great deal of booty. Abner was no longer with David at Hebron for he had departed quietly after David had dismissed him. (2 Samuel 3, 22)
Joab left David and sent messengers to go after Abner and they had him brought back from the cistern of Sirah. But David did not know of that. (2 Samuel 3, 26)
Later on, David heard about this. Then he said, "Yahweh will not punish me and my kingdom for the blood of Abner, son of Ner. (2 Samuel 3, 28)
David then told Joab and those who were with him, "Tear off your clothes, put on sackcloth and mourn before Abner." King David himself followed the corpse. (2 Samuel 3, 31)
Then the people tried to persuade David to take some food while it was still day, but David swore, "May God do so to me and more if I touch food before sundown!" (2 Samuel 3, 35)
They brought Ishbaal's head to David at Hebron and said to the king, "Here is the head of Ishbaal son of Saul, your enemy who sought your life. This day Yahweh has avenged my lord the king, on Saul and his son." (2 Samuel 4, 8)
But David answered Rechab and his brother Baanah, sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, "Let Yahweh hear, he who has saved me from all adversities. (2 Samuel 4, 9)
So David commanded his young men to kill them. They cut off their hands and feet and hung them beside the pool at Hebron. Then they took Ishbaal's head and buried it in Abner's tomb on Hebron. (2 Samuel 4, 12)
All the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said, "We are your bone and flesh. (2 Samuel 5, 1)
Before Yahweh, King David made an agreement with the elders of Israel who came to him at Hebron, and they anointed him king of Israel. (2 Samuel 5, 3)
David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for forty years: (2 Samuel 5, 4)
