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So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and David made a covenant with them there before the Lord, and they anointed [him] king over Israel, according to the word of the Lord through Samuel.(A)

And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem, that is Jebus, where the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, were.

Then the Jebusites said to David, You shall not come in here! But David took the stronghold of Zion, that is, the City of David.

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