2 Samuel 5:2-4

Revised Geneva Translation

² “And in time past, when Saul was our king, you led Israel in and out. And the LORD has said to you, ‘You shall feed my people, Israel, and you shall be a captain over Israel.’”

³ So, all the elders of Israel came to the king, to Hebron. And King David made a covenant with them in Hebron, before the LORD. And they anointed David king over Israel.

⁴ David was thirty years old when he began to reign. He reigned for forty years.