Then You spoke in a vision to Your holy one, and said: I have placed help upon a mighty one; I have exalted a chosen one out of the people.

Once I have sworn by My holiness; I will not lie to David:

God has spoken in His holiness: I will rejoice; I will divide Shechem and measure out the Valley of Succoth.

Moab is My washpot; over Edom I will cast My shoe; over Philistia I will triumph.

Is it not You, O God, who cast us off? And will You not, O God, go out with our armies?

Through God we shall deal with might, for it is He who shall trample our enemies.

Jehovah has sworn in truth unto David; He will not turn from it: I will set upon your throne the fruit of your body.

Now then, do it! For Jehovah has spoken of David, saying, By the hand of My servant David, I will save My people Israel out of the hand of the Philistines and out of the hand of all their enemies.

Also, in time past, when Saul was king over us, you were the one leading Israel out and bringing them in; and Jehovah said to you, You shall shepherd My people Israel, and be ruler over Israel.

My heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake. I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine has overcome, because of Jehovah, and because of the Words of His holiness.

The Lord Jehovah has sworn by His holiness that the days are coming that He will carry you away with meat hooks, and the last of you with fishhooks.

In God (I praise His Word), in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do to me.

I rejoice at Your Word, as one who finds great spoils.

Then King David went in and sat before Jehovah; and he said: Who am I, O Lord Jehovah? And what is my house, that You have brought me this far?

Now what more can David say to You? For You, Lord Jehovah, have known Your servant.

Blessed is she who believes, for there will be a fulfillment of those things which were told her from the Lord.

and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior.

Be strong and of good courage, for to this people you shall divide as an inheritance the land which I have sworn to their fathers to give to them.

But Abner the son of Ner, commander of Saul's army, took Ishbosheth the son of Saul and brought him over to Mahanaim;

and he made him king over Gilead, over the Ashurites, over Jezreel, over Ephraim, over Benjamin, and over all Israel.

Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and spoke, saying, Behold, we are your bone and your flesh.

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

And Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanites were then in the land.

So they appointed Kedesh in Galilee, in the mountains of Naphtali, Shechem in the mountains of Ephraim, and Kirjath Arba (which is Hebron) in the mountains of Judah.

And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem and summoned the elders of Israel, their heads, their judges, and their officers; and they presented themselves before God.

And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel had brought up out of Egypt, they buried at Shechem, in the plot of ground which Jacob had bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for one hundred pieces of silver, and which had become an inheritance of the sons of Joseph.

and in the valley Beth Haram, Beth Nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, with the Jordan as its border, as far as the edge of the Sea of Chinnereth, on the other side of the Jordan eastward.