David Made King of All Israel
1   Then all Israel gathered themselves to David unto Hebron, saying, Behold, we are your bone and your flesh.
2   And moreover in time past, even when Saul was king, you were he that led out and brought in Israel: and the LORD your God said unto you, You shall feed my people Israel, and you shall be ruler over my people Israel.
3   Therefore came all the elders of Israel to the king to Hebron; and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before the LORD; and they anointed David king over Israel, according to the word of the LORD by Samuel.

David Conquers Jerusalem
4   And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem, which is Jebus; where the Jebusites were, the inhabitants of the land.
5   And the inhabitants of Jebus said to David, You  shall  not  come  here.  Nevertheless  David took the stronghold of Zion, which is the city of David.
6   And David said, Whosoever smites the Jebusites  first  shall  be  chief  and  captain.  So Joab the son of Zeruiah went first up, and was chief.
7   And David dwelt in the stronghold; therefore they called it the city of David.
8   And he built the city around it, even from Millo and around: and Joab repaired the rest of the city.
9   So David grew greater and greater: for the LORD of hosts was with him.

The Mighty Men of David
10   These also are the chief of the mighty men whom David had, who strengthened themselves with him in his kingdom, and with all Israel, to make  him  king,  according  to  the  word  of  the LORD concerning Israel.
11   And this is the number of the mighty men whom David had; Jashobeam, a Hachmonite, the chief  of  the  captains:  he  lifted  up  his  spear against three hundred slain by him at one time.
12   And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, who was one of the three mighty men.
13   He was with David at Pas-dammim, and there the Philistines were gathered together to battle, where there was a plot of ground full of barley; and the people fled from before the Philistines.
14   And they set themselves in the midst of that plot, and delivered it, and slew the Philistines; and   the   LORD  saved them by a great deliverance.
15   Now three of the thirty captains went down to the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the host of the Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim.
16   And David was then in the stronghold, and the Philistines’ garrison was then at Bethlehem.
17   And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me a drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem, that is at the gate!
18   And the three broke through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: but David would not drink of it, but poured it out to the LORD,
19   And said, My God forbid me, that I should do this thing: shall I drink the blood of these men that have put their lives in jeopardy? for with the jeopardy of their lives they brought it. Therefore he  would  not  drink  it.  These  things  did  these three mighty men.
20   And Abishai the brother of Joab, he was chief of the three: for lifting up his spear against three hundred, he slew them, and had a name among the three.
21   Of the three, he was more honorable than the two; for he was their captain: however he attained not to the first three.
22   Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant  man  of  Kabzeel,  who  had  done  many great deeds; he slew two lion-like men of Moab: also he went down and slew a lion in a pit on a snowy day.
23   And he slew an Egyptian, a man of great stature,  five  cubits  tall;  and  in  the  Egyptian’s hand was a spear like a weaver’s beam; and he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand, and slew him with his own spear.
24   These  things  did  Benaiah  the  son  of Jehoiada,  and  won  a  name  among  the  three mighty men.
25   Behold, he was honorable among the thirty, but attained not to the first three: and David set him over his guard.
26   Also the valiant men of the armies were, Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,
27   Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite,
28   Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer the Anthothite,
29   Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite,
30   Maharai the Netophathite, Heled the son of Baanah the Netophathite,
31   Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah, that belonged to the children of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite,
32   Hurai of the brooks of Gaash, Abiel the Arbathite,
33   Azmaveth  the  Baharumite,  Eliahba  the Shaalbonite,
34   The  sons  of  Hashem  the  Gizonite, Jonathan the son of Shagee the Hararite,
35   Ahiam  the  son  of  Sacar  the  Hararite, Eliphal the son of Ur,
36   Hepher  the  Mecherathite,  Ahijah  the Pelonite,
37   Hezro the Carmelite, Naarai the son of Ezbai,
38   Joel the brother of Nathan, Mibhar the son of Hagri,
39   Zelek   the   Ammonite,   Naharai   the Beerothite, the armorbearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah,
40   Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,
41   Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai,
42   Adina the son of Shiza the Reubenite, a chief of the Reubenites, and thirty with him,
43   Hanan the son of Maacah, and Joshaphat the Mithnite,
44   Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Jeiel the sons of Hotham the Aroerite,
45   Jediael the son of Shimri, and Joha his brother, the Tizite,
46   Eliel the Mahavite, and Jeribai, and Joshaviah, the sons of Elnaam, and Ithmah the Moabite,
47   Eliel, and Obed, and Jaasiel the Mezobaite.