David again assembled all the best soldiers in Israel, 30,000 men.
I won’t take one single thing except what my men have eaten. But let my allies Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre take their share.”
All the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron. “We are your own flesh and blood,” they said.
Then Solomon assembled the respected leaders of Israel, all the heads of the tribes, and the leaders of the Israelite families. They came to King Solomon in Jerusalem to take the ark of the Lord’s promise from the City of David (that is, Zion).
So David gathered all Israel from the Shihor River near Egypt to the border of Hamath in order to bring God’s ark from Kiriath Jearim.
