Therefore now let your hands be strengthened, and be ye valiant: for your master Saul is dead, and also the house of Yhudah have anointed me king over them.
All the valiant men arose, and went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Bethshan, and came to Jabesh, and burnt them there.
And when the men of Yisrael that were on the other side of the valley, and they that were on the other side Yarden, saw that the men of Yisrael fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook the cities, and fled; and the Plishtim came and dwelt in them.
Be strong and quit yourselves like men, O ye Plishtim, that ye be not servants unto the Hebrews, as they have been to you: quit yourselves like men, and fight.
Then I told them of the hand of my Elohim which was good upon me; as also the king's words that he had spoken unto me. And they said, Let us rise up and build. So they strengthened their hands for this good work.
So all the elders of Yisrael came to the king to Hevron; and king David made a league with them in Hevron before YY : and they anointed David king over Yisrael.
And he brought forth the king's son, and put the crown upon him, and gave him the testimony; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, Elohim save the king.