And Absalom sent spies among all the tribes of Israel, saying, When you hear the sound of the rams’ horn, then you shall say, Absalom is king in Hebron.
And it happened after this, David asked of Jehovah, saying, Shall I go up to one of the cities of Judah? And Jehovah said to him, Go up. And David said, Where shall I go up? And He said, To Hebron.
And the men of Judah came and anointed David to be king over the house of Judah there. And they told David, saying, It was the men of Jabesh-gilead who buried Saul.
And they went up into the Negeb, and came to Hebron. And Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the sons of Anak, were there. And Hebron had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.
And he gave a portion to Caleb the son of Jephunneh among the sons of Judah, according to the command of Jehovah to Joshua: the City of Arba, the father of Anak; it is Hebron.
Please go, please make yet more sure, and know, and see his place where his foot is; who has seen him there, for one has said to me, He is being very crafty.