And now, let your hands be made strong, and be sons of strength, for your lord Saul is dead. And also, the house of Judah has anointed me to be king over them.
And all the elders of Israel came to the king, to Hebron. And King David cut a covenant with them in Hebron before Jehovah. And they anointed David to be king over Israel.
And he brought out the son of the king, and put the crown on him, and the testimony. And they made him to reign, and anointed him, and clapped their hands, and said, Let the king live!
And I told them of the hand of my God which was good on me, and also the king’s words that he had spoken to me. And they said, Let us rise up and build. So they made their hands strong for good.
then all the men of strength rose up, and they went all the night; and they took the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sons, from the wall of Beth-shan. And they came to Jabesh, and burned them there.
And the men of Israel who were beyond the valley, and who were beyond the Jordan, saw that the men of Israel had fled, and that Saul and his sons had died. And they abandoned the cities and fled. And the Philistines came in and lived in them.