[¹] Or, leader.
2. the Lord thy God said] Compare verses 3, 10; 1 Samuel xvi. 1–13.
prince] compare v. 2, note.
³So all the elders of Israel came 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 the hand of Samuel.
3. made a covenant] i.e. gave them a charter in which he promised to respect existing rights; compare 1 Samuel x. 25 (Samuel writes the “manner” of the kingdom).
before the Lord] One method of entering into a covenant “before the Lord” was to pass between the parts of a sacrificed animal; compare Jeremiah xxxiv. 18, 19.
Chronicles has nothing here corresponding with 2 Samuel v. 4, 5; but compare xxix. 27.
according ... Samuel] Compare 1 Samuel xv. 28, xvi. 1, 3.
4–9 (= 2 Samuel v. 6–10).
The “City of David” captured and made a royal residence.
⁴And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem (the same is Jebus); and the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, were there.