1 Chronicles 11:1-3

Revised Geneva Translation

11 Then all Israel gathered themselves to David, to Hebron, saying, “Behold, we are your bones and your flesh.

² “And in time past, even when Saul was king, you led Israel out and in. And the LORD your God said to you, ‘You shall feed My people Israel. And you shall be captain over My people Israel.’”

³ So, 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.