Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble, and I'm your host for the Bible Recap.

Apart from the Psalms, it's been a while since we've checked in on David and his storyline.

The last time we saw him was 10 days ago on day 111.

Let's do a quick refresher of where we are

in the story before we jump into today's recap. Before today's reading, David has been king of the

tribe of Judah for about seven years. The other tribes have been following Saul's son, Ishbo Sheff.

But then two of Ishboshev's military leaders murdered him. And right before that happened,

Ishbocheth's military commander, Abner, stepped down from his position and went around

convincing all the other tribes that they should follow David instead. So that's where we are

when we pick up today's reading. We hit 2nd Samuel 5 first, then jumped over to 1st Chronicles

11 and 12, which recounted a lot of what we just read in 2nd Samuel 5.

And that's often how it will be when we incorporate chronicles into our reading.

But remember that it will often give its own lens on things, taking out some things that are less favorable, adding in some things that we don't see elsewhere.

Let it flesh out your understanding of these

stories a bit more. Since these chapters mostly covered the same stories today, I'll do the recap as an

overview of all three chapters at once. Finally, David is anointed king over the other tribes,

unifying the nation of Israel. David was 30 years old at this point, which means he had to wait

roughly 15 years between the time Samuel anointed him as king over Israel and the time he

actually became king over Israel. Up until this point had been reigning in Hebron, which was the

religious capital at the time. But he's got his heart set on moving the capital to Jerusalem.

There's only one problem. The Jebiosites live there. The Israelites haven't been able to drive them out on any previous attempts,

in part because of how Jerusalem is on a hill, surrounded by valley, surrounded by hills. It's almost

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