2 Samuel 5:4
David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 41:46And he turned his name, and called him in the Eyyptian tounge, The saviour of the world. And he gave him to wife Asenth the daughter of Putiphare priest of Heliopolis. Then Joseph went out to the land of Egypt:
1 Chronicles 3:4So six sons were born to him in Hebron, where he reigned seven years and six months. And in Jerusalem he reigned three and thirty years.
1 Chronicles 29:27And the days that he reigned over Israel, were forty years: in Hebron he reigned seven years, and in Jerusalem three and thirty years.
Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 5:2-6
David King over All Israel. ( b. c. 1048.) 1 Then came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron, and spake, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh. 2 Also in time past, when Saul was king over us, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the Lord said to thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be a captain over Israel. 3 So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and king David made a league with them in Hebron before the Lord : and they anointed David… Read the whole commentary →