3 So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, where King David made with them a covenant before the LORD. And they anointed him king over Israel. 4 David was thirty years old when he became king, and he reigned forty years.
2 Samuel 5:3–4
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1 Chronicles 11:2–4
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