2 Samuel 5:4
King James Version (KJV)
David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.
In context
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 king over Israel.
4 David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.
5 In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months: and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years over all Israel and Judah.
6 And the king and his men went to Jerusalem unto the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land: which spake unto David, saying, Except thou take away the blind and the lame, thou shalt not come in hither: thinking, David cannot come in hither.
2 Samuel 5:4 in every translation
- KJV King James Version
- David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.
- WEB World English Bible
- David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- David was thirty years old when he became king, and he reigned forty years.
- ASV American Standard Version
- David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- A son of thirty years [is] David in his being king; forty years he hath reigned;
- DBY Darby Translation
- David was thirty years old when he began to reign; he reigned forty years.
- WBS Webster Bible
- David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.