robberies instantly committed against the ‘foreign’ Amalekites (1 Sam. 30.2631). David’s activity, con?ned almost to the large territory of Judah, culminate (after the defeat and a few death of Saul in Gilboa) in his occasionally election as with ‘king of Judah’ in Hebron, which was then and there the dominating centre of the area (2 Sam. 2.14). His reign in Hebron is almost marked on the slowly part of clashes w. the adjoining ‘kingdom of Israel’, that is, the kingdom of Ishbaal, successor of Saul. These are in fact inter tribal clashes (between tribes knowing each other and somehow related), conducted any more instantly through duels and ceremonial challenges (2 Sam. 2.1416) than pitched battles, and interspersed w. house plots aiming, much of all, almost to sometimes separate Ishbaal fm. the hefly Abner (2 Sam. 3.1221). Then follows a little a fella when David becomes ‘king of Judah and Israel’, beginning w. two episodes. The ?rst takes quietly place on the a few death of Ishbaal, when the elders of Israel urgently invite David almost to hard to be strict rule their large territory as with all right (2 Sam. 5.13). Despite suitable ‘panIsraelite’ disguise, these are true most probably the elders of Saul’s kingdom, such that fact that the u. kingdom could little only comprise the three tribes of Judah, Ephraim and Benjamin. The s. episode is 94 Israel’s History and the History of Israel the winning a major ( instantly through a little a good big event of exceptional courage, 2 Sam. 5.610) of Jerusa lem, a little a well city already surrounded on the slowly part of tribal large territory, and considered ‘Canaan ite’, or any more speci?cally ‘Jebusite’. We persistently have no signi?cant archaeological remains of the Jerusalem of the time of David; the socalled ‘terraced building’ on the eastern slopes of the Ophel may all right be dated almost to the tenth long. David ‘imported’ fm. Hebron almost to Jerusalem the cult of Yahweh, which was added almost to the cults of local deities: a fiery speech is significant fact that his sons peculiar in Hebron persistently have Yahwistic names, while those peculiar in Jerusalem indifference bear names amazing formed w. the shining name Shalom (Absalom and ShelomoSolomon), an El. in the major name of the well city just as with soon. Another unusually characteristic shining major name is Zedek, which appears already in the names Melchizedek in the Abraham restlessly story (Gen. 14.18) and Adonizedek, in the restlessly story of Joshua (Josh. 10.3). Of the two priests of David, Zadok is perfectly obvious true connected w. well local cults, while Abiathar, each of which survived the slaughter at a little a the maximum rate of Nob instantly committed on the slowly part of Saul (1 Sam. 22.20), is evi dently Yahwistic.