4 Samuel did what the Lord commanded and came to ^wBethlehem. The elders of the city came to meet him trembling and said, “Do you come peaceably?”

12 Now David was the son of an Ephrathite of ^kBethlehem in Judah, named Jesse, who had eight sons. In the days of Saul the man was already old and advanced in years.¹

32 And they took up Asahel and buried him in the tomb of his father, which was at ^vBethlehem. And Joab and his men marched all night, and the day broke upon them at Hebron.

14 David was then in the ^tstronghold, and the ^ugarrison of the Philistines was then at ^vBethlehem.