¹⁵ be sure to appoint^(A) over you a king the Lord your God chooses. He must be from among your fellow Israelites.^(B) Do not place a foreigner over you, one who is not an Israelite.

⁴ Then the men of Judah came to Hebron,^(A) and there they anointed^(B) David king over the tribe of Judah.

When David was told that it was the men from Jabesh Gilead^(C) who had buried Saul,