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J US EM IN THE TI IE OF DAVID
rest of the soldiers. David took Jerusalem and made it his capital. Thus, Jerusalem became the City of David.
Tyre was the leading city of the Phoenicians, and e ng Hiram was its king. He saw how the power of the Tyre young King David was growing and he gave up his alliance with the Philistines in favor of the King of the Israelites. He sent him some. of the wonderful cedar
wood from the Lebanon Moun ins, with carpenters and masons to build a palace for him. This act of Hiram angered the Philistines. They determined to conquer David before he became too powerful. They attacked him twice, coming up valleys between the hills of Juda. Twice, guided by Almighty God, David drove them back. But the spirit of the Philistines was not
