Creation year 2884 · overlaps Nisan years 437–438 · Working Gregorian conversion 1040/1039 BC · David

David begins to reign

David begins his forty-year reign at age thirty.

King James Version

2 Samuel 5:4–5

David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years. In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months: and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years.

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