16 You go, and you must gather the older men* of Israel, and you must say to them, ‘Jehovah the God of YOUR forefathers has appeared to me,+ the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, saying: “I will without fail give attention+ to YOU and to what is being done to YOU in Egypt.

3 So all the older men* of Israel came to the king at Heʹbron and David concluded a covenant with them in Heʹbron before Jehovah; after which they anointed+ David as king over Israel, according to Jehovah’s word+ by means of Samuel.+