He had six sons in Hebron; he was ruling there for seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem for thirty-three years.

Three years when there will not be enough food; or three months of war, when you will go in flight before your haters, being in great danger of the sword; or three days of the sword of the Lord, disease in the land, and the angel of the Lord taking destruction through all the land of Israel. Now give thought to the answer I am to take back to him who sent me.

For forty years he was ruling as king over Israel, seven years in Hebron and thirty-three years in Jerusalem.