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2 Samuel 10
2 Samuel 10 is the tenth chapter of the Second Book of Samuel in the Old Testament of the ChristianBible or the second part of Books of Samuel in the Hebrew Bible. Jewish tradition attributes the book to the prophetSamuel, with later additions by the prophets Gad and Nathan; modern scholarship, however, regards it as a compilation of independent texts dated to c. 630–540BCE. This chapter contains the account of David's reign in Jerusalem. This chapter is part of a section covering 2 Samuel 9–20 and continuing to 1 Kings 1–2, which describes the power struggles among David's sons to succeed him, until the kingdom was firmly established in Solomon's hands (1 Kings 2:46).