Abstract
The Chronicler’s account of David’s accession to the kingship is attached to his model (2 Sm 5.1-3), but goes much further : it is the entire army gathered at Hebron which makes David king, which recalls to some extent Macedonian military royalty. Whilst the coronation of David is not a genuinely religious act, it does offer a certain cultural colouring which arises particularly from the meals to which it is linked, these meals being constitutive of access to royal status. Concerning the menus of the meals which take place at Hebron, the Chronicler looks to the presents which Abigail brings to David to coax him (1 Sm 25.18). The Chronicler creates in David’s future wife a forerunner of the entire army : she proclaims the king before the army does, as is clear from a reading of 1 Chr 12.41.
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