Why did God tell David to go to the town of Hebron? After the death of Saul, David asks God where he should Go. God indicates he should to to Hebron, where David is soon anointed king.


  2 Samuel 2:1 (NIV): In the course of time, David inquired of the Lord. “Shall I go up to one of the towns of Judah?” he asked. The Lord said, “Go up.” David asked, “Where shall I go?” “To Hebron,” the Lord answered. 


Why did God chose the town of Hebron? What does the Bible say is special about it?
Unfortunately, there's no contextual verse where God says to David &quot;...and this is why I want you to go blah blah blah.&quot; Therefore we must infer what the reason is based on the surrounding context and circumstances.
We know, from the text, that David had just finished doing battle. We also read that at the time all of Israel was under one King, Saul, who was now dead along with his son Jonathan. David is wondering whether he should come back to the cities of Judah, but God tells him to go to Hebron instead.
I think it's because God knew that the nation of Israel was about to split and God wanted to make sure that David was away from the town of Mahanaim which is where a new king of Israel was being crowned.


2nd Samuel 2:8-10 ESV But Abner the son of Ner, commander of Saul's army, took Ish-bosheth the son of Saul and brought him over to Mahanaim, and he made him king over Gilead and the Ashurites and Jezreel and Ephraim and Benjamin and all Israel. Ish-bosheth, Saul's son, was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and he reigned two years. But the house of Judah followed David. And the time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months.

2nd Samuel 3:1 ESV There was a long war between the house of Saul and the house of David. And David grew stronger and stronger, while the house of Saul became weaker and weaker.



Though Hebron and Mahanaim were pretty far away in the first place. Hebron is C-15 on that map and Mahanaim is J-9, so there's still plenty of unanswered questions.
But it seems most likely based on a lack of detail that Hebron itself was chosen by God simply because it was a place to go and there's nothing special about the place itself. Same reason God chose the land of Canaan, or Jerusalem, or Bethlehem, or anywhere else. It's his divine purpose through David that was important.

Acts 17:26-27 ESV And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place, that they should seek God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us