Can I move an iCloud Backup from 2 phones to 1 phone?

I had an iphone 4 for the past 3 years, but early last year I got an iphone 5. For some reason, at the time, I didn't think of transferring all my information to the new iphone 5 - even though I use iCloud to backup all my stuff - I just started to use the phone as normal.  I don't use the old phone for anything, but now I have texts and photos on both phones, but I obviously want them all on the one phone.
Is it safe to take backups of both phones onto iCloud, delete all the content off the iPhone 5 and then just restore the backup? I have the same icloud login on both phones, so every time each phone is backed up it is to the same account (so everything should be there in the cloud???).
Any help on this would be great!
Thanks

No.  You have to choose to restore one or the other.  You cannot restore both to the same device.

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