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2 Samuel

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1 Now these be the last words of David. David the son of Jesse said, and the man who was raised up on high, the anoint­ed of the God of Ja­cob, and the sweet psalmist of Is­rael, said, 2 The Spir­it of the LORD spake by me, and his word was in my tongue. 3 The God of Is­rael said, the Rock of Is­rael spake to me, He that ruleth over men ­must be just, rul­ing in the fear of God. 4 And he shall be as the light of the morn­ing, when the sun riseth, even a morn­ing with­out clouds; as the ten­der grass springing out of the earth by clear shin­ing af­ter rain. 5 Al­though my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me an ev­er­last­ing covenant, or­dered in all things, and sure: for this is all my sal­va­tion, and all my de­sire, al­though he make it not to grow. 6 But the sons of Be­lial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, be­cause they can­not be tak­en with hands: 7 But the man that shall touch them must be fenced with iron and the staff of a spear; and they shall be ut­ter­ly burned with fire in the same place. 8 These be the names of the mighty men whom David had: The Tach­monite that sat in the seat, chief among the cap­tains; the same was Adi­no the Eznite: he lift up his spear against eight hun­dred, whom he slew at one time. 9 And af­ter him was Eleazar the son of Dodo the Aho­hite, one of the three mighty men with David, when they de­fied the Philistines that were there gath­ered to­geth­er to bat­tle, and the men of Is­rael were gone away: 10 He arose, and smote the Philistines un­til his hand was weary, and his hand clave unto the sword: and the LORD wrought a great vic­to­ry that day; and the peo­ple re­turned af­ter him only to spoil. 11 And af­ter him was Shammah the son of Agee the Hararite. And the Philistines were gath­ered to­geth­er into a troop, where was a piece of ground full of lentiles: and the peo­ple fled from the Philistines. 12 But he stood in the midst of the ground, and de­fend­ed it, and slew the Philistines: and the LORD wrought a great vic­to­ry. 13 And three of the thir­ty chief went down, and came to David in the har­vest time unto the cave of Adul­lam: and the troop of the Philistines pitched in the val­ley of Rephaim. 14 And David was then in an hold, and the gar­ri­son of the Philistines was then in Beth­le­hem. 15 And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the wa­ter of the well of Beth­le­hem, which is by the gate! 16 And the three mighty men brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew wa­ter out of the well of Beth­le­hem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: nev­er­the­less he would not drink there­of, but poured it out unto the LORD. 17 And he said, Be it far from me, O LORD, that I should do this: is not this the blood of the men that went in jeop­ardy of their lives? there­fore he would not drink it. These things did these three mighty men. 18 And Abishai, the broth­er of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief among three. And he lift­ed up his spear against three hun­dred, and slew them, and had the name among three. 19 Was he not most hon­ourable of three? there­fore he was their cap­tain: how­beit he at­tained not unto the first three. 20 And Be­na­iah the son of Je­hoia­da, the son of a valiant man, of Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he slew two li­on­like men of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow: 21 And he slew an Egyp­tian, a good­ly man: and the Egyp­tian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear. 22 These things did Be­na­iah the son of Je­hoia­da, and had the name among three mighty men. 23 He was more hon­ourable than the thir­ty, but he at­tained not to the first three. And David set him over his guard. 24 Asa­hel the broth­er of Joab was one of the thir­ty; El­hanan the son of Dodo of Beth­le­hem, 25 Shammah the Har­o­dite, Eli­ka the Har­o­dite, 26 Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, 27 Abiez­er the Anethoth­ite, Mebun­nai the Hushathite, 28 Zal­mon the Aho­hite, Ma­harai the Ne­tophathite, 29 Heleb the son of Baanah, a Ne­tophathite, It­tai the son of Rib­ai out of Gibeah of the chil­dren of Ben­jamin, 30 Be­na­iah the Pi­rathonite, Hid­dai of the brooks of Gaash, 31 Abi­al­bon the Ar­bathite, Az­maveth the Barhu­mite, 32 Eli­ah­ba the Shaal­bonite, of the sons of Jashen, Jonathan, 33 Shammah the Hararite, Ahi­am the son of Sharar the Hararite, 34 Eliphelet the son of Ahas­bai, the son of the Maachathite, Eliam the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite, 35 Hezrai the Carmelite, Paarai the Ar­bite, 36 Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Ga­dite, 37 Zelek the Am­monite, Na­harai the Beeroth­ite, ar­mourbear­er to Joab the son of Zeruiah, 38 Ira an Ithrite, Gareb an Ithrite, 39 Uri­ah the Hit­tite: thir­ty and sev­en in all.