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* And all Israel gathered to David , to Hebron , saying , Behold , we are your bone and your flesh . * And also in time past , even when Saul was king , you were he that led out and brought in Israel . And Jehovah your God said to you , You shall feed My people Israel , and you shall be ruler over My people Israel . * And all the elders of Israel came in to the king at Hebron . And David cut a covenant with them in Hebron before Jehovah . And they anointed David as king over Israel , according to the word of Jehovah , by the hand of Samuel . * And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem (it is Jebus ) and the Jebusites the inhabitants of the land , were there . * And the inhabitants of Jebus said to David , You shall not come in here . But David captured the fortress of Zion ; it is the city of David . * And David said , Whoever strikes the Jebusites first shall become head and commander . And Joab the son of Zeruiah went up first and became head . * And David lived in the fortress ; on this account they called it the City of David . * And he built the city all around , from Millo even all around . And Joab revived the rest of the city . * And David was going on and increasing , for Jehovah of Hosts was with him . * And these were the heads of the mighty men who were to David , making themselves strong with him in his kingdom , with all Israel , to cause him to reign over Israel , according to the word of Jehovah . * And this is the number of the mighty men who were to David : Jashobeam the son of a Hachmonite , the head of the thirty ; he lifted up his spear against three hundred , killing them at one time . * And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo , the Ahohite ; he was among the three mighty ones ; * he was with David in Pasdammim , and the Philistines had gathered there to battle ; and a portion of the field was full of barley , and the people had fled from before the Philistines ; * and they set themselves in the midst of that portion , and delivered it , and struck the Philistines , and Jehovah saved by a great deliverance . * And three of the thirty heads went down to the rock to David , to the cave of Adullam . And the army of the Philistines was pitched in the Valley of the Giants . * And David was then in the stronghold , and the command post of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem . * And David longed , and said , Who shall give me drink , water from the well of Bethlehem that is by the gate ? * And the three broke through the army of the Philistines , and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem at the gate , and took it and brought to David . But David was not willing to drink it , and poured it out to Jehovah , * and said , Far be it from me by my God , to do this . Shall I drink the blood of these men with their lives ? For they have brought it with their lives . And he was not willing to drink it . The three mighty ones did these things . * And Abishai the brother of Joab , he was the chief of the three . And he lifted up his spear against three hundred , and killed , and had a name among the three . * Of the three , he was honored by the two , and became their head . But he did not come to the first three . * Benaiah the son of Jehoiada , the son of a valiant man of great deeds , from Kabzeel , he killed the two lion-like Moabites . And he went down and killed a lion in the midst of a pit in the snowy day . * And he killed an Egyptian man , a man of five cubits stature ; and in the Egyptian 's hand was a spear like the weaver 's beam ; and he went down to him with a staff and wrenched the spear out of the Egyptian 's hand ; and killed him with his own spear . * These things Benaiah the son of Jehoiada did , and had a name among the three mighty ones . * Behold , he was honored by the thirty , but to the first three he did not come . And David set him over his court . * And the mighty ones of the army were Asahel the brother of Joab , Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem , * Shammoth the Harorite , Helez the Pelonite , * Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite , Abiezer the Anethothite , * Sibbecai the Hushathite , Ilai the Ahohite , * Maharai the Netophathite , Heled the son of Baanah the Netophathite , * Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah of sons of Benjamin , Benaiah the Pirathonite , * Hurai of the torrents of Gaash , Abiel the Arbathite , * Azmaveth the Baharumite , Eliahba the Shaalbonite , * the sons of Hashem the Gizonite , Jonathan the son of Shage the Hararite , * Ahiam the son of Sacar the Hararite , Eliphal the son of Ur , * Hepher the Mecherathite , Ahijah the Pelonite , * Hezro the Carmelite , Naarai the son of Ezbai , * Joel the brother Nathan , Mibhar the son of Haggi , * Zelek the Ammonite , Naharai the Berothite , the armor-bearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah , * Ira the Ithrite , Gareb the Ithrite , * Uriah the Hittite , Zabad the son of Ahlai , * Adina the son of Shiza the Reubenite , the head of the Reubenites , and thirty with him ; * Hanan the son of Maachah , and Joshaphat the Mithnite , * Uzzia the Ashterathite , Shamma and Jehiel the sons of Hotham the Aroerite , * Jediael the son of Shimri , and Joha his brother , the Tizite , * Eliel the Mahavite , and Jeribai and Joshaviah , sons of Elnaam , and Ithmah the Moabite , * Eliel , and Obed , and Jasiel the Mesobaite .

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