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* Then all Israel gathered themselves to David unto Hebron , saying : 'Behold , we are thy bone and thy flesh . * In times past , even when Saul was king , it was thou that didst lead out and bring in Israel ; and the LORD thy God said unto thee : Thou shalt feed My people Israel , and thou shalt be prince over My people Israel .' * So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron ; and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before the LORD ; and they anointed David king over Israel , according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Samuel . * And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem--the same is Jebus--and the Jebusites , the inhabitants of the land , were there . * And the inhabitants of Jebus said to David : 'Thou shalt not come in hither .' Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion ; the same is the city of David . * And David said : 'Whosoever smiteth the Jebusites first shall be chief and captain .' And Joab the son of Zeruiah went up first , and was made chief . * And David dwelt in the stronghold ; therefore they called it the city of David . * And he built the city round about , from Millo even round about ; and Joab repaired the rest of the city . * And David waxed greater and greater ; for the LORD of hosts was with him . * Now these are the chief of the mighty men whom David had , who held strongly with him in his kingdom , together with all Israel , to make him king , according to the word of the LORD concerning Israel . * And this is the number of the mighty men whom David had : Jashobeam , the son of a Hachmonite , the chief of the captains ; he lifted up his spear against three hundred and slew them at one time . * And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo , the Ahohite , who was one of the three mighty men . * He was with David at Pas-dammim , and there the Philistines were gathered together to battle , where was a plot of ground full of barley ; and the people fled from before the Philistines . * But they stood in the midst of the plot , and defended it , and slew the Philistines ; and the LORD saved them by a great victory . * And three of the thirty chiefs went down to the rock to David , unto the cave of Adullam ; and the host of the Philistines were encamped in the valley of Rephaim . * And David was then in the stronghold , and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Beth-lehem . * And David longed , and said : 'Oh that one would give me water to drink of the well of Beth-lehem , which is by the gate !' * And the three broke through the host of the Philistines , and drew water out of the well of Beth-lehem , that was by the gate , and took it , and brought it to David ; but David would not drink thereof , but poured it out unto the LORD , * and said : 'My God forbid it me , that I should do this ; shall I drink the blood of these men that have put their lives in jeopardy ? for with the jeopardy of their lives they brought it .' Therefore he would not drink it . These things did the three mighty men . * And Abishai , the brother of Joab , he was chief of the three ; for he lifted up his spear against three hundred and slew them , and had a name among the three . * Of the three in the second rank he was the most honourable , and was made their captain ; howbeit he attained not to the first three . * Beniah the son of Jehoiada , the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel , who had done mighty deeds , he smote the two altar-hearths of Moab ; he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow . * And he slew an Egyptian , a man of great stature , five cubits high ; and in the Egyptian 's hand was a spear like a weaver 's beam ; and 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 . * These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada , and had a name among the three mighty men . * Behold , he was more honourable than the thirty , but he attained not to the first three ; and David set him over his guard . * Also the mighty men of valour : Asahel the brother of Joab , Elhanan the son of Dodo of Beth-lehem ; * Shammoth the Harorite , Helez the Pelonite ; * Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite , Abiezer the Anathothite ; * Sibbecai the Hushathite , Ilai the Ahohite ; * Mahrai the Netophathite , Heled the son of Baanah the Netophathite ; * Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin , Benaiah the Pirathonite ; * Hurai of Nahale-gaash , Abiel the Arbathite ; * Azmaveth the Baharumite , Eliahba the Shaalbonite ; * the sons of Hashem the Gizonite , Jonathan the son of Shageh 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 of Nathan , Mibhar the son of Hagri ; * Zelek the Ammonite , Nahrai the Berothite , the armour-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 , a chief of the Reubenites , and thirty with him ; * Hanan the son of Maacah , and Joshaphat the Mithnite ; * Uzzia the Ashterathite , Shama and Jeiel the sons of Hotham the Aroerite ; * Jediael the son of Shimri , and Joha his brother , the Tizite ; * Eliel the Mahavite , and Jeribai , and Joshaviah , the sons of Elnaam , and Ithmah the Moabite ; * Eliel , and Obed , and Jaasiel the Mezobaite .

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