2Samuel:2:8-3
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And Abner the son of Ner ,
captain of Saul '
s host ,
took Ishbosheth the son of Saul ,
and brought him over to Mahanaim ;
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and made him king over Gilead ,
and over the Asshurites ,
and over Jizreel ,
and over Ephraim ,
and over Benjamin ,
and over all Israel .
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Ishbosheth Saul '
s son was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel ,
and he reigned two years .
However ,
the house of Judah followed David .
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And the time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months .
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And Abner the son of Ner ,
and the servants of Ishbosheth the son of Saul ,
went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon .
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And Joab the son of Zeruiah ,
and the servants of David ,
went out .
And they met together by the pool of Gibeon ;
and they sat down ,
these on the one side of the pool ,
and those on the other side of the pool .
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And Abner said to Joab ,
Let the young men now arise and make sport before us .
And Joab said ,
Let them arise .
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And they arose and went over by number ,
twelve for Benjamin ,
and for Ishbosheth the son of Saul ,
and twelve of the servants of David .
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And they caught every one his fellow by the head ,
and [
thrust ]
his sword in his fellow '
s side ,
and they fell down together .
And that place was called Helkath-hazzurim ,
which is by Gibeon .
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And the battle that day was very severe ;
and Abner and the men of Israel were routed before the servants of David .
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And there were three sons of Zeruiah there ,
Joab ,
and Abishai ,
and Asahel .
Now Asahel was swift of foot ,
as one of the gazelles that are in the field .
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And Asahel pursued after Abner ;
and in going he turned not to the right hand nor to the left from behind Abner .
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Then Abner looked behind him ,
and said ,
Art thou Asahel ?
And he said ,
I am .
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And Abner said to him ,
Turn thee aside ,
to thy right hand or to thy left ,
and lay hold of one of the young men ,
and take for thyself his armour .
But Asahel would not turn aside from following him .
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And Abner said again to Asahel ,
Turn thee aside from following me :
why should I smite thee to the ground ?
how then should I hold up my face to Joab thy brother ?
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But he refused to turn aside ;
therefore Abner with the hinder end of the spear smote him in the belly ,
so that the spear came out behind him ;
and he fell down there ,
and died in the same place .
And it came to pass ,
that as many as came to the place where Asahel fell down and died stood still .
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And Joab and Abishai pursued after Abner ;
and the sun went down when they came to the hill of Ammah ,
which is before Giah on the way to the wilderness of Gibeon .
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And the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together after Abner ,
and became one troop ,
and stood on the top of a hill .
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And Abner called to Joab ,
and said ,
Shall the sword devour for ever ?
knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter end ?
and how long shall it be ere thou bid the people return from following their brethren ?
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And Joab said , [
As ]
God liveth ,
unless thou hadst spoken ,
surely then in the morning the people had gone up every one from following his brother .
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And Joab blew the trumpet ,
and all the people stood still ,
and pursued after Israel no more ,
neither did they fight any more .
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And Abner and his men walked all that night through the plain ,
and passed over the Jordan ,
and went through all Bithron ,
and they came to Mahanaim .
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And Joab returned from following Abner ,
and gathered all the people together ;
and there lacked of David '
s servants nineteen men ,
and Asahel .
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And the servants of David had smitten of Benjamin ,
and of Abner '
s men ,
three hundred and sixty men ,
who had died .
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And they took up Asahel ,
and buried him in the sepulchre of his father ,
which was in Bethlehem .
And Joab and his men went all night ,
and they came to Hebron at break of day .
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And there happened to be there a man of Belial ,
whose name was Sheba ,
the son of Bichri ,
a Benjaminite ;
and he blew a trumpet ,
and said ,
We have no portion in David ,
neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse :
every man to his tents ,
Israel .
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Then all the men of Israel went up from after David ,
following Sheba the son of Bichri .
But the men of Judah clave to their king ,
from the Jordan even to Jerusalem .
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And David came to his house at Jerusalem ;
and the king took the ten women ,
concubines ,
whom he had left to keep the house ,
and put them in a house of confinement and maintained them ,
but did not go in to them .
So they were shut up unto the day of their death ,
living in widowhood .
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And the king said to Amasa ,
Call me the men of Judah together within three days ,
and do thou attend here .
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So Amasa went to call together [
the men of ]
Judah ;
but he delayed longer than the set time which he had appointed him .
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And David said to Abishai ,
Now shall Sheba the son of Bichri do us more harm than did Absalom .
Take thou thy lord '
s servants ,
and pursue after him ,
lest he get him fortified cities and escape our sight .
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And there went out after him Joab '
s men ,
and the Cherethites ,
and the Pelethites ,
and all the mighty men ;
and they went out of Jerusalem ,
to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri .
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When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon ,
Amasa came before them .
And Joab was girded with his coat ,
his dress ,
and upon it was the girdle of the sword which was fastened on his loins in its sheath ;
and as he went forth it fell out .
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And Joab said to Amasa ,
Art thou well ,
my brother ?
And Joab took Amasa by the beard with the right hand to kiss him .
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And Amasa had taken no notice of the sword that was in Joab '
s hand :
so he smote him with it in the belly and shed out his bowels to the ground ,
and struck him not again ;
and he died .
And Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri .
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And one of Joab '
s young men stood by [
Amasa ]
and said ,
He that favours Joab ,
and he that is for David ,
let him follow Joab .
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Now Amasa wallowed in blood in the midst of the highway .
And when the man saw that all the people stood still ,
he removed Amasa out of the highway into the field ,
and cast a cloth upon him ,
when he saw that every one that came by stood still .
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When he was removed out of the highway ,
all the people went on after Joab ,
to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri ,
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who went through all the tribes of Israel to Abel ,
and to Beth-Maacah ,
and all the Berim ;
and they gathered together ,
and went also after him .
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And they came and besieged him in Abel-Beth-Maacah ,
and they cast up a bank against the city ,
and it was raised in the trench ;
and all the people that were with Joab sapped the wall ,
to throw it down .
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And a wise woman cried out of the city ,
Hear ,
hear :
say ,
I pray you ,
unto Joab ,
Come near hither ,
that I may speak with thee .
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And he came near to her ;
and the woman said ,
Art thou Joab ?
And he said ,
I [
am he ].
And she said to him ,
Listen to the words of thy handmaid .
And he said ,
I am listening .
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And she spoke saying ,
They were wont to speak in old time saying ,
Just inquire in Abel ;
and so they ended .
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I am peaceable [
and ]
faithful in Israel :
thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel .
Why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of Jehovah ?
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And Joab answered and said ,
Far be it ,
far be it from me ,
that I should swallow up or destroy .
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The matter is not so ;
but a man of mount Ephraim ,
Sheba the son of Bichri by name ,
has lifted up his hand against the king ,
against David :
give up him only ,
and I will depart from the city .
And the woman said to Joab ,
Behold ,
his head shall be thrown to thee over the wall .
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Then the woman went to all the people in her wisdom .
And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri ,
and cast it to Joab .
And he blew a trumpet ,
and they dispersed from the city ,
every man to his tent .
And Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king .
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And Joab was over all the host of Israel ;
and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites ;
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and Adoram was over the levy ;
and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder ;
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and Sheva was scribe ;
and Zadok and Abiathar were priests ;
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and Ira also ,
the Jairite ,
was David '
s chief ruler .
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And there was a famine in the days of David three years ,
year after year ;
and David inquired of Jehovah .
And Jehovah said ,
It is for Saul ,
and for [
his ]
house of blood ,
because he slew the Gibeonites .
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And the king called the Gibeonites ,
and spoke to them . (
Now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel ,
but of the remainder of the Amorites ;
and the children of Israel had sworn to them ;
and Saul sought to smite them in his zeal for the children of Israel and Judah .)
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And David said to the Gibeonites ,
What shall I do for you ?
and with what shall I make atonement ,
that ye may bless the inheritance of Jehovah ?
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And the Gibeonites said to him ,
As to Saul and his house ,
it is with us no question of receiving silver or gold ,
neither is it for us to have any man put to death in Israel .
And he said ,
What ye say will I do for you .
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And they said to the king ,
The man that consumed us ,
and that devised against us that we should be destroyed from remaining in all the borders of Israel ,
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let seven men of his sons be given up to us ,
and we will hang them up to Jehovah in Gibeah of Saul ,
the chosen of Jehovah .
And the king said ,
I will give [
them ].
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But the king spared Mephibosheth ,
the son of Jonathan the son of Saul ,
because of Jehovah '
s oath that was between them ,
between David and Jonathan the son of Saul .
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And the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah ,
whom she had borne to Saul ,
Armoni and Mephibosheth ;
and the five sons of [
the sister of ]
Michal the daughter of Saul ,
whom she had borne to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite ;
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and he gave them into the hands of the Gibeonites ,
and they hanged them on the hill before Jehovah .
And they fell all seven together ,
and were put to death in the first days of the harvest ,
in the beginning of barley harvest .
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Then Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth ,
and spread it for her upon the rock ,
from the beginning of harvest until water poured on them out of the heavens ,
and suffered neither the fowl of the heavens to rest on them by day ,
nor the beasts of the field by night .
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And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah ,
the concubine of Saul ,
had done .
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And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh-Gilead ,
who had stolen them from the open place of Beth-shan ,
where the Philistines had hanged them ,
the day the Philistines had smitten Saul in Gilboa ;
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and he brought up from thence the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son ;
and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged .
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And they buried [
them ]
with the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in Zela ,
in the sepulchre of Kish his father ;
and they did all that the king had commanded .
And afterwards God was propitious to the land .
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And the Philistines had yet war again with Israel ;
and David went down ,
and his servants with him ,
and fought with the Philistines .
And David was exhausted .
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And Ishbibenob ,
who was of the children of Raphah --
the weight of his lance was three hundred shekels of bronze ,
and he was girded with new [
armour ] --
thought to smite David .
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And Abishai the son of Zeruiah succoured him ,
and smote the Philistine and killed him .
Then the men of David swore to him ,
saying ,
Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle ,
that thou quench not the lamp of Israel .
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And it came to pass after this ,
that there was again a battle with the Philistines ,
at Gob ;
then Sibbechai the Hushathite smote Saph ,
who was of the children of Raphah .
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And there was again a battle at Gob with the Philistines ;
and Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim ,
a Bethlehemite ,
smote Goliath the Gittite ;
now the shaft of his spear was like a weaver '
s beam .
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And there was again a battle ,
at Gath ;
and there was a man [
there ]
of great stature ,
that had on each hand six fingers ,
and on each foot six toes ,
four and twenty in number ;
and he also was born to Raphah .
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And he defied Israel ;
but Jonathan the son of Shimea David '
s brother smote him .
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These four were born to Raphah ,
in Gath ;
and they fell by the hand of David ,
and by the hand of his servants .
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And David spoke to Jehovah the words of this song in the day that Jehovah had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies ,
and out of the hand of Saul .
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And he said ,
Jehovah is my rock ,
and my fortress ,
and my deliverer ;
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God is my rock ,
in him will I trust --
My shield ,
and the horn of my salvation ,
My high tower ,
and my refuge ,
My saviour :
thou wilt save me from violence .
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I will call upon Jehovah ,
who is to be praised ;
So shall I be saved from mine enemies .
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For the waves of death encompassed me ,
Torrents of Belial made me afraid .
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The bands of Sheol surrounded me ;
The cords of death encountered me ;
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In my distress I called upon Jehovah ,
And I cried to my God ;
And he heard my voice out of his temple ,
And my cry [
came ]
into his ears .
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Then the earth shook ,
and quaked ;
The foundations of the heavens trembled And shook because he was wroth .
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There went up a smoke out of his nostrils ,
And fire out of his mouth devoured :
Coals burned forth from it .
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And he bowed the heavens ,
and came down ;
And darkness was under his feet .
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And he rode upon a cherub ,
and did fly ;
And he was seen upon the wings of the wind .
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And he made darkness round about him a tent ,
Gatherings of waters ,
thick clouds of the skies .
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From the brightness before him Burned forth coals of fire .
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Jehovah thundered from the heavens ,
And the Most High uttered his voice .
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And he sent arrows ,
and scattered [
mine enemies ];
Lightning ,
and discomfited them .
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And the beds of the sea were seen ,
The foundations of the world were uncovered At the rebuke of Jehovah ,
At the blast of the breath of his nostrils .
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He reached forth from above ,
he took me ,
He drew me out of great waters ;
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He delivered me from my strong enemy ,
From them that hated me ;
For they were mightier than I .
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They encountered me in the day of my calamity ;
But Jehovah was my stay .
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And he brought me forth into a large place ;
He delivered me ,
because he delighted in me .
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Jehovah hath rewarded me according to my righteousness ,
According to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me .
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For I have kept the ways of Jehovah ,
And have not wickedly departed from my God .
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For all his ordinances were before me ,
And his statutes ,
I did not depart from them ,
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And I was upright before him ,
And kept myself from mine iniquity .
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And Jehovah hath recompensed me according to my righteousness ,
According to my cleanness in his sight .
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With the gracious thou dost shew thyself gracious ;
With the upright man thou dost shew thyself upright ;
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With the pure thou dost shew thyself pure ;
And with the perverse thou dost shew thyself contrary .
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And the afflicted people thou dost save ;
And thine eyes are upon the haughty , [
whom ]
thou bringest down .
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For thou art my lamp ,
Jehovah ;
And Jehovah enlighteneth my darkness .
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For by thee I have run through a troop ;
By my God have I leaped over a wall .
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As for �
God ,
his way is perfect ;
The word of Jehovah is tried :
He is a shield to all that trust in him .
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For who is �
God ,
save Jehovah ?
And who is a rock ,
save our God ?
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God is my strong fortress ,
And he maketh my way perfectly smooth .
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He maketh my feet like hinds ' [
feet ],
And setteth me upon my high places .
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He teacheth my hands to war ,
And mine arms bend a bow of brass .
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And thou didst give me the shield of thy salvation ,
And thy condescending gentleness hath made me great .
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Thou enlargedst my steps under me ;
And mine ankles did not slip .
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I pursued mine enemies ,
and destroyed them ,
And I turned not again till they were consumed .
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And I have consumed them and have crushed them ,
and they rose not again ;
Yea ,
they fell under my feet .
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And thou girdedst me with strength to battle :
Thou didst subdue under me those that rose up against me .
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And mine enemies didst thou make to turn their backs unto me ,
And those that hated me I destroyed .
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They looked ,
and there was none to save --
Unto Jehovah ,
and he answered them not .
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And I did beat them small as the dust of the earth ,
I trod them as the mire of the streets ;
I stamped upon them .
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And thou hast delivered me from the strivings of my people ,
Thou hast kept me to be head of the nations :
A people I knew not doth serve me :
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Strangers come cringing unto me :
At the hearing of the ear ,
they obey me .
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Strangers have faded away ,
And they come trembling forth from their close places .
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Jehovah liveth ;
and blessed be my rock ;
And exalted be the God ,
the rock of my salvation ,
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The �
God who hath avenged me ,
And hath brought the peoples under me .
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He brought me forth from mine enemies :
Yea ,
thou hast lifted me up above them that rose up against me ;
From the man of violence hast thou delivered me .
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Therefore will I give thanks to thee ,
Jehovah ,
among the nations ,
And will sing psalms to thy name .
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It is he ]
who giveth great deliverances to his king ,
And sheweth loving-kindness to his anointed ,
To David ,
and to his seed for evermore .
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Now these are the last words of David :
David the son of Jesse saith ,
And the man who was raised up on high ,
The anointed of the God of Jacob ,
And the sweet psalmist of Israel saith ,
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The Spirit of Jehovah spoke by me ,
And his word was on my tongue .
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The God of Israel said ,
The Rock of Israel spoke to me ,
The ruler among men shall be just ,
Ruling in the fear of God ;
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And [
he shall be ]
as the light or the morning , [
like ]
the rising of the sun ,
A morning without clouds ; [
When ]
from the sunshine ,
after rain ,
The green grass springeth from the earth .
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Although my house be not so before �
God ,
Yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant ,
Ordered in every way and sure ;
For [
this is ]
all my salvation ,
and every desire ,
Although he make [
it ]
not to grow .
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But [
the sons ]
of Belial [
are ]
all of them as thorns thrust away ,
Because they cannot be taken with hands ;
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And the man that will touch them provideth himself with iron and the staff of a spear ;
And they shall be utterly burned with fire in [
their ]
place .
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These are the names of the mighty men whom David had :
Joseb-Bassebeth ,
Tachkemonite the chief of the captains :
he was Adino the Eznite ;
he [
fought ]
against eight hundred ,
slain [
by him ]
at one time .
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And after him ,
Eleazar the son of Dodo the son of an Ahohite :
he was one of the three mighty men with David ,
when they had defied the Philistines that were there gathered together to battle ,
and the men of Israel were gone up .
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He arose and smote the Philistines until his hand was weary ,
and his hand clave to the sword ;
and Jehovah wrought a great deliverance that day ;
and the people returned after him only to spoil .
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And after him ,
Shammah the son of Agee the Hararite :
the Philistines were gathered into a troop ,
and there was there a plot of ground full of lentils ,
and the people had fled before the Philistines ;
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and he stood in the midst of the plot and delivered it ,
and smote the Philistines ,
and Jehovah wrought a great deliverance .
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And three of the thirty chiefs went down ,
and came to David in the harvest time to the cave of Adullam ,
when the troop of the Philistines was encamped in the valley of Rephaim .
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And David was then in the stronghold ;
and the Philistines '
garrison was then at Bethlehem .
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And David longed ,
and said ,
Oh that one would give me to drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem ,
which is in the gate !
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And the three mighty men broke through the camp of the Philistines ,
and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem ,
which is in the gate ,
and took it ,
and brought it to David ;
however he would not drink of it ,
but poured it out to Jehovah .
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And he said ,
Be it far from me ,
Jehovah ,
that I should do this thing !
is it not the blood of the men that went at the risk of their lives ?
Therefore he would not drink it .
These things did the three mighty men .
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And Abishai ,
the brother of Joab ,
the son of Zeruiah ,
was the chief of three ;
and he brandished his spear against three hundred and slew them ;
and he had a name among the three .
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Was he not most honourable of three ?
and he was their captain ;
but he did not attain to the [
first ]
three .
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And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada ,
son of a valiant man ,
great in exploits ,
of Kabzeel :
he it was that smote two lions of Moab ;
and he went down and smote a lion in the midst of a pit on a snowy day .
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He also smote the Egyptian ,
an imposing man :
and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand ;
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 .
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These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada ,
and he had a name among the three mighty men .
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He was honoured above the thirty ,
but he did not attain to the [
first ]
three .
And David set him in his council .
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Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty ;
Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem ,
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Shammah the Harodite ,
Elika the Harodite ,
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Helez the Paltite ,
Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite ,
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Abiezer the Anathothite ,
Mebunnai the Hushathite ,
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Zalmon the Ahohite ,
Maharai the Netophathite ,
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Heleb the son of Baanah ,
the Netophathite ,
Ittai the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin ,
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Benaiah a Pirathonite ,
Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash ,
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Abi-albon the Arbathite ,
Azmaveth the Barhumite ,
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Eliahba the Shaalbonite ,
of the sons of Jashen ,
Jonathan ,
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Shammah the Ararite ,
Ahiam the son of Sharar the Ararite ,
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Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai ,
the son of the Maachathite ,
Eliam the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite ,
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Hezrai the Carmelite ,
Paarai the Arbite ,
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Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah ,
Bani the Gadite ,
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Zelek the Ammonite ,
Naharai the Beerothite ,
the armour-bearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah ,
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Ira the Ithrite ,
Gareb the Ithrite ,
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Uriah the Hittite :
thirty-seven in all .
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And again the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Israel ,
and he moved David against them saying ,
Go ,
number Israel and Judah .
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And the king said to Joab the captain of the host ,
who was with him ,
Go ,
I pray thee ,
through all the tribes of Israel ,
from Dan even to Beer-sheba ,
and count the people ,
that I may know the number of the people .
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And Joab said to the king ,
May Jehovah thy God even add to the people ,
how many soever they be ,
a hundredfold ,
and that the eyes of my lord the king may see [
it ];
but why does my lord the king delight in this thing ?
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But the king '
s word prevailed against Joab ,
and against the captains of the army .
And Joab and the captains of the army went out from the presence of the king to count the people of Israel .
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And they passed over the Jordan ,
and encamped in Aroer ,
on the right side of the city that is in the midst of the ravine of Gad ,
and toward Jaazer .
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And they came to Gilead ,
and to the land of Tahtim-hodshi ;
and came to Dan-jaan ,
and to the environs of Sidon ;
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and they came to the fortified city of Tyre ,
and to all the cities of the Hivites and of the Canaanites ;
and went out to the south of Judah ,
to Beer-sheba .
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And they went through all the land ,
and came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days .
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And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people to the king ;
and there were of Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew sword ;
and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men .
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And David '
s heart smote him after he had numbered the people .
And David said to Jehovah ,
I have sinned greatly in what I have done ;
and now ,
I beseech thee ,
Jehovah ,
put away the iniquity of thy servant ;
for I have done very foolishly .
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And when David arose in the morning ,
the word of Jehovah came to the prophet Gad ,
David '
s seer ,
saying ,
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Go and say to David ,
Thus saith Jehovah :
I impose on thee three [
things ];
choose one of them that I may do it unto thee .
*
And Gad came to David ,
and told him ,
and said to him ,
Shall seven years of famine come to thee in thy land ?
or wilt thou flee three months before thine adversaries while they pursue thee ?
or shall there be three days '
pestilence in thy land ?
Now be aware and consider what word I shall bring again to him that sent me .
*
And David said to Gad ,
I am in a great strait :
let us fall ,
I pray thee ,
into the hand of Jehovah ;
for his mercies are great ;
but let me not fall into the hand of man .
*
And Jehovah sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the set time ;
and there died of the people from Dan even to Beer-sheba seventy thousand men .
*
And the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it ;
but Jehovah repented him of the evil ,
and said to the angel that destroyed among the people ,
It is enough :
withdraw now thine hand .
And the angel of Jehovah was by the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite .
*
And David spoke to Jehovah when he saw the angel that smote among the people ,
and said ,
Behold ,
it is I that have sinned ,
and it is I that have committed iniquity ;
but these sheep ,
what have they done ?
let thy hand ,
I pray thee ,
be on me ,
and on my father '
s house !
*
And Gad came that day to David ,
and said to him ,
Go up ,
rear an altar to Jehovah in the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite .
*
And David ,
according to the saying of Gad ,
went up as Jehovah had commanded .
*
And Araunah looked ,
and saw the king and his servants coming on towards him ;
and Araunah went out ,
and bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground .
*
And Araunah said ,
Why is my lord the king come to his servant ?
And David said ,
To buy the threshing-floor of thee ,
to build an altar to Jehovah ,
that the plague may be stayed from the people .
*
And Araunah said to David ,
Let my lord the king take and offer up that which is good in his sight :
see , [
here are ]
oxen for the burnt-offering ,
and the threshing-sledges and implements of the oxen for wood .
*
All these things ,
O king ,
doth Araunah give to the king .
And Araunah said to the king ,
Jehovah thy God accept thee .
*
And the king said to Araunah ,
No ;
but I will in any case buy [
them ]
of thee at a price :
neither will I offer up to Jehovah my God burnt-offerings without cost .
And David bought the threshing-floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver .
*
And David built there an altar to Jehovah ,
and offered up burnt-offerings and peace-offerings .
And Jehovah was propitious to the land ,
and the plague was stayed from Israel .
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