lesserot - 2Samuel:22-24

lesserot@2Samuel:22:1 @ And David spoke unto the Lord the words of this song, and on the day that the Lord had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul.

lesserot@2Samuel:22:2 @ And he said, Lord, my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer;

lesserot@2Samuel:22:3 @ God, my rock, in whom I trust; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour! from violence dost thou save me!

lesserot@2Samuel:22:4 @ Praised, I cried, be the Lord, and from my enemies was I saved.

lesserot@2Samuel:22:5 @ For the waves of death encompassed me, the floods of destruction made me afraid;

lesserot@2Samuel:22:6 @ The bonds of hell encircled me, the snares of death seized on me:

lesserot@2Samuel:22:7 @ in my distress I called upon the Lord, and to my God I cried; and he heard from his temple my voice, and my complaint into his ears.

lesserot@2Samuel:22:8 @ Then shook and trembled the earth; the foundations of the heavens were moved; and they shook, because he was wroth.

lesserot@2Samuel:22:9 @ Smoke went up in his anger, and consuming fire out of his mouth, coals flamed forth from him.

lesserot@2Samuel:22:10 @ And he bent the heavens, and came down, and thick darkness was under his feet.

lesserot@2Samuel:22:11 @ And he rode upon a cherub, and flew along, and he was seen upon the wings of the wind.

lesserot@2Samuel:22:12 @ And he made darkness round about him into pavilions, heavy masses of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

lesserot@2Samuel:22:13 @ From the brightness before him flamed forth coals of fire.

lesserot@2Samuel:22:14 @ The Lord thundered from heaven, and the Most High uttered forth his voice.

lesserot@2Samuel:22:15 @ And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and discomfited them.

lesserot@2Samuel:22:16 @ And then were seen the channels of the sea, there were laid open the foundations of the world; at the rebuke of the Lord, through the blast of the breath of his nostrils.

lesserot@2Samuel:22:17 @ He stretched out from above, he took me; he drew me out from the mighty waters.

lesserot@2Samuel:22:18 @ He delivered me from my enemy, the strong, from those that hated me, when they were too mighty for me.

lesserot@2Samuel:22:19 @ They overcame me on the day of my calamity; but the Lord became my stay;

lesserot@2Samuel:22:20 @ And he brought me forth into a large space: he delivered me, because he had delight in me.

lesserot@2Samuel:22:21 @ The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness: according to the purity of my hands did he recompense me.

lesserot@2Samuel:22:22 @ For I had kept the ways of the Lord, and had not wickedly departed from my God.

lesserot@2Samuel:22:23 @ For all his ordinances were before me, and from none of his statutes did I depart.

lesserot@2Samuel:22:24 @ I was also upright toward him, and I guarded myself against my iniquity.

lesserot@2Samuel:22:25 @ Therefore did the Lord recompense me according to my righteousness, according to my purity before his eyes.

lesserot@2Samuel:22:26 @ With the kind thou wilt show thyself kind; with the upright mighty man thou wilt show thyself upright.

lesserot@2Samuel:22:27 @ With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure; and with the perverse thou wilt wage a contest.

lesserot@2Samuel:22:28 @ And the afflicted people thou wilt save; but thy eyes are upon the haughty, thou mayest bring down.

lesserot@2Samuel:22:29 @ For thou art my lamp, O Lord! and the Lord will enlighten my darkness.

lesserot@2Samuel:22:30 @ For by thee I run through a troop: by my God I leap over a wall.

lesserot@2Samuel:22:31 @ As for Godhis way is perfect; the word of the Lord is tried; he is a shield to all that trust in him.

lesserot@2Samuel:22:32 @ For who is God, save the Lord? and who is a rock, save our God?

lesserot@2Samuel:22:33 @ God is my strength and power; and he rendereth free from obstruction my way.

lesserot@2Samuel:22:34 @ He maketh my feet like those of the hinds, and upon my high places he causeth me to stand.

lesserot@2Samuel:22:35 @ He teaches my hands for the war, so that a brazen bow is bent by my arms.

lesserot@2Samuel:22:36 @ And thou gavest me the shield of thy salvation; and thy assistance hath made me great.

lesserot@2Samuel:22:37 @ Thou enlargest my steps under me, so that my joints do not slip.

lesserot@2Samuel:22:38 @ I pursue my enemies and destroy them; and I return not again until I have made an end of them.

lesserot@2Samuel:22:39 @ And I make an end of them, and I crush them, that they cannot rise; and they fall under my feet.

lesserot@2Samuel:22:40 @ For thou hast girded me with strength for the war; thou subduest my opponents under me.

lesserot@2Samuel:22:41 @ And my enemies thou causest to turn their back to me; those that hate me,that I may destroy them.

lesserot@2Samuel:22:42 @ They look about, but there is none to help; unto the Lordbut he answereth them not.

lesserot@2Samuel:22:43 @ And I beat them small as the dust of the earth; as the mire of the street, I stamp them, I tread them down.

lesserot@2Samuel:22:44 @ Thou hast also delivered me from the contests of my people: thou preservest me to be the head of nations, a people which I know not shall serve me.

lesserot@2Samuel:22:45 @ The children of the stranger shall utter flattery unto me; as soon as their ear heareth they shall be obedient unto me.

lesserot@2Samuel:22:46 @ The children of the stranger shall fade away, and come forth tottering out of their close places.

lesserot@2Samuel:22:47 @ The Lord liveth, and blessed be my Rock; and exalted be the God, the Rock of my salvation;

lesserot@2Samuel:22:48 @ The God, that granteth me vengeance, and bringeth down nations under me;

lesserot@2Samuel:22:49 @ And that bringeth me forth from my enemies: also above my opponents thou liftest me up, from the man of violence thou deliverest me.

lesserot@2Samuel:22:50 @ Therefore will I give thanks unto thee, O Lord, among the nations, and unto thy name will I sing praises;

lesserot@2Samuel:22:51 @ the tower of salvation of his king, and who showeth kindness to his anointed, to David and to his seed forever.

lesserot@2Samuel:23:1 @ And these are the last words of David. Thus saith David the son of Jesse, and thus saith the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet singer of Israel:

lesserot@2Samuel:23:2 @ The Spirit of the Lord spoke through me, and his word was upon my tongue.

lesserot@2Samuel:23:3 @ said the God of Israel, concerning me spoke the Rock of Israel, That ruler over men, be righteous, ruling in the fear of God;

lesserot@2Samuel:23:4 @ And as in the light of morning the sun riseth, in a morning without clouds, with more than the brightness by rain on the herbs that spring from the earth.

lesserot@2Samuel:23:5 @ Truly is not so my house with God? since he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, firm in all, and sure? yea, will he not cause to grow all my salvation, and all my desire?

lesserot@2Samuel:23:6 @ But the godless are all of them as waving thorns, which cannot be taken in the hand;

lesserot@2Samuel:23:7 @ But the man that will touch them must protect his hand with iron and the staff of a spear: and they will be utterly burnt with fire in the dwelling.

lesserot@2Samuel:23:8 @ These are the names of the mighty men whom David had: Yoshebbashebeth, the Thachkemonite, the chief among the captains,the same as Adino the Eznite,because of eight hundred slain at one time.

lesserot@2Samuel:23:9 @ And after him was Elazar the son of Dodo, the son of Achochi, 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 had withdrawn themselves;

lesserot@2Samuel:23:10 @ He then arose, and smote the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand did cleave unto the sword: and the Lord wrought a great victory on that day; and the people returned after him only to strip.

lesserot@2Samuel:23:11 @ And after him was Shammah the son of Age the Hararite. The Philistines were gathered together into a troop, and there was a piece of ground full of lentiles; and the people had fled from the Philistines;

lesserot@2Samuel:23:12 @ But he placed himself in the midst of the ground, and delivered it, and smote the Philistines: and the Lord wrought a great victory.

lesserot@2Samuel:23:13 @ And these three, the chiefs of the thirty, went down, and came to David at harvesttime unto the cave of Adullam: and the troop of the Philistines was encamped in the valley of Rephaim.

lesserot@2Samuel:23:14 @ And David was then in the stronghold, and an outpost of the Philistines was then in Bethlechem.

lesserot@2Samuel:23:15 @ And David longed, and said, Oh that one would bring me water to drink out of the well at Bethlechem, which is by the gate!

lesserot@2Samuel:23:16 @ And the three mighty men broke through the camp of the Philistines; and drew water out of the well of Bethlechem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David; but he would not drink thereof, and poured it out unto the Lord.

lesserot@2Samuel:23:17 @ And he said, Far be it from me, O Lord, that I should do this: the blood of the men that went at the risk of their life? and thus he would not drink it. These things did the three mighty men.

lesserot@2Samuel:23:18 @ And Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruyah, was the chief of these three; and he lifted up his spear against three hundred slain, and had a name among the three.

lesserot@2Samuel:23:19 @ Although he was the most honored of the three, wherefore he became their captain: he nevertheless attained not unto the three.

lesserot@2Samuel:23:20 @ And Benayahu the son of Yehoyada, the son of a valiant man, great in many acts of Kabzeel; he it was that smote the two lionlike heroes of Moab; he also went down and slew a lion in the midst of a pit on a day when it snowed;

lesserot@2Samuel:23:21 @ And he slew an Egyptian, a man of good appearance; and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and he snatched the spear out of the Egyptians hand, and slew him with his own spear.

lesserot@2Samuel:23:22 @ These things did Benayahu the son of Yehoyada, and he had a name among the three mighty men.

lesserot@2Samuel:23:23 @ He was more honored than the thirty; but he attained not to these three. And David appointed him in his private council.

lesserot@2Samuel:23:24 @ Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty; Elchanan the son of Dodo of Bethlechem,

lesserot@2Samuel:23:25 @ Shammah the Charodite, Elika the Charodite,

lesserot@2Samuel:23:26 @ Chelez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite,

lesserot@2Samuel:23:27 @ Abiezer the Anethothite, Mebunnai the Chushathite,

lesserot@2Samuel:23:28 @ Zalmon the Achochite, Maharai the Netophathite,

lesserot@2Samuel:23:29 @ Cheleb the son of Baanah, the Netophathite, Ittai the son of Ribai of Gibah of the children of Benjamin,

lesserot@2Samuel:23:30 @ Benayahu the Pirathonite, Hiddai of NachaleGaash,

lesserot@2Samuel:23:31 @ Abialbon the Arbathite, Azmaveth the Barchumite,

lesserot@2Samuel:23:32 @ Elyachba the Shaalbonite, Bneyashen, Jonathan,

lesserot@2Samuel:23:33 @ Shammah the Hararite, Achiam the son of Sharar the Ararite,

lesserot@2Samuel:23:34 @ Eliphelet the son of Achasbai, the son of the Maachathite, Eliam the son of Achithophel the Gilonite,

lesserot@2Samuel:23:35 @ Chezrai, the Carmelite, Paarai the Arbite,

lesserot@2Samuel:23:36 @ Yigal the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite,

lesserot@2Samuel:23:37 @ Zelek the Ammonite, Nacharai the Beerothite, the armorbearer of Joab the son of Zeruyah,

lesserot@2Samuel:23:38 @ Ira the Yithrite, Gareb the Yithrite,

lesserot@2Samuel:23:39 @ Uriyah the Hittite: in all thirty and seven.

lesserot@2Samuel:24:1 @ And again was the anger of the Lord kindled against Israel, and he incited David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah.

lesserot@2Samuel:24:2 @ And the king said to Joab the captain of the army, who was with him, Traverse, I pray thee, all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, and number ye the people, that I may know the number of the people.

lesserot@2Samuel:24:3 @ Then said Joab unto the king, Now may the Lord thy God add unto the people, how many soever they be, a hundredfold more, and may the eyes of my Lord the king see it; but why doth my Lord the king find delight in this thing?

lesserot@2Samuel:24:4 @ Nevertheless the kings word remained firm 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 number the people of Israel.

lesserot@2Samuel:24:5 @ And they passed over the Jordan, and encamped in Aroer, on the right side of the city that lieth in the midst of the valley of Gad, and toward Yazer:

lesserot@2Samuel:24:6 @ Then they came to Gilad, and to the land of Tachtimchodshi; and they came to Danyaan, and about to Zidon;

lesserot@2Samuel:24:7 @ And they came to the stronghold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites; and they went out to the south of Judah, up to Beersheba.

lesserot@2Samuel:24:8 @ And so they traversed all the land, and they came at the end of nine months and twenty days to Jerusalem.

lesserot@2Samuel:24:9 @ And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people unto the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.

lesserot@2Samuel:24:10 @ And Davids heart smote him after that he had numbered the people. And David said unto the Lord, I have sinned greatly in what I have done; and now, I beseech thee, O Lord, cause the iniquity of thy servant to pass away; for I have acted very foolishly.

lesserot@2Samuel:24:11 @ And when David was arisen in the morning, The word of the Lord came unto Gad the prophet, Davids seer, saying,

lesserot@2Samuel:24:12 @ Go and speak unto David, Thus hath said the Lord, Three things do I offer thee: choose for thyself one of them, and I will do it unto thee.

lesserot@2Samuel:24:13 @ So Gad came to David, and told it unto him; and he said unto him, Shall there come unto thee seven years of famine in thy land? or three months, that thou flee before thy enemies, while they pursue thee? or that there be for three days a pestilence in thy land? now consider and see what word I shall bring back to him that hath sent me.

lesserot@2Samuel:24:14 @ And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall then into the hand of the Lord,for his mercies are great; but let me not fall into the hand of man.

lesserot@2Samuel:24:15 @ And the Lord sent a pestilence in Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men.

lesserot@2Samuel:24:16 @ And when the angel stretched out his hand over Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord bethought himself of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed among the people, It is enough: now stay thy hand. And the angel of the Lord was by the threshingfloor of Aravnah the Jebusite.

lesserot@2Samuel:24:17 @ And David spoke unto the Lord when he saw the angel that smote among the people, and said, Lo, I have indeed sinned, and I have truly done wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? let thy hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my fathers house.

lesserot@2Samuel:24:18 @ And Gad came to David on that day, and said unto him, Go up, erect an altar unto the Lord on the threshingfloor of Aravnah the Jebusite.

lesserot@2Samuel:24:19 @ And David went up, according to the word of Gad, as the Lord had commanded.

lesserot@2Samuel:24:20 @ And Aravnah looked up, and saw the king and his servants coming on toward him: and Aravnah went out, and bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground.

lesserot@2Samuel:24:21 @ And Aravnah said, Wherefore is my Lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy from thee the threshingfloor, to build an altar unto the Lord, that the plague may be stayed from the people.

lesserot@2Samuel:24:22 @ And Aravnah said unto David, Let my Lord the king take and offer up what seemeth good in his eyes: behold, the oxen are here for burntofferings, and the threshing rollers and the harness of the oxen for wood.

lesserot@2Samuel:24:23 @ All these things did Aravnah, the king, give unto the king. And Aravnah said unto the king, May the Lord thy God receive thee favorably.

lesserot@2Samuel:24:24 @ And the king said unto Aravnah, No; but I will surely buy it from thee at the value; for I will not offer burntofferings unto the Lord my God without paying therefor. So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

lesserot@2Samuel:24:25 @ And David built there an altar unto the Lord, and offered burntofferings and peaceofferings: and the Lord was entreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.