mkjv - 2Samuel:23:1-7

mkjv@2Samuel:23:1 @ And these [are] 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:

mkjv@2Samuel:23:2 @ The Spirit of the LORD spoke by me, and His word [was] in my tongue.

mkjv@2Samuel:23:3 @ The God of Israel said, The Rock of Israel spoke to me: he who rules over men justly, ruling [in] the fear of God,

mkjv@2Samuel:23:4 @ is as the light of the morning, as the sun rises, a morning without clouds. The tender grass [springs] out of the earth through shining after rain.

mkjv@2Samuel:23:5 @ Although my house [is] not so with God, yet He has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure. For all my salvation, and all my desire, will He not make it grow?

mkjv@2Samuel:23:6 @ But the wicked, all of them, [shall be] like a thorn thrust away, because they cannot be taken by the hand.

mkjv@2Samuel:23:7 @ But the man who shall touch them must be armed with iron and the staff of a spear. And they shall be utterly burned in [their] place.