2Samuel:23

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* And these are the last words of David , the saying of David the son of Jesse , and the saying of the man raised on high , the anointed of the God of Jacob , and the sweet singer of Israel : * The Spirit of Jehovah has spoken by me , and His Word is on my tongue . * The God of Israel said , the Rock of Israel spoke to me : One ruling over man righteously , who rules in the fear of God , * is as the light of the morning , as the sun shines ; a morning without clouds ; through shining after rain the tender grass sprouts from the earth . * For is not my house so with God ? For He has made an everlasting covenant with me , ordered in all things , and sure ; for all my salvation , and all my desire , will He not make it grow ? * As to the ungodly , all of them shall be as a thorn driven away ; for they cannot be taken by the hand ; * but the man who shall touch them must be armed with iron and the shaft of a spear ; they shall be utterly burned with fire in their place . * These are the names of the mighty ones who were called to David : Josheb-basshebeth the Tachmonite , chief of the three . He was called Adino the Eznite , because of the eight hundred he killed at one time . * And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo , the son of Ahohite . He was of the three mighty men with David when they taunted the Philistines , when they were gathered there to battle ; and the men of Israel went up ; * he rose up and struck the Philistines until his hand was weary , and his hand clung to the sword . And Jehovah worked a great salvation on that day , and the people returned after him only to plunder . * And next was Shammah the son of Agee the Hararite . And the Philistines had gathered into a company , and there was a piece of ground full of lentils , and the people had fled before the Philistines . * And he set himself in the midst of the plot , and delivered it , and struck the Philistines . And Jehovah worked out a great salvation . * And three of the thirty commanders went down and came to the harvest , to David , to the cave of Adullam . And the company of the Philistines was camping in the Valley of the Giants . * And David was then in a stronghold , and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem . * And David longed , and said , Who shall give me drink from the water of the well of Bethlehem beside the gate ? * And the three mighty ones cut through the camp of the Philistines , and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem beside the gate , and took it up , and brought it to David . But he was not willing to drink it , and poured it out to Jehovah ; * and said , Far be it from me , O Jehovah , to do this ; is it not the blood of the men who went with their lives ? And he was not willing to drink it . The three mighty ones did these things . * And Abishai the son of Zeruiah , the brother of Joab , was the commander of three . And he raised up his spear against three hundred , and killed them . And he had the name among the three . * Surely he was honored more than the three ? And he was the commander to them , but he did not come to the first three . * And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada from Kabzeel , a son of a mighty man , great in deeds ; he killed two lionlike men of Moab . And he went down and killed a lion in the middle of a pit in a day of snow . * And he killed an Egyptian , a man of form ; and a spear was in the Egyptian 's hand ; and he went down to him with a staff and tore away the spear from the Egyptian 's hand , and killed him with his own spear . * Benaiah the son of Jehoiada did these things , and had a name among three mighty ones . * He was more honored than the thirty , but he did not come to the first three . And David set him over his guard . * Asahel the brother of Joab was of the thirty ; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem ; * Shammah the Harodite ; Elika the Harodite ; * Helez the Paltite ; Ira the son of Ikkesh , the Tekoite ; * Abiezer the Anathothite ; Mebunnai the Hushathite ; * Zalmon the Ahohite ; Maharai the Netophathite ; * Heleb the son of Baanah , a Netophathite ; Ittai the son of Ribai out of Gibeah , of the sons of Benjamin ; * Benaiah the Pirathonite ; Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash ; * Abialbon the Arbathite ; Azmaveth the Barhumite ; * Eliahba the Shaalbonite , of the sons of Jashen ; Jonathan ; * Shammah the Hararite ; Ahiam the son of Sharar , the Hararite ; * Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai , the son of the Maachathite ; Eliam the son of Ahithophel , the Gilonite ; * Hezrai the Carmelite ; Paarai the Arbite ; * Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah ; Bani the Gadite ; * Zelek the Ammonite ; Naharai the Beerothite , armor-bearer to Joab the son of Zeruiah ; * Ira the Ithrite ; Gareb , an Ithrite ; * Uriah the Hittite ; thirty seven in all .

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