2Samuel:2:8-3
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But 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 Ashurites ,
and over Jezreel ,
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 reigned two years .
But 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 met together by the pool of Gibeon :
and they sat down ,
the one on the one side of the pool ,
and the other on the other side of the pool .
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And Abner said to Joab ,
Let the young men now arise ,
and play before us .
And Joab said ,
Let them arise .
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Then there arose and went over by number twelve of Benjamin ,
which pertained to 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 ;
so they fell down together :
wherefore that place was called Helkathhazzurim ,
which is in Gibeon .
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And there was a very sore battle that day ;
and Abner was beaten ,
and the men of Israel ,
before the servants of David .
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And there were three sons of Zeruiah there ,
Joab ,
and Abishai ,
and Asahel :
and Asahel was as light of foot as a wild roe .
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And Asahel pursued after Abner ;
and in going he turned not to the right hand nor to the left from following Abner .
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Then Abner looked behind him ,
and said ,
Art thou Asahel ?
And he answered ,
I am .
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And Abner said to him ,
Turn thee aside to thy right hand or to thy left ,
and lay thee hold on one of the young men ,
and take thee his armour .
But Asahel would not turn aside from following of him .
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And Abner said again to Asahel ,
Turn thee aside from following me :
wherefore should I smite thee to the ground ?
how then should I hold up my face to Joab thy brother ?
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Howbeit he refused to turn aside :
wherefore Abner with the hinder end of the spear smote him under the fifth rib ,
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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Joab also and Abishai pursued after Abner :
and the sun went down when they were come to the hill of Ammah ,
that lieth before Giah by the way of 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 an hill .
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Then Abner called to Joab ,
and said ,
Shall the sword devour for ever ?
knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter end ?
how long shall it be then ,
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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So Joab blew a trumpet ,
and all the people stood still ,
and pursued after Israel no more ,
neither fought they any more .
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And Abner and his men walked all that night through the plain ,
and passed over Jordan ,
and went through all Bithron ,
and they came to Mahanaim .
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And Joab returned from following Abner :
and when he had gathered all the people together ,
there lacked of David '
s servants nineteen men and Asahel .
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But the servants of David had smitten of Benjamin ,
and of Abner '
s men ,
so that three hundred and threescore men 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 Benjamite :
and he blew a trumpet ,
and said ,
We have no part in David ,
neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse :
every man to his tents ,
O Israel .
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So every man of Israel went up from after David ,
and followed Sheba the son of Bichri :
but the men of Judah clave unto their king ,
from Jordan even to Jerusalem .
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And David came to his house at Jerusalem ;
and the king took the ten women his concubines ,
whom he had left to keep the house ,
and put them in ward ,
and fed them ,
but went not in unto them .
So they were shut up unto the day of their death ,
living in widowhood .
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Then said the king to Amasa ,
Assemble me the men of Judah within three days ,
and be thou here present .
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So Amasa went to assemble the men of Judah :
but he tarried 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 fenced cities ,
and escape us .
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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 went before them .
And Joab '
s garment that he had put on was girded unto him ,
and upon it a girdle with a sword fastened upon his loins in the sheath thereof ;
and as he went forth it fell out .
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And Joab said to Amasa ,
Art thou in health ,
my brother ?
And Joab took Amasa by the beard with the right hand to kiss him .
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But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab '
s hand :
so he smote him therewith in the fifth rib ,
and shed out his bowels to the ground ,
and struck him not again ;
and he died .
So Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri .
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And one of Joab '
s men stood by him ,
and said ,
He that favoureth Joab ,
and he that is for David ,
let him go after Joab .
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And 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 him 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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And he went through all the tribes of Israel unto Abel ,
and to Bethmaachah ,
and all the Berites :
and they were gathered together ,
and went also after him .
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And they came and besieged him in Abel of Bethmaachah ,
and they cast up a bank against the city ,
and it stood in the trench :
and all the people that were with Joab battered the wall ,
to throw it down .
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Then cried a wise woman 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 when he was come near unto her ,
the woman said ,
Art thou Joab ?
And he answered ,
I am he .
Then she said unto him ,
Hear the words of thine handmaid .
And he answered ,
I do hear .
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Then she spake ,
saying ,
They were wont to speak in old time ,
saying ,
They shall surely ask counsel at Abel :
and so they ended the matter .
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I am one of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel :
thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel :
why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the LORD ?
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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 ,
hath lifted up his hand against the king ,
even against David :
deliver him only ,
and I will depart from the city .
And the woman said unto Joab ,
Behold ,
his head shall be thrown to thee over the wall .
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Then the woman went unto all the people in her wisdom .
And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri ,
and cast it out to Joab .
And he blew a trumpet ,
and they retired from the city ,
every man to his tent .
And Joab returned to Jerusalem unto the king .
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Now 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 tribute :
and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder :
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And Sheva was scribe :
and Zadok and Abiathar were the priests :
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And Ira also the Jairite was a chief ruler about David .
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Then there was a famine in the days of David three years ,
year after year ;
and David enquired of the LORD .
And the LORD answered ,
It is for Saul ,
and for his bloody house ,
because he slew the Gibeonites .
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And the king called the Gibeonites ,
and said unto them ; (
now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel ,
but of the remnant of the Amorites ;
and the children of Israel had sworn unto them :
and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah .)
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Wherefore David said unto the Gibeonites ,
What shall I do for you ?
and wherewith shall I make the atonement ,
that ye may bless the inheritance of the LORD ?
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And the Gibeonites said unto him ,
We will have no silver nor gold of Saul ,
nor of his house ;
neither for us shalt thou kill any man in Israel .
And he said ,
What ye shall say ,
that will I do for you .
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And they answered the king ,
The man that consumed us ,
and that devised against us that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the coasts of Israel ,
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Let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us ,
and we will hang them up unto the LORD in Gibeah of Saul ,
whom the LORD did choose .
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 the LORD '
S oath that was between them ,
between David and Jonathan the son of Saul .
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But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah ,
whom she bare unto Saul ,
Armoni and Mephibosheth ;
and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul ,
whom she brought up for Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite :
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And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites ,
and they hanged them in the hill before the LORD :
and they fell all seven together ,
and were put to death in the days of harvest ,
in the first days ,
in the beginning of barley harvest .
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And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth ,
and spread it for her upon the rock ,
from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven ,
and suffered neither the birds of the air 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 Jabeshgilead ,
which had stolen them from the street of Bethshan ,
where the Philistines had hanged them ,
when the Philistines had slain 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 the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son buried they in the country of Benjamin in Zelah ,
in the sepulchre of Kish his father :
and they performed all that the king commanded .
And after that God was intreated for the land .
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Moreover the Philistines had yet war again with Israel ;
and David went down ,
and his servants with him ,
and fought against the Philistines :
and David waxed faint .
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And Ishbibenob ,
which was of the sons of the giant ,
the weight of whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of brass in weight ,
he being girded with a new sword ,
thought to have slain David .
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But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succoured him ,
and smote the Philistine ,
and killed him .
Then the men of David sware unto him ,
saying ,
Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle ,
that thou quench not the light 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 slew Saph ,
which was of the sons of the giant .
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And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines ,
where Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim ,
a Bethlehemite ,
slew the brother of Goliath the Gittite ,
the staff of whose spear was like a weaver '
s beam .
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And there was yet a battle in Gath ,
where was a man of great stature ,
that had on every hand six fingers ,
and on every foot six toes ,
four and twenty in number ;
and he also was born to the giant .
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And when he defied Israel ,
Jonathan the son of Shimea the brother of David slew him .
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These four were born to the giant in Gath ,
and fell by the hand of David ,
and by the hand of his servants .
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And David spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD 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 ,
The LORD is my rock ,
and my fortress ,
and my deliverer ;
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The God of my rock ;
in him will I trust :
he is my shield ,
and the horn of my salvation ,
my high tower ,
and my refuge ,
my saviour ;
thou savest me from violence .
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I will call on the LORD ,
who is worthy to be praised :
so shall I be saved from mine enemies .
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When the waves of death compassed me ,
the floods of ungodly men made me afraid ;
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The sorrows of hell compassed me about ;
the snares of death prevented me ;
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In my distress I called upon the LORD ,
and cried to my God :
and he did hear my voice out of his temple ,
and my cry did enter into his ears .
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Then the earth shook and trembled ;
the foundations of heaven moved 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 were kindled by it .
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He bowed the heavens also ,
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 pavilions round about him ,
dark waters ,
and thick clouds of the skies .
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Through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled .
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The LORD thundered from heaven ,
and the most High uttered his voice .
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And he sent out arrows ,
and scattered them ;
lightning ,
and discomfited them .
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And the channels of the sea appeared ,
the foundations of the world were discovered ,
at the rebuking of the LORD ,
at the blast of the breath of his nostrils .
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He sent from above ,
he took me ;
he drew me out of many waters ;
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He delivered me from my strong enemy ,
and from them that hated me :
for they were too strong for me .
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They prevented me in the day of my calamity :
but the LORD was my stay .
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He brought me forth also into a large place :
he delivered me ,
because he delighted in me .
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The LORD 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 the LORD ,
and have not wickedly departed from my God .
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For all his judgments were before me :
and as for his statutes ,
I did not depart from them .
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I was also upright before him ,
and have kept myself from mine iniquity .
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Therefore the LORD hath recompensed me according to my righteousness ;
according to my cleanness in his eye sight .
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With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful ,
and with the upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright .
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With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure ;
and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury .
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And the afflicted people thou wilt save :
but thine eyes are upon the haughty ,
that thou mayest bring them down .
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For thou art my lamp ,
O LORD :
and the LORD will lighten 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 the LORD is tried :
he is a buckler to all them that trust in him .
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For who is God ,
save the LORD ?
and who is a rock ,
save our God ?
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God is my strength and power :
and he maketh my way perfect .
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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 ;
so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms .
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Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation :
and thy gentleness hath made me great .
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Thou hast enlarged my steps under me ;
so that my feet did not slip .
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I have pursued mine enemies ,
and destroyed them ;
and turned not again until I had consumed them .
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And I have consumed them ,
and wounded them ,
that they could not arise :
yea ,
they are fallen under my feet .
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For thou hast girded me with strength to battle :
them that rose up against me hast thou subdued under me .
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Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies ,
that I might destroy them that hate me .
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They looked ,
but there was none to save ;
even unto the LORD ,
but he answered them not .
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Then did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth ,
I did stamp them as the mire of the street ,
and did spread them abroad .
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Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people ,
thou hast kept me to be head of the heathen :
a people which I knew not shall serve me .
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Strangers shall submit themselves unto me :
as soon as they hear ,
they shall be obedient unto me .
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Strangers shall fade away ,
and they shall be afraid out of their close places .
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The LORD liveth ;
and blessed be my rock ;
and exalted be the God of the rock of my salvation .
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It is God that avengeth me ,
and that bringeth down the people under me ,
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And that bringeth me forth from mine enemies :
thou also hast lifted me up on high above them that rose up against me :
thou hast delivered me from the violent man .
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Therefore I will give thanks unto thee ,
O LORD ,
among the heathen ,
and I will sing praises unto thy name .
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He is the tower of salvation for his king :
and sheweth mercy to his anointed ,
unto David ,
and to his seed for evermore .
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Now these be 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 ,
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The Spirit of the LORD spake by me ,
and his word was in my tongue .
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The God of Israel said ,
the Rock of Israel spake to me ,
He that ruleth over men must be just ,
ruling in the fear of God .
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And he shall be as the light of the morning ,
when the sun riseth ,
even a morning without clouds ;
as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain .
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Although my house be not so with God ;
yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant ,
ordered in all things ,
and sure :
for this is all my salvation ,
and all my desire ,
although he make it not to grow .
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But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away ,
because they cannot be taken with hands :
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But the man that shall touch them must be fenced with iron and the staff of a spear ;
and they shall be utterly burned with fire in the same place .
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These be the names of the mighty men whom David had :
The Tachmonite that sat in the seat ,
chief among the captains ;
the same was Adino the Eznite :
he lift up his spear against eight hundred ,
whom he slew at one time .
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And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite ,
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 were gone away :
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He arose ,
and smote the Philistines until his hand was weary ,
and his hand clave unto the sword :
and the LORD wrought a great victory that day ;
and the people returned after him only to spoil .
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And after him was Shammah the son of Agee the Hararite .
And the Philistines were gathered together into a troop ,
where was a piece of ground full of lentiles :
and the people fled from the Philistines .
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But he stood in the midst of the ground ,
and defended it ,
and slew the Philistines :
and the LORD wrought a great victory .
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And three of the thirty chief went down ,
and came to David in the harvest time unto the cave of Adullam :
and the troop of the Philistines pitched in the valley of Rephaim .
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And David was then in an hold ,
and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem .
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And David longed ,
and said ,
Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem ,
which is by the gate !
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And the three mighty men brake through the host of the Philistines ,
and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem ,
that was by the gate ,
and took it ,
and brought it to David :
nevertheless he would not drink thereof ,
but poured it out unto the LORD .
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And he said ,
Be it far from me ,
O LORD ,
that I should do this :
is not this the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives ?
therefore he would not drink it .
These things did these three mighty men .
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And Abishai ,
the brother of Joab ,
the son of Zeruiah ,
was chief among three .
And he lifted up his spear against three hundred ,
and slew them ,
and had the name among three .
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Was he not most honourable of three ?
therefore he was their captain :
howbeit he attained not unto the first three .
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And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada ,
the son of a valiant man ,
of Kabzeel ,
who had done many acts ,
he slew two lionlike men of Moab :
he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow :
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And he slew an Egyptian ,
a goodly man :
and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand ;
but 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 had the name among three mighty men .
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He was more honourable than the thirty ,
but he attained not to the first three .
And David set him over his guard .
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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 Anethothite ,
Mebunnai the Hushathite ,
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Zalmon the Ahohite ,
Maharai the Netophathite ,
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Heleb the son of Baanah ,
a Netophathite ,
Ittai the son of Ribai out of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin ,
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Benaiah the Pirathonite ,
Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash ,
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Abialbon the Arbathite ,
Azmaveth the Barhumite ,
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Eliahba the Shaalbonite ,
of the sons of Jashen ,
Jonathan ,
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Shammah the Hararite ,
Ahiam the son of Sharar the Hararite ,
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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 ,
armourbearer to Joab the son of Zeruiah ,
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Ira an Ithrite ,
Gareb an Ithrite ,
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Uriah the Hittite :
thirty and seven in all .
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And again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel ,
and he moved David against them to say ,
Go ,
number Israel and Judah .
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For the king said to Joab the captain of the host ,
which was with him ,
Go now through all the tribes of Israel ,
from Dan even to Beersheba ,
and number ye the people ,
that I may know the number of the people .
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And Joab said unto the king ,
Now the LORD thy God add unto the people ,
how many soever they be ,
an hundredfold ,
and that the eyes of my lord the king may see it :
but why doth my lord the king delight in this thing ?
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Notwithstanding the king '
s word prevailed against Joab ,
and against the captains of the host .
And Joab and the captains of the host went out from the presence of the king ,
to number the people of Israel .
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And they passed over Jordan ,
and pitched in Aroer ,
on the right side of the city that lieth in the midst of the river of Gad ,
and toward Jazer :
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Then they came to Gilead ,
and to the land of Tahtimhodshi ;
and they came to Danjaan ,
and about to Zidon ,
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And came to the strong hold of Tyre ,
and to all the cities of the Hivites ,
and of the Canaanites :
and they went out to the south of Judah ,
even to Beersheba .
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So when they had gone through all the land ,
they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days .
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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 .
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And David '
s heart smote him after that he had numbered the people .
And David said unto the LORD ,
I have sinned greatly in that I have done :
and now ,
I beseech thee ,
O LORD ,
take away the iniquity of thy servant ;
for I have done very foolishly .
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For when David was up in the morning ,
the word of the LORD came unto the prophet Gad ,
David '
s seer ,
saying ,
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Go and say unto David ,
Thus saith the LORD ,
I offer thee three things ;
choose thee one of them ,
that I may do it unto thee .
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So Gad came to David ,
and told him ,
and said unto him ,
Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land ?
or wilt thou flee three months before thine enemies ,
while they pursue thee ?
or that there be three days '
pestilence in thy land ?
now advise ,
and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me .
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And David said unto Gad ,
I am in a great strait :
let us fall now into the hand of the LORD ;
for his mercies are great :
and let me not fall into the hand of man .
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So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed :
and there died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men .
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And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it ,
the LORD repented him of the evil ,
and said to the angel that destroyed the people ,
It is enough :
stay now thine hand .
And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite .
*
And David spake unto the LORD when he saw the angel that smote the people ,
and said ,
Lo ,
I have sinned ,
and I have done wickedly :
but these sheep ,
what have they done ?
let thine hand ,
I pray thee ,
be against me ,
and against my father '
s house .
*
And Gad came that day to David ,
and said unto him ,
Go up ,
rear an altar unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of Araunah the Jebusite .
*
And David ,
according to the saying of Gad ,
went up as the LORD commanded .
*
And Araunah looked ,
and saw the king and his servants coming on toward him :
and Araunah went out ,
and bowed himself before the king on his face upon the ground .
*
And Araunah said ,
Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant ?
And David said ,
To buy the threshingfloor of thee ,
to build an altar unto the LORD ,
that the plague may be stayed from the people .
*
And Araunah said unto David ,
Let my lord the king take and offer up what seemeth good unto him :
behold ,
here be oxen for burnt sacrifice ,
and threshing instruments and other instruments of the oxen for wood .
*
All these things did Araunah ,
as a king ,
give unto the king .
And Araunah said unto the king ,
The LORD thy God accept thee .
*
And the king said unto Araunah ,
Nay ;
but I will surely buy it of thee at a price :
neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the LORD my God of that which doth cost me nothing .
So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver .
*
And David built there an altar unto the LORD ,
and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings .
So the LORD was intreated for the land ,
and the plague was stayed from Israel .
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