2Samuel:2:8-3
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But Abner ,
the son of Ner ,
the captain of the army of Saul ,
took Ish
bosheth the son of Saul ,
and brought him over to Machanayim ;
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And made him king over Gil
ad ,
and over the Ashurites ,
and over Yizre
el ,
and over Ephraim ,
and over Benjamin ,
and over all Israel .
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Forty years old was Ish
bosheth the son of Saul ,
when he became king over Israel ,
and two years he reigned .
But the house of Judah followed David .
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And the number of days that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months .
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And there went out Abner the son of Ner ,
and the servants of Ish
bosheth the son of Saul ,
from Machanayim to Gib
on .
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And Joab the son of Zeruyah and the servants of David also went out ,
and they met together by the pool of Gib
on :
and they sat down ,
these on the one side of the pool ,
and the others on the other side of the pool .
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And Abner said to Joab ,
Do let the young men rise up and play before us .
And Joab said ,
They may rise up .
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Then they rose up and went over by number :
twelve for Benjamin ,
and for Ish
bosheth the son of Saul ,
and twelve of the servants of David .
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And they grasped every one his fellow by the head ,
and thrust his sword in his fellow
s side ;
and they fell down together :
wherefore that place was called Chelkath
hazzurim ,
which is by Gib
on .
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And the battle was exceedingly fierce on that day ;
and Abner with the men of Israel was beaten ,
before the servants of David .
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And there were at that place three sons of Zeruyah ,
Joab ,
and Abishai ,
and
Asahel :
and
Asahel was as fleet of foot as any roe in the field .
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And
Asahel pursued after Abner ;
and he turned not in going to the right hand or to the left from following Abner .
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And Abner turned round 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 hold for thyself on one of the young men ,
and take thyself his armor .
But
Asahel would not turn aside from following him .
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And Abner repeated again to say unto
Asahel ,
Turn thee aside from following me :
wherefore should I smite thee to the ground ?
and how should I then lift up my face to Joab thy brother ?
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But he refused to turn aside ;
and Abner smote him with the hinder end of the spear under the fifth rib ,
so that the spear came out behind him ;
and he fell down there ,
and died on the spot :
and it came to pass ,
that all who came to the place where
Asahel had fallen down and died remained standing still .
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But Joab and Abishai pursued after Abner :
and the sun went down when they were come to the hill of Ammah ,
that lieth before Giach on the way to the wilderness of Gib
on .
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And the children of Benjamin assembled themselves together behind Abner ,
and formed one solid body ,
and posted themselves on the top of a certain hill .
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And Abner called to Joab ,
and said ,
Shall for everlasting the sword devour ?
knowest thou not that it will be bitter in the end ?
and how long shall it be ,
ere thou wilt bid the people to return from pursuing their brethren ?
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And Joab said ,
As God liveth ,
unless thou hadst spoken ,
surely then already in the morning would the people have gone away every one from pursuing his brother .
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So Joab blew the cornet ,
and all the people remained standing still ,
and pursued no more after Israel ,
and they continued no more to fight .
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And Abner and his men walked through the plain all that night ,
and they passed over the Jordan ,
and went through all Bithron ,
and they came to Machanayim .
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And Joab returned from pursuing Abner ;
and he gathered all the people together ;
and there were missed 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 :
three hundred and sixty men died .
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And they took up
Asahel ,
and buried him in the sepulchre of his father ,
which was in Beth
lechem .
And Joab and his men went all that night ,
and the day broke on them at Hebron .
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And there happened to be a worthless man ,
whose name was Sheba ,
the son of Bichri ,
a Benjamite ;
and he blew the cornet ,
and said ,
We have no part in David ,
nor have we any inheritance in the son of Jesse :
every man to his tents ,
O Israel !
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So every man of Israel went off from David ,
following Sheba
the son of Bichri ;
but the men of Judah adhered unto 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 ,
the concubines ,
whom he had left to guard the house ,
and put them in a guard
house ,
and provided for them ,
but went not in unto them .
So they were confined until the day of their death ,
living in widowhood .
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Then said the king to
Amassa ,
Call together for me the men of Judah within three days ,
and thou present thyself here .
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So
Amassa went to call Judah together ;
but he remained out longer than the set time which he had appointed him .
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And David said to Abishai ,
Now will Sheba
the son of Bichri do us more harm than Abshalom :
take thou the servants of thy Lord ,
and pursue after him ,
lest he succeed in reaching fortified cities ,
and withdraw himself from our eyes .
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And there went out after him Joab
s men ,
and the Kerethites ,
and the Pelethites ,
and all the mighty men :
and they went forth out of Jerusalem ,
to pursue after Sheba
the son of Bichri .
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They were close by the great stone which is at Gib
on ,
as
Amassa came before them .
And Joab was girded with his coat ,
his garment ,
and upon it the girdle of the sword which was fastened upon his loins in its sheath ;
and as he went forth it fell out .
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And Joab said to
Amassa ,
Art thou in health ,
my brother ?
And Joab
s right hand took hold of
Amassa
s beard to kiss him .
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And
Amassa did not guard himself against 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 .
But Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba
the son of Bichri .
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And one man of Joab
s people remained standing by him ,
and said ,
He that favoreth Joab ,
and he that is for David ,
follow Joab .
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And
Amassa was wallowing in his blood in the midst of the highway .
And when the man saw that all the people stood still ,
he put
Amassa aside out of the highway into the field ,
and threw a garment over 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 ,
every man passed on after Joab ,
to pursue after Sheba
the son of Bichri .
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And this one passed through all the tribes of Israel unto Abel ,
which is of Beth
ma
achah ,
and all the Berim :
and they assembled themselves together ,
and went also after him .
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And they came and besieged him in Abel of Beth
ma
achah ,
and they cast up a trench against the city ,
and it stood enclosed by the troops :
and all the people that were with Joab were battering to throw down the wall .
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Then called a wise woman out of the city ,
Hear ,
hear :
say ,
I pray you ,
unto Joab ,
Come near as far as 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 said ,
I am .
Then said she unto him ,
Hear the words of thy hand
maid .
And he said ,
I do hear .
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Then said she ,
thus ,
They ought surely first to have spoken ,
saying , "
Let them ask at least in Abel :"
and so would they have come to an end .
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I am one of the peaceful and faithful in Israel ;
thou seekest to overthrow a city and a metropolis in Israel :
why wilt thou destroy 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 destroy or ruin .
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The matter is not so ;
but a man from the mountains of Ephraim ,
Sheba
the son of Bichri is his name ,
hath lifted up his hand against the king ,
against David :
give him up alone ,
and I will withdraw from the city .
And the woman said unto Joab ,
Behold ,
his head shall be cast down to thee over the wall .
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And the woman came unto all the people with her wisdom ;
and they cut off the head of Sheba
the son of Bichri ,
and cast it down to Joab :
and he blew the cornet ,
and they scattered themselves from the city ,
every man to his tents .
And Joab returned to Jerusalem unto the king .
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Now Joab was over all the army of Israel ;
and Benayah the son of Yehoyada
was over the Kerethites and over the Pelethites ;
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And Adoram was over the tribute ;
and Jehoshaphat the son of Achilud was recorder ;
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And Sheva was scribe ;
and Zadok and Ebyathar were priests ;
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And
Ira also the Yairite was an officer of state unto David .
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And there was a famine in the days of David three years ,
year after year ;
and David besought the presence of the Lord .
And the Lord said ,
On account of Saul ,
and on account of the house of blood ,
is this ;
because he hath slain the Gib
onites .
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And the king called for the Gib
onites ,
and said unto them :
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Wherefore David said unto the Gib
onites ,
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 Gib
onites said unto him ,
We have no concern of silver or gold with Saul and with his house :
nor do we wish to kill any man 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 ,
so that we should have no footing in all the boundaries of Israel .
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Let there be delivered unto us seven men of his sons ,
and we will hang them up unto the Lord in Gib
ah of Saul ,
the chosen of the Lord .
And the king said ,
I will give them .
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But the king had pity on 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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And the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Ayah ,
whom she had born unto Saul ,
Armoni and Mephibosheth ;
and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul ,
whom she had brought up for
Adriel the son of Barzillai the Mecholathite :
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And he delivered them into the hand of the Gib
onites ,
and they hanged them on the mount before the Lord ;
and they fell ,
these seven ,
together ;
and they were put to death in the first days of harvest ,
in the beginning of the barley
harvest .
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And Rizpah the daughter of Ayah took sackcloth ,
and spread out it for herself upon the rock ,
from the beginning of the harvest until water dropped down upon them out of heaven ,
and she suffered neither the birds of heaven to rest on them by day ,
nor the beasts of the field by night .
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And it was told to David what Rizpah the daughter of Ayah ,
the concubine of Saul ,
had done .
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And David then went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Yabeshgil
ad ,
who had stolen them from the market
place of Bethshan ,
where the Philistines had hanged them up ,
at the time the Philistines had smitten Saul at Gilboa :
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And he brought up from there the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son ;
and they gathered up the bones of those that had been hanged .
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And they buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin at Zela ,
in the sepulchre of Kish his father :
and they performed all that the king had commanded .
And after that God was entreated for the land .
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And the Philistines had again a war with Israel ;
and David went down ,
and his servants with him ,
and fought against the Philistines :
and David became fatigued .
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And Yishbi at Nob ,
who was of the children of the Raphah ,
the weight of whose spear was three hundred shekels of copper ,
he being girded with a new armor ,
thought to slay David .
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But Abishai the son of Zeruyah succored him ,
and smote the Philistine ,
and killed him .
Then swore the men of David unto him ,
saying ,
Thou shalt go out no more with us to battle ,
that thou mayest not quench the lamp of Israel .
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And it came to pass after this ,
that there was again a battle at Gob ,
with the Philistines :
then smote Sibbechai the Chushathite Saph ,
who was of the children of the Raphah .
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And there was again a battle at Gob with the Philistines ,
when Elchanan the son of Ya
are
oregim ,
the Bethlechemite ,
slew Goliath the Gittite ,
the staff of whose spear was like a weaver
s beam .
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And there was again a battle in Gath ,
where was a man of 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 Raphah .
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And he defied Israel ;
but Jonathan the son of Shim
ah ,
the brother of David ,
slew him .
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These four were born to the 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 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 .
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And he said ,
Lord ,
my rock ,
my fortress ,
and my deliverer ;
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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 !
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Praised ,
I cried ,
be the Lord ,
and from my enemies was I saved .
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For the waves of death encompassed me ,
the floods of destruction made me afraid ;
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The bonds of hell encircled me ,
the snares of death seized on me :
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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 .
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Then shook and trembled the earth ;
the foundations of the heavens were moved ;
and they shook ,
because he was wroth .
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Smoke went up in his anger ,
and consuming fire out of his mouth ,
coals flamed forth from him .
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And he bent the heavens ,
and came down ,
and thick darkness was under his feet .
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And he rode upon a cherub ,
and flew along ,
and he was seen upon the wings of the wind .
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And he made darkness round about him into pavilions ,
heavy masses of waters ,
thick clouds of the skies .
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From the brightness before him flamed forth coals of fire .
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The Lord thundered from heaven ,
and the Most High uttered forth his voice .
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And he sent out arrows ,
and scattered them ;
lightning ,
and discomfited them .
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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 .
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He stretched out from above ,
he took me ;
he drew me out from the mighty waters .
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He delivered me from my enemy ,
the strong ,
from those that hated me ,
when they were too mighty for me .
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They overcame me on the day of my calamity ;
but the Lord became my stay ;
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And he brought me forth into a large space :
he delivered me ,
because he had delight in me .
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The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness :
according to the purity of my hands did he recompense me .
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For I had kept the ways of the Lord ,
and had not wickedly departed from my God .
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For all his ordinances were before me ,
and from none of his statutes did I depart .
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I was also upright toward him ,
and I guarded myself against my iniquity .
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Therefore did the Lord recompense me according to my righteousness ,
according to my purity before his eyes .
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With the kind thou wilt show thyself kind ;
with the upright mighty man thou wilt show thyself upright .
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With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure ;
and with the perverse thou wilt wage a contest .
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And the afflicted people thou wilt save ;
but thy eyes are upon the haughty ,
thou mayest bring down .
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For thou art my lamp ,
O Lord !
and the Lord will enlighten my darkness .
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For by thee I run through a troop :
by my God I leap over a wall .
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As for God
his way is perfect ;
the word of the Lord is tried ;
he is a shield to all 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 rendereth free from obstruction my way .
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He maketh my feet like those of the hinds ,
and upon my high places he causeth me to stand .
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He teaches my hands for the war ,
so that a brazen bow is bent by my arms .
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And thou gavest me the shield of thy salvation ;
and thy assistance hath made me great .
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Thou enlargest my steps under me ,
so that my joints do not slip .
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I pursue my enemies and destroy them ;
and I return not again until I have made an end of them .
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And I make an end of them ,
and I crush them ,
that they cannot rise ;
and they fall under my feet .
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For thou hast girded me with strength for the war ;
thou subduest my opponents under me .
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And my enemies thou causest to turn their back to me ;
those that hate me ,
that I may destroy them .
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They look about ,
but there is none to help ;
unto the Lord
but he answereth them not .
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And I beat them small as the dust of the earth ;
as the mire of the street ,
I stamp them ,
I tread them down .
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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 .
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The children of the stranger shall utter flattery unto me ;
as soon as their ear heareth they shall be obedient unto me .
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The children of the stranger shall fade away ,
and come forth tottering out of their close places .
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The Lord liveth ,
and blessed be my Rock ;
and exalted be the God ,
the Rock of my salvation ;
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The God ,
that granteth me vengeance ,
and bringeth down nations under me ;
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And that bringeth me forth from my enemies :
also above my opponents thou liftest me up ,
from the man of violence thou deliverest me .
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Therefore will I give thanks unto thee ,
O Lord ,
among the nations ,
and unto thy name will I sing praises ;
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the tower of salvation of his king ,
and who showeth kindness to his anointed ,
to David and to his seed forever .
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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 :
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The Spirit of the Lord spoke through me ,
and his word was upon my tongue .
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said the God of Israel ,
concerning me spoke the Rock of Israel ,
That ruler over men ,
be righteous ,
ruling in the fear of God ;
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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 .
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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 ?
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But the godless are all of them as waving thorns ,
which cannot be taken in the hand ;
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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 .
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These are the names of the mighty men whom David had :
Yosheb
bashebeth ,
the Thachkemonite ,
the chief among the captains ,
the same as
Adino the
Eznite ,
because of eight hundred slain at one time .
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And after him was El
azar 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 ;
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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 .
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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 ;
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But he placed himself in the midst of the ground ,
and delivered it ,
and smote the Philistines :
and the Lord wrought a great victory .
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And these three ,
the chiefs of the thirty ,
went down ,
and came to David at harvest
time unto the cave of
Adullam :
and the troop of the Philistines was encamped in the valley of Rephaim .
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And David was then in the strong
hold ,
and an outpost of the Philistines was then in Beth
lechem .
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And David longed ,
and said ,
Oh that one would bring me water to drink out of the well at Beth
lechem ,
which is by 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 Beth
lechem ,
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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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Although he was the most honored of the three ,
wherefore he became their captain :
he nevertheless attained not unto the three .
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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 lion
like heroes of Moab ;
he also went down and slew a lion in the midst of a pit on a day when it snowed ;
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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 Egyptian
s hand ,
and slew him with his own spear .
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These things did Benayahu the son of Yehoyada ,
and he had a name among the three mighty men .
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He was more honored than the thirty ;
but he attained not to these three .
And David appointed him in his private council .
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Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty ;
Elchanan the son of Dodo of Beth
lechem ,
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Shammah the Charodite ,
Elika the Charodite ,
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Chelez the Paltite ,
Ira the son of
Ikkesh the Teko
ite ,
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Abi
ezer the
Anethothite ,
Mebunnai the Chushathite ,
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Zalmon the Achochite ,
Maharai the Netophathite ,
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Cheleb the son of Ba
anah ,
the Netophathite ,
Ittai the son of Ribai of Gib
ah of the children of Benjamin ,
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Benayahu the Pir
athonite ,
Hiddai of Nachale
Ga
ash ,
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Abi
albon the
Arbathite ,
Azmaveth the Barchumite ,
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Elyachba the Sha
albonite ,
Bne
yashen ,
Jonathan ,
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Shammah the Hararite ,
Achiam the son of Sharar the Ararite ,
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Eliphelet the son of Achasbai ,
the son of the Ma
achathite ,
Eli
am the son of Achithophel the Gilonite ,
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Chezrai ,
the Carmelite ,
Pa
arai the Arbite ,
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Yigal the son of Nathan of Zobah ,
Bani the Gadite ,
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Zelek the
Ammonite ,
Nacharai the Beerothite ,
the armor
bearer of Joab the son of Zeruyah ,
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Ira the Yithrite ,
Gareb the Yithrite ,
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Uriyah the Hittite :
in all thirty and seven .
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And again was the anger of the Lord kindled against Israel ,
and he incited David against them to say ,
Go ,
number Israel and Judah .
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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 Beer
sheba ,
and number ye the people ,
that I may know the number of the people .
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Then said Joab unto the king ,
Now may the Lord thy God add unto the people ,
how many soever they be ,
a hundred
fold more ,
and may the eyes of my Lord the king see it ;
but why doth my Lord the king find delight in this thing ?
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Nevertheless the king
s 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 .
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And they passed over the Jordan ,
and encamped in
Aro
er ,
on the right side of the city that lieth in the midst of the valley of Gad ,
and toward Ya
zer :
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Then they came to Gil
ad ,
and to the land of Tachtimchodshi ;
and they came to Dan
ya
an ,
and about to Zidon ;
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And they 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 ,
up to Beer
sheba .
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And so they traversed all the land ,
and they came at the end of nine months and twenty days to Jerusalem .
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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 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 .
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And when David was arisen in the morning ,
The word of the Lord came unto Gad the prophet ,
David
s seer ,
saying ,
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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 .
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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 .
*
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 .
*
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 Beer
sheba
seventy thousand men .
*
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 .
*
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 father
s house .
*
And Gad came to David on that day ,
and said unto him ,
Go up ,
erect an altar unto the Lord on the threshing
floor of Aravnah the Jebusite .
*
And David went up ,
according to the word of Gad ,
as the Lord had commanded .
*
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 .
*
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 .
*
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 burnt
offerings ,
and the threshing rollers and the harness of the oxen for wood .
*
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 .
*
And the king said unto Aravnah ,
No ;
but I will surely buy it from thee at the value ;
for I will not offer burnt
offerings unto the Lord my God without paying therefor .
So David bought the threshing
floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver .
*
And David built there an altar unto the Lord ,
and offered burnt
offerings and peace
offerings :
and the Lord was entreated for the land ,
and the plague was stayed from Israel .
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