2Samuel:23-24

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.

mkjv@2Samuel:23:8 @ These [are] the names of the mighty men whom David had: Josheb-basshebeth the Tachmonite, chief of the three; he [was called] Adino the Eznite, because of the eight hundred [he] killed at one time.

mkjv@2Samuel:23:9 @ And after him [was] Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with David when they defied the Philistines who were gathered there to battle; and the men of Israel had gone up;

mkjv@2Samuel:23:10 @ [he] arose and struck the Philistines until his hand was weary, and until his hand clung to the sword. And the LORD worked a great victory that day. And the people returned after him only to spoil.

mkjv@2Samuel:23:11 @ And next [was] Shammah the son of Agee the Hararite. And the Philistines were gathered together into a troop, where there was a piece of ground full of lentils. And the people fled from the Philistines.

mkjv@2Samuel:23:12 @ But he stood in the middle of the ground and delivered it, and killed the Philistines. And the LORD worked a great victory.

mkjv@2Samuel:23:13 @ And three of the thirty chief men went down and came to David in the harvest time into the cave of Adullam. And the troop of the Philistines pitched in the Valley of the Giants.

mkjv@2Samuel:23:14 @ And David [was] then in a stronghold, and the fort of the Philistines [was] then in Bethlehem.

mkjv@2Samuel:23:15 @ And David longed and said, Oh that someone would give me a drink from the water of the well of Bethlehem by the gate!

mkjv@2Samuel:23:16 @ And the three mighty men broke through the army of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem by the gate, and took [it], and brought [it] to David. But he would not drink of it, but poured it out to the LORD.

mkjv@2Samuel:23:17 @ And he said, Be it far from me, O LORD, that I should do this. [Is it not] the blood of the men who went [in danger of] their lives? And he would not drink it. These three mighty men did these [things].

mkjv@2Samuel:23:18 @ And Abishai the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, [was] chief among three. And he lifted up his spear against three hundred [and] killed [them], and had the name among three.

mkjv@2Samuel:23:19 @ Surely he was honored more than the three. And he was their commander. However he did not attain to the [first] three.

mkjv@2Samuel:23:20 @ And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada from Kabzeel, a son of a mighty man, great [in] deeds. He killed two lion-like men of Moab. He went down also and killed a lion in the middle of a pit in time of snow.

mkjv@2Samuel:23:21 @ And he killed an Egyptian, a man of form. 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 killed him with his own spear.

mkjv@2Samuel:23:22 @ These [things] did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had the name among three mighty ones.

mkjv@2Samuel:23:23 @ He was more honorable than the thirty, but he did not attain to the [first] three. And David set him over his guard.

mkjv@2Samuel:23:24 @ Asahel the brother of Joab [was] of the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem;

mkjv@2Samuel:23:25 @ Shammah the Harodite; Elika the Harodite;

mkjv@2Samuel:23:26 @ Helez the Paltite; Ira the son of Ikkesh, the Tekoite;

mkjv@2Samuel:23:27 @ Abiezer the Anathothite; Mebunnai the Hushathite;

mkjv@2Samuel:23:28 @ Zalmon the Ahohite; Maharai the Netophathite;

mkjv@2Samuel:23:29 @ Heleb the son of Baanah, a Netophathite; Ittai the son of Ribai out of Gibeah, of the sons of Benjamin;

mkjv@2Samuel:23:30 @ Benaiah the Pirathonite; Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash;

mkjv@2Samuel:23:31 @ Abialbon the Arbathite; Azmaveth the Barhumite;

mkjv@2Samuel:23:32 @ Eliahba the Shaalbonite, of the sons of Jashen; Jonathan;

mkjv@2Samuel:23:33 @ Shammah the Hararite; Ahiam the son of Sharer, the Hararite;

mkjv@2Samuel:23:34 @ Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai, the son of the Maachathite; Eliam the son of Ahithophel, the Gilonite;

mkjv@2Samuel:23:35 @ Hezrai the Carmelite; Paarai the Arbite;

mkjv@2Samuel:23:36 @ Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah; Bani the Gadite;

mkjv@2Samuel:23:37 @ Zelek the Ammonite; Naharai the Beerothite, armor-bearer to Joab the son of Zeruiah;

mkjv@2Samuel:23:38 @ Ira, and Ithrite; Gareb, and Ithrite;

mkjv@2Samuel:23:39 @ Uriah the Hittite-- thirty-seven in all.

mkjv@2Samuel:24:1 @ And again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and He moved David against them to say, Go count Israel and Judah.

mkjv@2Samuel:24:2 @ For the king said to Joab the commander of the army, who [was] with him, Go around through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan to Beer-sheba, and count the people so that I may know the number of the people.

mkjv@2Samuel:24:3 @ And Joab said to the king, And may the LORD your God add to the people however many they be, a hundred times as many, and may the eyes of my lord the king see it. But why does my lord the king delight in this thing?

mkjv@2Samuel:24:4 @ But the king's word prevailed against Joab, and against the commanders of the army. And Joab and the commanders of the army went out from the presence of the king to number the people of Israel.

mkjv@2Samuel:24:5 @ And they passed over Jordan and pitched in Aroer, on the right side of the city that [is] in the middle of the Valley of Gad, and to Jazer.

mkjv@2Samuel:24:6 @ And they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtim-hodshi. And they came to Dan-jaan, and around to Sidon.

mkjv@2Samuel:24:7 @ And they came to the stronghold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites and [of] the Canaanites; and went out to the south of Judah, to Beer-sheba.

mkjv@2Samuel:24:8 @ And they went to and fro through all the land, and came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.

mkjv@2Samuel:24:9 @ And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people to the king. And there were in Israel eight hundred thousand strong men who drew the sword. And the men of Judah [were] five hundred thousand men.

mkjv@2Samuel:24:10 @ And David's heart struck him after he had numbered the people. And David said to the LORD, I have sinned greatly in what I have done. And now, I beseech You, O LORD, take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have done very foolishly.

mkjv@2Samuel:24:11 @ And David rose up in the morning. And the word of the LORD came to the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying,

mkjv@2Samuel:24:12 @ Go and say to David, So says the LORD, I offer you three [things]. Choose one of them, so that I may do [it] to you.

mkjv@2Samuel:24:13 @ And Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, Shall seven years of famine come upon you and on your land? Or will you flee three months before your enemies while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days' plague in your land? And advise, and see what answer I shall return to Him who sent me.

mkjv@2Samuel:24:14 @ And David said to Gad, I [am] in great distress. Let us fall now into the hand of the LORD, for His mercies [are] great. And do not let me fall into the hand of man.

mkjv@2Samuel:24:15 @ And the LORD sent a plague upon Israel from the morning even till the time appointed. And there died from the people, from Dan to Beer-sheba, seventy thousand men.

mkjv@2Samuel:24:16 @ And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD turned from the evil, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, Enough! And stay your hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshing-place of Araunah the Jebusite.

mkjv@2Samuel:24:17 @ And David spoke to the LORD when he saw the angel who struck the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? I pray You, let Your hand be against me and against my father's house.

mkjv@2Samuel:24:18 @ And Gad came that day to David, and said to him, Go up! Rear an altar to the LORD in the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

mkjv@2Samuel:24:19 @ And David went up, according to the saying of Gad, as the LORD commanded.

mkjv@2Samuel:24:20 @ And Araunah looked and saw the king and his servants coming on toward him. And Araunah went out and bowed before the king, his face to the ground.

mkjv@2Samuel:24:21 @ And Araunah said, Why has my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshing-floor from you, to build an altar to the LORD, so that the plague may be stayed from the people.

mkjv@2Samuel:24:22 @ And Araunah said to David, Let my lord the king take and offer up what [seems] good to him. Behold, oxen for burnt sacrifice, and threshing instruments, and instruments of the oxen for wood.

mkjv@2Samuel:24:23 @ All these Araunah, like a king, gave to the king. And Araunah said to the king, May the LORD your God accept you.

mkjv@2Samuel:24:24 @ And the king said to Araunah, No, but I will surely buy from you at a price. And I will not offer burnt offerings to the LORD my God [of that which costs me] nothing. And David bought the threshing-floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

mkjv@2Samuel:24:25 @ And David built there an altar to 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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