1 Then all Israel gathered themselves to David to Hebron, saying,
Behold, we are your bone and your flesh. 2 In times past, even when Saul
was king, it was you who led out and brought in Israel: and Yahweh your God
said to you, You shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall be
prince over my people Israel. 3 So all the elders of Israel came to the
king to Hebron; and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before Yahweh;
and they anointed David king over Israel, according to the word of Yahweh by
Samuel. 4 David and all Israel went to Jerusalem (the same is Jebus); and
the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, were there. 5 The inhabitants
of Jebus said to David, You shall not come in here. Nevertheless David took
the stronghold of Zion; the same is the city of David. 6 David said,
Whoever strikes the Jebusites first shall be chief and captain. Joab the son
of Zeruiah went up first, and was made chief. 7 David lived in the
stronghold; therefore they called it the city of David. 8 He built the
city round about, from Millo even round about; and Joab repaired the rest of
the city. 9 David grew greater and greater; for Yahweh of Hosts was with
him. 10 Now these are the chief of the mighty men whom David had, who
shown themselves strong with him in his kingdom, together with all Israel, to
make him king, according to the word of Yahweh concerning Israel. 11 This
is the number of the mighty men whom David had: Jashobeam, the son of a
Hachmonite, the chief of the thirty; he lifted up his spear against three
hundred and killed them at one time. 12 After him was Eleazar the son of
Dodo, the Ahohite, who was one of the three mighty men. 13 He was with
David at Pasdammim, and there the Philistines were gathered together to
battle, where was a plot of ground full of barley; and the people fled from
before the Philistines. 14 They stood in the midst of the plot, and
defended it, and killed the Philistines; and Yahweh saved them by a great
victory. 15 Three of the thirty chief men went down to the rock to David,
into the cave of Adullam; and the host of the Philistines were encamped in
the valley of Rephaim. 16 David was then in the stronghold, and the
garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem. 17 David longed, and
said, Oh that one would give me water to drink of the well of Bethlehem,
which is by the gate! 18 The three broke 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: but David would not drink of it,
but poured it out to Yahweh, 19 and said, My God forbid it me, that I
should do this: shall I drink the blood of these men who have put their lives
in jeopardy? for with the jeopardy of their lives they brought it.
Therefore he would not drink it. These things did the three mighty men.
20 Abishai, the brother of Joab, he was chief of the three; for he lifted
up his spear against three hundred and killed them, and had a name among the
three. 21 Of the three, he was more honorable than the two, and was made
their captain: however he didn’t attain to the first three.
22 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who
had done mighty deeds, he killed the two sons of Ariel of Moab: he
went down also and killed a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow.
23 He killed an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits high; and in
the Egyptian’s hand was a spear like a weaver’s beam; and 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. 24 These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada,
and had a name among the three mighty men. 25 Behold, he was more
honorable than the thirty, but he didn’t attain to the first three:
and David set him over his guard. 26 Also the mighty men of the armies:
Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,
27 Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite, 28 Ira the son of Ikkesh
the Tekoite, Abiezer the Anathothite, 29 Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the
Ahohite, 30 Maharai the Netophathite, Heled the son of Baanah the
Netophathite, 31 Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the children of
Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite, 32 Hurai of the brooks of Gaash, Abiel
the Arbathite, 33 Azmaveth the Baharumite, Eliahba the Shaalbonite,
34 the sons of Hashem the Gizonite, Jonathan the son of Shagee the
Hararite, 35 Ahiam the son of Sacar the Hararite, Eliphal the son of Ur,
36 Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijah the Pelonite, 37 Hezro the
Carmelite, Naarai the son of Ezbai, 38 Joel the brother of Nathan, Mibhar
the son of Hagri, 39 Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Berothite, the armor
bearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah, 40 Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,
41 Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai, 42 Adina the son of Shiza
the Reubenite, a chief of the Reubenites, and thirty with him, 43 Hanan
the son of Maacah, and Joshaphat the Mithnite, 44 Uzzia the Ashterathite,
Shama and Jeiel the sons of Hotham the Aroerite, 45 Jediael the son of
Shimri, and Joha his brother, the Tizite, 46 Eliel the Mahavite, and
Jeribai, and Joshaviah, the sons of Elnaam, and Ithmah the Moabite,
47 Eliel, and Obed, and Jaasiel the Mezobaite.
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