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Then all
Israel gathered themselves to David unto Hebron,
saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.
02 And moreover in time past, even when Saul was
king, thou wast he that leddest out and
broughtest in Israel: and the Lord thy God said
unto thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and
thou shalt be ruler over my people Israel.
03 Therefore came all the elders of Israel to the
king to Hebron; and David made a covenant with
them in Hebron before the Lord; and they anointed
David king over Israel, according to the word of
the Lord by Samuel.
04 And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem,
which is Jebus; where the Jebusites were, the
inhabitants of the land.
05 And the inhabitants of Jebus said to David,
Thou shalt not come hither. Nevertheless David
took the castle of Zion, which is the city of
David.
06 And David said, Whosoever smiteth the
Jebusites first shall be chief and captain. So
Joab the son of Zeruiah went first up, and was
chief.
07 And David dwelt in the castle; therefore they
called it the city of David.
08 And he built the city round about, even from
Millo round about: and Joab repaired the rest of
the city.
09 So David waxed greater and greater: for the
Lord of hosts was with him.
10 These also are the chief of the mighty men
whom David had, who strengthened themselves with
him in his kingdom, and with all Israel, to make
him king, according to the word of the Lord
concerning Israel.
11 And this is the number of the mighty men whom
David had; Jashobeam, an Hachmonite, the chief of
the captains: he lifted up his spear against
three hundred slain by him at one time.
12 And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo, the
Ahohite, who was one of the three mighties.
13 He was with David at Pasdammim, and there the
Philistines were gathered together to battle,
where was a parcel of ground full of barley; and
the people fled from before the Philistines.
14 And they set themselves in the midst of that
parcel, and delivered it, and slew the
Philistines; and the Lord saved them by a great
deliverance.
15 Now three of the thirty captains went down to
the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam; and
the host of the Philistines encamped in the
valley of Rephaim.
16 And David was then in the hold, and the
Philistines' garrison was then at Bethlehem.
17 And David longed, and said, Oh that one would
give me drink of the water of the well of
Bethlehem, that is at the gate!
18 And the three 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: but David would not drink of
it, but poured it out to the Lord.
19 And said, My God forbid it me, that I should
do this thing: shall I drink the blood of these
men that 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
these three mightiest.
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20 And Abishai the brother of Joab, he was chief
of the three: for lifting up his spear against
three hundred, he slew them, and had a name among
the three.
21 Of the three, he was more honourable than the
two; for he was their captain: howbeit he
attained not to the first three.
22 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: also he went
down and slew a lion in a pit in a snowy day.
23 And he slew 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 slew him
with his own spear.
24 These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada,
and had the name among the three mighties.
25 Behold, he was honourable among the thirty,
but attained not to the first three: and David
set him over his guard.
26 Also the valiant men of the armies were,
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
Antothite,
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, that
pertained to 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 Shage 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
Haggeri,
39 Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Berothite, the
armourbearer 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
captain of the Reubenites, and thirty with him,
43 Hanan the son of Maachah, and Joshaphat the
Mithnite,
44 Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Jehiel the
sons of Hothan 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 Jasiel the Mesobaite.
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