2 Samuel 23

2 Sam. 23:1	Now these are the last words of David: The declaration of David the son of Jesse, / And the declaration of the man who has been raised up on high, / The anointed of the God of Jacob, / The one lovely in the psalms of Israel.
2 Sam. 23:2	The Spirit of Jehovah spoke through me, / And His word was on my tongue.
2 Sam. 23:3	The God of Israel spoke, / The Rock of Israel spoke to me, / Who rules among men righteously, / Who rules with the fear of God,
2 Sam. 23:4	And is like the light of the morning when the sun rises, / A morning without clouds, / [As when] the tender grass [sprouts up] from the earth / At the [sun's] shining after a rain.
2 Sam. 23:5	For is not my house so with God? / For He has made an eternal covenant with me, / Ordered in all things and secure. / For all my salvation and all [my] desire, / Will He not indeed make them grow?
2 Sam. 23:6	But the wicked, all of them, will be / Like thorns to be thrust away, / Because they cannot be taken with the hand.
2 Sam. 23:7	But the man who touches them / Must arm himself with an iron rod or with the shaft of a spear; / And they will be burned with fire in [their] place.
2 Sam. 23:8	These are the names of the mighty men whom David had: Josheb-basshebeth a Tahchemonite; he was the chief of the captains; the same is Adino the Eznite, [who fought] against eight hundred, who were slain at one time.
2 Sam. 23:9	After him was Eleazar the son of Dodo, the son of an Ahohite, [one] among the three mighty men with David, when they defied the Philistines who were gathered there for battle, and the men of Israel went away.
2 Sam. 23:10	He rose up and struck the Philistines until his hand was weary; and his hand clung to the sword, and Jehovah accomplished a great salvation that day; and the people returned after him, but only to strip [the slain.]
2 Sam. 23:11	And after him was Shammah the son of Agee the Hararite. Now the Philistines were gathered into a troop where there was a plot of land full of lentils, and the people fled before the Philistines.
2 Sam. 23:12	But he stationed himself in the midst of the plot and defended it and struck the Philistines, and Jehovah accomplished a great salvation.
2 Sam. 23:13	Now three of the thirty chief men went down and came to David at harvest time in the cave of Adullam; and the Philistine troop was encamped in the valley of Rephaim.
2 Sam. 23:14	Now at that time David was in the stronghold; and the garrison of the Philistines was at that time in Bethlehem.
2 Sam. 23:15	And David said longingly, If only someone would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem that is by the gate!
2 Sam. 23:16	And the three mighty men burst through the camp of the Philistines and drew water from the well of Bethlehem that is by the gate. And they carried [it] and brought [it] to David, but he would not drink it; rather he poured it out to Jehovah.
2 Sam. 23:17	And he said, Far be it from me, O Jehovah, that I should do this! [Shall I drink] the blood of the men who went at the risk of their lives? Therefore he would not drink it. These things the three mighty men did.
2 Sam. 23:18	And Abishai the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief of the three. And he brandished his spear against three hundred, [who were] slain; and he had a name among the three.
2 Sam. 23:19	He was indeed the most honored among the thirty, and he became their leader; but he did not attain to the three.
2 Sam. 23:20	And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man from Kabzeel, was great in mighty deeds. He struck the two [sons] of Ariel the Moabite; he also went down and struck a lion in the midst of a pit on a snowy day.
2 Sam. 23:21	And he struck an Egyptian, an imposing man. And the Egyptian had a spear in his hand, but he went down to him with a staff and snatched the spear out of the hand of the Egyptian and slew him with his own spear.
2 Sam. 23:22	These things Benaiah the son of Jehoiada did, and he had a name among the three mighty men.
2 Sam. 23:23	He was more honored than the thirty, but he did not attain to the three. And David set him over his bodyguard.
2 Sam. 23:24	Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem;
2 Sam. 23:25	Shammah the Harodite; Elika the Harodite;
2 Sam. 23:26	Helez the Paltite; Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite;
2 Sam. 23:27	Abiezer the Anathothite; Mebunnai the Hushathite;
2 Sam. 23:28	Zalmon the Ahohite; Maharai the Netophathite;
2 Sam. 23:29	Heleb the son of Baanah the Netophathite; Ittai the son of Ribai from Gibeah of the children of Benjamin;
2 Sam. 23:30	Benaiah the Pirathonite; Hiddai from the brooks of Gaash;
2 Sam. 23:31	Abi-albon the Arbathite; Azmaveth the Barhumite;
2 Sam. 23:32	Eliahba the Shaalbonite; [of] the sons of Jashen, Jonathan;
2 Sam. 23:33	Shammah the Hararite; Ahiam the son of Sharar the Ararite;
2 Sam. 23:34	Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai; the son of the Maachathite; Eliam the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite;
2 Sam. 23:35	Hezrai the Carmelite; Paarai the Arbite;
2 Sam. 23:36	Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah; Bani the Gadite;
2 Sam. 23:37	Zelek the Ammonite; Naharai the Beerothite, the armor bearer to Joab the son of Zeruiah;
2 Sam. 23:38	Ira the Ithrite; Gareb the Ithrite;
2 Sam. 23:39	Uriah the Hittite. [They were] thirty-seven in all.

2 Samuel 23

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