2 Samuel 23 : 1 (LXXEN)
And these are the last words of David. Faithful is David the son of Jessae, and faithful the man whom the Lord raised up to be the anointed of the God of Jacob, and beautiful are the psalms of Israel.
2 Samuel 23 : 2 (LXXEN)
The Spirit of the Lord spoke by me, and his word was upon my tongue.
2 Samuel 23 : 3 (LXXEN)
The God of Israel says, A watchman out of Israel spoke to me a parable: I said among men, How will ye strengthen the fear of the anointed?
2 Samuel 23 : 4 (LXXEN)
And in the morning light of God, let the sun arise in the morning, from the light of which the Lord passed on, and as it were from the rain of the tender grass upon the earth.
2 Samuel 23 : 5 (LXXEN)
For my house is not so with the Mighty One: for he has made an everlasting covenant with me, ready, guarded at every time; for all my salvation and all my desire is, that the wicked should not flourish.
2 Samuel 23 : 6 (LXXEN)
All these are as a thorn thrust forth, for they shall not be taken with the hand,
2 Samuel 23 : 7 (LXXEN)
and a man shall not labour among them; and one shall have that which is fully armed with iron, and the staff of a spear, and he shall burn them with fire, and they shall be burnt in their shame.
2 Samuel 23 : 8 (LXXEN)
These are the names of the mighty men of David: Jebosthe the Chananite is a captain of the third part: Adinon the Asonite, he drew his sword against eight hundred soldiers at once.
2 Samuel 23 : 9 (LXXEN)
And after him Eleanan the son of his uncle, son of Dudi who was among the three mighty men with David; and when Or, they defied him among the Philistines
he defied the Philistines they were gathered there to war, and the men of Israel went up.
2 Samuel 23 : 10 (LXXEN)
He arose an smote the Philistines, until his hand was weary, and his hand clave to the sword: and the Lord wrought a great salvation in that day, and the people Heb. returned
rested behind him only to strip the slain.
2 Samuel 23 : 11 (LXXEN)
And after him Samaia the son of Asa the Arachite: and the Philistines were gathered to Theria; and there was there a portion of ground full of lentiles; and the people fled before the Philistines.
2 Samuel 23 : 12 (LXXEN)
And he stood firm in the midst of the portion, and rescued it, and smote the Philistines; and the Lord wrought a great deliverance.
2 Samuel 23 : 13 (LXXEN)
And three out of the thirty went down, and came to Cason to David, to the cave of Odollam; and there was an army of the Philistines, and they encamped in the valley of Raphain.
2 Samuel 23 : 14 (LXXEN)
And David was then in the strong hold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethleem.
2 Samuel 23 : 15 (LXXEN)
And David longed, and said, Who will give me water to drink out of the well that is in Bethleem by the gate? now the band of the Philistines was then in Bethleem.
2 Samuel 23 : 16 (LXXEN)
And the three mighty men broke through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well that was in Bethleem in the gate: and they took it, and brought it to David, and he would not drink it, but poured it out before the Lord.
2 Samuel 23 : 17 (LXXEN)
And he said, O Lord, forbid that I should do this, Gr. if
that I should drink of the blood of the men who went at the risk of their lives: and he would not drink it. These things did these three mighty men.
2 Samuel 23 : 18 (LXXEN)
And Abessa the brother of Joab the son of Saruia, he was chief among the three, and he lifted up his spear against three hundred whom he slew; and he had a name among three.
2 Samuel 23 : 19 (LXXEN)
Of those three he was most honourable, and he became a chief over them, but he reached not to the first three.
2 Samuel 23 : 20 (LXXEN)
And Banaeas the son of Jodae, he was abundant in mighty deeds, from Cabeseel, and he smote the two sons of Ariel of Moab: and he went down and smote a lion in the midst of a pit on a snowy day.
2 Samuel 23 : 21 (LXXEN)
He smote an Egyptian, Gr. a man seen or to be seen
a wonderful man, and in the hand of the Egyptian was a spear as the side of a ladder; and he went down to him with a staff, and snatched the spear from the Egyptian’s hand, and slew him with his own spear.
2 Samuel 23 : 22 (LXXEN)
These things did Banaeas the son of Jodae, and he had a name among the three mighty men.
2 Samuel 23 : 23 (LXXEN)
He was honourable among the second three, but he reached not to the first three: and David Gr. appointed him to his hearings
made him his reporter. And these are the names of King David’s mighty men.
2 Samuel 23 : 24 (LXXEN)
Asael Joab’s brother; he was among the thirty. Eleanan son of Dudi his uncle in Bethleem.
2 Samuel 23 : 25 (LXXEN)
Saema the Rudaean.
2 Samuel 23 : 26 (LXXEN)
Selles Or, the son of Kelothi
the Kelothite: Iras the son of Isca the Thecoite.
2 Samuel 23 : 27 (LXXEN)
Abiezer the Anothite, of the sons of the Anothite.
2 Samuel 23 : 28 (LXXEN)
Ellon the Aoite; Noere the Netophatite.
2 Samuel 23 : 29 (LXXEN)
Esthai the son of Riba of Gabaeth, son of Benjamin the Ephrathite; Asmoth the Bardiamite; Emasu the Salabonite:
2 Samuel 23 : 30 (LXXEN)
Adroi of the brooks.
2 Samuel 23 : 31 (LXXEN)
Gadabiel son of the Arabothaeite.
2 Samuel 23 : 32 (LXXEN)
the sons of Asan, Jonathan;
2 Samuel 23 : 33 (LXXEN)
Samnan the Arodite; Amnan the son of Arai the Saraurite.
2 Samuel 23 : 34 (LXXEN)
Aliphaleth the son of Asbites, the son of the Machachachite; Eliab the son of Achitophel the Gelonite.
2 Samuel 23 : 35 (LXXEN)
Asarai the Carmelite the son of Uraeoerchi.
2 Samuel 23 : 36 (LXXEN)
Gaal the son of Nathana. The son of much valour, the son of Galaaddi. Elie the Ammanite.
2 Samuel 23 : 37 (LXXEN)
Gelore the Bethorite, armour-bearer to Joab, son of Saruia.
2 Samuel 23 : 38 (LXXEN)
Iras the Ethirite. Gerab the Ethenite.
2 Samuel 23 : 39 (LXXEN)
Urias the Chettite: thirty-seven in all.
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