David Made King over All Israel
1
Then
all Israel gathered to
David at
Hebron and
said,
"Behold, we are your
bone and your
flesh.
2
"In
times * past,
even when
Saul was
king, you were the one who
led out and
brought in
Israel ; and the
LORD your
God said to you, ' You shall
shepherd My
people Israel, and you shall be
prince over My
people Israel.' "
Jerusalem, Capital City
4
Then
David and
all Israel went to
Jerusalem ( that is,
Jebus ); and the
Jebusites, the
inhabitants of the
land, were
there.
5
The
inhabitants of
Jebus said to
David, "You shall not
enter here." Nevertheless
David captured the
stronghold of
Zion (that is, the
city of
David ).
8
He
built the
city all around, from the
Millo even to the
surrounding area ; and
Joab repaired the
rest of the
city.
9
David became greater and
greater, for the
LORD of
hosts was with him.
David's Mighty Men
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 when the
Philistines were
gathered together
there to
battle, and there was a
plot of
ground full of
barley ; and the
people fled before * the
Philistines.
14
They
took their
stand in the
midst of the
plot and
defended it, and
struck down the
Philistines ; and the
LORD saved them by a
great victory.
15
Now
three of the
thirty chief men went down to the
rock to
David, into the
cave of
Adullam, while the
army of the
Philistines was
camping in the
valley of
Rephaim.
17
David had a
craving and
said,
"Oh that
someone would
give me
water to
drink from the
well of
Bethlehem,
which is by the
gate !"
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So the
three broke through the
camp of the
Philistines and
drew water from the
well of
Bethlehem which was by the
gate, and
took it and
brought it to
David ; nevertheless
David would not
drink it, but
poured it out to the
LORD ;
19
and he
said, "Be it
far from me
before my
God that I should
do this. Shall I
drink the
blood of
these men who went at the risk of their
lives ? For at the risk of their
lives they
brought it." Therefore he
would not
drink it.
These things the
three mighty men did.
20
As for
Abshai the
brother of
Joab, he was
chief of the
thirty, and he
swung his
spear against three hundred and
killed them; and he had a
name as well as the
thirty.
21
Of the
three in the
second rank he was the most
honored and
became their
commander ; however, he did not
attain to the first
three.
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He
killed an
Egyptian, a
man of great
stature five cubits tall. Now in the
Egyptian's hand was a
spear like a
weaver's beam, but he
went down to him with a
club and
snatched the
spear from the
Egyptian's hand and
killed him with his own
spear.
24
These things
Benaiah the
son of
Jehoiada did, and had a
name as well as the
three mighty men.
25
Behold, he was
honored among the
thirty, but he did not
attain to the
three ; and
David appointed him
over his
guard.
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Hezro the Carmelite,
Naarai the
son of
Ezbai,
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Adina the
son of
Shiza the
Reubenite, a
chief of the
Reubenites, and
thirty with him,