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And after him
was Shammah, the son of Agee, the Hararite. And the Philistines were gathered together into a community, where was an inheritance of land full of lentils, and the people had fled before the Philistines.
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But he stood in the midst of the inheritance and defended it and slew the Philistines, and the LORD wrought a great salvation.
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These three,
who were of the thirty chief, went down and came to David in the harvest time unto the cave of Adullam, and the camp of the Philistines was pitched in the valley of Rephaim.
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And David
was then in the fortress, and the garrison of the Philistines
was in Bethlehem.
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And David longed and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem, which
is by the gate!
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Then
these three mighty men broke through the camp 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; nevertheless, he would not drink of it, but poured it out unto the LORD, saying,
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Be it far from me, O LORD, that I should do this;
is not this the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives? And he would not drink it. These three mighty men did this.
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And Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief of three. And he lifted up his spear against three hundred
and slew
them and had
a name among the three.
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He was the most honourable of the three and captain among them; however, he did not attain unto the
first three.
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Then, Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done many acts, slew two lions of Moab; he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow.
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He also slew an Egyptian, a man of
great stature, and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand, but 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.