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shall not my house be so with God, although all my saving health and my desire shall not be produced yet? For he has made an everlasting covenant with me, ordered in all
things, and it shall be kept;
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but those of Belial
shall all be as thorns to be chased away, whom no one takes with the hand;
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but the one
that desires to touch them must be armed with iron and the staff of a spear, and they are completely burned with fire in their place.
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These
are the names of the mighty men whom David had: he that sat in the seat of wisdom, chief among the three: Adino, the Eznite, who on one occasion slew eight hundred enemies.
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And after him
was Eleazar, the son of Dodo, the Ahohite,
one of the three mighty men who
were with David, when they defied the Philistines
that were there gathered together to battle, and those of Israel were gone away.
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He arose and smote the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand clave unto the sword; and the LORD wrought a great salvation that day, and the people returned after him only to spoil.
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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!