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Chapter 11 |
| 1 | Then all
Israel gathered themselves to David unto Hebron, saying, Behold, we are thy
bone and thy flesh. |
| 2 | And moreover in time past, even when Saul was
king, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the LORD thy
God said unto thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be ruler
over my people Israel. |
| 3 | Therefore came all the elders of Israel to
the king to Hebron; and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before the
LORD; and they anointed David king over Israel, according to the word of the
LORD by Samuel. |
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4 | And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem, which is
Jebus; where the Jebusites were, the inhabitants of the land. |
| 5 | And
the inhabitants of Jebus said to David, Thou shalt not come hither.
Nevertheless David took the castle of Zion, which is the city of David.
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| 6 | And David said, Whosoever smiteth the Jebusites first shall be chief and
captain. So Joab the son of Zeruiah went first up, and was chief. |
| 7 |
And David dwelt in the castle; therefore they called it the city of
David. |
| 8 |
And he built the city round about, even from Millo round
about: and Joab repaired the rest of the city. |
| 9 | So David waxed
greater and greater: for the LORD of hosts was with him. |
| 10 | These
also are the chief of the mighty men whom David had, who strengthened
themselves with him in his kingdom, and with all Israel, to make him king,
according to the word of the LORD concerning Israel. |
| 11 | And this is
the number of the mighty men whom David had; Jashobeam, an Hachmonite, the
chief of the captains: he lifted up his spear against three hundred slain by
him at one time. |
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12 | And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo, the
Ahohite, who was one of the three mighties. |
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13 | He was with David at
Pasdammim, and there the Philistines were gathered together to battle, where
was a parcel of ground full of barley; and the people fled from before the
Philistines. |
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14 | And they set themselves in the midst of that
parcel, and delivered it, and slew the Philistines; and the LORD saved them by
a great deliverance. |
| 15 | Now three of the thirty captains went down
to the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the host of the Philistines
encamped in the valley of Rephaim. |
| 16 | And David was then in the
hold, and the Philistines' garrison was then at Bethlehem. |
| 17 | And
David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the
well of Bethlehem, that is at the gate! |
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18 | And the three brake
through the host 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: but
David would not drink of it, but poured it out to the LORD. |
| 19 | And
said, My God forbid it me, that I should do this thing: shall I drink the blood
of these men that have put their lives in jeopardy? for with the jeopardy of
their lives they brought it. Therefore he would not drink it. These things did
these three mightiest. |
| 20 | And Abishai the brother of Joab, he was
chief of the three: for lifting up his spear against three hundred, he slew
them, and had a name among the three. |
| 21 | Of the three, he was more
honorable than the two; for he was their captain: howbeit he attained not to
the first three. |
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22 | Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant
man of Kabzeel, who had done many acts; he slew two lionlike men of Moab: also
he went down and slew a lion in a pit in a snowy day. |
| 23 | And he slew
an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits high; and in the Egyptian's
hand was a spear like a weaver's beam; and 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. |
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| These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had the
name among the three mighties. |
| 25 | Behold, he was honorable
among the thirty, but attained not to the first three: and David set him over
his guard. |
| 26
| Also the valiant men of the armies were, Asahel the
brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem, |
| 27 | Shammoth the
Harorite, Helez the Pelonite, |
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28 | Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite,
Abiezer the Antothite, |
| 29 | Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the
Ahohite, |
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| Maharai the Netophathite, Heled the son of Baanah the
Netophathite, |
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31 | Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah, that pertained to
the children of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite, |
| 32 | Hurai of the
brooks of Gaash, Abiel the Arbathite, |
| 33 | Azmaveth the Baharumite,
Eliahba the Shaalbonite, |
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34 | The sons of Hashem the Gizonite,
Jonathan the son of Shage the Hararite, |
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35 | Ahiam the son of Sacar the
Hararite, Eliphal the son of Ur, |
| 36 | Hepher the Mecherathite,
Ahijah the Pelonite, |
| 37 | Hezro the Carmelite, Naarai the son of
Ezbai, |
| 38
| Joel the brother of Nathan, Mibhar the son of
Haggeri, |
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| Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Berothite, the
armourbearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah, |
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40 | Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the
Ithrite, |
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| Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai, |
| 42 |
Adina the son of Shiza the Reubenite, a captain of the Reubenites, and thirty
with him, |
| 43
| Hanan the son of Maachah, and Joshaphat the
Mithnite, |
| 44
| Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Jehiel the sons of
Hothan the Aroerite, |
| 45 | Jediael the son of Shimri, and Joha his
brother, the Tizite, |
| 46 | Eliel the Mahavite, and Jeribai, and
Joshaviah, the sons of Elnaam, and Ithmah the Moabite, |
| 47 | Eliel, and
Obed, and Jasiel the Mesobaite. |
