2 Samuel 23

¹And these are the last words of David: “A declaration of David son of Jesse, And a declaration of the man raised up—Concerning the anointed of the God of Jacob, And the sweetness of the songs of Israel:

²The Spirit of YHWH has spoken by me, And His word is on my tongue.

³He said—the God of Israel—to me, He spoke—the Rock of Israel: He who is ruling over man is righteous, He is ruling in the fear of God.

⁴And he rises as the light of morning, A morning sun with no clouds! By the shining, by the rain, Tender grass of the earth!

⁵For though my house is not so with God; So He made a perpetual covenant with me, Arranged in all things, and kept; For all my salvation, and all desire, For He has not caused it to spring up.

⁶As for the worthless—All of them are driven away as a thorn, For they are not taken away by hand;

⁷And the man who comes against them Is filled with iron and the staff of a spear, And they are utterly burned with fire In the cessation.”

⁸These are the names of the mighty ones whom David has: sitting in the seat is the Tachmonite, head of the captains—he is Adino, who hardened himself against eight hundred—wounded at one time.

⁹And after him is Eleazar son of Dodo, son of Ahohi, of the three mighty men with David; in their exposing themselves among the Philistines—they have been gathered there to battle, and the men of Israel go up—

¹⁰he has arisen, and strikes among the Philistines until his hand has been weary, and his hand cleaves to the sword, and YHWH works a great salvation on that day, and the people turn back after him only to strip off.

¹¹And after him is Shammah son of Agee the Hararite, and the Philistines are gathered into a company, and there is a portion of the field full of lentils there, and the people have fled from the presence of the Philistines,

¹²and he stations himself in the midst of the portion, and delivers it, and strikes the Philistines, and YHWH works a great salvation.

¹³And three of the thirty heads go down and come to the harvest, to David, to the cave of Adullam, and the company of the Philistines are encamping in the Valley of Rephaim,

¹⁴and David is then in a fortress, and the station of the Philistines is then in Beth-Lehem,

¹⁵and David longs and says, “Who gives me a drink of the water of the well of Beth-Lehem, which is by the gate?”

¹⁶And the three mighty ones cleave through the camp of the Philistines, and draw water out of the well of Beth-Lehem, which is by the gate, and take it up, and bring it to David; and he was not willing to drink it, and pours it out to YHWH,

¹⁷and says, “Far be it from me, O YHWH, to do this; is it the blood of the men who are going with their lives?” And he was not willing to drink it; the three mighty ones did these things.

¹⁸And Abishai brother of Joab, son of Zeruiah, he is head of three, and he is lifting up his spear against three hundred—wounded, and he has a name among three.

¹⁹Is he not the honored of the three? And he becomes their head; and he has not come to the first three.

²⁰And Benaiah son of Jehoiada (son of a man of valor, great in deeds from Kabzeel), has struck two lion-like men of Moab, and he has gone down and struck the lion in the midst of the pit in a day of snow.

²¹And he has struck the Egyptian man, a man of appearance, and a spear is in the hand of the Egyptian, and he goes down to him with a rod, and takes the spear violently away out of the hand of the Egyptian, and slays him with his own spear.

²²Benaiah son of Jehoiada has done these things, and has a name among the three mighty ones.

²³He is honored more than the thirty, but he did not come to the three; and David sets him over his guard.

²⁴Asahel brother of Joab is of the thirty; Elhanan son of Dodo of Beth-Lehem,

²⁵Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite,

²⁶Helez the Paltite, Ira son of Ikkesh the Tekoite,

²⁷Abiezer the Annethothite, Mebunnai the Hushathite,

²⁸Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite,

²⁹Heleb son of Baanah the Netophathite, Ittai son of Ribai from Gibeah of the sons of Benjamin,

³⁰Benaiah the Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash,

³¹Abi-Albon the Arbathite, Azmaveth the Barhumite,

³²Eliahba the Shaalbonite, of the sons of Jashen, Jonathan,

³³Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam son of Sharar the Hararite,

³⁴Eliphelet son of Ahasbai, son of the Maachathite, Eliam son of Ahithophel the Gilonite,

³⁵Hezrai the Carmelite, Paarai the Arbite,

³⁶Igal son of Nathan from Zobah, Bani the Gadite,

³⁷Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, bearer of the weapons of Joab son of Zeruiah,

³⁸Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,

³⁹Uriah the Hittite: thirty-seven in all.

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