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CHAPTER CHRONICLES 11
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 L
ORD
thy God said unto thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and
thou shalt be ruler over 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 L
ORD
; and they anointed David king over Israel, according to the word of the L
ORD
by
Samuel.
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.
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 fromMillo round about: and Joab repaired the rest of the city.
9
So David
waxed greater and greater: for the L
ORD
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 L
ORD
concerning Israel.
11
And this
is
the number of the mighty men whom David had; Jashobeam, and
Hachmonite, the chief of the captains: he lifted up his spear against three hundred slain
by him
at
one time.
12
And after him
was
Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, who
was one
of the three
mighties.
13
He was with David at Pas-dammim, 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.
14
And they set themselves in the midst of
that
parcel, and delivered it, and slew the Philistines; and
the L
ORD
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!
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 L
ORD
,
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
honourable than the two; for he was their captain: howbeit he attained not to the
first
three.
22
Benaiah
the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done many acts; he slew two
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