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.
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 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.
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 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.
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!
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 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 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.
24 These things did
Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had the name among the three mighties.
25 Behold,
he was honourable 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,
28 Ira
the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer the Antothite,
29 Sibbecai
the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite,
30 Maharai
the Netophathite, Heled the son of Baanah the Netophathite,
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,
34 The
sons of Hashem the Gizonite, Jonathan the son of Shage the Hararite,
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,
39 Zelek
the Ammonite, Naharai the Berothite, the armourbearer of Joab the son of
Zeruiah,
40 Ira
the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,
41 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.
