Chapter III: Part 3

10:021:008 But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah,
whom she bare unto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five
sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she brought up for
Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite:

10:021:009 And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and
they hanged them in the hill before the LORD: and they fell
all seven together, and were put to death in the days of
harvest, in the first days, in the beginning of barley
harvest.

10:021:010 And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it
for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until
water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither
the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of
the field by night.

10:021:011 And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the
concubine of Saul, had done.

10:021:012 And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of
Jonathan his son from the men of Jabeshgilead, which had
stolen them from the street of Bethshan, where the Philistines
had hanged them, when the Philistines had slain Saul in
Gilboa:

10:021:013 And he brought up from thence the bones of Saul and the bones
of Jonathan his son; and they gathered the bones of them that
were hanged.

10:021:014 And the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son buried they in the
country of Benjamin in Zelah, in the sepulchre of Kish his
father: and they performed all that the king commanded. And
after that God was intreated for the land.

10:021:015 Moreover the Philistines had yet war again with Israel; and
David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against
the Philistines: and David waxed faint.

10:021:016 And Ishbibenob, which was of the sons of the giant, the weight
of whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of brass in
weight, he being girded with a new sword, thought to have
slain David.

10:021:017 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succoured him, and smote the
Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David sware unto
him, saying, Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that
thou quench not the light of Israel.

10:021:018 And it came to pass after this, that there was again a battle
with the Philistines at Gob: then Sibbechai the Hushathite
slew Saph, which was of the sons of the giant.

10:021:019 And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines,
where Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim, a Bethlehemite, slew the
brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was
like a weaver's beam.

10:021:020 And there was yet a battle in Gath, where was a man of great
stature, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot
six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to
the giant.

10:021:021 And when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimeah the
brother of David slew him.

10:021:022 These four were born to the giant in Gath, and fell by the
hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.

10:022:001 And David spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the
day that the LORD had delivered him out of the hand of all his
enemies, and out of the hand of Saul:

10:022:002 And he said, The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my
deliverer;

10:022:003 The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and
the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my
saviour; thou savest me from violence.

10:022:004 I will call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall
I be saved from mine enemies.

10:022:005 When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly
men made me afraid;

10:022:006 The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death
prevented me;

10:022:007 In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God:
and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did
enter into his ears.

10:022:008 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven
moved and shook, because he was wroth.

10:022:009 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his
mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.

10:022:010 He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness was
under his feet.

10:022:011 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: and he was seen upon
the wings of the wind.

10:022:012 And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters,
and thick clouds of the skies.

10:022:013 Through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled.

10:022:014 The LORD thundered from heaven, and the most High uttered his
voice.

10:022:015 And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and
discomfited them.

10:022:016 And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the
world were discovered, at the rebuking of the LORD, at the
blast of the breath of his nostrils.

10:022:017 He sent from above, he took me; he drew me out of many waters;

10:022:018 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them that hated
me: for they were too strong for me.

10:022:019 They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was
my stay.

10:022:020 He brought me forth also into a large place: he delivered me,
because he delighted in me.

10:022:021 The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness: according
to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.

10:022:022 For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly
departed from my God.

10:022:023 For all his judgments were before me: and as for his statutes,
I did not depart from them.

10:022:024 I was also upright before him, and have kept myself from mine
iniquity.

10:022:025 Therefore the LORD hath recompensed me according to my
righteousness; according to my cleanness in his eye sight.

10:022:026 With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful, and with
the upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright.

10:022:027 With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the
froward thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury.

10:022:028 And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thine eyes are
upon the haughty, that thou mayest bring them down.

10:022:029 For thou art my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my
darkness.

10:022:030 For by thee I have run through a troop: by my God have I
leaped over a wall.

10:022:031 As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is tried:
he is a buckler to all them that trust in him.

10:022:032 For who is God, save the LORD? and who is a rock, save our
God?

10:022:033 God is my strength and power: and he maketh my way perfect.

10:022:034 He maketh my feet like hinds' feet: and setteth me upon my
high places.

10:022:035 He teacheth my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is broken
by mine arms.

10:022:036 Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy
gentleness hath made me great.

10:022:037 Thou hast enlarged my steps under me; so that my feet did not
slip.

10:022:038 I have pursued mine enemies, and destroyed them; and turned
not again until I had consumed them.

10:022:039 And I have consumed them, and wounded them, that they could
not arise: yea, they are fallen under my feet.

10:022:040 For thou hast girded me with strength to battle: them that
rose up against me hast thou subdued under me.

10:022:041 Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies, that I
might destroy them that hate me.

10:022:042 They looked, but there was none to save; even unto the LORD,
but he answered them not.

10:022:043 Then did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I did
stamp them as the mire of the street, and did spread them
abroad.

10:022:044 Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people,
thou hast kept me to be head of the heathen: a people which I
knew not shall serve me.

10:022:045 Strangers shall submit themselves unto me: as soon as they
hear, they shall be obedient unto me.

10:022:046 Strangers shall fade away, and they shall be afraid out of
their close places.

10:022:047 The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and exalted be the
God of the rock of my salvation.

10:022:048 It is God that avengeth me, and that bringeth down the people
under me.

10:022:049 And that bringeth me forth from mine enemies: thou also hast
lifted me up on high above them that rose up against me: thou
hast delivered me from the violent man.

10:022:050 Therefore I will give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the
heathen, and I will sing praises unto thy name.

10:022:051 He is the tower of salvation for his king: and sheweth mercy
to his anointed, unto David, and to his seed for evermore.

10:023:001 Now these be the last words of David. David the son of Jesse
said, and the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of
the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said,

10:023:002 The Spirit of the LORD spake by me, and his word was in my
tongue.

10:023:003 The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He
that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.

10:023:004 And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun
riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass
springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.

10:023:005 Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me
an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for
this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he make
it not to grow.

10:023:006 But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust
away, because they cannot be taken with hands:

10:023:007 But the man that shall touch them must be fenced with iron and
the staff of a spear; and they shall be utterly burned with
fire in the same place.

10:023:008 These be the names of the mighty men whom David had: The
Tachmonite that sat in the seat, chief among the captains; the
same was Adino the Eznite: he lift up his spear against eight
hundred, whom he slew at one time.

10:023:009 And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite, one of
the three mighty men with David, when they defied the
Philistines that were there gathered together to battle, and
the men of Israel were gone away:

10:023:010 He arose, and smote the Philistines until his hand was weary,
and his hand clave unto the sword: and the LORD wrought a
great victory that day; and the people returned after him only
to spoil.

10:023:011 And after him was Shammah the son of Agee the Hararite. And
the Philistines were gathered together into a troop, where was
a piece of ground full of lentiles: and the people fled from
the Philistines.

10:023:012 But he stood in the midst of the ground, and defended it, and
slew the Philistines: and the LORD wrought a great victory.

10:023:013 And three of the thirty chief went down, and came to David in
the harvest time unto the cave of Adullam: and the troop of
the Philistines pitched in the valley of Rephaim.

10:023:014 And David was then in an hold, and the garrison of the
Philistines was then in Bethlehem.

10:023:015 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!

10:023:016 And the three mighty men 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:
nevertheless he would not drink thereof, but poured it out
unto the LORD.

10:023:017 And he said, Be it far from me, O LORD, that I should do this:
is not this the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of
their lives? therefore he would not drink it. These things did
these three mighty men.

10:023:018 And Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was
chief among three. And he lifted up his spear against three
hundred, and slew them, and had the name among three.

10:023:019 Was he not most honourable of three? therefore he was their
captain: howbeit he attained not unto the first three.

10:023:020 And 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: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit
in time of snow:

10:023:021 And he slew an Egyptian, a goodly man: and the Egyptian had a
spear in his hand; but 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.

10:023:022 These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had the name
among three mighty men.

10:023:023 He was more honourable than the thirty, but he attained not to
the first three. And David set him over his guard.

10:023:024 Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty; Elhanan the
son of Dodo of Bethlehem,

10:023:025 Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite,

10:023:026 Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite,

10:023:027 Abiezer the Anethothite, Mebunnai the Hushathite,

10:023:028 Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite,

10:023:029 Heleb the son of Baanah, a Netophathite, Ittai the son of
Ribai out of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin,

10:023:030 Benaiah the Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash,

10:023:031 Abialbon the Arbathite, Azmaveth the Barhumite,

10:023:032 Eliahba the Shaalbonite, of the sons of Jashen, Jonathan,

10:023:033 Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam the son of Sharar the Hararite,

10:023:034 Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai, the son of the Maachathite,
Eliam the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite,

10:023:035 Hezrai the Carmelite, Paarai the Arbite,

10:023:036 Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite,

10:023:037 Zelek the Ammonite, Nahari the Beerothite, armourbearer to
Joab the son of Zeruiah,

10:023:038 Ira an Ithrite, Gareb an Ithrite,

10:023:039 Uriah the Hittite: thirty and seven in all.

10:024:001 And again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel,
and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and
Judah.

10:024:002 For the king said to Joab the captain of the host, which was
with him, Go now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan
even to Beersheba, and number ye the people, that I may know
the number of the people.

10:024:003 And Joab said unto the king, Now the LORD thy God add unto the
people, how many soever they be, an hundredfold, and that the
eyes of my lord the king may see it: but why doth my lord the
king delight in this thing?

10:024:004 Notwithstanding the king's word prevailed against Joab, and
against the captains of the host. And Joab and the captains of
the host went out from the presence of the king, to number the
people of Israel.

10:024:005 And they passed over Jordan, and pitched in Aroer, on the
right side of the city that lieth in the midst of the river of
Gad, and toward Jazer:

10:024:006 Then they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtimhodshi; and
they came to Danjaan, and about to Zidon,

10:024:007 And came to the strong hold of Tyre, and to all the cities of
the Hivites, and of the Canaanites: and they went out to the
south of Judah, even to Beersheba.

10:024:008 So when they had gone through all the land, they came to
Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.

10:024:009 And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people unto the
king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant
men that drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five
hundred thousand men.

10:024:010 And David's heart smote him after that he had numbered the
people. And David said unto the LORD, I have sinned greatly in
that I have done: and now, I beseech thee, O LORD, take away
the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.

10:024:011 For when David was up in the morning, the word of the LORD
came unto the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying,

10:024:012 Go and say unto David, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee three
things; choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee.

10:024:013 So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him, Shall
seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou
flee three months before thine enemies, while they pursue
thee? or that there be three days' pestilence in thy land? now
advise, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent
me.

10:024:014 And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall
now into the hand of the LORD; for his mercies are great: and
let me not fall into the hand of man.

10:024:015 So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning
even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from
Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men.

10:024:016 And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to
destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the
angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine
hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of
Araunah the Jebusite.

10:024:017 And David spake unto the LORD when he saw the angel that smote
the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done
wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done? let thine
hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father's
house.

10:024:018 And Gad came that day to David, and said unto him, Go up, rear
an altar unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of Araunah the
Jebusite.

10:024:019 And David, according to the saying of Gad, went up as the LORD
commanded.

10:024:020 And Araunah looked, and saw the king and his servants coming
on toward him: and Araunah went out, and bowed himself before
the king on his face upon the ground.

10:024:021 And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his
servant? And David said, To buy the threshingfloor of thee, to
build an altar unto the LORD, that the plague may be stayed
from the people.

10:024:022 And Araunah said unto David, Let my lord the king take and
offer up what seemeth good unto him: behold, here be oxen for
burnt sacrifice, and threshing instruments and other
instruments of the oxen for wood.

10:024:023 All these things did Araunah, as a king, give unto the king.
And Araunah said unto the king, The LORD thy God accept thee.

10:024:024 And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy it
of thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto
the LORD my God of that which doth cost me nothing. So David
bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of
silver.

10:024:025 And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered
burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the LORD was intreated
for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.