These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
2 Samuel 23
Tanakh 39 verses
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Now these are the last words of : The saying of the son of Jesse, And the saying of the man raised on high, The anointed of the of , And the sweet singer of :
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The of spoke by me, And His was upon my tongue.
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The of said, The Rock of spoke to me: ‘Ruler over men shall be The righteous, even he that ruleth in the of ,
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2 Samuel 22:32 2 Samuel 22:2-3 Exodus 18:21 Deuteronomy 32:4 Psalm 110:2 Proverbs 31:9 Genesis 33:20 Psalm 42:9 Exodus 23:6-8 Nehemiah 5:14 Exodus 3:15 Deuteronomy 32:30-31 Isaiah 32:1 Exodus 19:5-6 Hebrews 1:8 Psalm 72:2 Isaiah 11:1-5 Zechariah 9:9 Exodus 20:2 2 Chronicles 19:7-9 Deuteronomy 16:18-20 Jeremiah 23:5 Psalm 82:3-4 - 4 And as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, A morning without clouds; When through clear shining after rain, The tender grass springeth out of the earth.’
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For is not my house established with ? For an He hath made with me, Ordered in all things, and sure; For all my , and all my desire, Will he not make it to grow?
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Isaiah 55:3 Isaiah 9:6-7 2 Samuel 7:14-16 Amos 9:11 Isaiah 61:8 Jeremiah 32:40 1 Corinthians 3:6-7 Isaiah 11:1 Isaiah 27:6 Acts 13:34 Hebrews 13:20 Hebrews 6:19 Jeremiah 33:25-26 Ezekiel 37:26 2 Samuel 7:18 Psalm 63:1-3 2 Samuel 12:10 Psalm 62:2 Psalm 89:3 Psalm 119:81 1 Kings 1:5 Psalm 73:25-26 Psalm 89:28-29 1 Kings 11:38 1 Kings 2:24-25 Isaiah 4:2 1 Samuel 25:28 1 Samuel 2:35 1 Kings 11:6-8 2 Samuel 13:14 2 Samuel 13:28 1 Chronicles 17:11-14 2 Samuel 18:14 Isaiah 7:14 1 Kings 12:14 Psalm 27:4 -
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But the unElohimly, they are as thorns thrust away, all of them, For they cannot be taken with the hand;
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- 7 But the man that toucheth them Must be armed with iron and the staff of a spear; And they shall be utterly burned with fire in their place.
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These are the names of the mighty men whom had: Josheb-basshebeth a Tahchemonite, chief of the captains; the same was Adino the Eznite; [he lifted up his spear] against eight hundred, whom he slew at one time.
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- 9 And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo the son of an Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with , when they jeoparded their lives against the Philistines that were there gathered together to battle, and the men of were gone away;
- 10 he stood firm, and smote the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand did cleave unto the sword; and wrought a great victory that day; and the people returned after him only to strip the slain.
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And after him was Shammah the son of Age the Ararite. And the Philistines were gathered together into a troop, where was a plot of ground full of lentils; and the people fled from the Philistines.
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But he stood in the midst of the plot, and defended it, and slew the Philistines; and wrought a great victory.
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- 13 And three of the thirty chief went down, and came to in the harvest time unto the cave of Adullam; and the troop of the Philistines were encamped in the valley of Rephaim.
- 14 And was then in the stronghold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Beth-lehem.
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And longed, and said: ‘Oh that one would give me water to drink of the well of Beth-lehem, which is by the gate!’
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- 16 And the three mighty men broke through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Beth-lehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to ; but he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto .
- 17 And he said: ‘Be it far from me, O , that I should do this; shall I drink the of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives?’ therefore he would not drink it. These things did the three mighty men.
- 18 And Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief of the three. And he lifted up his spear against three hundred and slew them, and had a among the three.
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He was most honourable of the three; therefore he was made their captain; howbeit he attained not unto the first three.
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- 20 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, he smote the two -hearths of ; he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow;
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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.
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- 22 These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had a among the three mighty men.
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He was more honourable than the thirty, but he attained not to the first three. And set him over his guard.
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Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Beth-lehem;
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Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite;
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Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite;
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Abiezer the Anathothite, Mebunnai the Hushathite;
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Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite;
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Heleb the son of Baanah the Netophathite, Ittai the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the children of ;
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Benaiah a Pirathonite, Hiddai of Nahale-gaash;
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Abi-albon the Arbathite, Azmaveth the Barhumite;
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Eliahba the Shaalbonite, of the sons of Jashen, ;
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Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam the son of Sharar the Ararite;
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Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai, the son of the Maacathite, Eliam the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite;
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Hezrai the Carmelite, Paarai the Arbite;
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Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite;
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Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, armour-bearer to Joab the son of Zeruiah;
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Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite;
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Uriah the Hittite. Thirty and seven in all.
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