Now these are the last words of David. 1Sa 16:12-132Sa 7:8-9Psa 89:20Col 3:16Psa 78:70-71Luk 24:441Ch 16:4-51Ch 16:7
David the son of Jesse says,
the man who was raised on high says,
the anointed of the God of Jacob,
the sweet psalmist of Israel:
“The LORD’s Spirit spoke by me. 2Pe 1:21Mat 22:43Act 2:25-31Mrk 12:36Heb 3:7-8
His word was on my tongue.
The God of Israel said, Deu 32:42Sa 22:32Exo 18:21Psa 72:2Deu 16:18-20Exo 23:6-8Heb 1:8Psa 82:3-4
the Rock of Israel spoke to me,
‘One who rules over men righteously,
who rules in the fear of God,
shall be as the light of the morning when the sun rises, Jdg 5:31Psa 72:6Hos 6:5Psa 89:36Hos 6:3Isa 4:2Isa 60:1Isa 60:18-20
a morning without clouds,
when the tender grass springs out of the earth,
through clear shining after rain.’
Isn’t my house so with God? Isa 55:32Sa 7:14-16Isa 9:6-7Jer 32:40Psa 89:28-29Heb 6:191Ch 17:11-14Act 13:34
Yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant,
ordered in all things, and sure,
for it is all my salvation and all my desire.
Won’t he make it grow?
But all the ungodly will be as thorns to be thrust away, Ezk 2:6Deu 13:13Isa 33:121Sa 2:122Sa 20:1Gen 3:18Sng 2:2Mat 13:41
because they can’t be taken with the hand.
The man who touches them must be armed with iron and the staff of a spear. Heb 6:82Th 2:82Sa 22:8-102Th 1:8Isa 27:4Jhn 15:6Luk 19:14Luk 19:27
They will be utterly burned with fire in their place.”
These are the names of the mighty men whom David had: Josheb Basshebeth, a Tahchemonite, chief of the captains; he was called Adino the Eznite, who killed eight hundred at one time. 1Ch 11:11-471Ch 27:21Ch 27:32 After him was Eleazar the son of Dodai the son of an Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with David when they defied the Philistines who were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel had gone away. 1Ch 11:12-141Ch 27:41Sa 17:261Sa 17:101Sa 17:361Sa 17:45-46Isa 63:3Isa 63:5 He arose and struck the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand froze to the sword; and the LORD worked a great victory that day; and the people returned after him only to take plunder. 1Sa 11:131Sa 19:51Sa 14:231Sa 14:62Co 4:52Ki 5:1Eph 6:10-18Isa 53:12 After him was Shammah the son of Agee, a Hararite. The Philistines had gathered together into a troop where there was a plot of ground full of lentils; and the people fled from the Philistines. 1Ch 11:13-141Ch 11:272Sa 23:33 But he stood in the middle of the plot and defended it, and killed the Philistines; and the LORD worked a great victory. 2Sa 23:10Pro 21:31Psa 3:8Psa 44:2
Three of the thirty chief men went down, and came to David in the harvest time to the cave of Adullam; and the troop of the Philistines was encamped in the valley of Rephaim. 1Sa 22:12Sa 5:181Ch 11:15-191Ch 14:92Sa 5:22Isa 17:5Jos 12:15Jos 15:35 David was then in the stronghold; and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem. 1Sa 22:4-51Ch 12:161Sa 10:51Sa 13:231Sa 13:41Sa 14:61Sa 22:11Sa 24:22 David said longingly, “Oh that someone would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!” Jhn 4:14Isa 41:17Isa 44:3Jhn 4:10Jhn 7:37Num 11:4-5Psa 42:1-2Psa 63:1
The three mighty men broke through the army 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 he would not drink of it, but poured it out to the LORD. Gen 35:142Co 5:141Sa 7:6Lam 2:19Num 28:7Php 2:17Rom 5:71Sa 19:5 He said, “Be it far from me, LORD, that I should do this! Isn’t this the blood of the men who risked their lives to go?” Therefore he would not drink it. The three mighty men did these things. Lev 17:101Co 15:301Ki 21:31Sa 2:301Sa 26:112Sa 20:20Gen 44:17Gen 9:4
Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief of the three. He lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them, and had a name among the three. 2Sa 10:102Sa 10:141Ch 11:20-212Sa 18:21Ch 2:161Sa 26:6-82Sa 2:182Sa 20:10 Wasn’t he most honorable of the three? Therefore he was made their captain. However he wasn’t included as one of the three. Mat 13:23Mat 13:81Ch 11:251Co 15:412Sa 23:132Sa 23:162Sa 23:9
Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, killed the two sons of Ariel of Moab. He also went down and killed a lion in the middle of a pit in a time of snow. 2Sa 20:232Sa 8:18Jos 15:211Ch 11:22-241Ki 1:261Ki 1:381Ki 1:81Ki 2:29-35 He killed a huge Egyptian, 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 killed him with his own spear. 1Ch 11:231Sa 17:51Col 2:15 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada did these things, and had a name among the three mighty men. He was more honorable than the thirty, but he didn’t attain to the three. David set him over his guard. 1Ch 27:61Sa 22:142Sa 20:232Sa 8:8
Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty: Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem, 2Sa 2:181Ch 27:71Ch 11:26 Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite, 1Ch 11:27-28Jdg 7:1 Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, 2Sa 14:21Ch 11:27-281Ch 27:9-10 Abiezer the Anathothite, Mebunnai the Hushathite, Jos 21:181Ch 11:191Ch 11:281Ch 27:12 Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite, 1Ch 27:132Ki 25:231Ch 11:30 Heleb the son of Baanah the Netophathite, Ittai the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin, 1Ch 11:30-311Ch 27:15Jos 18:28 Benaiah a Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash. Jdg 12:151Ch 27:14Jdg 12:13Jdg 2:9Jos 24:301Ch 11:31-32Deu 1:24 Abialbon the Arbathite, Azmaveth the Barhumite, 2Sa 3:161Ch 11:32-33 Eliahba the Shaalbonite, the sons of Jashen, Jonathan, 1Ch 11:34 Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam the son of Sharar the Ararite, 1Ch 11:271Ch 11:352Sa 23:11 Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai, the son of the Maacathite, Eliam the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite, 2Sa 11:32Sa 15:121Ch 27:33-342Sa 10:62Sa 10:82Sa 15:312Sa 17:23 Hezro the Carmelite, Paarai the Arbite, 1Ch 11:37Jos 15:55 Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite, 1Ch 11:382Sa 8:3 Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, armor bearers to Joab the son of Zeruiah, 1Ch 11:371Ch 11:392Sa 4:2 Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite, 1Ch 2:532Sa 20:261Ch 11:40 and Uriah the Hittite: thirty-seven in all. 2Sa 11:31Ki 15:52Sa 12:9Mat 1:61Ch 11:412Sa 11:6-27