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Afterward there was also a battel in Gath, where was a man of a great stature, and had on euerie hand sixe fingers, and on euerie foote sixe toes, foure and twentie in nomber: who was also the sonne of Haraphah.
And when hee reuiled Israel, Ionathan the sonne of Shima the brother of Dauid slewe him.
These foure were borne to Haraphah in Gath, and died by the hande of Dauid and by the hands of his seruants.
And Dauid spake the woordes of this song vnto the Lord, what time the Lord had deliuered him out of the handes of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul.
And he sayd, The Lord is my rocke and my fortresse, and he that deliuereth mee.
God is my strength, in him will I trust: my shielde, and the horne of my saluation, my hie tower and my refuge: my Sauiour, thou hast saued me from violence.
I will call on the Lord, who is worthy to be praysed: so shall I be safe from mine enemies.
For the pangs of death haue compassed me: the floods of vngodlinesse haue made mee afrayd.
The sorowes of the graue compassed mee about: the snares of death ouertooke mee.
But in my tribulation did I call vpon the Lord, and crie to my God, and he did heare my voyce out of his temple, and my crie did enter into his eares.
Then the earth trembled and quaked: the foundations of the heauens mooued and shooke, because he was angrie.
Smoke went out at his nostrels, and consuming fire out of his mouth: coles were kindled thereat.
He bowed the heauens also, and came downe, and darkenes was vnder his feete.
And he rode vpon Cherub and did flie, and hee was seene vpon the winges of the winde.
And hee made darkenesse a Tabernacle round about him, euen the gatherings of waters, and the cloudes of the ayre.
At the brightnesse of his presence the coles of fire were kindled.
The Lord thundred from heauen, and the most hie gaue his voyce.
He shot arrowes also, and scattered them: to wit, lightning, and destroyed them.
The chanels also of the sea appeared, euen the foundations of the worlde were discouered by the rebuking of the Lord, and at the blast of the breath of his nostrels.
He sent from aboue, and tooke me: hee drewe me out of many waters.
He deliuered me from my strong enemie, and from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me.
They preuented me in the day of my calamitie, but the Lord was my stay,
And brought me foorth into a large place: he deliuered me, because he fauoured me.
The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousnesse: according to the purenesse of mine handes he recompensed me.
For I kept the wayes of the Lord, and did not wickedly against my God.
For all his lawes were before me, and his statutes: I did not depart therefrom.
I was vpright also towarde him, and haue kept me from my wickednesse.
Therefore the Lord did reward me according to my righteousnesse, according to my purenesse before his eyes.
With the godly thou wilt shewe thy selfe godly: with the vpright man thou wilt shew thy selfe vpright.
With the pure thou wilt shewe thy selfe pure, and with the frowarde thou wilt shew thy selfe frowarde.
Thus thou wilt saue the poore people: but thine eyes are vpon the hautie to humble them.
Surely thou art my light, O Lord: and the Lord will lighten my darkenes.
For by thee haue I broken through an hoste, and by my God haue I leaped ouer a wall.
The way of God is vncorrupt: the word of the Lord is tryed in the fire: he is a shield to all that trust in him.
For who is God besides the Lord? and who is mightie, saue our God?
God is my strength in battel, and maketh my way vpright.
He maketh my feete like hindes feete, and hath set me vpon mine hie places.
He teacheth mine handes to fight, so that a bowe of brasse is broken with mine armes.
Thou hast also giuen me the shield of thy saluation, and thy louing kindnesse hath caused me to increase.
Thou hast inlarged my steppes vnder me, and mine heeles haue not slid.
I haue pursued mine enemies and destroyed them, and haue not turned againe vntill I had consumed them.
Yea, I haue consumed them and thrust them through, and they shall not arise, but shall fall vnder my feete.
For thou hast girded me with power to battell, and them that arose against me, hast thou subdued vnder me.
And thou hast giuen me the neckes of mine enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me.
They looked about, but there was none to saue them, euen vnto the Lord, but he answered them not.
Then did I beate them as small as the dust of the earth: I did treade them flat as the clay of the streete, and did spread them abroad.
Thou hast also deliuered me from the contentions of my people: thou hast preserued me to be the head ouer nations: the people which I knewe not, doe serue me.
Strangers shalbe in subiection to me: assoone as they heare, they shall obey me.
Strangers shall shrinke away, and feare in their priuie chambers.
Let the Lord liue, and blessed be my strength: and God, euen the force of my saluation be exalted.
It is God that giueth me power to reuenge me, and subdue the people vnder me,
And rescueth me from mine enemies: (thou also hast lift me vp from them that rose against me, thou hast deliuered me from the cruell man.
Therefore I will praise thee, O Lord amog the nations, and will sing vnto thy Name)
He is the tower of saluation for his King, and sheweth mercie to his anointed, euen to Dauid, and to his seede for euer.
These also be the last wordes of Dauid, Dauid the sonne of Ishai saith, euen the man who was set vp on hie, the Anointed of the God of Iacob, and the sweete singer of Israel saith,
The Spirit of the Lord spake by me, and his worde was in my tongue.
The God of Israel spake to me, ye strength of Israel saide, Thou shalt beare rule ouer men, being iust, and ruling in the feare of God.
Euen as the morning light when the sunne riseth, the morning, I say, without cloudes, so shall mine house be, and not as the grasse of the earth is by the bright raine.
For so shall not mine house be with God: for he hath made with me an euerlasting couenant, perfite in all pointes, and sure: therefore all mine health and whole desire is, that he will not make it growe so.
But the wicked shalbe euery one as thornes thrust away, because they can not be taken with handes.
But the man that shall touch them, must be defensed with yron, or with the shaft of a speare: and they shall be burnt with fire in the same place.
These be the names of the mightie men whome Dauid had. He that sate in the seate of wisedome, being chiefe of the princes, was Adino of Ezni, he slewe eight hundreth at one time.
And after him was Eleazar the sonne of Dodo, the sonne of Ahohi, one of the three worthies with Dauid, when they defied the Philistims gathered there to battel, when the men of Israel were gone vp.
He arose and smote the Philistims vntill his hande was wearie, and his hande claue vnto the sworde: and the Lord gaue great victorie the same day, and the people returned after him onely to spoyle.
After him was Shammah the sonne of Age the Hararite: for the Philistims assembled at a towne, where was a piece of a fielde full of lentils, and the people fled from the Philistims.
But he stoode in the middes of the fielde, and defended it, and slewe the Philistims: so the Lord gaue great victorie.
Afterward three of the thirtie captaines went downe, and came to Dauid in the haruest time vnto the caue of Adullam, and the hoste of the Philistims pitched in the valley of Rephaim.
And Dauid was then in an holde, and the garison of ye Philistims was then in Beth-lehem.
And Dauid longed, and said, Oh, that one would giue me to drinke of the water of the well of Beth-lehem, which is by the gate.
The the three mightie brake into the host of the Philistims, and drew water out of the well of Beth-lehem that was by the gate, and tooke and brought it to Dauid, who woulde not drinke thereof, but powred it for an offring vnto ye Lord,
And said, O Lord, be it farre from me, that I should doe this. Is not this the blood of the men that went in ieopardie of their liues? therefore he woulde not drinke it. These things did these three mightie men.
And Abishai the brother of Ioab, the sonne of Zeruiah, was chiefe among the three, and he lifted vp his speare against three hundreth, and slewe them, and he had the name among the three.
For he was most excellent of the three, and was their captaine, but he attained not vnto the first three.
And Benaiah the sonne of Iehoiada the sonne of a valiant man, which had done many actes, and was of Kabzeel, slewe two strong men of Moab: he went downe also, and slewe a lyon in the middes of a pit in the time of snowe.
And he slewe an Egyptian a man of great stature, and the Egyptian had a speare in his hande: but he went downe to him with a staffe, and plucked the speare out of the Egyptians hand, and slewe him with his owne speare.
These things did Benaiah the sonne of Iehoiada, and had the name among the three worthies.
He was honourable among thirtie, but he atteined not to the first three: and Dauid made him of his counsell.
Asahel the brother of Ioab was one of the thirtie: Elhanan the sonne of Dodo of Beth-lehem:
Shammah the Harodite: Elika ye Harodite:
Helez the Paltite: Ira the sonne of Ikkesh the Tekoite:
Abiezer the Anethothite: Mebunnai the Husathite:
Zalmon an Ahohite: Maharai the Netophathite:
Heleb the sonne of Baanah a Netophathite: Ittai the sonne of Ribai of Gibeah of the children of Beniamin:
Benaiah the Pirathonite: Hiddai of the riuer of Gaash:
Abi-albon the Arbathite: Azmaueth the Barhumite:
Elihaba the Shaalbonite: of the sonnes of Iashen, Ionathan:
Shammah the Hararite: Ahiam the sonne of Sharar the Hamrite:
Eliphelet the sonne of Ahasbai the sonne of Maachathi: Eliam the sonne of Ahithophel the Gilonite:
Hezrai the Carmelite: Paarai the Arbite:
Igal the sonne of Nathan of Zobah: Bani the Gadite:
Zelek the Ammonite: Naharai the Becrothite, the armour bearer of Ioab the sonne of Zeruiah:
Ira the Ithrite: Gareb the Ithrite:
Uriiah the Hittite, thirtie and seuen in all.
And the wrath of the Lord was againe kindled against Israel, and he moued Dauid against them, in that he saide, Goe, number Israel and Iudah.
For the King said to Ioab the captaine of the hoste, which was with him, Goe speedily now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan euen to Beer-sheba, and nomber ye the people, that I may knowe the nomber of the people.
And Ioab saide vnto the King, The Lord thy God increase the people an hundreth folde more then they be, and that the eyes of my lorde the King may see it: but why doeth my lord the King desire this thing?
Notwithstanding the Kings worde preuailed against Ioab and against the captaines of the hoste: therefore Ioab and the captaines of the hoste went out from the presence of the King to nomber the people of Israel.
And they passed ouer Iorden, and pitched in Aroer at the right side of the citie that is in the middes of the valley of Gad and toward Iazer.
Then they came to Gilead, and to Tahtim-hodshi, so they came to Dan Iaan, and so about to Zidon,
And came to the fortresse of Tyrus and to all the cities of the Hiuites and of the Canaanites, and went towarde the South of Iudah, euen to Beer-sheba.