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 Pas-dammim, 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 Beth-lehem. 17 And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Beth-lehem, that is at the gate! 18 And the three brake 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 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 Beth-lehem, 27 Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite, 28 Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abi-ezer 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.
1 congregatus est igitur omnis Israhel ad David in Hebron dicens
os tuum sumus et caro tua
2 heri quoque et nudius tertius cum adhuc regnaret Saul
tu eras qui educebas et introducebas Israhel
tibi enim dixit Dominus Deus tuus
tu pasces populum meum Israhel
et tu eris princeps super eum
3 venerunt ergo omnes maiores natu Israhel ad regem in Hebron
et iniit David cum eis foedus coram Domino
unxeruntque eum regem super Israhel
iuxta sermonem Domini quem locutus est in manu Samuhel
4 abiit quoque David et omnis Israhel in Hierusalem haec est Iebus
ubi erant Iebusei habitatores terrae
5 dixeruntque qui habitabant in Iebus ad David non ingredieris huc
porro David cepit arcem Sion quae est civitas David
6 dixitque
omnis qui percusserit Iebuseum in primis erit princeps et dux
ascendit igitur primus Ioab filius Sarviae et factus est princeps
7 habitavit autem David in arce et idcirco appellata est civitas David
8 aedificavitque urbem in circuitu a Mello usque ad gyrum
Ioab autem reliqua urbis extruxit
9 proficiebatque David vadens et crescens
et Dominus exercituum erat cum eo
10 hii principes virorum fortium David
qui adiuverunt eum ut rex fieret super omnem Israhel
iuxta verbum Domini quod locutus est ad Israhel
11 et iste numerus robustorum David
Iesbaam filius Achamoni princeps inter triginta
iste levavit hastam suam super trecentos vulneratos una vice
12 et post eum Eleazar filius patrui eius Ahoites
qui erat inter tres potentes
13 iste fuit cum David in Aphesdommim
quando Philisthim congregati sunt ad locum illum in proelium
et erat ager regionis illius plenus hordeo
fugeratque populus a facie Philisthinorum
14 hic stetit in medio agri et defendit eum
cumque percussisset Philistheos
dedit Dominus salutem magnam populo suo
15 descenderunt autem tres de triginta principibus
ad petram in qua erat David ad speluncam Odollam
quando Philisthim fuerant castrametati in valle
Raphaim
16 porro David erat in praesidio et statio Philisthinorum in Bethleem
17 desideravit igitur David et dixit
o si quis daret mihi aquam de cisterna Bethleem quae est
in porta
18 tres ergo isti per media castra Philisthinorum perrexerunt
et hauserunt aquam de cisterna Bethleem quae erat in porta
et adtulerunt ad David ut biberet
qui noluit sed magis libavit illam Domino
19 dicens
absit ut in conspectu Dei mei hoc faciam
et sanguinem virorum istorum bibam
quia in periculo animarum suarum adtulerunt mihi aquam
et ob hanc causam noluit bibere
haec fecerunt tres robustissimi
20 Abisai quoque frater Ioab ipse erat princeps trium
et ipse levavit hastam suam contra trecentos vulneratos
et ipse erat inter tres nominatissimus
21 inter tres secundos inclitus et princeps
eorum
verumtamen usque ad tres primos non pervenerat
22 Banaia filius Ioiadae viri robustissimi
qui multa opera perpetrarat de Capsehel
ipse percussit duos Arihel Moab
et ipse descendit et interfecit leonem in media cisterna tempore nivis
23 et ipse percussit virum aegyptium
cuius statura erat quinque cubitorum
et habebat lanceam ut liciatorium texentium
descendit ergo ad eum cum virga
et rapuit hastam quam tenebat manu et interfecit eum hasta sua
24 haec fecit Banaia filius Ioiada
qui erat inter tres robustos nominatissimus
25 inter triginta primus
verumtamen ad tres usque non pervenerat
posuit autem eum David ad auriculam suam
26 porro fortissimi in exercitu
Asahel frater Ioab
et Eleanan filius patrui eius de Bethleem
27 Semmoth Arorites Helles Phallonites
28 Iras filius Acces Thecuites Abiezer Anathothites
29 Sobbochai Asothites Ilai Ahoites
30 Marai Netophathites Heled filius Baana Netophathites
31 Ethai filius Ribai de Gabaath filiorum Beniamin
Banaia Pharathonites
32 Uri de torrente Gaas
Abial Arabathites Azmoth Bauramites Eliaba Salabonites
33 filii Asom Gezonites Ionathan filius Sega Ararites
34 Ahiam filius Sachar Ararites
35 Eliphal filius Ur
36 Apher Mechurathites Ahia Phellonites
37 Asrai Carmelites Noorai filius Azbi
38 Iohel frater Nathan Mabar filius Agarai
39 Sellec Ammonites
Noorai Berothites armiger Ioab filii Sarviae
40 Iras Iethreus Gareb Iethreus
41 Urias Ettheus Zabad filius Ooli
42 Adina filius Seza Rubenites princeps Rubenitarum
et cum eo triginta
43 Hanan filius Maacha et Iosaphat Mathanites
44 Ozias Astharothites Semma et Iaihel filii Hotam Aroerites
45 Iedihel filius Samri et Ioha frater eius Thosaites
46 Elihel Maumites et Ieribai et Iosaia filii Elnaem
et Iethma Moabites Elihel et Obed et Iasihel de Masobia