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Shemu'el Bet21
2 Samuel · Chapter 21
Then there was a famine in the days of Dawid three years, year after year; and Dawid enquired of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH). And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) answered,
It is
for Sha'ul, and for
his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.
And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them; (now the Gibeonites
were not of the children of Yisra'el, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Yisra'el had sworn unto them: and Sha'ul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Yisra'el and Judah.)
Wherefore Dawid said unto the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? and wherewith shall I make the kapparah, that ye may bless the inheritance of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH)?
And the Gibeonites said unto him, We will have no silver nor gold of Sha'ul, nor of his house; neither for us shalt thou kill any man in Yisra'el. And he said, What ye shall say,
that will I do for you.
And they answered the king, The man that consumed us, and that devised against us
that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the coasts of Yisra'el,
Let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang them up unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) in Gibeah of Sha'ul,
whom 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) did choose. And the king said, I will give
them.
But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Yonatan the son of Sha'ul, because of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH)’S oath that
was between them, between Dawid and Yonatan the son of Sha'ul.
But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bare unto Sha'ul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Sha'ul, whom she brought up for Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite:
And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the hill before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH): 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.
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 shamayim, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.
And it was told Dawid what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Sha'ul, had done.
And Dawid went and took the bones of Sha'ul and the bones of Yonatan his son from the men of Jabesh-gilead, which had stolen them from the street of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, when the Philistines had slain Sha'ul in Gilboa:
And he brought up from thence the bones of Sha'ul and the bones of Yonatan his son; and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged.
And the bones of Sha'ul and Yonatan 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 Elohim was intreated for the land.
Moreover the Philistines had yet war again with Yisra'el; and Dawid went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines: and Dawid waxed faint.
And Ishbi-benob, 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 Dawid.
But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succoured him, and smote the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of Dawid sware unto him, saying, Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that thou quench not the light of Yisra'el.
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.
And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines, where Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim, a Bethlehemite, slew
the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear
was like a weaver’s beam.
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.
And when he defied Yisra'el, Yonatan the son of Shimeah the brother of Dawid slew him.
These four were born to the giant in Gath, and fell by the hand of Dawid, and by the hand of his servants.
Nevi'im
Shemu'el Bet22
2 Samuel · Chapter 22
And Dawid spake unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) the words of this song in the day
that 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Sha'ul:
And he said, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH)
is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;
The Elohim 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.
I will call on 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH),
who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.
When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid;
The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;
In my distress I called upon 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), and cried to my Elohim: and he did hear my voice out of his heikhal, and my cry
did enter into his ears.
Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of shamayim moved and shook, because he was wroth.
There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
He bowed the shamayim also, and came down; and darkness
was
under his feet.
And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: and he was seen upon the wings of the wind.
And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters,
and
thick clouds of the skies.
Through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled.
𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) thundered from shamayim, and the most High uttered his voice.
And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and discomfited them.
And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were discovered, at the rebuking of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.
He sent from above, he took me; he drew me out of many waters;
He delivered me from my strong enemy,
and from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me.
They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) was my stay.
He brought me forth also into a large place: he delivered me, because he delighted in me.
𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) rewarded me according to my righteousness: according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
For I have kept the ways of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), and have not wickedly departed from my Elohim.
For all his judgments
were before me: and
as for
his statutes, I did not depart from them.
I was also upright before him, and have kept myself from mine iniquity.
Therefore 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) hath recompensed me according to my righteousness; according to my cleanness in his eye sight.
With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful,
and with the upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright.
With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury.
And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thine eyes
are
upon the haughty,
that thou mayest bring
them down.
For thou
art my lamp, O 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH): and 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) will lighten my darkness.
For by thee I have run through a troop: by my Elohim have I leaped over a wall.
As for Elohim, his way
is perfect; the word of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH)
is tried: he
is a buckler to all them that trust in him.
For who
is Elohim, save 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH)? and who
is a rock, save our Elohim?
Elohim
is my strength
and power: and he maketh my way perfect.
He maketh my feet like hinds
feet: and setteth me upon my high places.
He teacheth my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.
Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy gentleness hath made me great.
Thou hast enlarged my steps under me; so that my feet did not slip.
I have pursued mine enemies, and destroyed them; and turned not again until I had consumed them.
And I have consumed them, and wounded them, that they could not arise: yea, they are fallen under my feet.
For thou hast girded me with strength to battle: them that rose up against me hast thou subdued under me.
Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me.
They looked, but
there was none to save;
even unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), but he answered them not.
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.
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.
Strangers shall submit themselves unto me: as soon as they hear, they shall be obedient unto me.
Strangers shall fade away, and they shall be afraid out of their close places.
𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) liveth; and blessed
be my rock; and exalted be the Elohim of the rock of my salvation.
It
is Elohim that avengeth me, and that bringeth down the people under me,
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.
Therefore I will give thanks unto thee, O 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), among the heathen, and I will sing praises unto thy name.
He is the tower of salvation for his king: and sheweth mercy to his anointed, unto Dawid, and to his seed for evermore.
Nevi'im
Shemu'el Bet23
2 Samuel · Chapter 23
Now these
be the last words of Dawid. Dawid the son of Jesse said, and the man
who was raised up on high, the anointed of the Elohim of Ya'aqov, and the sweet psalmist of Yisra'el, said,
The Spirit of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) spake by me, and his word
was in my tongue.
The Elohim of Yisra'el said, the Rock of Yisra'el spake to me, He that ruleth over men
must be just, ruling in the fear of Elohim.
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.
Although my house
be not so with Elohim; yet he hath made with me an everlasting b'rit, ordered in all
things, and sure: for
this is all my salvation, and all
my desire, although he make
it not to grow.
But
the sons of Belial
shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands:
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.
These
be the names of the mighty men whom Dawid 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.
And after him
was Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite,
one of the three mighty men with Dawid, when they defied the Philistines
that were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Yisra'el were gone away:
He arose, and smote the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand clave unto the sword: and 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) wrought a great victory that day; and the people returned after him only to spoil.
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.
But he stood in the midst of the ground, and defended it, and slew the Philistines: and 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) wrought a great victory.
And three of the thirty chief went down, and came to Dawid in the harvest time unto the cave of Adullam: and the troop of the Philistines pitched in the valley of Rephaim.
And Dawid
was then in an hold, and the garrison of the Philistines
was then
in Beit Lechem.
And Dawid longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Beit Lechem, which
is by the gate!
And the three mighty men brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Beit Lechem, that
was by the gate, and took
it, and brought
it to Dawid: nevertheless he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
And he said, Be it far from me, O 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), 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.
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.
Was he not most honourable of three? therefore he was their captain: howbeit he attained not unto the
first three.
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:
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.
These
things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had the name among three mighty men.
He was more honourable than the thirty, but he attained not to the
first three. And Dawid set him over his guard.
Asahel the brother of Joab
was one of the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Beit Lechem,
Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite,
Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite,
Abiezer the Anethothite, Mebunnai the Hushathite,
Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite,
Heleb the son of Baanah, a Netophathite, Ittai the son of Ribai out of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin,
Benaiah the Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash,
Abi-albon the Arbathite, Azmaveth the Barhumite,
Eliahba the Shaalbonite, of the sons of Jashen, Yonatan,
Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam the son of Sharar the Hararite,
Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai, the son of the Maachathite, Eliam the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite,
Hezrai the Carmelite, Paarai the Arbite,
Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite,
Zelek the Ammonite, Nahari the Beerothite, armourbearer to Joab the son of Zeruiah,
Ira an Ithrite, Gareb an Ithrite,
Uriah the Hittite: thirty and seven in all.