022:049 who brings me away from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up
above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from
the violent man.
022:050 Therefore I will give thanks to you, Yahweh, among the nations.
Will sing praises to your name.
022:051 He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving kindness
to his anointed, to David and to his seed, forevermore.
023:001 Now these are the last words of David. 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:
023:002 The Spirit of Yahweh spoke by me. His word was on my tongue.
023:003 The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me,
one who rules over men righteously, who rules in the fear of God,
023:004 [He shall be] as the light of the morning, when the sun rises,
a morning without clouds, [When] the tender grass [springs]
out of the earth, Through clear shining after rain.
023:005 Most certainly my house is not so with God, 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,
although he doesn't make it grow.
023:006 But all of the ungodly shall be as thorns to be thrust away,
because they can't be taken with the hand,
023:007 But the man who touches them must be armed with iron and
the staff of a spear. They shall be utterly burned with fire
in [their] place.
023:008 These are the names of the mighty men whom David had:
Josheb Basshebeth a Tahchemonite, chief of the captains;
the same was Adino the Eznite, against eight hundred slain
at one time.
023:009 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 were gone away.
023:010 He arose, and struck the Philistines until his hand was weary,
and his hand froze to the sword; and Yahweh worked a great
victory that day; and the people returned after him only
to take spoil.
023:011 After him was Shammah the son of Agee a Hararite.
The Philistines were gathered together into a troop,
where was a plot of ground full of lentils; and the people
fled from the Philistines.
023:012 But he stood in the midst of the plot, and defended it,
and killed the Philistines; and Yahweh worked a great victory.
023:013 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.
023:014 David was then in the stronghold; and the garrison of the
Philistines was then in Bethlehem.
023:015 David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me water to drink
of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!
023:016 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 Yahweh.
023:017 He said, Be it far from me, Yahweh, that I should do this:
[shall I drink] the blood of the men who went in jeopardy
of their lives? therefore he would not drink it.
These things did the three mighty men.
023:018 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.
023:019 Wasn't he most honorable of the three? therefore he was made
their captain: however he didn't attain to the [first] three.
023:020 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel,
who had done mighty deeds, he killed the two [sons of] Ariel
of Moab: he went down also and killed a lion in the midst
of a pit in time of snow.
023:021 He killed 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 killed
him with his own spear.
023:022 These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had a name
among the three mighty men.
023:023 He was more honorable than the thirty, but he didn't attain
to the [first] three. David set him over his guard.
023:024 Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty; Elhanan the son
of Dodo of Bethlehem,
023:025 Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite,
023:026 Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite,
023:027 Abiezer the Anathothite, Mebunnai the Hushathite,
023:028 Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite,
023:029 Heleb the son of Baanah the Netophathite, Ittai the son of Ribai
of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin,
023:030 Benaiah a Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash.
023:031 Abialbon the Arbathite, Azmaveth the Barhumite,
023:032 Eliahba the Shaalbonite, the sons of Jashen, Jonathan,
023:033 Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam the son of Sharar the Ararite,
023:034 Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai, the son of the Maacathite, Eliam
the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite,
023:035 Hezro the Carmelite, Paarai the Arbite,
023:036 Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite,
023:037 Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, armor bearers
to Joab the son of Zeruiah,
023:038 Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,
023:039 Uriah the Hittite: thirty-seven in all.
024:001 Again the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel, and he moved
David against them, saying, Go, number Israel and Judah.
024:002 The king said to Joab the captain of the army, who was with him,
Go now back and forth through all the tribes of Israel,
from Dan even to Beersheba, and number you the people,
that I may know the sum of the people.
024:003 Joab said to the king, Now Yahweh your God add to the people,
however many they may be, one hundred times; and may the eyes
of my lord the king see it: but why does my lord the king
delight in this thing?
024:004 Notwithstanding, the king's word prevailed against Joab,
and against the captains of the army. Joab and the captains
of the army went out from the presence of the king, to number
the people of Israel.
024:005 They passed over the Jordan, and encamped in Aroer, on the right
side of the city that is in the middle of the valley of Gad,
and to Jazer:
024:006 then they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtim Hodshi;
and they came to Dan Jaan, and round about to Sidon,
024:007 and came to the stronghold of Tyre, and to all the cities
of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites; and they went out
to the south of Judah, at Beersheba.
024:008 So when they had gone back and forth through all the land,
they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.
024:009 Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people to the king:
and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant
men who drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five
hundred thousand men.
024:010 David's heart struck him after that he had numbered the people.
David said to Yahweh, I have sinned greatly in that which I
have done: but now, Yahweh, put away, I beg you, the iniquity
of your servant; for I have done very foolishly.
024:011 When David rose up in the morning, the word of Yahweh came
to the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying,
024:012 Go and speak to David, Thus says Yahweh, I offer you three things:
choose you one of them, that I may do it to you.
024:013 So Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, Shall seven
years of famine come to you in your land? or will you flee
three months before your foes while they pursue you? or shall
there be three days' pestilence in your land? now advise you,
and consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.
024:014 David said to Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall
now into the hand of Yahweh; for his mercies are great;
and let me not fall into the hand of man.
024:015 So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel from the morning even
to the time appointed; and there died of the people from Dan
even to Beersheba seventy thousand men.
024:016 When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem
to destroy it, Yahweh repented him of the evil, and said
to the angel who destroyed the people, It is enough;
now stay your hand. The angel of Yahweh was by the threshing
floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
024:017 David spoke to Yahweh when he saw the angel who struck the people,
and said, Behold, I have sinned, and I have done perversely;
but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand
be against me, and against my father's house.
024:018 Gad came that day to David, and said to him, Go up, rear an altar
to Yahweh in the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
024:019 David went up according to the saying of Gad, as Yahweh commanded.
024:020 Araunah looked forth, and saw the king and his servants coming
on toward him: and Araunah went out, and bowed himself
before the king with his face to the ground.
024:021 Araunah said, Why is my lord the king come to his servant?
David said, To buy the threshing floor of you, to build an altar
to Yahweh, that the plague may be stayed from the people.
024:022 Araunah said to David, Let my lord the king take and offer up
what seems good to him: behold, the oxen for the burnt offering,
and the threshing instruments and the yokes of the oxen
for the wood:
024:023 all this, king, does Araunah give to the king. Araunah said
to the king, Yahweh your God accept you.
024:024 The king said to Araunah, No; but I will most certainly
buy it of you at a price. Neither will I offer burnt
offerings to Yahweh my God which cost me nothing.
So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty
shekels of silver.
024:025 David built there an altar to Yahweh, and offered burnt offerings
and peace offerings. So Yahweh was entreated for the land,
and the plague was stayed from Israel.