011:030 Maharai the Netophathite, Heled the son of Baanah the Netophathite,
011:031 Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the children
of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite,
011:032 Hurai of the brooks of Gaash, Abiel the Arbathite,
011:033 Azmaveth the Baharumite, Eliahba the Shaalbonite,
011:034 the sons of Hashem the Gizonite, Jonathan the son of
Shagee the Hararite,
011:035 Ahiam the son of Sacar the Hararite, Eliphal the son of Ur,
011:036 Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijah the Pelonite,
011:037 Hezro the Carmelite, Naarai the son of Ezbai,
011:038 Joel the brother of Nathan, Mibhar the son of Hagri,
011:039 Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Berothite, the armor bearer
of Joab the son of Zeruiah,
011:040 Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,
011:041 Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai,
011:042 Adina the son of Shiza the Reubenite, a chief of the Reubenites,
and thirty with him,
011:043 Hanan the son of Maacah, and Joshaphat the Mithnite,
011:044 Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Jeiel the sons of
Hotham the Aroerite,
011:045 Jediael the son of Shimri, and Joha his brother, the Tizite,
011:046 Eliel the Mahavite, and Jeribai, and Joshaviah, the sons of Elnaam,
and Ithmah the Moabite,
011:047 Eliel, and Obed, and Jaasiel the Mezobaite.
012:001 Now these are those who came to David to Ziklag, while he yet
kept himself close because of Saul the son of Kish;
and they were among the mighty men, his helpers in war.
012:002 They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and
the left in slinging stones and in shooting arrows from the bow:
they were of Saul's brothers of Benjamin.
012:003 The chief was Ahiezer; then Joash, the sons of Shemaah
the Gibeathite, and Jeziel, and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth,
and Beracah, and Jehu the Anathothite,
012:004 and Ishmaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty man among the thirty,
and over the thirty, and Jeremiah, and Jahaziel, and Johanan,
and Jozabad the Gederathite,
012:005 Eluzai, and Jerimoth, and Bealiah, and Shemariah,
and Shephatiah the Haruphite,
012:006 Elkanah, and Isshiah, and Azarel, and Joezer, and Jashobeam,
the Korahites,
012:007 and Joelah, and Zebadiah, the sons of Jeroham of Gedor.
012:008 Of the Gadites there separated themselves to David to
the stronghold in the wilderness, mighty men of valor,
men trained for war, that could handle shield and spear;
whose faces were like the faces of lions, and they were as swift
as the roes on the mountains;
012:009 Ezer the chief, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third,
012:010 Mishmannah the fourth, Jeremiah the fifth,
012:011 Attai the sixth, Eliel the seventh,
012:012 Johanan the eighth, Elzabad the ninth,
012:013 Jeremiah the tenth, Machbannai the eleventh.
012:014 These of the sons of Gad were captains of the army:
he who was least was equal to one hundred, and the greatest
to one thousand.
012:015 These are those who went over the Jordan in the first month,
when it had overflowed all its banks; and they put
to flight all them of the valleys, both toward the east,
and toward the west.
012:016 There came of the children of Benjamin and Judah to the
stronghold to David.
012:017 David went out to meet them, and answered them, If you be come
peaceably to me to help me, my heart shall be knit to you;
but if [you be come] to betray me to my adversaries, seeing there
is no wrong in my hands, the God of our fathers look thereon,
and rebuke it.
012:018 Then the Spirit came on Amasai, who was chief of the thirty,
[and he said], "We are yours, David, and on your side, you son
of Jesse: peace, peace be to you, and peace be to your helpers;
for your God helps you." Then David received them, and made
them captains of the band.
012:019 Of Manasseh also there fell away some to David,
when he came with the Philistines against Saul to battle:
but they didn't help them; for the lords of the Philistines
sent him away after consultation, saying, He will fall away
to his master Saul to the jeopardy of our heads.
012:020 As he went to Ziklag, there fell to him of Manasseh, Adnah,
and Jozabad, and Jediael, and Michael, and Jozabad, and Elihu,
and Zillethai, captains of thousands who were of Manasseh.
012:021 They helped David against the band of rovers: for they were
all mighty men of valor, and were captains in the army.
012:022 For from day to day men came to David to help him, until there
was a great army, like the army of God.
012:023 These are the numbers of the heads of those who were armed for war,
who came to David to Hebron, to turn the kingdom of Saul to him,
according to the word of Yahweh.
012:024 The children of Judah who bore shield and spear were six
thousand and eight hundred, armed for war.
012:025 Of the children of Simeon, mighty men of valor for the war,
seven thousand and one hundred.
012:026 Of the children of Levi four thousand and six hundred.
012:027 Jehoiada was the leader of [the house of] Aaron; and with him
were three thousand and seven hundred,
012:028 and Zadok, a young man mighty of valor, and of his father's
house twenty-two captains.
012:029 Of the children of Benjamin, the brothers of Saul, three thousand:
for hitherto the greatest part of them had kept their allegiance
to the house of Saul.
012:030 Of the children of Ephraim twenty thousand eight hundred,
mighty men of valor, famous men in their fathers' houses.
012:031 Of the half-tribe of Manasseh eighteen thousand, who were
mentioned by name, to come and make David king.
012:032 Of the children of Issachar, men who had understanding of the times,
to know what Israel ought to do, the heads of them were two hundred;
and all their brothers were at their commandment.
012:033 Of Zebulun, such as were able to go out in the army, who could
set the battle in array, with all manner of instruments of war,
fifty thousand, and who could order [the battle array,
and were] not of double heart.
012:034 Of Naphtali one thousand captains, and with them with shield
and spear thirty-seven thousand.
012:035 Of the Danites who could set the battle in array,
twenty-eight thousand six hundred.
012:036 Of Asher, such as were able to go out in the army, who could
set the battle in array, forty thousand.
012:037 On the other side of the Jordan, of the Reubenites,
and the Gadites, and of the half-tribe of Manasseh,
with all manner of instruments of war for the battle,
one hundred twenty thousand.
012:038 All these being men of war, who could order the battle array,
came with a perfect heart to Hebron, to make David king over
all Israel: and all the rest also of Israel were of one heart
to make David king.
012:039 They were there with David three days, eating and drinking;
for their brothers had made preparation for them.
012:040 Moreover those who were near to them, [even] as far as
Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, brought bread on donkeys,
and on camels, and on mules, and on oxen, food of meal,
cakes of figs, and clusters of raisins, and wine, and oil,
and oxen, and sheep in abundance: for there was joy in Israel.
013:001 David consulted with the captains of thousands and of hundreds,
even with every leader.
013:002 David said to all the assembly of Israel, If it seem good to you,
and if it be of Yahweh our God, let us send abroad everywhere
to our brothers who are left in all the land of Israel, with whom
the priests and Levites are in their cities that have suburbs,
that they may gather themselves to us;
013:003 and let us bring again the ark of our God to us:
for we didn't seek it in the days of Saul.
013:004 All the assembly said that they would do so; for the thing
was right in the eyes of all the people.
013:005 So David assembled all Israel together, from the Shihor [the
brook] of Egypt even to the entrance of Hamath, to bring
the ark of God from Kiriath Jearim.
013:006 David went up, and all Israel, to Baalah, [that is],
to Kiriath Jearim, which belonged to Judah, to bring up from
there the ark of God Yahweh that sits [above] the cherubim,
that is called by the Name.
013:007 They carried the ark of God on a new cart, [and brought it] out
of the house of Abinadab: and Uzza and Ahio drove the cart.
013:008 David and all Israel played before God with all their might,
even with songs, and with harps, and with stringed instruments,
and with tambourines, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.
013:009 When they came to the threshing floor of Chidon, Uzza put
forth his hand to hold the ark; for the oxen stumbled.
013:010 The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Uzza, and he struck him,
because he put forth his hand to the ark; and there
he died before God.
013:011 David was displeased, because Yahweh had broken forth on Uzza;
and he called that place Perez Uzza, to this day.
013:012 David was afraid of God that day, saying, How shall I bring
the ark of God home to me?
013:013 So David didn't move the ark to him into the city of David,
but carried it aside into the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite.
013:014 The ark of God remained with the family of Obed-Edom in his house
three months: and Yahweh blessed the house of Obed-Edom,
and all that he had.
014:001 Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees,
and masons, and carpenters, to build him a house.
014:002 David perceived that Yahweh had established him king over Israel;
for his kingdom was exalted on high, for his people Israel's sake.
014:003 David took more wives at Jerusalem; and David became the father
of more sons and daughters.
014:004 These are the names of the children whom he had
in Jerusalem: Shammua, and Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon,
014:005 and Ibhar, and Elishua, and Elpelet,
014:006 and Nogah, and Nepheg, and Japhia,
014:007 and Elishama, and Beeliada, and Eliphelet.
014:008 When the Philistines heard that David was anointed king
over all Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David:
and David heard of it, and went out against them.
014:009 Now the Philistines had come and made a raid in the
valley of Rephaim.
014:010 David inquired of God, saying, Shall I go up against
the Philistines? and will you deliver them into my hand?
Yahweh said to him, Go up; for I will deliver them into your hand.
014:011 So they came up to Baal Perazim, and David struck them there;
and David said, God has broken my enemies by my hand,
like the breach of waters. Therefore they called the name
of that place Baal Perazim.
014:012 They left their gods there; and David gave commandment,
and they were burned with fire.
014:013 The Philistines yet again made a raid in the valley.
014:014 David inquired again of God; and God said to him, You shall
not go up after them: turn away from them, and come on them
over against the mulberry trees.
014:015 It shall be, when you hear the sound of marching in the tops
of the mulberry trees, that then you shall go out to battle;
for God is gone out before you to strike the army
of the Philistines.
014:016 David did as God commanded him: and they struck the army
of the Philistines from Gibeon even to Gezer.
014:017 The fame of David went out into all lands; and Yahweh brought
the fear of him on all nations.
015:001 [David] made him houses in the city of David; and he prepared
a place for the ark of God, and pitched for it a tent.
015:002 Then David said, None ought to carry the ark of God but the Levites:
for them has Yahweh chosen to carry the ark of God,
and to minister to him forever.
015:003 David assembled all Israel at Jerusalem, to bring up the ark
of Yahweh to its place, which he had prepared for it.
015:004 David gathered together the sons of Aaron, and the Levites:
015:005 of the sons of Kohath, Uriel the chief, and his brothers
one hundred twenty;
015:006 of the sons of Merari, Asaiah the chief, and his brothers
two hundred twenty;
015:007 of the sons of Gershom, Joel the chief, and his brothers
one hundred thirty;
015:008 of the sons of Elizaphan, Shemaiah the chief, and his
brothers two hundred;
015:009 of the sons of Hebron, Eliel the chief, and his brothers eighty;
015:010 of the sons of Uzziel, Amminadab the chief, and his brothers
one hundred twelve.
015:011 David called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites,
for Uriel, Asaiah, and Joel, Shemaiah, and Eliel, and Amminadab,
015:012 and said to them, You are the heads of the fathers' [houses] of
the Levites: sanctify yourselves, both you and your brothers,
that you may bring up the ark of Yahweh, the God of Israel,
to [the place] that I have prepared for it.
015:013 For because you didn't carry it at the first, Yahweh our God
made a breach on us, because we didn't seek him according
to the ordinance.
015:014 So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring
up the ark of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
015:015 The children of the Levites bore the ark of God on their
shoulders with the poles thereon, as Moses commanded according
to the word of Yahweh.
015:016 David spoke to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brothers
the singers, with instruments of music, stringed instruments
and harps and cymbals, sounding aloud and lifting up
the voice with joy.
015:017 So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel; and of his brothers,
Asaph the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari
their brothers, Ethan the son of Kushaiah;
015:018 and with them their brothers of the second degree, Zechariah, Ben,
and Jaaziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, Eliab,
and Benaiah, and Maaseiah, and Mattithiah, and Eliphelehu,
and Mikneiah, and Obed-Edom, and Jeiel, the doorkeepers.
015:019 So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, [were appointed]
with cymbals of brass to sound aloud;
015:020 and Zechariah, and Aziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni,
and Eliab, and Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with stringed instruments
set to Alamoth;
015:021 and Mattithiah, and Eliphelehu, and Mikneiah, and Obed-Edom,
and Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps tuned to the eight-stringed
lyre, to lead.
015:022 Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, was over the song:
he instructed about the song, because he was skillful.
015:023 Berechiah and Elkanah were doorkeepers for the ark.
015:024 Shebaniah, and Joshaphat, and Nethanel, and Amasai,
and Zechariah, and Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests,
did blow the trumpets before the ark of God: and Obed-Edom
and Jehiah were doorkeepers for the ark.
015:025 So David, and the elders of Israel, and the captains over thousands,
went to bring up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh out of
the house of Obed-Edom with joy.
015:026 It happened, when God helped the Levites who bore the ark
of the covenant of Yahweh, that they sacrificed seven bulls
and seven rams.
015:027 David was clothed with a robe of fine linen,
and all the Levites who bore the ark, and the singers,
and Chenaniah the master of the song [with] the singers:
and David had on him an ephod of linen.
015:028 Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant
of Yahweh with shouting, and with sound of the cornet,
and with trumpets, and with cymbals, sounding aloud with stringed
instruments and harps.
015:029 It happened, as the ark of the covenant of Yahweh came to
the city of David, that Michal the daughter of Saul looked
out at the window, and saw king David dancing and playing;
and she despised him in her heart.
016:001 They brought in the ark of God, and set it in the midst
of the tent that David had pitched for it: and they offered
burnt offerings and peace offerings before God.
016:002 When David had made an end of offering the burnt offering and
the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of Yahweh.
016:003 He dealt to everyone of Israel, both man and woman,
to every one a loaf of bread, and a portion [of flesh],
and a cake of raisins.
016:004 He appointed certain of the Levites to minister before the ark
of Yahweh, and to celebrate and to thank and praise Yahweh,
the God of Israel:
016:005 Asaph the chief, and second to him Zechariah, Jeiel, and Shemiramoth,
and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Obed-Edom,
and Jeiel, with stringed instruments and with harps;
and Asaph with cymbals, sounding aloud;
016:006 and Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually,
before the ark of the covenant of God.
016:007 Then on that day David first ordained to give thanks to Yahweh,
by the hand of Asaph and his brothers.
016:008 Oh give thanks to Yahweh. Call on his name. Make his doings
known among the peoples.
016:009 Sing to him. Sing praises to him. Tell of all his marvelous works.
016:010 Glory in his holy name. Let the heart of those who
seek Yahweh rejoice.
016:011 Seek you Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.
016:012 Remember his marvelous works that he has done, his wonders,
and the judgments of his mouth,
016:013 you seed of Israel his servant, you children of Jacob,
his chosen ones.
016:014 He is Yahweh our God. His judgments are in all the earth.
016:015 Remember his covenant forever, the word which he commanded
to a thousand generations,
016:016 [the covenant] which he made with Abraham, his oath to Isaac.
016:017 He confirmed the same to Jacob for a statute, and to Israel
for an everlasting covenant,
016:018 saying, I will you give the land of Canaan, The lot
of your inheritance,
016:019 when you were but a few men in number, yes, very few,
and foreigners were in it.
016:020 They went about from nation to nation, from one kingdom
to another people.
016:021 He allowed no man to do them wrong. Yes, he reproved kings
for their sakes,
016:022 [saying], Don't touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm.
016:023 Sing to Yahweh, all the earth! Display his salvation from
day to day.
016:024 Declare his glory among the nations, and his marvelous works
among all the peoples.
016:025 For great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised.
He also is to be feared above all gods.
016:026 For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but Yahweh
made the heavens.
016:027 Honor and majesty are before him. Strength and gladness are
in his place.
016:028 Ascribe to Yahweh, you relatives of the peoples, ascribe to
Yahweh glory and strength!
016:029 Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due to his name. Bring an offering,
and come before him. Worship Yahweh in holy array.
016:030 Tremble before him, all the earth. The world also is established
that it can't be moved.
016:031 Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice!
Let them say among the nations, Yahweh reigns.
016:032 Let the sea roar, and its fullness! Let the field exult,
and all that is therein!
016:033 Then the trees of the forest will sing for joy before Yahweh,
for he comes to judge the earth.
016:034 Oh give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving
kindness endures forever.
016:035 Say, Save us, God of our salvation! Gather us together and
deliver us from the nations, to give thanks to your holy name,
to triumph in your praise.
016:036 Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting even
to everlasting. All the people said, Amen, and praised Yahweh.
016:037 So he left there, before the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, Asaph
and his brothers, to minister before the ark continually,
as every day's work required;
016:038 and Obed-Edom with their brothers, sixty-eight; Obed-Edom also
the son of Jeduthun and Hosah to be doorkeepers;
016:039 and Zadok the priest, and his brothers the priests, before the tent
of Yahweh in the high place that was at Gibeon,
016:040 to offer burnt offerings to Yahweh on the altar of burnt offering
continually morning and evening, even according to all that is
written in the law of Yahweh, which he commanded to Israel;
016:041 and with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest who were chosen,
who were mentioned by name, to give thanks to Yahweh,
because his loving kindness endures forever;
016:042 and with them Heman and Jeduthun [with] trumpets and cymbals
for those that should sound aloud, and [with] instruments for
the songs of God; and the sons of Jeduthun to be at the gate.
016:043 All the people departed every man to his house:
and David returned to bless his house.
017:001 It happened, when David lived in his house, that David said
to Nathan the prophet, Behold, I dwell in a house of cedar,
but the ark of the covenant of Yahweh [dwells] under curtains.
017:002 Nathan said to David, Do all that is in your heart; for God
is with you.
017:003 It happened the same night, that the word of God came
to Nathan, saying,
017:004 Go and tell David my servant, Thus says Yahweh, You shall
not build me a house to dwell in:
017:005 for I have not lived in a house since the day that I brought
up Israel, to this day, but have gone from tent to tent,
and from [one] tent [to another].
017:006 In all places in which I have walked with all Israel, spoke I
a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded
to be shepherd of my people, saying, Why have you not built
me a house of cedar?
017:007 Now therefore thus shall you tell my servant David, Thus says
Yahweh of Armies, I took you from the sheep pen, from following
the sheep, that you should be prince over my people Israel:
017:008 and I have been with you wherever you have gone, and have cut off
all your enemies from before you; and I will make you a name,
like the name of the great ones who are in the earth.
017:009 I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them,
that they may dwell in their own place, and be moved no more;
neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more,
as at the first,
017:010 and [as] from the day that I commanded judges to be over
my people Israel; and I will subdue all your enemies.
Moreover I tell you that Yahweh will build you a house.
017:011 It shall happen, when your days are fulfilled that you must go
to be with your fathers, that I will set up your seed after you,
who shall be of your sons; and I will establish his kingdom.
017:012 He shall build me a house, and I will establish his throne forever.
017:013 I will be his father, and he shall be my son: and I will not
take my loving kindness away from him, as I took it from him
that was before you;
017:014 but I will settle him in my house and in my kingdom forever;
and his throne shall be established forever.
017:015 According to all these words, and according to all this vision,
so did Nathan speak to David.
017:016 Then David the king went in, and sat before Yahweh;
and he said, Who am I, Yahweh God, and what is my house,
that you have brought me thus far?
017:017 This was a small thing in your eyes, God; but you have
spoken of your servant's house for a great while to come,
and have regarded me according to the estate of a man
of high degree, Yahweh God.
017:018 What can David [say] yet more to you concerning the honor
which is done to your servant? for you know your servant.
017:019 Yahweh, for your servant's sake, and according to your own heart,
have you worked all this greatness, to make known all
[these] great things.
017:020 Yahweh, there is none like you, neither is there any God besides you,
according to all that we have heard with our ears.
017:021 What one nation in the earth is like your people Israel,
whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, to make you
a name by great and awesome things, in driving out nations
from before your people, whom you redeem out of Egypt?
017:022 For your people Israel did you make your own people forever;
and you, Yahweh, became their God.
017:023 Now, Yahweh, let the word that you have spoken concerning
your servant, and concerning his house, be established forever,
and do as you have spoken.
017:024 Let your name be established and magnified forever, saying,
Yahweh of Armies is the God of Israel, even a God to Israel:
and the house of David your servant is established before you.
017:025 For you, my God, have revealed to your servant that you will
build him a house: therefore has your servant found [in
his heart] to pray before you.
017:026 Now, Yahweh, you are God, and have promised this good thing
to your servant:
017:027 and now it has pleased you to bless the house of your servant,
that it may continue forever before you: for you, Yahweh,
have blessed, and it is blessed forever.
018:001 After this it happened, that David struck the Philistines,
and subdued them, and took Gath and its towns out of the hand
of the Philistines.
018:002 He struck Moab; and the Moabites became servants to David,
and brought tribute.
018:003 David struck Hadarezer king of Zobah to Hamath, as he went