| 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 Pasdammim, 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 Bethlehem. |
| 17 | And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem, that {is} at the gate! |
| 18 | And the three brake through the host 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 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 Bethlehem, |
| 27 | Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite, |
| 28 | Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer 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. |