2 Samuel 21-24
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2 Samuel 21
1 ¶Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year;
and David enquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, It is for Saul, and for
his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.
2 And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them; (now the Gibeonites
were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the
children of Israel had sworn unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal
to the children of Israel and Judah.)
3 Wherefore David said unto the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? and
wherewith shall I make the atonement, that ye may bless the inheritance of the
LORD?
4 And the Gibeonites said unto him, We will have no silver nor gold of Saul, nor
of his house; neither for us shalt thou kill any man in Israel. And he said,
What ye shall say, that will I do for you.
5 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 Israel,
6 Let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang them up unto
the LORD in Gibeah of Saul, whom the LORD did choose. And the king said, I will
give them.
7 But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because
of the LORD'S oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of
Saul.
8 But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bare
unto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of
Saul, whom she brought up for Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite:
9 And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them
in the hill before the LORD: 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.
10 ¶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
heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor
the beasts of the field by night.
11 And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of
Saul, had done.
12 And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son
from the men of Jabeshgilead, which had stolen them from the street of Bethshan,
where the Philistines had hanged them, when the Philistines had slain Saul in
Gilboa:
13 And he brought up from thence the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his
son; and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged.
14 And the bones of Saul and Jonathan 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 God was intreated for the land.
15 ¶Moreover the Philistines had yet war again with Israel; and David went down,
and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines: and David waxed
faint.
16 And Ishbibenob, 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 David.
17 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succoured him, and smote the Philistine, and
killed him. Then the men of David sware unto him, saying, Thou shalt go no more
out with us to battle, that thou quench not the light of Israel.
18 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.
19 And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines, where Elhanan the
son of Jaareoregim, a Bethlehemite, slew the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the
staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.
20 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.
21 And when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea the brother of David
slew him.
22 These four were born to the giant in Gath, and fell by the hand of David, and
by the hand of his servants.
2 Samuel 22
1 ¶And David spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD
had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of
Saul:
2 ¶And he said, The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;
3 The God 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.
4 I will call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from
mine enemies.
5 When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me
afraid;
6 The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;
7 In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: and he did hear my
voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into his ears.
8 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved and shook,
because he was wroth.
9 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured:
coals were kindled by it.
10 He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness was under his feet.
11 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: and he was seen upon the wings of the
wind.
12 And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, and thick clouds
of the skies.
13 Through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled.
14 The LORD thundered from heaven, and the most High uttered his voice.
15 And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and discomfited them.
16 And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were
discovered, at the rebuking of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of his
nostrils.
17 He sent from above, he took me; he drew me out of many waters;
18 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them that hated me: for they
were too strong for me.
19 They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.
20 He brought me forth also into a large place: he delivered me, because he
delighted in me.
21 The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness: according to the
cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
22 For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my
God.
23 For all his judgments were before me: and as for his statutes, I did not
depart from them.
24 I was also upright before him, and have kept myself from mine iniquity.
25 Therefore the LORD hath recompensed me according to my righteousness;
according to my cleanness in his eye sight.
26 With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful, and with the upright man
thou wilt shew thyself upright.
27 With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt
shew thyself unsavoury.
28 And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thine eyes are upon the haughty,
that thou mayest bring them down.
29 For thou art my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness.
30 For by thee I have run through a troop: by my God have I leaped over a wall.
31 As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is tried: he is a
buckler to all them that trust in him.
32 For who is God, save the LORD? and who is a rock, save our God?
33 God is my strength and power: and he maketh my way perfect.
34 He maketh my feet like hinds' feet: and setteth me upon my high places.
35 He teacheth my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.
36 Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy gentleness hath
made me great.
37 Thou hast enlarged my steps under me; so that my feet did not slip.
38 I have pursued mine enemies, and destroyed them; and turned not again until I
had consumed them.
39 And I have consumed them, and wounded them, that they could not arise: yea,
they are fallen under my feet.
40 For thou hast girded me with strength to battle: them that rose up against me
hast thou subdued under me.
41 Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies, that I might destroy them
that hate me.
42 They looked, but there was none to save; even unto the LORD, but he answered
them not.
43 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.
44 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.
45 Strangers shall submit themselves unto me: as soon as they hear, they shall
be obedient unto me.
46 Strangers shall fade away, and they shall be afraid out of their close
places.
47 The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and exalted be the God of the rock
of my salvation.
48 It is God that avengeth me, and that bringeth down the people under me,
49 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.
50 Therefore I will give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the heathen, and I will
sing praises unto thy name.
51 He is the tower of salvation for his king: and sheweth mercy to his anointed,
unto David, and to his seed for evermore.
2 Samuel 23
1 ¶Now these be the last words of David. David the son of Jesse said, and the
man who was raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet
psalmist of Israel, said,
2 The Spirit of the LORD spake by me, and his word was in my tongue.
3 The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over
men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.
4 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.
5 Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting
covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all
my desire, although he make it not to grow.
6 But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, because
they cannot be taken with hands:
7 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.
8 ¶These be the names of the mighty men whom David 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.
9 And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite, one of the three mighty
men with David, when they defied the Philistines that were there gathered
together to battle, and the men of Israel were gone away:
10 He arose, and smote the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand
clave unto the sword: and the LORD wrought a great victory that day; and the
people returned after him only to spoil.
11 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.
12 But he stood in the midst of the ground, and defended it, and slew the
Philistines: and the LORD wrought a great victory.
13 And three of the thirty chief went down, and came to David in the harvest
time unto the cave of Adullam: and the troop of the Philistines pitched in the
valley of Rephaim.
14 And David was then in an hold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then
in Bethlehem.
15 And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of
the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!
16 And the three mighty men 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: nevertheless he would not drink thereof, but poured it out
unto the LORD.
17 And he said, Be it far from me, O LORD, 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.
18 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.
19 Was he not most honourable of three? therefore he was their captain: howbeit
he attained not unto the first three.
20 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:
21 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.
22 These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had the name among three
mighty men.
23 He was more honourable than the thirty, but he attained not to the first
three. And David set him over his guard.
24 Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo of
Bethlehem,
25 Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite,
26 Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite,
27 Abiezer the Anethothite, Mebunnai the Hushathite,
28 Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite,
29 Heleb the son of Baanah, a Netophathite, Ittai the son of Ribai out of Gibeah
of the children of Benjamin,
30 Benaiah the Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash,
31 Abialbon the Arbathite, Azmaveth the Barhumite,
32 Eliahba the Shaalbonite, of the sons of Jashen, Jonathan,
33 Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam the son of Sharar the Hararite,
34 Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai, the son of the Maachathite, Eliam the son of
Ahithophel the Gilonite,
35 Hezrai the Carmelite, Paarai the Arbite,
36 Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite,
37 Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, armourbearer to Joab the son of
Zeruiah,
38 Ira an Ithrite, Gareb an Ithrite,
39 Uriah the Hittite: thirty and seven in all.
2 Samuel 24
1 ¶And again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he moved
David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah.
2 For the king said to Joab the captain of the host, which was with him, Go now
through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, and number ye the
people, that I may know the number of the people.
3 And Joab said unto the king, Now the LORD thy God add unto the people, how
many soever they be, an hundredfold, and that the eyes of my lord the king may
see it: but why doth my lord the king delight in this thing?
4 Notwithstanding the king's word prevailed against Joab, and against the
captains of the host. And Joab and the captains of the host went out from the
presence of the king, to number the people of Israel.
5 And they passed over Jordan, and pitched in Aroer, on the right side of the
city that lieth in the midst of the river of Gad, and toward Jazer:
6 Then they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtimhodshi; and they came to
Danjaan, and about to Zidon,
7 And came to the strong hold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites, and
of the Canaanites: and they went out to the south of Judah, even to Beersheba.
8 So when they had gone through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end
of nine months and twenty days.
9 And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people unto the king: and there
were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew the sword; and the
men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.
10 ¶And David's heart smote him after that he had numbered the people. And David
said unto the LORD, I have sinned greatly in that I have done: and now, I
beseech thee, O LORD, take away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done
very foolishly.
11 For when David was up in the morning, the word of the LORD came unto the
prophet Gad, David's seer, saying,
12 Go and say unto David, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee three things; choose
thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee.
13 So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him, Shall seven years of
famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thine
enemies, while they pursue thee? or that there be three days' pestilence in thy
land? now advise, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me.
14 And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the
hand of the LORD; for his mercies are great: and let me not fall into the hand
of man.
15 So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time
appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba seventy
thousand men.
16 And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the
LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people,
It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the
threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.
17 And David spake unto the LORD when he saw the angel that smote the people,
and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly: but these sheep, what
have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my
father's house.
18 ¶And Gad came that day to David, and said unto him, Go up, rear an altar unto
the LORD in the threshingfloor of Araunah the Jebusite.
19 And David, according to the saying of Gad, went up as the LORD commanded.
20 And Araunah looked, and saw the king and his servants coming on toward him:
and Araunah went out, and bowed himself before the king on his face upon the
ground.
21 And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? And
David said, To buy the threshingfloor of thee, to build an altar unto the LORD,
that the plague may be stayed from the people.
22 And Araunah said unto David, Let my lord the king take and offer up what
seemeth good unto him: behold, here be oxen for burnt sacrifice, and threshing
instruments and other instruments of the oxen for wood.
23 All these things did Araunah, as a king, give unto the king. And Araunah said
unto the king, The LORD thy God accept thee.
24 And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy it of thee at a
price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the LORD my God of that which
doth cost me nothing. So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty
shekels of silver.
25 And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and
peace offerings. So the LORD was intreated for the land, and the plague was
stayed from Israel.