
The First Book of Chronicles

   {1:1} Adam, Seth, Enosh, {1:2} Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared, {1:3} Enoch,
Methuselah, Lamech, {1:4} Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. {1:5} The sons
of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and
Meshech, and Tiras. {1:6} The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, and Diphath, and
Togarmah. {1:7} The sons of Javan: Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and
Rodanim. {1:8} The sons of Ham: Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
{1:9} The sons of Cush: Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raama, and
Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba, and Dedan. {1:10} Cush became the
father of Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one in the earth. {1:11}
Mizraim became the father of Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and
Naphtuhim, {1:12} and Pathrusim, and Casluhim (where the Philistines
came from), and Caphtorim. {1:13} Canaan became the father of Sidon his
firstborn, and Heth, {1:14} and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the
Girgashite, {1:15} and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
{1:16} and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite. {1:17}
The sons of Shem: Elam, and Asshur, and Arpachshad, and Lud, and Aram,
and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech. {1:18} Arpachshad became the
father of Shelah, and Shelah became the father of Eber. {1:19} To Eber
were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg; for in his days the
earth was divided; and his brother's name was Joktan. {1:20} Joktan
became the father of Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,
{1:21} and Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah, {1:22} and Ebal, and Abimael,
and Sheba, {1:23} and Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the
sons of Joktan. {1:24} Shem, Arpachshad, Shelah, {1:25} Eber, Peleg,
Reu, {1:26} Serug, Nahor, Terah, {1:27} Abram (the same is Abraham).
{1:28} The sons of Abraham: Isaac, and Ishmael. {1:29} These are their
generations: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth; then Kedar, and
Adbeel, and Mibsam, {1:30} Mishma, and Dumah, Massa, Hadad, and Tema,
{1:31} Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These are the sons of Ishmael.
{1:32} The sons of Keturah, Abraham's concubine: she bore Zimran, and
Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. The sons of
Jokshan: Sheba, and Dedan. {1:33} The sons of Midian: Ephah, and Epher,
and Hanoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the sons of Keturah.
{1:34} Abraham became the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau, and
Israel. {1:35} The sons of Esau: Eliphaz, Reuel, and Jeush, and Jalam,
and Korah. {1:36} The sons of Eliphaz: Teman, and Omar, Zephi, and
Gatam, Kenaz, and Timna, and Amalek. {1:37} The sons of Reuel: Nahath,
Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. {1:38} The sons of Seir: Lotan, and Shobal,
and Zibeon, and Anah, and Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan. {1:39} The sons
of Lotan: Hori, and Homam; and Timna was Lotan's sister. {1:40} The
sons of Shobal: Alian, and Manahath, and Ebal, Shephi, and Onam. The
sons of Zibeon: Aiah, and Anah. {1:41} The sons of Anah: Dishon. The
sons of Dishon: Hamran, and Eshban, and Ithran, and Cheran. {1:42} The
sons of Ezer: Bilhan, and Zaavan, Jaakan. The sons of Dishan: Uz, and
Aran. {1:43} Now these are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom,
before there reigned any king over the children of Israel: Bela the son
of Beor; and the name of his city was Dinhabah. {1:44} Bela died, and
Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his place. {1:45} Jobab
died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his place.
{1:46} Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who struck Midian in
the field of Moab, reigned in his place; and the name of his city was
Avith. {1:47} Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his place.
{1:48} Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth by the River reigned in his
place. {1:49} Shaul died, and Baal Hanan the son of Achbor reigned in
his place. {1:50} Baal Hanan died, and Hadad reigned in his place; and
the name of his city was Pai: and his wife's name was Mehetabel, the
daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab. {1:51} Hadad died. The
chiefs of Edom were: chief Timna, chief Aliah, chief Jetheth, {1:52}
chief Oholibamah, chief Elah, chief Pinon, {1:53} chief Kenaz, chief
Teman, chief Mibzar, {1:54} chief Magdiel, chief Iram. These are the
chiefs of Edom.

    {2:1} These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and
Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun, {2:2} Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin,
Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. {2:3} The sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and
Shelah; which three were born to him of Shua's daughter the
Canaanitess. Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of
[1>]Yahweh;[<1] and he killed him. {2:4} Tamar his daughter-in-law bore
him Perez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah were five. {2:5} The sons of
Perez: Hezron, and Hamul. {2:6} The sons of Zerah: Zimri, and Ethan,
and Heman, and Calcol, and Dara; five of them in all. {2:7} The sons of
Carmi: Achar, the troubler of Israel, who committed a trespass in the
devoted thing. {2:8} The sons of Ethan: Azariah. {2:9} The sons also of
Hezron, who were born to him: Jerahmeel, and Ram, and Chelubai. {2:10}
Ram became the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab became the father of
Nahshon, prince of the children of Judah; {2:11} and Nahshon became the
father of Salma, and Salma became the father of Boaz, {2:12} and Boaz
became the father of Obed, and Obed became the father of Jesse; {2:13}
and Jesse became the father of his firstborn Eliab, and Abinadab the
second, and Shimea the third, {2:14} Nethanel the fourth, Raddai the
fifth, {2:15} Ozem the sixth, David the seventh; {2:16} and their
sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. The sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, and
Joab, and Asahel, three. {2:17} Abigail bore Amasa; and the father of
Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite. {2:18} Caleb the son of Hezron became
the father of children of Azubah his wife, and of Jerioth; and these
were her sons: Jesher, and Shobab, and Ardon. {2:19} Azubah died, and
Caleb took to him Ephrath, who bore him Hur. {2:20} Hur became the
father of Uri, and Uri became the father of Bezalel. {2:21} Afterward
Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he
took as wife when he was sixty years old; and she bore him Segub.
{2:22} Segub became the father of Jair, who had twenty-three cities in
the land of Gilead. {2:23} Geshur and Aram took the towns of Jair from
them, with Kenath, and its villages, even sixty cities. All these were
the sons of Machir the father of Gilead. {2:24} After that Hezron was
dead in Caleb Ephrathah, then Abijah Hezron's wife bore him Ashhur the
father of Tekoa. {2:25} The sons of Jerahmeel the firstborn of Hezron
were Ram the firstborn, and Bunah, and Oren, and Ozem, Ahijah. {2:26}
Jerahmeel had another wife, whose name was Atarah; she was the mother
of Onam. {2:27} The sons of Ram the firstborn of Jerahmeel were Maaz,
and Jamin, and Eker. {2:28} The sons of Onam were Shammai, and Jada.
The sons of Shammai: Nadab, and Abishur. {2:29} The name of the wife of
Abishur was Abihail; and she bore him Ahban, and Molid. {2:30} The sons
of Nadab: Seled, and Appaim; but Seled died without children. {2:31}
The sons of Appaim: Ishi. The sons of Ishi: Sheshan. The sons of
Sheshan: Ahlai. {2:32} The sons of Jada the brother of Shammai: Jether,
and Jonathan; and Jether died without children. {2:33} The sons of
Jonathan: Peleth, and Zaza. These were the sons of Jerahmeel. {2:34}
Now Sheshan had no sons, but daughters. Sheshan had a servant, an
Egyptian, whose name was Jarha. {2:35} Sheshan gave his daughter to
Jarha his servant as wife; and she bore him Attai. {2:36} Attai became
the father of Nathan, and Nathan became the father of Zabad, {2:37} and
Zabad became the father of Ephlal, and Ephlal became the father of
Obed, {2:38} and Obed became the father of Jehu, and Jehu became the
father of Azariah, {2:39} and Azariah became the father of Helez, and
Helez became the father of Eleasah, {2:40} and Eleasah became the
father of Sismai, and Sismai became the father of Shallum, {2:41} and
Shallum became the father of Jekamiah, and Jekamiah became the father
of Elishama. {2:42} The sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel were
Mesha his firstborn, who was the father of Ziph; and the sons of
Mareshah the father of Hebron. {2:43} The sons of Hebron: Korah, and
Tappuah, and Rekem, and Shema. {2:44} Shema became the father of Raham,
the father of Jorkeam; and Rekem became the father of Shammai. {2:45}
The son of Shammai was Maon; and Maon was the father of Beth Zur.
{2:46} Ephah, Caleb's concubine, bore Haran, and Moza, and Gazez; and
Haran became the father of Gazez. {2:47} The sons of Jahdai: Regem, and
Jothan, and Geshan, and Pelet, and Ephah, and Shaaph. {2:48} Maacah,
Caleb's concubine, bore Sheber and Tirhanah. {2:49} She bore also
Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbena, and the
father of Gibea; and the daughter of Caleb was Achsah. {2:50} These
were the sons of Caleb, the son of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah:
Shobal the father of Kiriath Jearim, {2:51} Salma the father of
Bethlehem, Hareph the father of Beth Gader. {2:52} Shobal the father of
Kiriath Jearim had sons: Haroeh, half of the Menuhoth. {2:53} The
families of Kiriath Jearim: The Ithrites, and the Puthites, and the
Shumathites, and the Mishraites; of them came the Zorathites and the
Eshtaolites. {2:54} The sons of Salma: Bethlehem, and the
Netophathites, Atroth Beth Joab, and half of the Manahathites, the
Zorites. {2:55} The families of scribes who lived at Jabez: the
Tirathites, the Shimeathites, the Sucathites. These are the Kenites who
came of Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab.

    {3:1} Now these were the sons of David, who were born to him in
Hebron: the firstborn, Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; the second,
Daniel, of Abigail the Carmelitess; {3:2} the third, Absalom the son of
Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur; the fourth, Adonijah the
son of Haggith; {3:3} the fifth, Shephatiah of Abital; the sixth,
Ithream by Eglah his wife: {3:4} six were born to him in Hebron; and
there he reigned seven years and six months. In Jerusalem he reigned
thirty-three years; {3:5} and these were born to him in Jerusalem:
Shimea, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon, four, of Bathshua the
daughter of Ammiel; {3:6} and Ibhar, and Elishama, and Eliphelet, {3:7}
and Nogah, and Nepheg, and Japhia, {3:8} and Elishama, and Eliada, and
Eliphelet, nine. {3:9} All these were the sons of David, besides the
sons of the concubines; and Tamar was their sister. {3:10} Solomon's
son was Rehoboam, Abijah his son, Asa his son, Jehoshaphat his son,
{3:11} Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son, {3:12} Amaziah
his son, Azariah his son, Jotham his son, {3:13} Ahaz his son, Hezekiah
his son, Manasseh his son, {3:14} Amon his son, Josiah his son. {3:15}
The sons of Josiah: the firstborn Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the
third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum. {3:16} The sons of Jehoiakim:
Jeconiah his son, Zedekiah his son. {3:17} The sons of Jeconiah, the
captive: Shealtiel his son, {3:18} and Malchiram, and Pedaiah, and
Shenazzar, Jekamiah, Hoshama, and Nedabiah. {3:19} The sons of Pedaiah:
Zerubbabel, and Shimei. The sons of Zerubbabel: Meshullam, and
Hananiah; and Shelomith was their sister; {3:20} and Hashubah, and
Ohel, and Berechiah, and Hasadiah, Jushab Hesed, five. {3:21} The sons
of Hananiah: Pelatiah, and Jeshaiah; the sons of Rephaiah, the sons of
Arnan, the sons of Obadiah, the sons of Shecaniah. {3:22} The sons of
Shecaniah: Shemaiah. The sons of Shemaiah: Hattush, and Igal, and
Bariah, and Neariah, and Shaphat, six. {3:23} The sons of Neariah:
Elioenai, and Hizkiah, and Azrikam, three. {3:24} The sons of Elioenai:
Hodaviah, and Eliashib, and Pelaiah, and Akkub, and Johanan, and
Delaiah, and Anani, seven.

   {4:1} The sons of Judah: Perez, Hezron, and Carmi, and Hur, and
Shobal. {4:2} Reaiah the son of Shobal became the father of Jahath; and
Jahath became the father of Ahumai and Lahad. These are the families of
the Zorathites. {4:3} These were the sons of the father of Etam:
Jezreel, and Ishma, and Idbash; and the name of their sister was
Hazzelelponi; {4:4} and Penuel the father of Gedor, and Ezer the father
of Hushah. These are the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah, the
father of Bethlehem. {4:5} Ashhur the father of Tekoa had two wives,
Helah and Naarah. {4:6} Naarah bore him Ahuzzam, and Hepher, and
Temeni, and Haahashtari. These were the sons of Naarah. {4:7} The sons
of Helah were Zereth, Izhar, and Ethnan. {4:8} Hakkoz became the father
of Anub, and Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel the son of Harum.
{4:9} Jabez was more honorable than his brothers: and his mother named
him Jabez, saying, "Because I bore him with sorrow."

   {4:10} Jabez called on the [2>]God[<2] of Israel, saying, "Oh that
you would bless me indeed, and enlarge my border, and that your hand
might be with me, and that you would keep me from evil, that it not be
to my sorrow!"

   God granted him that which he requested. {4:11} Chelub the brother
of Shuhah became the father of Mehir, who was the father of Eshton.
{4:12} Eshton became the father of Beth Rapha, and Paseah, and Tehinnah
the father of Ir Nahash. These are the men of Recah. {4:13} The sons of
Kenaz: Othniel, and Seraiah. The sons of Othniel: Hathath. {4:14}
Meonothai became the father of Ophrah: and Seraiah became the father of
Joab the father of Ge Harashim; for they were craftsmen. {4:15} The
sons of Caleb the son of Jephunneh: Iru, Elah, and Naam; and the sons
of Elah; and Kenaz. {4:16} The sons of Jehallelel: Ziph, and Ziphah,
Tiria, and Asarel. {4:17} The sons of Ezrah: Jether, and Mered, and
Epher, and Jalon; and she bore Miriam, and Shammai, and Ishbah the
father of Eshtemoa. {4:18} His wife the Jewess bore Jered the father of
Gedor, and Heber the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel the father of
Zanoah. These are the sons of Bithiah the daughter of Pharaoh, whom
Mered took. {4:19} The sons of the wife of Hodiah, the sister of Naham,
were the father of Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Maacathite.
{4:20} The sons of Shimon: Amnon, and Rinnah, Ben Hanan, and Tilon. The
sons of Ishi: Zoheth, and Ben Zoheth. {4:21} The sons of Shelah the son
of Judah: Er the father of Lecah, and Laadah the father of Mareshah,
and the families of the house of those who worked fine linen, of the
house of Ashbea; {4:22} and Jokim, and the men of Cozeba, and Joash,
and Saraph, who had dominion in Moab, and Jashubilehem. The records are
ancient. {4:23} These were the potters, and the inhabitants of Netaim
and Gederah: there they lived with the king for his work. {4:24} The
sons of Simeon: Nemuel, and Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, Shaul; {4:25} Shallum
his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son. {4:26} The sons of Mishma:
Hammuel his son, Zaccur his son, Shimei his son. {4:27} Shimei had
sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brothers didn't have many
children, neither did all their family multiply like the children of
Judah. {4:28} They lived at Beersheba, and Moladah, and Hazarshual,
{4:29} and at Bilhah, and at Ezem, and at Tolad, {4:30} and at Bethuel,
and at Hormah, and at Ziklag, {4:31} and at Beth Marcaboth, and Hazar
Susim, and at Beth Biri, and at Shaaraim. These were their cities to
the reign of David. {4:32} Their villages were Etam, and Ain, Rimmon,
and Tochen, and Ashan, five cities; {4:33} and all their villages that
were around the same cities, to Baal. These were their habitations, and
they have their genealogy. {4:34} Meshobab, and Jamlech, and Joshah the
son of Amaziah, {4:35} and Joel, and Jehu the son of Joshibiah, the son
of Seraiah, the son of Asiel, {4:36} and Elioenai, and Jaakobah, and
Jeshohaiah, and Asaiah, and Adiel, and Jesimiel, and Benaiah, {4:37}
and Ziza the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the
son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah--{4:38} these mentioned by name were
princes in their families: and their fathers' houses increased greatly.
{4:39} They went to the entrance of Gedor, even to the east side of the
valley, to seek pasture for their flocks. {4:40} They found fat pasture
and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for those
who lived there before were of Ham. {4:41} These written by name came
in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and struck their tents, and the
Meunim who were found there, and destroyed them utterly to this day,
and lived in their place; because there was pasture there for their
flocks. {4:42} Some of them, even of the sons of Simeon, five hundred
men, went to Mount Seir, having for their captains Pelatiah, and
Neariah, and Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi. {4:43} They struck
the remnant of the Amalekites who escaped, and have lived there to this
day.

   {5:1} The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (for he was the
firstborn; but, because he defiled his father's couch, his birthright
was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel; and the genealogy is
not to be reckoned after the birthright. {5:2} For Judah prevailed
above his brothers, and of him came the prince; but the birthright was
Joseph's:) {5:3} the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel: Hanoch,
and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. {5:4} The sons of Joel: Shemaiah his son,
Gog his son, Shimei his son, {5:5} Micah his son, Reaiah his son, Baal
his son, {5:6} Beerah his son, whom Tilgath Pilneser king of Assyria
carried away captive: he was prince of the Reubenites. {5:7} His
brothers by their families, when the genealogy of their generations was
reckoned: the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah, {5:8} and Bela the son of
Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel, who lived in Aroer, even to
Nebo and Baal Meon: {5:9} and eastward he lived even to the entrance of
the wilderness from the river Euphrates, because their livestock were
multiplied in the land of Gilead. {5:10} In the days of Saul, they made
war with the Hagrites, who fell by their hand; and they lived in their
tents throughout all the land east of Gilead. {5:11} The sons of Gad
lived over against them, in the land of Bashan to Salecah: {5:12} Joel
the chief, and Shapham the second, and Janai, and Shaphat in Bashan.
{5:13} Their brothers of their fathers' houses: Michael, and Meshullam,
and Sheba, and Jorai, and Jacan, and Zia, and Eber, seven. {5:14} These
were the sons of Abihail, the son of Huri, the son of Jaroah, the son
of Gilead, the son of Michael, the son of Jeshishai, the son of Jahdo,
the son of Buz; {5:15} Ahi the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, chief of
their fathers' houses. {5:16} They lived in Gilead in Bashan, and in
its towns, and in all the suburbs of Sharon, as far as their borders.
{5:17} All these were reckoned by genealogies in the days of Jotham
king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel. {5:18} The
sons of Reuben, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, of
valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow,
and skillful in war, were forty-four thousand seven hundred and sixty,
that were able to go forth to war. {5:19} They made war with the
Hagrites, with Jetur, and Naphish, and Nodab. {5:20} They were helped
against them, and the Hagrites were delivered into their hand, and all
who were with them; for they cried to God in the battle, and he was
entreated of them, because they put their trust in him. {5:21} They
took away their livestock; of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep
two hundred fifty thousand, and of donkeys two thousand, and of men one
hundred thousand. {5:22} For there fell many slain, because the war was
of God. They lived in their place until the captivity. {5:23} The
children of the half-tribe of Manasseh lived in the land: they
increased from Bashan to Baal Hermon and Senir and Mount Hermon. {5:24}
These were the heads of their fathers' houses: even Epher, and Ishi,
and Eliel, and Azriel, and Jeremiah, and Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty
men of valor, famous men, heads of their fathers' houses. {5:25} They
trespassed against the God of their fathers, and played the prostitute
after the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God destroyed before
them. {5:26} The God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of
Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgath Pilneser king of Assyria, and he
carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the
half-tribe of Manasseh, and brought them to Halah, and Habor, and Hara,
and to the river of Gozan, to this day.

    {6:1} The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. {6:2} The sons
of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel. {6:3} The children of
Amram: Aaron, and Moses, and Miriam. The sons of Aaron: Nadab, and
Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. {6:4} Eleazar became the father of
Phinehas, Phinehas became the father of Abishua, {6:5} and Abishua
became the father of Bukki, and Bukki became the father of Uzzi, {6:6}
and Uzzi became the father of Zerahiah, and Zerahiah became the father
of Meraioth, {6:7} Meraioth became the father of Amariah, and Amariah
became the father of Ahitub, {6:8} and Ahitub became the father of
Zadok, and Zadok became the father of Ahimaaz, {6:9} and Ahimaaz became
the father of Azariah, and Azariah became the father of Johanan, {6:10}
and Johanan became the father of Azariah, (he it is who executed the
priest's office in the house that Solomon built in Jerusalem), {6:11}
and Azariah became the father of Amariah, and Amariah became the father
of Ahitub, {6:12} and Ahitub became the father of Zadok, and Zadok
became the father of Shallum, {6:13} and Shallum became the father of
Hilkiah, and Hilkiah became the father of Azariah, {6:14} and Azariah
became the father of Seraiah, and Seraiah became the father of
Jehozadak; {6:15} Jehozadak went into captivity, when Yahweh carried
away Judah and Jerusalem by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar. {6:16} The sons
of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari. {6:17} These are the names of the
sons of Gershom: Libni and Shimei. {6:18} The sons of Kohath were
Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel. {6:19} The sons of Merari:
Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to
their fathers' households. {6:20} Of Gershom: Libni his son, Jahath his
son, Zimmah his son, {6:21} Joah his son, Iddo his son, Zerah his son,
Jeatherai his son. {6:22} The sons of Kohath: Amminadab his son, Korah
his son, Assir his son, {6:23} Elkanah his son, and Ebiasaph his son,
and Assir his son, {6:24} Tahath his son, Uriel his son, Uzziah his
son, and Shaul his son. {6:25} The sons of Elkanah: Amasai, and
Ahimoth. {6:26} As for Elkanah, the sons of Elkanah: Zophai his son,
and Nahath his son, {6:27} Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elkanah his
son. {6:28} The sons of Samuel: the firstborn Joel, and the second
Abijah. {6:29} The sons of Merari: Mahli, Libni his son, Shimei his
son, Uzzah his son, {6:30} Shimea his son, Haggiah his son, Asaiah his
son. {6:31} These are they whom David set over the service of song in
the house of Yahweh, after that the ark had rest. {6:32} They
ministered with song before the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting,
until Solomon had built the house of Yahweh in Jerusalem: and they
waited on their office according to their order. {6:33} These are those
who waited, and their sons. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman the
singer, the son of Joel, the son of Samuel, {6:34} the son of Elkanah,
the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah, {6:35} the son
of Zuph, the son of Elkanah, the son of Mahath, the son of Amasai,
{6:36} the son of Elkanah, the son of Joel, the son of Azariah, the son
of Zephaniah, {6:37} the son of Tahath, the son of Assir, the son of
Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, {6:38} the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath,
the son of Levi, the son of Israel. {6:39} His brother Asaph, who stood
on his right hand, even Asaph the son of Berechiah, the son of Shimea,
{6:40} the son of Michael, the son of Baaseiah, the son of Malchijah,
{6:41} the son of Ethni, the son of Zerah, the son of Adaiah, {6:42}
the son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei, {6:43} the son
of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi. {6:44} On the left hand
their brothers the sons of Merari: Ethan the son of Kishi, the son of
Abdi, the son of Malluch, {6:45} the son of Hashabiah, the son of
Amaziah, the son of Hilkiah, {6:46} the son of Amzi, the son of Bani,
the son of Shemer, {6:47} the son of Mahli, the son of Mushi, the son
of Merari, the son of Levi. {6:48} Their brothers the Levites were
appointed for all the service of the tabernacle of God's house. {6:49}
But Aaron and his sons offered on the altar of burnt offering, and on
the altar of incense, for all the work of the most holy place, and to
make atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of
God had commanded. {6:50} These are the sons of Aaron: Eleazar his son,
Phinehas his son, Abishua his son, {6:51} Bukki his son, Uzzi his son,
Zerahiah his son, {6:52} Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his
son, {6:53} Zadok his son, Ahimaaz his son. {6:54} Now these are their
dwelling places according to their encampments in their borders: to the
sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites (for theirs was the
first lot), {6:55} to them they gave Hebron in the land of Judah, and
its suburbs around it; {6:56} but the fields of the city, and its
villages, they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh. {6:57} To the sons
of Aaron they gave the cities of refuge, Hebron; Libnah also with its
suburbs, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa with its suburbs, {6:58} and Hilen
with its suburbs, Debir with its suburbs, {6:59} and Ashan with its
suburbs, and Beth Shemesh with its suburbs; {6:60} and out of the tribe
of Benjamin, Geba with its suburbs, and Allemeth with its suburbs, and
Anathoth with its suburbs. All their cities throughout their families
were thirteen cities. {6:61} To the rest of the sons of Kohath were
given by lot, out of the family of the tribe, out of the half-tribe,
the half of Manasseh, ten cities. {6:62} To the sons of Gershom,
according to their families, out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of
the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the
tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities. {6:63} To the sons of
Merari were given by lot, according to their families, out of the tribe
of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of
Zebulun, twelve cities. {6:64} The children of Israel gave to the
Levites the cities with their suburbs. {6:65} They gave by lot out of
the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the
children of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin,
these cities which are mentioned by name. {6:66} Some of the families
of the sons of Kohath had cities of their borders out of the tribe of
Ephraim. {6:67} They gave to them the cities of refuge, Shechem in the
hill country of Ephraim with its suburbs; Gezer also with its suburbs,
{6:68} and Jokmeam with its suburbs, and Beth Horon with its suburbs,
{6:69} and Aijalon with its suburbs, and Gath Rimmon with its suburbs;
{6:70} and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Aner with its suburbs,
and Bileam with its suburbs, for the rest of the family of the sons of
Kohath. {6:71} To the sons of Gershom were given, out of the family of
the half-tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with its suburbs, and
Ashtaroth with its suburbs; {6:72} and out of the tribe of Issachar,
Kedesh with its suburbs, Daberath with its suburbs, {6:73} and Ramoth
with its suburbs, and Anem with its suburbs; {6:74} and out of the
tribe of Asher, Mashal with its suburbs, and Abdon with its suburbs,
{6:75} and Hukok with its suburbs, and Rehob with its suburbs; {6:76}
and out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its suburbs,
and Hammon with its suburbs, and Kiriathaim with its suburbs. {6:77} To
the rest of the Levites, the sons of Merari, were given, out of the
tribe of Zebulun, Rimmono with its suburbs, Tabor with its suburbs;
{6:78} and beyond the Jordan at Jericho, on the east side of the
Jordan, were given them, out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the
wilderness with its suburbs, and Jahzah with its suburbs, {6:79} and
Kedemoth with its suburbs, and Mephaath with its suburbs; {6:80} and
out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its suburbs, and
Mahanaim with its suburbs, {6:81} and Heshbon with its suburbs, and
Jazer with its suburbs.

    {7:1} Of the sons of Issachar: Tola, and Puah, Jashub, and Shimron,
four. {7:2} The sons of Tola: Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and
Jahmai, and Ibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their fathers' houses, of
Tola; mighty men of valor in their generations: their number in the
days of David was twenty-two thousand six hundred. {7:3} The sons of
Uzzi: Izrahiah. The sons of Izrahiah: Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel,
Isshiah, five; all of them chief men. {7:4} With them, by their
generations, after their fathers' houses, were bands of the army for
war, thirty-six thousand; for they had many wives and sons. {7:5} Their
brothers among all the families of Issachar, mighty men of valor,
reckoned in all by genealogy, were eighty-seven thousand. {7:6} The
sons of Benjamin: Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three. {7:7} The sons
of Bela: Ezbon, and Uzzi, and Uzziel, and Jerimoth, and Iri, five;
heads of fathers' houses, mighty men of valor; and they were reckoned
by genealogy twenty-two thousand thirty-four. {7:8} The sons of Becher:
Zemirah, and Joash, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Omri, and Jeremoth,
and Abijah, and Anathoth, and Alemeth. All these were the sons of
Becher. {7:9} They were reckoned by genealogy, after their generations,
heads of their fathers' houses, mighty men of valor, twenty thousand
two hundred. {7:10} The sons of Jediael: Bilhan. The sons of Bilhan:
Jeush, and Benjamin, and Ehud, and Chenaanah, and Zethan, and Tarshish,
and Ahishahar. {7:11} All these were sons of Jediael, according to the
heads of their fathers' households, mighty men of valor, seventeen
thousand and two hundred, who were able to go forth in the army for
war. {7:12} Shuppim also, and Huppim, the sons of Ir, Hushim, the sons
of Aher. {7:13} The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, and Guni, and Jezer, and
Shallum, the sons of Bilhah. {7:14} The sons of Manasseh: Asriel, whom
his concubine the Aramitess bore: she bore Machir the father of Gilead:
{7:15} and Machir took a wife of Huppim and Shuppim, whose sister's
name was Maacah; and the name of the second was Zelophehad: and
Zelophehad had daughters. {7:16} Maacah the wife of Machir bore a son,
and she named him Peresh; and the name of his brother was Sheresh; and
his sons were Ulam and Rakem. {7:17} The sons of Ulam: Bedan. These
were the sons of Gilead the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh. {7:18}
His sister Hammolecheth bore Ishhod, and Abiezer, and Mahlah. {7:19}
The sons of Shemida were Ahian, and Shechem, and Likhi, and Aniam.
{7:20} The sons of Ephraim: Shuthelah, and Bered his son, and Tahath
his son, and Eleadah his son, and Tahath his son, {7:21} and Zabad his
son, and Shuthelah his son, and Ezer, and Elead, whom the men of Gath
who were born in the land killed, because they came down to take away
their livestock. {7:22} Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his
brothers came to comfort him. {7:23} He went in to his wife, and she
conceived, and bore a son, and he named him Beriah, because it went
evil with his house. {7:24} His daughter was Sheerah, who built Beth
Horon the lower and the upper, and Uzzen Sheerah. {7:25} Rephah was his
son, and Resheph, and Telah his son, and Tahan his son, {7:26} Ladan
his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son, {7:27} Nun his son, Joshua
his son. {7:28} Their possessions and habitations were Bethel and its
towns, and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer, with its towns; Shechem
also and its towns, to Azzah and its towns; {7:29} and by the borders
of the children of Manasseh, Beth Shean and its towns, Taanach and its
towns, Megiddo and its towns, Dor and its towns. In these lived the
children of Joseph the son of Israel. {7:30} The sons of Asher: Imnah,
and Ishvah, and Ishvi, and Beriah, and Serah their sister. {7:31} The
sons of Beriah: Heber, and Malchiel, who was the father of Birzaith.
{7:32} Heber became the father of Japhlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and
Shua their sister. {7:33} The sons of Japhlet: Pasach, and Bimhal, and
Ashvath. These are the children of Japhlet. {7:34} The sons of Shemer:
Ahi, and Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram. {7:35} The sons of Helem his
brother: Zophah, and Imna, and Shelesh, and Amal. {7:36} The sons of
Zophah: Suah, and Harnepher, and Shual, and Beri, and Imrah, {7:37}
Bezer, and Hod, and Shamma, and Shilshah, and Ithran, and Beera. {7:38}
The sons of Jether: Jephunneh, and Pispa, and Ara. {7:39} The sons of
Ulla: Arah, and Hanniel, and Rizia. {7:40} All these were the children
of Asher, heads of the fathers' houses, choice and mighty men of valor,
chief of the princes. The number of them reckoned by genealogy for
service in war was twenty-six thousand men.

    {8:1} Benjamin became the father of Bela his firstborn, Ashbel the
second, and Aharah the third, {8:2} Nohah the fourth, and Rapha the
fifth. {8:3} Bela had sons: Addar, and Gera, and Abihud, {8:4} and
Abishua, and Naaman, and Ahoah, {8:5} and Gera, and Shephuphan, and
Huram. {8:6} These are the sons of Ehud: these are the heads of
fathers' households of the inhabitants of Geba, and they carried them
captive to Manahath: {8:7} and Naaman, and Ahijah, and Gera, he carried
them captive: and he became the father of Uzza and Ahihud. {8:8}
Shaharaim became the father of children in the field of Moab, after he
had sent them away; Hushim and Baara were his wives. {8:9} He became
the father of Hodesh his wife, Jobab, and Zibia, and Mesha, and Malcam,
{8:10} and Jeuz, and Shachia, and Mirmah. These were his sons, heads of
fathers' households. {8:11} Of Hushim he became the father of Abitub
and Elpaal. {8:12} The sons of Elpaal: Eber, and Misham, and Shemed,
who built Ono and Lod, with its towns; {8:13} and Beriah, and Shema,
who were heads of fathers' households of the inhabitants of Aijalon,
who put to flight the inhabitants of Gath; {8:14} and Ahio, Shashak,
and Jeremoth, {8:15} and Zebadiah, and Arad, and Eder, {8:16} and
Michael, and Ishpah, and Joha, the sons of Beriah, {8:17} and Zebadiah,
and Meshullam, and Hizki, and Heber, {8:18} and Ishmerai, and Izliah,
and Jobab, the sons of Elpaal, {8:19} and Jakim, and Zichri, and Zabdi,
{8:20} and Elienai, and Zillethai, and Eliel, {8:21} and Adaiah, and
Beraiah, and Shimrath, the sons of Shimei, {8:22} and Ishpan, and Eber,
and Eliel, {8:23} and Abdon, and Zichri, and Hanan, {8:24} and
Hananiah, and Elam, and Anthothijah, {8:25} and Iphdeiah, and Penuel,
the sons of Shashak, {8:26} and Shamsherai, and Shehariah, and
Athaliah, {8:27} and Jaareshiah, and Elijah, and Zichri, the sons of
Jeroham. {8:28} These were heads of fathers' households throughout
their generations, chief men: these lived in Jerusalem. {8:29} In
Gibeon there lived the father of Gibeon, whose wife's name was Maacah;
{8:30} and his firstborn son Abdon, and Zur, and Kish, and Baal, and
Nadab, {8:31} and Gedor, and Ahio, and Zecher. {8:32} Mikloth became
the father of Shimeah. They also lived with their brothers in
Jerusalem, over against their brothers. {8:33} Ner became the father of
Kish; and Kish became the father of Saul; and Saul became the father of
Jonathan, and Malchishua, and Abinadab, and Eshbaal. {8:34} The son of
Jonathan was Merib Baal; and Merib Baal became the father of Micah.
{8:35} The sons of Micah: Pithon, and Melech, and Tarea, and Ahaz.
{8:36} Ahaz became the father of Jehoaddah; and Jehoaddah became the
father of Alemeth, and Azmaveth, and Zimri; and Zimri became the father
of Moza. {8:37} Moza became the father of Binea; Raphah was his son,
Eleasah his son, Azel his son. {8:38} Azel had six sons, whose names
are these: Azrikam, Bocheru, and Ishmael, and Sheariah, and Obadiah,
and Hanan. All these were the sons of Azel. {8:39} The sons of Eshek
his brother: Ulam his firstborn, Jeush the second, and Eliphelet the
third. {8:40} The sons of Ulam were mighty men of valor, archers, and
had many sons, and sons' sons, one hundred fifty. All these were of the
sons of Benjamin.

    {9:1} So all Israel were reckoned by genealogies; and behold, they
are written in the book of the kings of Israel: and Judah was carried
away captive to Babylon for their disobedience. {9:2} Now the first
inhabitants who lived in their possessions in their cities were Israel,
the priests, the Levites, and the Nethinim. {9:3} In Jerusalem lived of
the children of Judah, and of the children of Benjamin, and of the
children of Ephraim and Manasseh: {9:4} Uthai the son of Ammihud, the
son of Omri, the son of Imri, the son of Bani, of the children of Perez
the son of Judah. {9:5} Of the Shilonites: Asaiah the firstborn, and
his sons. {9:6} Of the sons of Zerah: Jeuel, and their brothers, six
hundred ninety. {9:7} Of the sons of Benjamin: Sallu the son of
Meshullam, the son of Hodaviah, the son of Hassenuah, {9:8} and Ibneiah
the son of Jeroham, and Elah the son of Uzzi, the son of Michri, and
Meshullam the son of Shephatiah, the son of Reuel, the son of Ibnijah;
{9:9} and their brothers, according to their generations, nine hundred
fifty-six. All these men were heads of fathers' households by their
fathers' houses. {9:10} Of the priests: Jedaiah, and Jehoiarib, Jachin,
{9:11} and Azariah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of
Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the ruler of God's
house; {9:12} and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pashhur, the
son of Malchijah, and Maasai the son of Adiel, the son of Jahzerah, the
son of Meshullam, the son of Meshillemith, the son of Immer; {9:13} and
their brothers, heads of their fathers' houses, one thousand seven
hundred sixty; very able men for the work of the service of God's
house. {9:14} Of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, the son of
Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, of the sons of Merari; {9:15} and
Bakbakkar, Heresh, and Galal, and Mattaniah the son of Mica, the son of
Zichri, the son of Asaph, {9:16} and Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, the
son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah the son of Asa, the
son of Elkanah, who lived in the villages of the Netophathites. {9:17}
The porters: Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their
brothers (Shallum was the chief), {9:18} who previously served in the
king's gate eastward: they were the porters for the camp of the
children of Levi. {9:19} Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph,
the son of Korah, and his brothers, of his father's house, the
Korahites, were over the work of the service, keepers of the thresholds
of the tent: and their fathers had been over the camp of Yahweh,
keepers of the entry. {9:20} Phinehas the son of Eleazar was ruler over
them in time past, and Yahweh was with him. {9:21} Zechariah the son of
Meshelemiah was porter of the door of the Tent of Meeting. {9:22} All
these who were chosen to be porters in the thresholds were two hundred
and twelve. These were reckoned by genealogy in their villages, whom
David and Samuel the seer ordained in their office of trust. {9:23} So
they and their children had the oversight of the gates of the house of
Yahweh, even the house of the tent, by wards. {9:24} On the four sides
were the porters, toward the east, west, north, and south. {9:25} Their
brothers, in their villages, were to come in every seven days from time
to time to be with them: {9:26} for the four chief porters, who were
Levites, were in an office of trust, and were over the rooms and over
the treasuries in God's house. {9:27} They lodged around God's house,
because that duty was on them; and to them pertained its opening
morning by morning. {9:28} Certain of them were in charge of the
vessels of service; for by count were these brought in and by count
were these taken out. {9:29} Some of them also were appointed over the
furniture, and over all the vessels of the sanctuary, and over the fine
flour, and the wine, and the oil, and the frankincense, and the spices.
{9:30} Some of the sons of the priests prepared the confection of the
spices. {9:31} Mattithiah, one of the Levites, who was the firstborn of
Shallum the Korahite, had the office of trust over the things that were
baked in pans. {9:32} Some of their brothers, of the sons of the
Kohathites, were over the show bread, to prepare it every Sabbath.
{9:33} These are the singers, heads of fathers' households of the
Levites, who lived in the rooms and were free from other service; for
they were employed in their work day and night. {9:34} These were heads
of fathers' households of the Levites, throughout their generations,
chief men: these lived at Jerusalem. {9:35} In Gibeon there lived the
father of Gibeon, Jeiel, whose wife's name was Maacah: {9:36} and his
firstborn son Abdon, and Zur, and Kish, and Baal, and Ner, and Nadab,
{9:37} and Gedor, and Ahio, and Zechariah, and Mikloth. {9:38} Mikloth
became the father of Shimeam. They also lived with their brothers in
Jerusalem, over against their brothers. {9:39} Ner became the father of
Kish; and Kish became the father of Saul; and Saul became the father of
Jonathan, and Malchishua, and Abinadab, and Eshbaal. {9:40} The son of
Jonathan was Merib Baal; and Merib Baal became the father of Micah.
{9:41} The sons of Micah: Pithon, and Melech, and Tahrea, and Ahaz.
{9:42} Ahaz became the father of Jarah; and Jarah became the father of
Alemeth, and Azmaveth, and Zimri; and Zimri became the father of Moza;
{9:43} and Moza became the father of Binea; and Rephaiah his son,
Eleasah his son, Azel his son. {9:44} Azel had six sons, whose names
are these: Azrikam, Bocheru, and Ishmael, and Sheariah, and Obadiah,
and Hanan: these were the sons of Azel.

   {10:1} Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of
Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain on Mount
Gilboa. {10:2} The Philistines followed hard after Saul and after his
sons; and the Philistines killed Jonathan, and Abinadab, and
Malchishua, the sons of Saul. {10:3} The battle went hard against Saul,
and the archers overtook him; and he was distressed by reason of the
archers. {10:4} Then Saul said to his armor bearer, "Draw your sword,
and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and abuse
me."

   But his armor bearer would not; for he was terrified. Therefore Saul
took his sword, and fell on it. {10:5} When his armor bearer saw that
Saul was dead, he likewise fell on his sword, and died. {10:6} So Saul
died, and his three sons; and all his house died together. {10:7} When
all the men of Israel who were in the valley saw that they fled, and
that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook their cities, and fled;
and the Philistines came and lived in them. {10:8} It happened on the
next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found
Saul and his sons fallen on Mount Gilboa. {10:9} They stripped him, and
took his head, and his armor, and sent into the land of the Philistines
all around, to carry the news to their idols, and to the people.
{10:10} They put his armor in the house of their gods, and fastened his
head in the house of Dagon. {10:11} When all Jabesh Gilead heard all
that the Philistines had done to Saul, {10:12} all the valiant men
arose, and took away the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sons, and
brought them to Jabesh, and buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh,
and fasted seven days. {10:13} So Saul died for his trespass which he
committed against Yahweh, because of the word of Yahweh, which he
didn't keep; and also because he asked counsel of one who had a
familiar spirit, to inquire, {10:14} and didn't inquire of Yahweh:
therefore he killed him, and turned the kingdom to David the son of
Jesse.

   {11:1} Then all Israel gathered themselves to David to Hebron,
saying, "Behold, we are your bone and your flesh. {11:2} In times past,
even when Saul was king, it was you who led out and brought in Israel.
Yahweh your God said to you, 'You shall be shepherd of my people
Israel, and you shall be prince over my people Israel.'"

   {11:3} So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and
David made a covenant with them in Hebron before Yahweh; and they
anointed David king over Israel, according to the word of Yahweh by
Samuel. {11:4} David and all Israel went to Jerusalem (the same is
Jebus); and the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, were there.
{11:5} The inhabitants of Jebus said to David, "You shall not come in
here." Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion. The same is the
city of David. {11:6} David said, "Whoever strikes the Jebusites first
shall be chief and captain." Joab the son of Zeruiah went up first, and
was made chief. {11:7} David lived in the stronghold; therefore they
called it the city of David. {11:8} He built the city all around, from
Millo even around; and Joab repaired the rest of the city. {11:9} David
grew greater and greater; for Yahweh of Armies was with him. {11:10}
Now these are the chief of the mighty men whom David had, who showed
themselves strong with him in his kingdom, together with all Israel, to
make him king, according to the word of Yahweh concerning Israel.
{11:11} This is the number of the mighty men whom David had: Jashobeam,
the son of a Hachmonite, the chief of the thirty; he lifted up his
spear against three hundred and killed them at one time. {11:12} After
him was Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, who was one of the three
mighty men. {11:13} He was with David at Pasdammim, and there the
Philistines were gathered together to battle, where there was a plot of
ground full of barley; and the people fled from before the Philistines.
{11:14} They stood in the midst of the plot, and defended it, and
killed the Philistines; and Yahweh saved them by a great victory.
{11:15} Three of the thirty chief men went down to the rock to David,
into the cave of Adullam; and the army of the Philistines were encamped
in the valley of Rephaim. {11:16} David was then in the stronghold, and
the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem. {11:17} David
longed, and said, "Oh that one would give me water to drink of the well
of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!"

   {11:18} The three 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 David would not drink of it, but
poured it out to Yahweh, {11:19} and said, "My God forbid it me, that I
should do this! Shall I drink the blood of these men who have put their
lives in jeopardy?" For they risked their lives to bring it. Therefore
he would not drink it. The three mighty men did these things.

   {11:20} Abishai, the brother of Joab, he was chief of the three; for
he lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them, and had a
name among the three. {11:21} Of the three, he was more honorable than
the two, and was made their captain: however he didn't attain to the
three. {11:22} 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. {11:23} He killed 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 killed him with his own spear. {11:24}
Benaiah the son of Jehoiada did these things, and had a name among the
three mighty men. {11:25} Behold, he was more honorable than the
thirty, but he didn't attain to the three: and David set him over his
guard. {11:26} Also the mighty men of the armies: Asahel the brother of
Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem, {11:27} Shammoth the
Harorite, Helez the Pelonite, {11:28} Ira the son of Ikkesh the
Tekoite, Abiezer the Anathothite, {11:29} Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai
the Ahohite, {11:30} Maharai the Netophathite, Heled the son of Baanah
the Netophathite, {11:31} Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the
children of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite, {11:32} Hurai of the
brooks of Gaash, Abiel the Arbathite, {11:33} Azmaveth the Baharumite,
Eliahba the Shaalbonite, {11:34} the sons of Hashem the Gizonite,
Jonathan the son of Shagee the Hararite, {11:35} Ahiam the son of Sacar
the Hararite, Eliphal the son of Ur, {11:36} Hepher the Mecherathite,
Ahijah the Pelonite, {11:37} Hezro the Carmelite, Naarai the son of
Ezbai, {11:38} Joel the brother of Nathan, Mibhar the son of Hagri,
{11:39} Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Berothite, the armor bearer of
Joab the son of Zeruiah, {11:40} Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,
{11:41} Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai, {11:42} Adina the
son of Shiza the Reubenite, a chief of the Reubenites, and thirty with
him, {11:43} Hanan the son of Maacah, and Joshaphat the Mithnite,
{11:44} Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Jeiel the sons of Hotham the
Aroerite, {11:45} Jediael the son of Shimri, and Joha his brother, the
Tizite, {11:46} Eliel the Mahavite, and Jeribai, and Joshaviah, the
sons of Elnaam, and Ithmah the Moabite, {11:47} Eliel, and Obed, and
Jaasiel the Mezobaite.

   {12:1} 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. {12:2} 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. {12:3} 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, {12:4} and Ishmaiah the Gibeonite, a
mighty man among the thirty, and over the thirty, and Jeremiah, and
Jahaziel, and Johanan, and Jozabad the Gederathite, {12:5} Eluzai, and
Jerimoth, and Bealiah, and Shemariah, and Shephatiah the Haruphite,
{12:6} Elkanah, and Isshiah, and Azarel, and Joezer, and Jashobeam, the
Korahites, {12:7} and Joelah, and Zebadiah, the sons of Jeroham of
Gedor. {12:8} 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; {12:9} Ezer
the chief, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third, {12:10} Mishmannah the
fourth, Jeremiah the fifth, {12:11} Attai the sixth, Eliel the seventh,
{12:12} Johanan the eighth, Elzabad the ninth, {12:13} Jeremiah the
tenth, Machbannai the eleventh. {12:14} 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. {12:15} 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. {12:16} There came of the children of Benjamin and
Judah to the stronghold to David. {12:17} David went out to meet them,
and answered them, "If you have come peaceably to me to help me, my
heart shall be knit to you; but if you have come to betray me to my
adversaries, since there is no wrong in my hands, may the God of our
fathers look thereon, and rebuke it." {12:18} 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. {12:19} 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."

   {12:20} 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. {12:21} They
helped David against the band of rovers: for they were all mighty men
of valor, and were captains in the army. {12:22} For from day to day
men came to David to help him, until there was a great army, like the
army of God. {12:23} 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. {12:24} The children of
Judah who bore shield and spear were six thousand and eight hundred,
armed for war. {12:25} Of the children of Simeon, mighty men of valor
for the war, seven thousand and one hundred. {12:26} Of the children of
Levi four thousand and six hundred. {12:27} Jehoiada was the leader of
the household of Aaron; and with him were three thousand and seven
hundred, {12:28} and Zadok, a young man mighty of valor, and of his
father's house twenty-two captains. {12:29} 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.
{12:30} Of the children of Ephraim twenty thousand eight hundred,
mighty men of valor, famous men in their fathers' houses. {12:31} Of
the half-tribe of Manasseh eighteen thousand, who were mentioned by
name, to come and make David king. {12:32} Of the children of Issachar,
men who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to
do, their heads were two hundred; and all their brothers were at their
commandment. {12:33} Of Zebulun, such as were able to go out in the
army, who could set the battle in array, with all kinds of instruments
of war, fifty thousand, and who could command and were not of double
heart. {12:34} Of Naphtali one thousand captains, and with them with
shield and spear thirty-seven thousand. {12:35} Of the Danites who
could set the battle in array, twenty-eight thousand six hundred.
{12:36} Of Asher, such as were able to go out in the army, who could
set the battle in array, forty thousand. {12:37} On the other side of
the Jordan, of the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and of the half-tribe
of Manasseh, with all kinds of instruments of war for the battle, one
hundred twenty thousand. {12:38} 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. {12:39} They were there with David three
days, eating and drinking; for their brothers had made preparation for
them. {12:40} Moreover those who were near to them, 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 cattle, and sheep in abundance: for
there was joy in Israel.

   {13:1} David consulted with the captains of thousands and of
hundreds, even with every leader. {13:2} David said to all the assembly
of Israel, "If it seems good to you, and if it is 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; {13:3} and
let us bring again the ark of our God to us. For we didn't seek it in
the days of Saul."

   {13:4} All the assembly said that they would do so; for the thing
was right in the eyes of all the people. {13:5} 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. {13:6}
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. {13:7} 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. {13:8} 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. {13:9} When they came to the threshing
floor of Chidon, Uzza put forth his hand to hold the ark; for the oxen
stumbled. {13:10} 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. {13:11} David was displeased, because Yahweh had broken
forth on Uzza; and he called that place Perez Uzza, to this day.
{13:12} David was afraid of God that day, saying, "How shall I bring
the ark of God home to me?" {13:13} 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. {13:14} 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.

   {14:1} Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees,
and masons, and carpenters, to build him a house. {14:2} David
perceived that Yahweh had established him king over Israel; for his
kingdom was exalted on high, for his people Israel's sake. {14:3} David
took more wives at Jerusalem; and David became the father of more sons
and daughters. {14:4} These are the names of the children whom he had
in Jerusalem: Shammua, and Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon, {14:5} and
Ibhar, and Elishua, and Elpelet, {14:6} and Nogah, and Nepheg, and
Japhia, {14:7} and Elishama, and Beeliada, and Eliphelet. {14:8} 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. {14:9} Now the Philistines had come and made a raid
in the valley of Rephaim. {14:10} David inquired of God, saying, "Shall
I go up against the Philistines? Will you deliver them into my hand?"

   Yahweh said to him, "Go up; for I will deliver them into your hand."

   {14:11} 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. {14:12} They left their gods there; and David gave
commandment, and they were burned with fire. {14:13} The Philistines
yet again made a raid in the valley. {14:14} 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. {14:15} 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 has gone
out before you to strike the army of the Philistines."

   {14:16} David did as God commanded him: and they struck the army of
the Philistines from Gibeon even to Gezer. {14:17} The fame of David
went out into all lands; and Yahweh brought the fear of him on all
nations.

   {15:1} 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. {15:2} Then David
said, "No one ought to carry the ark of God but the Levites. For Yahweh
has chosen them to carry the ark of God, and to minister to him
forever."

   {15:3} David assembled all Israel at Jerusalem, to bring up the ark
of Yahweh to its place, which he had prepared for it. {15:4} David
gathered together the sons of Aaron, and the Levites: {15:5} of the
sons of Kohath, Uriel the chief, and his brothers one hundred twenty;
{15:6} of the sons of Merari, Asaiah the chief, and his brothers two
hundred twenty; {15:7} of the sons of Gershom, Joel the chief, and his
brothers one hundred thirty; {15:8} of the sons of Elizaphan, Shemaiah
the chief, and his brothers two hundred; {15:9} of the sons of Hebron,
Eliel the chief, and his brothers eighty; {15:10} of the sons of
Uzziel, Amminadab the chief, and his brothers one hundred twelve.
{15:11} David called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the
Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, and Joel, Shemaiah, and Eliel, and
Amminadab, {15:12} and said to them, "You are the heads of the fathers'
households 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. {15:13} For because you
didn't carry it at first, Yahweh our God made broke out against us,
because we didn't seek him according to the ordinance."

   {15:14} So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to
bring up the ark of Yahweh, the God of Israel. {15:15} 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. {15:16}
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. {15:17} 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; {15:18} 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. {15:19} So the
singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were given cymbals of brass to sound
aloud; {15:20} and Zechariah, and Aziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel,
and Unni, and Eliab, and Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with stringed
instruments set to Alamoth; {15:21} and Mattithiah, and Eliphelehu, and
Mikneiah, and Obed-Edom, and Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps tuned to
the eight-stringed lyre, to lead. {15:22} Chenaniah, chief of the
Levites, was over the song: he instructed about the song, because he
was skillful. {15:23} Berechiah and Elkanah were doorkeepers for the
ark. {15:24} Shebaniah, and Joshaphat, and Nethanel, and Amasai, and
Zechariah, and Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, blew the trumpets
before the ark of God: and Obed-Edom and Jehiah were doorkeepers for
the ark. {15:25} 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. {15:26} It happened, when God
helped the Levites who bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, that
they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams. {15:27} 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. {15:28} 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. {15:29} 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.

   {16:1} 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. {16:2} When David had made an
end of offering the burnt offering and the peace offerings, he blessed
the people in the name of Yahweh. {16:3} He dealt to everyone of
Israel, both man and woman, to every one a loaf of bread, and a portion
of meat, and a cake of raisins. {16:4} 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: {16:5} 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; {16:6} and Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets
continually, before the ark of the covenant of God.

   {16:7} Then on that day David first ordained to give thanks to
Yahweh, by the hand of Asaph and his brothers.
{16:8} Oh give thanks to Yahweh.
   Call on his name.
   Make his doings known among the peoples.
{16:9} Sing to him.
   Sing praises to him.
   Tell of all his marvelous works.
{16:10} Glory in his holy name.
   Let the heart of those who seek Yahweh rejoice.
{16:11} Seek Yahweh and his strength.
   Seek his face forever more.
{16:12} Remember his marvelous works that he has done,
   his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth,
{16:13} you seed of Israel his servant,
   you children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
{16:14} He is Yahweh our God.
   His judgments are in all the earth.
{16:15} Remember his covenant forever,
   the word which he commanded to a thousand generations,
   {16:16} the covenant which he made with Abraham,
   his oath to Isaac.
{16:17} He confirmed the same to Jacob for a statute,
   and to Israel for an everlasting covenant,
{16:18} saying, "I will give you the land of Canaan,
   The lot of your inheritance,"
   {16:19} when you were but a few men in number,
   yes, very few, and foreigners were in it.
{16:20} They went about from nation to nation,
   from one kingdom to another people.
{16:21} He allowed no man to do them wrong.
   Yes, he reproved kings for their sakes,
{16:22} "Don't touch my anointed ones!
   Do my prophets no harm!"
{16:23} Sing to Yahweh, all the earth!
   Display his salvation from day to day.
{16:24} Declare his glory among the nations,
   and his marvelous works among all the peoples.
{16:25} For great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised.
   He also is to be feared above all gods.
{16:26} For all the gods of the peoples are idols,
   but Yahweh made the heavens.
{16:27} Honor and majesty are before him.
   Strength and gladness are in his place.
{16:28} Ascribe to Yahweh, you relatives of the peoples,
   ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength!
{16:29} Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due to his name.
   Bring an offering, and come before him.
   Worship Yahweh in holy array.
{16:30} Tremble before him, all the earth.
   The world also is established that it can't be moved.
{16:31} Let the heavens be glad,
   and let the earth rejoice!
   Let them say among the nations, "Yahweh reigns!"
{16:32} Let the sea roar, and its fullness!
   Let the field exult, and all that is therein!
{16:33} Then the trees of the forest will sing for joy before Yahweh,
   for he comes to judge the earth.
{16:34} Oh give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good,
   for his loving kindness endures forever.
{16:35} 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."
{16:36} Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel,
   from everlasting even to everlasting.

   All the people said, "Amen," and praised Yahweh.

   {16:37} 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; {16:38} and Obed-Edom with their brothers,
sixty-eight; Obed-Edom also the son of Jeduthun and Hosah to be
doorkeepers; {16:39} and Zadok the priest, and his brothers the
priests, before the tabernacle of Yahweh in the high place that was at
Gibeon, {16:40} 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;
{16:41} 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; {16:42} 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. {16:43} All the people departed every man to his house:
and David returned to bless his house.

   {17:1} 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 is under curtains."

   {17:2} Nathan said to David, "Do all that is in your heart; for God
is with you."

   {17:3} It happened the same night, that the word of God came to
Nathan, saying, {17:4} "Go and tell David my servant, 'Thus says
Yahweh, "You shall not build me a house to dwell in; {17:5} 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.
{17:6} In all places in which I have walked with all Israel, did I
speak 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?'"'

   {17:7} "Now therefore, you shall 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. {17:8} I have
been with you wherever you have gone, and have cut off all your enemies
from before you. I will make you a name, like the name of the great
ones who are in the earth. {17:9} 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, {17:10} and 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.
{17:11} 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. {17:12} He
shall build me a house, and I will establish his throne forever.
{17:13} I will be his father, and he shall be my son. I will not take
my loving kindness away from him, as I took it from him that was before
you; {17:14} but I will settle him in my house and in my kingdom
forever. His throne shall be established forever."'" {17:15} According
to all these words, and according to all this vision, so Nathan spoke
to David.

   {17:16} 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? {17:17} 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 respected me according to the estate of a man of high degree,
Yahweh God. {17:18} What can David say yet more to you concerning the
honor which is done to your servant? For you know your servant. {17:19}
Yahweh, for your servant's sake, and according to your own heart, you
have worked all this greatness, to make known all these great things.
{17:20} Yahweh, there is none like you, neither is there any God
besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears. {17:21}
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? {17:22} For your people Israel you made your
own people forever; and you, Yahweh, became their God. {17:23} 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. {17:24} Let your name be established and magnified forever,
saying, 'Yahweh of Armies is the God of Israel, even a God to Israel.
The house of David your servant is established before you.' {17:25} For
you, my God, have revealed to your servant that you will build him a
house. Therefore your servant has found courage  to pray before you.
{17:26} Now, Yahweh, you are God, and have promised this good thing to
your servant. {17:27} 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."

   {18:1} 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. {18:2} He struck Moab; and the Moabites became servants to
David, and brought tribute. {18:3} David struck Hadadezer king of Zobah
to Hamath, as he went to establish his dominion by the river Euphrates.
{18:4} David took from him one thousand chariots, and seven thousand
horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen; and David hamstrung all the
chariot horses, but reserved of them for one hundred chariots. {18:5}
When the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah,
David struck of the Syrians twenty-two thousand men. {18:6} Then David
put garrisons in Syria of Damascus; and the Syrians became servants to
David, and brought tribute. Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he
went. {18:7} David took the shields of gold that were on the servants
of Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem. {18:8} From Tibhath and
from Cun, cities of Hadadezer, David took very much brass, with which
Solomon made the bronze sea, and the pillars, and the vessels of brass.
{18:9} When Tou king of Hamath heard that David had struck all the army
of Hadadezer king of Zobah, {18:10} he sent Hadoram his son to king
David, to Greet him, and to bless him, because he had fought against
Hadadezer and struck him; (for Hadadezer had wars with Tou;) and he had
with him all kinds of vessels of gold and silver and brass. {18:11}
King David also dedicated these to Yahweh, with the silver and the gold
that he carried away from all the nations; from Edom, and from Moab,
and from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines, and from
Amalek. {18:12} Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah struck of the
Edomites in the Valley of Salt eighteen thousand. {18:13} He put
garrisons in Edom; and all the Edomites became servants to David.
Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went. {18:14} David reigned
over all Israel; and he executed justice and righteousness to all his
people. {18:15} Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the army; and
Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder; {18:16} and Zadok the son
of Ahitub, and Abimelech the son of Abiathar, were priests; and Shavsha
was scribe; {18:17} and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the
Cherethites and the Pelethites; and the sons of David were chief about
the king.

   {19:1} It happened after this, that Nahash the king of the children
of Ammon died, and his son reigned in his place. {19:2} David said, "I
will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father
showed kindness to me."

   So David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father.
David's servants came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun,
to comfort him. {19:3} But the princes of the children of Ammon said to
Hanun, "Do you think that David honors your father, in that he has sent
comforters to you? Haven't his servants come to you to search, to
overthrow, and to spy out the land?" {19:4} So Hanun took David's
servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the middle,
even to their buttocks, and sent them away. {19:5} Then there went
certain persons, and told David how the men were served. He sent to
meet them; for the men were greatly ashamed. The king said, "Stay at
Jericho until your beards have grown, and then return."

   {19:6} When the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves
odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent one thousand
talents of silver to hire them chariots and horsemen out of
Mesopotamia, and out of Arammaacah, and out of Zobah. {19:7} So they
hired for themselves thirty-two thousand chariots, and the king of
Maacah and his people, who came and encamped before Medeba. The
children of Ammon gathered themselves together from their cities, and
came to battle. {19:8} When David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all
the army of the mighty men. {19:9} The children of Ammon came out, and
put the battle in array at the gate of the city: and the kings who had
come were by themselves in the field. {19:10} Now when Joab saw that
the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose of all the
choice men of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians.
{19:11} The rest of the people he committed into the hand of Abishai
his brother; and they put themselves in array against the children of
Ammon. {19:12} He said, "If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you
are to help me; but if the children of Ammon are too strong for you,
then I will help you. {19:13} Be courageous, and let us be strong for
our people, and for the cities of our God. May Yahweh do that which
seems good to him."

   {19:14} So Joab and the people who were with him drew near before
the Syrians to the battle; and they fled before him. {19:15} When the
children of Ammon saw that the Syrians had fled, they likewise fled
before Abishai his brother, and entered into the city. Then Joab came
to Jerusalem. {19:16} When the Syrians saw that they were defeated by
Israel, they sent messengers, and drew forth the Syrians who were
beyond the River, with Shophach the captain of the army of Hadadezer at
their head. {19:17} It was told David; and he gathered all Israel
together, and passed over the Jordan, and came on them, and set the
battle in array against them. So when David had put the battle in array
against the Syrians, they fought with him. {19:18} The Syrians fled
before Israel; and David killed of the Syrians the men of seven
thousand chariots, and forty thousand footmen, and killed Shophach the
captain of the army. {19:19} When the servants of Hadadezer saw that
they were defeated by Israel, they made peace with David, and served
him: neither would the Syrians help the children of Ammon any more.

   {20:1} It happened, at the time of the return of the year, at the
time when kings go out, that Joab led forth the army, and wasted the
country of the children of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But
David stayed at Jerusalem. Joab struck Rabbah, and overthrew it. {20:2}
David took the crown of their king from off his head, and found it to
weigh a talent of gold, and there were precious stones in it; and it
was set on David's head: and he brought forth the spoil of the city,
exceeding much. {20:3} He brought forth the people who were therein,
and cut them with saws, and with iron picks, and with axes. David did
so to all the cities of the children of Ammon. David and all the people
returned to Jerusalem. {20:4} It happened after this, that there arose
war at Gezer with the Philistines: then Sibbecai the Hushathite killed
Sippai, of the sons of the giant; and they were subdued. {20:5} There
was again war with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair killed
Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was
like a weaver's beam. {20:6} There was again war at Gath, where there
was a man of great stature, whose fingers and toes were twenty-four,
six on each hand, and six on each foot; and he also was born to the
giant. {20:7} When he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea David's
brother killed him. {20:8} These were born to the giant in Gath; and
they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.

   {21:1} Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to number
Israel. {21:2} David said to Joab and to the princes of the people,
"Go, number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring me word, that
I may know the sum of them."

   {21:3} Joab said, "May Yahweh make his people a hundred times as
many as they are. But, my lord the king, aren't they all my lord's
servants? Why does my lord require this thing? Why will he be a cause
of guilt to Israel?"

   {21:4} Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab.
Therefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to
Jerusalem. {21:5} Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people
to David. All those of Israel were one million one hundred thousand men
who drew sword: and in Judah were four hundred seventy thousand men who
drew sword. {21:6} But he didn't count Levi and Benjamin among them;
for the king's word was abominable to Joab. {21:7} God was displeased
with this thing; therefore he struck Israel. {21:8} David said to God,
"I have sinned greatly, in that I have done this thing. But now, put
away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very
foolishly."

   {21:9} Yahweh spoke to Gad, David's seer, saying, {21:10} "Go and
speak to David, saying, 'Thus says Yahweh, "I offer you three things.
Choose one of them, that I may do it to you."'"

   {21:11} So Gad came to David, and said to him, "Thus says Yahweh,
'Take your choice: {21:12} either three years of famine; or three
months to be consumed before your foes, while the sword of your enemies
overtakes you; or else three days the sword of Yahweh, even pestilence
in the land, and the angel of Yahweh destroying throughout all the
borders of Israel. Now therefore consider what answer I shall return to
him who sent me.'"

   {21:13} David said to Gad, "I am in distress. Let me fall, I pray,
into the hand of Yahweh; for his mercies are very great. Let me not
fall into the hand of man."

   {21:14} So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel; and seventy thousand
men of Israel fell. {21:15} God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy
it. As he was about to destroy, Yahweh saw, and he relented of the
disaster, and said to the destroying angel, "It is enough; now stay
your hand." The angel of Yahweh was standing by the threshing floor of
Ornan the Jebusite. {21:16} David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel
of Yahweh standing between earth and the sky, having a drawn sword in
his hand stretched out over Jerusalem.

   Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their
faces. {21:17} David said to God, "Isn't it I who commanded the people
to be numbered? It is even I who have sinned and done very wickedly;
but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand, O Yahweh my
God, be against me, and against my father's house; but not against your
people, that they should be plagued."

   {21:18} Then the angel of Yahweh commanded Gad to tell David that
David should go up, and raise an altar to Yahweh in the threshing floor
of Ornan the Jebusite. {21:19} David went up at the saying of Gad,
which he spoke in the name of Yahweh. {21:20} Ornan turned back, and
saw the angel; and his four sons who were with him hid themselves. Now
Ornan was threshing wheat. {21:21} As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked
and saw David, and went out of the threshing floor, and bowed himself
to David with his face to the ground. {21:22} Then David said to Ornan,
"Give me the place of this threshing floor, that I may build thereon an
altar to Yahweh. You shall sell it to me for the full price, that the
plague may be stopped from afflicting the people."

   {21:23} Ornan said to David, "Take it for yourself, and let my lord
the king do that which is good in his eyes. Behold, I give the oxen for
burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat
for the meal offering. I give it all."

   {21:24} King David said to Ornan, "No; but I will most certainly buy
it for the full price. For I will not take that which is yours for
Yahweh, nor offer a burnt offering without cost."

   {21:25} So David gave to Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight
for the place. {21:26} David built an altar to Yahweh there, and
offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called on Yahweh; and
he answered him from the sky by fire on the altar of burnt offering.
{21:27} Yahweh commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into
its sheath. {21:28} At that time, when David saw that Yahweh had
answered him in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he
sacrificed there. {21:29} For the tabernacle of Yahweh, which Moses
made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering, were at that
time in the high place at Gibeon. {21:30} But David couldn't go before
it to inquire of God; for he was afraid because of the sword of the
angel of Yahweh.

   {22:1} Then David said, "This is the house of Yahweh God, and this
is the altar of burnt offering for Israel." {22:2} David gave orders to
gather together the foreigners who were in the land of Israel; and he
set masons to cut worked stones to build God's house. {22:3} David
prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates,
and for the couplings; and brass in abundance without weight; {22:4}
and cedar trees without number: for the Sidonians and they of Tyre
brought cedar trees in abundance to David. {22:5} David said, "Solomon
my son is young and tender, and the house that is to be built for
Yahweh must be exceedingly magnificent, of fame and of glory throughout
all countries. I will therefore make preparation for it." So David
prepared abundantly before his death. {22:6} Then he called for Solomon
his son, and commanded him to build a house for Yahweh, the God of
Israel. {22:7} David said to Solomon his son, "As for me, it was in my
heart to build a house to the name of Yahweh my God. {22:8} But the
word of Yahweh came to me, saying, 'You have shed blood abundantly, and
have made great wars. You shall not build a house to my name, because
you have shed much blood on the earth in my sight. {22:9} Behold, a son
shall be born to you, who shall be a man of rest. I will give him rest
from all his enemies all around; for his name shall be Solomon, and I
will give peace and quietness to Israel in his days. {22:10} He shall
build a house for my name; and he shall be my son, and I will be his
father; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel for
ever.' {22:11} Now, my son, may Yahweh be with you and prosper you, and
build the house of Yahweh your God, as he has spoken concerning you.
{22:12} May Yahweh give you discretion and understanding, and put you
in charge of Israel; that so you may keep the law of Yahweh your God.
{22:13} Then you will prosper, if you observe to do the statutes and
the ordinances which Yahweh gave Moses concerning Israel. Be strong,
and courageous. Don't be afraid, neither be dismayed. {22:14} Now,
behold, in my affliction I have prepared for the house of Yahweh one
hundred thousand talents of gold, one million talents of silver, and
brass and iron without weight; for it is in abundance. I have also
prepared timber and stone; and you may add to them. {22:15} There are
also workmen with you in abundance, cutters and workers of stone and
timber, and all kinds of men who are skillful in every kind of work:
{22:16} of the gold, the silver, and the brass, and the iron, there is
no number. Arise and be doing, and may Yahweh be with you."

   {22:17} David also commanded all the princes of Israel to help
Solomon his son, saying, {22:18} "Isn't Yahweh your God with you?
Hasn't he given you rest on every side? For he has delivered the
inhabitants of the land into my hand; and the land is subdued before
Yahweh, and before his people. {22:19} Now set your heart and your soul
to seek after Yahweh your God. Arise therefore, and build the sanctuary
of Yahweh God, to bring the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, and the holy
vessels of God, into the house that is to be built to the name of
Yahweh."

   {23:1} Now David was old and full of days; and he made Solomon his
son king over Israel. {23:2} He gathered together all the princes of
Israel, with the priests and the Levites. {23:3} The Levites were
numbered from thirty years old and upward: and their number by their
polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand. {23:4} David said, "Of
these, twenty-four thousand were to oversee the work of the house of
Yahweh; six thousand were officers and judges; {23:5} four thousand
were doorkeepers; and four thousand praised Yahweh with the instruments
which I made, for giving praise."

   {23:6} David divided them into divisions according to the sons of
Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. {23:7} Of the Gershonites: Ladan and
Shimei. {23:8} The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the chief, and Zetham, and
Joel, three. {23:9} The sons of Shimei: Shelomoth, and Haziel, and
Haran, three. These were the heads of the fathers' households of Ladan.
{23:10} The sons of Shimei: Jahath, Zina, and Jeush, and Beriah. These
four were the sons of Shimei. {23:11} Jahath was the chief, and Zizah
the second: but Jeush and Beriah didn't have many sons; therefore they
became a fathers' house in one reckoning. {23:12} The sons of Kohath:
Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four. {23:13} The sons of Amram:
Aaron and Moses; and Aaron was separated, that he should sanctify the
most holy things, he and his sons, forever, to burn incense before
Yahweh, to minister to him, and to bless in his name, forever. {23:14}
But as for Moses the man of God, his sons were named among the tribe of
Levi. {23:15} The sons of Moses: Gershom and Eliezer. {23:16} The sons
of Gershom: Shebuel the chief. {23:17} The sons of Eliezer were:
Rehabiah the chief; and Eliezer had no other sons; but the sons of
Rehabiah were very many. {23:18} The sons of Izhar: Shelomith the
chief. {23:19} The sons of Hebron: Jeriah the chief, Amariah the
second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth. {23:20} The sons
of Uzziel: Micah the chief, and Isshiah the second. {23:21} The sons of
Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The sons of Mahli: Eleazar and Kish. {23:22}
Eleazar died, and had no sons, but daughters only: and their brothers
the sons of Kish took them as wives. {23:23} The sons of Mushi: Mahli,
and Eder, and Jeremoth, three. {23:24} These were the sons of Levi
after their fathers' houses, even the heads of the fathers' houses of
those who were counted individually, in the number of names by their
polls, who did the work for the service of the house of Yahweh, from
twenty years old and upward. {23:25} For David said, "Yahweh, the God
of Israel, has given rest to his people; and he dwells in Jerusalem
forever. {23:26} Also the Levites will no longer need to carry the
tabernacle and all its vessels for its service." {23:27} For by the
last words of David the sons of Levi were numbered, from twenty years
old and upward. {23:28} For their office was to wait on the sons of
Aaron for the service of the house of Yahweh, in the courts, and in the
rooms, and in the purifying of all holy things, even the work of the
service of God's house; {23:29} for the show bread also, and for the
fine flour for a meal offering, whether of unleavened wafers, or of
that which is baked in the pan, or of that which is soaked, and for all
kinds of measure and size; {23:30} and to stand every morning to thank
and praise Yahweh, and likewise in the evening; {23:31} and to offer
all burnt offerings to Yahweh, on the Sabbaths, on the new moons, and
on the set feasts, in number according to the ordinance concerning
them, continually before Yahweh; {23:32} and that they should keep the
duty of the Tent of Meeting, and the duty of the holy place, and the
duty of the sons of Aaron their brothers, for the service of the house
of Yahweh.

   {24:1} These were the divisions of the sons of Aaron. The sons of
Aaron: Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. {24:2} But Nadab and Abihu
died before their father, and had no children: therefore Eleazar and
Ithamar executed the priest's office. {24:3} David with Zadok of the
sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, divided them
according to their ordering in their service. {24:4} There were more
chief men found of the sons of Eleazar than of the sons of Ithamar; and
they were divided like this: of the sons of Eleazar there were sixteen,
heads of fathers' houses; and of the sons of Ithamar, according to
their fathers' houses, eight. {24:5} Thus were they divided impartially
by drawing lots; for there were princes of the sanctuary, and princes
of God, both of the sons of Eleazar, and of the sons of Ithamar. {24:6}
Shemaiah the son of Nethanel the scribe, who was of the Levites, wrote
them in the presence of the king, and the princes, and Zadok the
priest, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and the heads of the
fathers' households of the priests and of the Levites; one fathers'
house being taken for Eleazar, and one taken for Ithamar. {24:7} Now
the first lot came forth to Jehoiarib, the second to Jedaiah, {24:8}
the third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim, {24:9} the fifth to
Malchijah, the sixth to Mijamin, {24:10} the seventh to Hakkoz, the
eighth to Abijah, {24:11} the ninth to Jeshua, the tenth to Shecaniah,
{24:12} the eleventh to Eliashib, the twelfth to Jakim, {24:13} the
thirteenth to Huppah, the fourteenth to Jeshebeab, {24:14} the
fifteenth to Bilgah, the sixteenth to Immer, {24:15} the seventeenth to
Hezir, the eighteenth to Happizzez, {24:16} the nineteenth to
Pethahiah, the twentieth to Jehezkel, {24:17} the twenty-first to
Jachin, the twenty-second to Gamul, {24:18} the twenty-third to
Delaiah, the twenty-fourth to Maaziah. {24:19} This was their ordering
in their service, to come into the house of Yahweh according to the
ordinance given to them by Aaron their father, as Yahweh, the God of
Israel, had commanded him. {24:20} Of the rest of the sons of Levi: of
the sons of Amram, Shubael; of the sons of Shubael, Jehdeiah. {24:21}
Of Rehabiah: of the sons of Rehabiah, Isshiah the chief. {24:22} Of the
Izharites, Shelomoth; of the sons of Shelomoth, Jahath. {24:23} The
sons of Hebron: Jeriah, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third,
Jekameam the fourth. {24:24} The sons of Uzziel, Micah; of the sons of
Micah, Shamir. {24:25} The brother of Micah, Isshiah; of the sons of
Isshiah, Zechariah. {24:26} The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi; the
sons of Jaaziah: Beno. {24:27} The sons of Merari: of Jaaziah, Beno,
and Shoham, and Zaccur, and Ibri. {24:28} Of Mahli: Eleazar, who had no
sons. {24:29} Of Kish; the sons of Kish: Jerahmeel. {24:30} The sons of
Mushi: Mahli, and Eder, and Jerimoth. These were the sons of the
Levites after their fathers' houses. {24:31} These likewise cast lots
even as their brothers the sons of Aaron in the presence of David the
king, and Zadok, and Ahimelech, and the heads of the fathers'
households of the priests and of the Levites; the fathers' households
of the chief even as those of his younger brother.

   {25:1} Moreover, David and the captains of the army set apart for
the service certain of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of
Jeduthun, who should prophesy with harps, with stringed instruments,
and with cymbals: and the number of those who did the work according to
their service was: {25:2} of the sons of Asaph: Zaccur, and Joseph, and
Nethaniah, and Asharelah, the sons of Asaph, under the hand of Asaph,
who prophesied after the order of the king. {25:3} Of Jeduthun; the
sons of Jeduthun: Gedaliah, and Zeri, and Jeshaiah, Hashabiah, and
Mattithiah, six, under the hands of their father Jeduthun with the
harp, who prophesied in giving thanks and praising Yahweh. {25:4} Of
Heman; the sons of Heman: Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel, and
Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti, and Romamti-Ezer,
Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, Mahazioth. {25:5} All these were the
sons of Heman the king's seer in the words of God, to lift up the horn.
God gave to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters. {25:6} All these
were under the hands of their father for song in the house of Yahweh,
with cymbals, stringed instruments, and harps, for the service of God's
house; Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman being under the order of the king.
{25:7} The number of them, with their brothers who were instructed in
singing to Yahweh, even all who were skillful, was two hundred
eighty-eight. {25:8} They cast lots for their offices, all alike, as
well the small as the great, the teacher as the scholar. {25:9} Now the
first lot came forth for Asaph to Joseph: the second to Gedaliah; he
and his brothers and sons were twelve: {25:10} the third to Zaccur, his
sons and his brothers, twelve: {25:11} the fourth to Izri, his sons and
his brothers, twelve: {25:12} the fifth to Nethaniah, his sons and his
brothers, twelve: {25:13} the sixth to Bukkiah, his sons and his
brothers, twelve: {25:14} the seventh to Jesharelah, his sons and his
brothers, twelve: {25:15} the eighth to Jeshaiah, his sons and his
brothers, twelve: {25:16} the ninth to Mattaniah, his sons and his
brothers, twelve: {25:17} the tenth to Shimei, his sons and his
brothers, twelve: {25:18} the eleventh to Azarel, his sons and his
brothers, twelve: {25:19} the twelfth to Hashabiah, his sons and his
brothers, twelve: {25:20} for the thirteenth, Shubael, his sons and his
brothers, twelve: {25:21} for the fourteenth, Mattithiah, his sons and
his brothers, twelve: {25:22} for the fifteenth to Jeremoth, his sons
and his brothers, twelve: {25:23} for the sixteenth to Hananiah, his
sons and his brothers, twelve: {25:24} for the seventeenth to
Joshbekashah, his sons and his brothers, twelve: {25:25} for the
eighteenth to Hanani, his sons and his brothers, twelve: {25:26} for
the nineteenth to Mallothi, his sons and his brothers, twelve: {25:27}
for the twentieth to Eliathah, his sons and his brothers, twelve:
{25:28} for the one and twentieth to Hothir, his sons and his brothers,
twelve: {25:29} for the two and twentieth to Giddalti, his sons and his
brothers, twelve: {25:30} for the three and twentieth to Mahazioth, his
sons and his brothers, twelve: {25:31} for the four and twentieth to
Romamti-Ezer, his sons and his brothers, twelve.

   {26:1} For the divisions of the doorkeepers: of the Korahites,
Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph. {26:2} Meshelemiah
had sons: Zechariah the firstborn, Jediael the second, Zebadiah the
third, Jathniel the fourth, {26:3} Elam the fifth, Jehohanan the sixth,
Eliehoenai the seventh. {26:4} Obed-Edom had sons: Shemaiah the
firstborn, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, and Sacar the fourth,
and Nethanel the fifth, {26:5} Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh,
Peullethai the eighth; for God blessed him. {26:6} Also to Shemaiah his
son were sons born, who ruled over the house of their father; for they
were mighty men of valor. {26:7} The sons of Shemaiah: Othni, and
Rephael, and Obed, Elzabad, whose brothers were valiant men, Elihu, and
Semachiah. {26:8} All these were of the sons of Obed-Edom: they and
their sons and their brothers, able men in strength for the service;
sixty-two of Obed-Edom. {26:9} Meshelemiah had sons and brothers,
valiant men, eighteen. {26:10} Also Hosah, of the children of Merari,
had sons: Shimri the chief, (for though he was not the firstborn, yet
his father made him chief), {26:11} Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the
third, Zechariah the fourth: all the sons and brothers of Hosah were
thirteen. {26:12} Of these were the divisions of the doorkeepers, even
of the chief men, having offices like their brothers, to minister in
the house of Yahweh. {26:13} They cast lots, the small as well as the
great, according to their fathers' houses, for every gate. {26:14} The
lot eastward fell to Shelemiah. Then for Zechariah his son, a wise
counselor, they cast lots; and his lot came out northward. {26:15} To
Obed-Edom southward; and to his sons the storehouse. {26:16} To Shuppim
and Hosah westward, by the gate of Shallecheth, at the causeway that
goes up, watch against watch. {26:17} Eastward were six Levites,
northward four a day, southward four a day, and for the storehouse two
and two. {26:18} For Parbar westward, four at the causeway, and two at
Parbar. {26:19} These were the divisions of the doorkeepers; of the
sons of the Korahites, and of the sons of Merari. {26:20} Of the
Levites, Ahijah was over the treasures of God's house, and over the
treasures of the dedicated things. {26:21} The sons of Ladan, the sons
of the Gershonites belonging to Ladan, the heads of the fathers'
households belonging to Ladan the Gershonite: Jehieli. {26:22} The sons
of Jehieli: Zetham, and Joel his brother, over the treasures of the
house of Yahweh. {26:23} Of the Amramites, of the Izharites, of the
Hebronites, of the Uzzielites: {26:24} and Shebuel the son of Gershom,
the son of Moses, was ruler over the treasures. {26:25} His brothers:
of Eliezer, Rehabiah his son, and Jeshaiah his son, and Joram his son,
and Zichri his son, and Shelomoth his son. {26:26} This Shelomoth and
his brothers were over all the treasures of the dedicated things, which
David the king, and the heads of the fathers' households, the captains
over thousands and hundreds, and the captains of the army, had
dedicated. {26:27} They dedicated some of the spoil won in battles to
repair the house of Yahweh. {26:28} All that Samuel the seer, and Saul
the son of Kish, and Abner the son of Ner, and Joab the son of Zeruiah,
had dedicated, whoever had dedicated anything, it was under the hand of
Shelomoth, and of his brothers. {26:29} Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and
his sons were for the outward business over Israel, for officers and
judges. {26:30} Of the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his brothers, men of
valor, one thousand seven hundred, had the oversight of Israel beyond
the Jordan westward, for all the business of Yahweh, and for the
service of the king. {26:31} Of the Hebronites was Jerijah the chief,
even of the Hebronites, according to their generations by fathers'
households. In the fortieth year of the reign of David they were sought
for, and there were found among them mighty men of valor at Jazer of
Gilead. {26:32} His brothers, men of valor, were two thousand seven
hundred, heads of fathers' households, whom king David made overseers
over the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of the
Manassites, for every matter pertaining to God, and for the affairs of
the king.

   {27:1} Now the children of Israel after their number, the heads of
fathers' households and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and
their officers who served the king, in any matter of the divisions
which came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of
the year--of every division were twenty-four thousand. {27:2} Over the
first division for the first month was Jashobeam the son of Zabdiel:
and in his division were twenty-four thousand. {27:3} He was of the
children of Perez, the chief of all the captains of the army for the
first month. {27:4} Over the division of the second month was Dodai the
Ahohite, and his division; and Mikloth the ruler: and in his division
were twenty-four thousand. {27:5} The third captain of the army for the
third month was Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada the priest, chief: and in
his division were twenty-four thousand. {27:6} This is that Benaiah,
who was the mighty man of the thirty, and over the thirty: and of his
division was Ammizabad his son. {27:7} The fourth captain for the
fourth month was Asahel the brother of Joab, and Zebadiah his son after
him: and in his division were twenty-four thousand. {27:8} The fifth
captain for this fifth month was Shamhuth the Izrahite: and in his
division were twenty-four thousand. {27:9} The sixth captain for the
sixth month was Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite: and in his division
were twenty-four thousand. {27:10} The seventh captain for the seventh
month was Helez the Pelonite, of the children of Ephraim: and in his
division were twenty-four thousand. {27:11} The eighth captain for the
eighth month was Sibbecai the Hushathite, of the Zerahites: and in his
division were twenty-four thousand. {27:12} The ninth captain for the
ninth month was Abiezer the Anathothite, of the Benjamites: and in his
division were twenty-four thousand. {27:13} The tenth captain for the
tenth month was Maharai the Netophathite, of the Zerahites: and in his
division were Twenty-four thousand. {27:14} The eleventh captain for
the eleventh month was Benaiah the Pirathonite, of the children of
Ephraim: and in his division were twenty-four thousand. {27:15} The
twelfth captain for the twelfth month was Heldai the Netophathite, of
Othniel: and in his division were twenty-four thousand. {27:16}
Furthermore over the tribes of Israel: of the Reubenites was Eliezer
the son of Zichri the ruler: of the Simeonites, Shephatiah the son of
Maacah: {27:17} of Levi, Hashabiah the son of Kemuel: of Aaron, Zadok:
{27:18} of Judah, Elihu, one of the brothers of David: of Issachar,
Omri the son of Michael: {27:19} of Zebulun, Ishmaiah the son of
Obadiah: of Naphtali, Jeremoth the son of Azriel: {27:20} of the
children of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Azaziah: of the half-tribe of
Manasseh, Joel the son of Pedaiah: {27:21} of the half-tribe of
Manasseh in Gilead, Iddo the son of Zechariah: of Benjamin, Jaasiel the
son of Abner: {27:22} of Dan, Azarel the son of Jeroham. These were the
captains of the tribes of Israel. {27:23} But David didn't take the
number of them from twenty years old and under, because Yahweh had said
he would increase Israel like the stars of the sky. {27:24} Joab the
son of Zeruiah began to number, but didn't finish; and there came wrath
for this on Israel; neither was the number put into the account in the
chronicles of king David. {27:25} Over the king's treasures was
Azmaveth the son of Adiel: and over the treasures in the fields, in the
cities, and in the villages, and in the towers, was Jonathan the son of
Uzziah: {27:26} Over those who did the work of the field for tillage of
the ground was Ezri the son of Chelub: {27:27} and over the vineyards
was Shimei the Ramathite: and over the increase of the vineyards for
the winecellars was Zabdi the Shiphmite: {27:28} and over the olive
trees and the sycamore trees that were in the lowland was Baal Hanan
the Gederite: and over the cellars of oil was Joash: {27:29} and over
the herds that fed in Sharon was Shitrai the Sharonite: and over the
herds that were in the valleys was Shaphat the son of Adlai: {27:30}
and over the camels was Obil the Ishmaelite: and over the donkeys was
Jehdeiah the Meronothite: and over the flocks was Jaziz the Hagrite.
{27:31} All these were the rulers of the substance which was king
David's. {27:32} Also Jonathan, David's uncle, was a counselor, a man
of understanding, and a scribe: and Jehiel the son of Hachmoni was with
the king's sons: {27:33} Ahithophel was the king's counselor: and
Hushai the Archite was the king's friend: {27:34} and after Ahithophel
was Jehoiada the son of Benaiah, and Abiathar: and the captain of the
king's army was Joab.

   {28:1} David assembled all the princes of Israel, the princes of the
tribes, and the captains of the companies who served the king by
division, and the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds,
and the rulers over all the substance and possessions of the king and
of his sons, with the officers, and the mighty men, even all the mighty
men of valor, to Jerusalem. {28:2} Then David the king stood up on his
feet, and said, "Hear me, my brothers, and my people! As for me, it was
in my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of
Yahweh, and for the footstool of our God; and I had prepared for the
building. {28:3} But God said to me, 'You shall not build a house for
my name, because you are a man of war, and have shed blood.' {28:4}
However Yahweh, the God of Israel, chose me out of all the house of my
father to be king over Israel forever. For he has chosen Judah to be
prince; and in the house of Judah, the house of my father; and among
the sons of my father he took pleasure in me to make me king over all
Israel. {28:5} Of all my sons (for Yahweh has given me many sons), he
has chosen Solomon my son to sit on the throne of Yahweh's kingdom over
Israel. {28:6} He said to me, 'Solomon, your son, shall build my house
and my courts; for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his
father. {28:7} I will establish his kingdom forever, if he continues to
do my commandments and my ordinances, as at this day.' {28:8} Now
therefore, in the sight of all Israel, the assembly of Yahweh, and in
the audience of our God, observe and seek out all the commandments of
Yahweh your God; that you may possess this good land, and leave it for
an inheritance to your children after you forever. {28:9} You, Solomon
my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart
and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and
understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he
will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off
forever. {28:10} Take heed now; for Yahweh has chosen you to build a
house for the sanctuary. Be strong, and do it."

   {28:11} Then David gave to Solomon his son the pattern of the porch
of the temple, and of its houses, and of its treasuries, and of the
upper rooms of it, and of the inner rooms of it, and of the place of
the mercy seat; {28:12} and the pattern of all that he had by the
Spirit, for the courts of the house of Yahweh, and for all the
surrounding rooms, for the treasuries of God's house, and for the
treasuries of the dedicated things; {28:13} also for the divisions of
the priests and the Levites, and for all the work of the service of the
house of Yahweh, and for all the vessels of service in the house of
Yahweh; {28:14} of gold by weight for the gold, for all vessels of
every kind of service; for all the vessels of silver by weight, for all
vessels of every kind of service; {28:15} by weight also for the
lampstands of gold, and for its lamps, of gold, by weight for every
lampstand and for its lamps; and for the lampstands of silver, by
weight for every lampstand and for its lamps, according to the use of
every lampstand; {28:16} and the gold by weight for the tables of show
bread, for every table; and silver for the tables of silver; {28:17}
and the forks, and the basins, and the cups, of pure gold; and for the
golden bowls by weight for every bowl; and for the silver bowls by
weight for every bowl; {28:18} and for the altar of incense refined
gold by weight; and gold for the pattern of the chariot, the cherubim,
that spread out, and covered the ark of the covenant of Yahweh. {28:19}
"All this," said David, "I have been made to understand in writing from
the hand of Yahweh, even all the works of this pattern."

   {28:20} David said to Solomon his son, "Be strong and courageous,
and do it. Don't be afraid, nor be dismayed; for Yahweh God, even my
God, is with you. He will not fail you, nor forsake you, until all the
work for the service of the house of Yahweh is finished. {28:21}
Behold, there are the divisions of the priests and the Levites, for all
the service of God's house. There shall be with you in all kinds of
work every willing man who has skill, for any kind of service. Also the
captains and all the people will be entirely at your command."

   {29:1} David the king said to all the assembly, "Solomon my son,
whom alone God has chosen, is yet young and tender, and the work is
great; for the palace is not for man, but for Yahweh God. {29:2} Now I
have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for
the things of gold, and the silver for the things of silver, and the
brass for the things of brass, the iron for the things of iron, and
wood for the things of wood; onyx stones, and stones to be set, stones
for inlaid work, and of various colors, and all kinds of precious
stones, and marble stones in abundance. {29:3} In addition, because I
have set my affection on the house of my God, since I have a treasure
of my own of gold and silver, I give it to the house of my God, over
and above all that I have prepared for the holy house, {29:4} even
three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven
thousand talents of refined silver, with which to overlay the walls of
the houses; {29:5} of gold for the things of gold, and of silver for
the things of silver, and for all kinds of work to be made by the hands
of artisans. Who then offers willingly to consecrate himself this day
to Yahweh?" {29:6} Then the princes of the fathers' households, and the
princes of the tribes of Israel, and the captains of thousands and of
hundreds, with the rulers over the king's work, offered willingly;
{29:7} and they gave for the service of God's house of gold five
thousand talents and ten thousand darics, and of silver ten thousand
talents, and of brass eighteen thousand talents, and of iron a hundred
thousand talents. {29:8} They with whom precious stones were found gave
them to the treasure of the house of Yahweh, under the hand of Jehiel
the Gershonite. {29:9} Then the people rejoiced, because they offered
willingly, because with a perfect heart they offered willingly to
Yahweh: and David the king also rejoiced with great joy. {29:10}
Therefore David blessed Yahweh before all the assembly; and David said,
"You are blessed, Yahweh, the God of Israel our father, forever and
ever. {29:11} Yours, Yahweh, is the greatness, the power, the glory,
the victory, and the majesty! For all that is in the heavens and in the
earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, Yahweh, and you are exalted as
head above all. {29:12} Both riches and honor come from you, and you
rule over all; and in your hand is power and might; and it is in your
hand to make great, and to give strength to all. {29:13} Now therefore,
our God, we thank you, and praise your glorious name. {29:14} But who
am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so
willingly as this? For all things come from you, and of your own have
we given you. {29:15} For we are strangers before you, and foreigners,
as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and
there is no remaining. {29:16} Yahweh our God, all this store that we
have prepared to build you a house for your holy name comes from your
hand, and is all your own. {29:17} I know also, my God, that you try
the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the
uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. Now
have I seen with joy your people, that are present here, offer
willingly to you. {29:18} Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of
Israel, our fathers, keep this forever in the imagination of the
thoughts of the heart of your people, and prepare their heart for you;
{29:19} and give to Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep your
commandments, your testimonies, and your statutes, and to do all these
things, and to build the palace, for which I have made provision."
{29:20} David said to all the assembly, "Now bless Yahweh your God!"

   All the assembly blessed Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and bowed
down their heads and prostrated themselves before Yahweh and the king.
{29:21} They sacrificed sacrifices to Yahweh, and offered burnt
offerings to Yahweh, on the next day after that day, even one thousand
bulls, one thousand rams, and one thousand lambs, with their drink
offerings, and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel, {29:22} and ate
and drink before Yahweh on that day with great gladness. They made
Solomon the son of David king the second time, and anointed him to
Yahweh to be prince, and Zadok to be priest. {29:23} Then Solomon sat
on the throne of Yahweh as king instead of David his father, and
prospered; and all Israel obeyed him. {29:24} All the princes, the
mighty men, and also all of the sons of king David submitted themselves
to Solomon the king. {29:25} Yahweh magnified Solomon exceedingly in
the sight of all Israel, and bestowed on him such royal majesty as had
not been on any king before him in Israel. {29:26} Now David the son of
Jesse reigned over all Israel. {29:27} The time that he reigned over
Israel was forty years; he reigned seven years in Hebron, and he
reigned thirty-three years in Jerusalem. {29:28} He died in a good old
age, full of days, riches, and honor: and Solomon his son reigned in
his place. {29:29} Now the acts of David the king, first and last,
behold, they are written in the history of Samuel the seer, and in the
history of Nathan the prophet, and in the history of Gad the seer,
{29:30} with all his reign and his might, and the times that went over
him, and over Israel, and over all the kingdoms of the countries.





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Footnotes:
[1] {2:3} "Yahweh" is God's proper Name, sometimes rendered "LORD" (all
caps) in other translations.

[2] {4:10} The Hebrew word rendered "God" is "Elohim."

