The Old Testament of the
King James Version of the Bible
20:1 And there happened to be there a man of
Belial, whose name was
Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and
he blew a trumpet, and
said, We have no part in David, neither have
we inheritance in the son
of Jesse: every man to his tents, O Israel.
20:2 So every man of Israel went up from
after David, and followed
Sheba the son of Bichri: but the men of
Judah clave unto their king,
from Jordan even to Jerusalem.
20:3 And David came to his house at
Jerusalem; and the king took the
ten women his concubines, whom he had left
to keep the house, and put
them in ward, and fed them, but went not in
unto them. So they were
shut up unto the day of their death, living
in widowhood.
20:4 Then said the king to Amasa, Assemble
me the men of Judah within
three days, and be thou here present.
20:5 So Amasa went to assemble the men of
Judah: but he tarried longer
than the set time which he had appointed
him.
20:6 And David said to Abishai, Now shall
Sheba the son of Bichri do
us more harm than did Absalom: take thou thy
lord's servants, and
pursue after him, lest he get him fenced
cities, and escape us.
20:7 And there went out after him Joab's
men, and the Cherethites, and
the Pelethites, and all the mighty men: and
they went out of
Jerusalem, to pursue after Sheba the son of
Bichri.
20:8 When they were at the great stone which
is in Gibeon, Amasa went
before them. And Joab's garment that he had
put on was girded unto
him, and upon it a girdle with a sword
fastened upon his loins in the
sheath thereof; and as he went forth it fell
out.
20:9 And Joab said to Amasa, Art thou in
health, my brother? And Joab
took Amasa by the beard with the right hand
to kiss him.
20:10 But Amasa took no heed to the sword
that was in Joab's hand: so
he smote him therewith in the fifth rib, and
shed out his bowels to
the ground, and struck him not again; and he
died. So Joab and Abishai
his brother pursued after Sheba the son of
Bichri.
20:11 And one of Joab's men stood by him,
and said, He that favoureth
Joab, and he that is for David, let him go
after Joab.
20:12 And Amasa wallowed in blood in the
midst of the highway. And
when the man saw that all the people stood
still, he removed Amasa out
of the highway into the field, and cast a
cloth upon him, when he saw
that every one that came by him stood still.
20:13 When he was removed out of the
highway, all the people went on
after Joab, to pursue after Sheba the son of
Bichri.
20:14 And he went through all the tribes of
Israel unto Abel, and to
Bethmaachah, and all the Berites: and they
were gathered together, and
went also after him.
20:15 And they came and besieged him in Abel
of Bethmaachah, and they
cast up a bank against the city, and it
stood in the trench: and all
the people that were with Joab battered the
wall, to throw it down.
20:16 Then cried a wise woman out of the
city, Hear, hear; say, I pray
you, unto Joab, Come near hither, that I may
speak with thee.
20:17 And when he was come near unto her,
the woman said, Art thou
Joab? And he answered, I am he. Then she
said unto him, Hear the
words of thine handmaid. And he answered, I
do hear.
20:18 Then she spake, saying, They were wont
to speak in old time,
saying, They shall surely ask counsel at
Abel: and so they ended the
matter.
20:19 I am one of them that are peaceable
and faithful in Israel: thou
seekest to destroy a city and a mother in
Israel: why wilt thou
swallow up the inheritance of the LORD?
20:20 And Joab answered and
said, Far be it, far be it from me, that I
should swallow up or
destroy.
20:21 The matter is not so: but a man of
mount Ephraim, Sheba the son
of Bichri by name, hath lifted up his hand
against the king, even
against David: deliver him only, and I will
depart from the city. And
the woman said unto Joab, Behold, his head
shall be thrown to thee
over the wall.
20:22 Then the woman went unto all the
people in her wisdom. And they
cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri,
and cast it out to Joab.
And he blew a trumpet, and they retired from
the city, every man to
his tent. And Joab returned to Jerusalem
unto the king.
20:23 Now Joab was over all the host of
Israel: and Benaiah the son of
Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over
the Pelethites: 20:24 And
Adoram was over the tribute: and Jehoshaphat
the son of Ahilud was
recorder: 20:25 And Sheva was scribe: and
Zadok and Abiathar were the
priests: 20:26 And Ira also the Jairite was
a chief ruler about David.
21:1 Then there was a famine in the days of
David three years, year
after year; and David enquired of the LORD.
And the LORD answered, It
is for Saul, and for his bloody house,
because he slew the Gibeonites.
21:2 And the king called the Gibeonites, and
said unto them; (now the
Gibeonites were not of the children of
Israel, but of the remnant of
the Amorites; and the children of Israel had
sworn unto them: and Saul
sought to slay them in his zeal to the
children of Israel and Judah.)
21:3 Wherefore David said unto the
Gibeonites, What shall I do for
you? and wherewith shall I make the
atonement, that ye may bless the
inheritance of the LORD? 21:4 And the
Gibeonites said unto him, We
will have no silver nor gold of Saul, nor of
his house; neither for us
shalt thou kill any man in Israel. And he
said, What ye shall say,
that will I do for you.
21:5 And they answered the king, The man
that consumed us, and that
devised against us that we should be
destroyed from remaining in any
of the coasts of Israel, 21:6 Let seven men
of his sons be delivered
unto us, and we will hang them up unto the
LORD in Gibeah of Saul,
whom the LORD did choose. And the king said,
I will give them.
21:7 But the king spared Mephibosheth, the
son of Jonathan the son of
Saul, because of the LORD's oath that was
between them, between David
and Jonathan the son of Saul.
21:8 But the king took the two sons of
Rizpah the daughter of Aiah,
whom she bare unto Saul, Armoni and
Mephibosheth; and the five sons of
Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she
brought up for Adriel the son of
Barzillai the Meholathite: 21:9 And he
delivered them into the hands
of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in
the hill before the LORD:
and they fell all seven together, and were
put to death in the days of
harvest, in the first days, in the beginning
of barley harvest.
21:10 And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took
sackcloth, and spread it
for her upon the rock, from the beginning of
harvest until water
dropped upon them out of heaven, and
suffered neither the birds of the
air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts
of the field by night.
21:11 And it was told David what Rizpah the
daughter of Aiah, the
concubine of Saul, had done.
21:12 And David went and took the bones of
Saul and the bones of
Jonathan his son from the men of
Jabeshgilead, which had stolen them
from the street of Bethshan, where the
Philistines had hanged them,
when the Philistines had slain Saul in
Gilboa: 21:13 And he brought up
from thence the bones of Saul and the bones
of Jonathan his son; and
they gathered the bones of them that were
hanged.
21:14 And the bones of Saul and Jonathan his
son buried they in the
country of Benjamin in Zelah, in the
sepulchre of Kish his father: and
they performed all that the king commanded.
And after that God was
intreated for the land.
21:15 Moreover the Philistines had yet war
again with Israel; and
David went down, and his servants with him,
and fought against the
Philistines: and David waxed faint.
21:16 And Ishbibenob, which was of the sons
of the giant, the weight
of whose spear weighed three hundred shekels
of brass in weight, he
being girded with a new sword, thought to
have slain David.
21:17 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah
succoured him, and smote the
Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of
David sware unto him,
saying, Thou shalt go no more out with us to
battle, that thou quench
not the light of Israel.
21:18 And it came to pass after this, that
there was again a battle
with the Philistines at Gob: then Sibbechai
the Hushathite slew Saph,
which was of the sons of the giant.
21:19 And there was again a battle in Gob
with the Philistines, where
Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim, a
Bethlehemite, slew the brother of
Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose
spear was like a weaver's
beam.
21:20 And there was yet a battle in Gath,
where was a man of great
stature, that had on every hand six fingers,
and on every foot six
toes, four and twenty in number; and he also
was born to the giant.
21:21 And when he defied Israel, Jonathan
the son of Shimeah the
brother of David slew him.
21:22 These four were born to the giant in
Gath, and fell by the hand
of David, and by the hand of his servants.
22:1 And David spake unto the LORD the words
of this song in the day
that the LORD had delivered him out of the
hand of all his enemies,
and out of the hand of Saul: 22:2 And he
said, The LORD is my rock,
and my fortress, and my deliverer; 22:3 The
God of my rock; in him
will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn
of my salvation, my high
tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou
savest me from violence.
22:4 I will call on the LORD, who is worthy
to be praised: so shall I
be saved from mine enemies.
22:5 When the waves of death compassed me,
the floods of ungodly men
made me afraid; 22:6 The sorrows of hell
compassed me about; the
snares of death prevented me; 22:7 In my
distress I called upon the
LORD, and cried to my God: and he did hear
my voice out of his temple,
and my cry did enter into his ears.
22:8 Then the earth shook and trembled; the
foundations of heaven
moved and shook, because he was wroth.
22:9 There went up a smoke out of his
nostrils, and fire out of his
mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
22:10 He bowed the heavens also, and came
down; and darkness was under
his feet.
22:11 And he rode upon a cherub, and did
fly: and he was seen upon the
wings of the wind.
22:12 And he made darkness pavilions round
about him, dark waters, and
thick clouds of the skies.
22:13 Through the brightness before him were
coals of fire kindled.
22:14 The LORD thundered from heaven, and
the most High uttered his
voice.
22:15 And he sent out arrows, and scattered
them; lightning, and
discomfited them.
22:16 And the channels of the sea appeared,
the foundations of the
world were discovered, at the rebuking of
the LORD, at the blast of
the breath of his nostrils.
22:17 He sent from above, he took me; he
drew me out of many waters;
22:18 He delivered me from my strong enemy,
and from them that hated
me: for they were too strong for me.
22:19 They prevented me in the day of my
calamity: but the LORD was my
stay.
22:20 He brought me forth also into a large
place: he delivered me,
because he delighted in me.
22:21 The LORD rewarded me according to my
righteousness: according to
the cleanness of my hands hath he
recompensed me.
22:22 For I have kept the ways of the LORD,
and have not wickedly
departed from my God.
22:23 For all his judgments were before me:
and as for his statutes, I
did not depart from them.
22:24 I was also upright before him, and
have kept myself from mine
iniquity.
22:25 Therefore the LORD hath recompensed me
according to my
righteousness; according to my cleanness in
his eye sight.
22:26 With the merciful thou wilt shew
thyself merciful, and with the
upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright.
22:27 With the pure thou wilt shew thyself
pure; and with the froward
thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury.
22:28 And the afflicted people thou wilt
save: but thine eyes are upon
the haughty, that thou mayest bring them
down.
22:29 For thou art my lamp, O LORD: and the
LORD will lighten my
darkness.
22:30 For by thee I have run through a
troop: by my God have I leaped
over a wall.
22:31 As for God, his way is perfect; the
word of the LORD is tried:
he is a buckler to all them that trust in
him.
22:32 For who is God, save the LORD? and who
is a rock, save our God?
22:33 God is my strength and power: and he
maketh my way perfect.
22:34 He maketh my feet like hinds' feet:
and setteth me upon my high
places.
22:35 He teacheth my hands to war; so that a
bow of steel is broken by
mine arms.
22:36 Thou hast also given me the shield of
thy salvation: and thy
gentleness hath made me great.
22:37 Thou hast enlarged my steps under me;
so that my feet did not
slip.
22:38 I have pursued mine enemies, and
destroyed them; and turned not
again until I had consumed them.
22:39 And I have consumed them, and wounded
them, that they could not
arise: yea, they are fallen under my feet.
22:40 For thou hast girded me with strength
to battle: them that rose
up against me hast thou subdued under me.
22:41 Thou hast also given me the necks of
mine enemies, that I might
destroy them that hate me.
22:42 They looked, but there was none to
save; even unto the LORD, but
he answered them not.
22:43 Then did I beat them as small as the
dust of the earth, I did
stamp them as the mire of the street, and
did spread them abroad.
22:44 Thou also hast delivered me from the
strivings of my people,
thou hast kept me to be head of the heathen:
a people which I knew not
shall serve me.
22:45 Strangers shall submit themselves unto
me: as soon as they hear,
they shall be obedient unto me.
22:46 Strangers shall fade away, and they
shall be afraid out of their
close places.
22:47 The LORD liveth; and blessed be my
rock; and exalted be the God
of the rock of my salvation.
22:48 It is God that avengeth me, and that
bringeth down the people
under me.
22:49 And that bringeth me forth from mine
enemies: thou also hast
lifted me up on high above them that rose up
against me: thou hast
delivered me from the violent man.
22:50 Therefore I will give thanks unto
thee, O LORD, among the
heathen, and I will sing praises unto thy
name.
22:51 He is the tower of salvation for his
king: and sheweth mercy to
his anointed, unto David, and to his seed
for evermore.
23:1 Now these be the last words of David.
David the son of Jesse
said, and the man who was raised up on high,
the anointed of the God
of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel,
said, 23:2 The Spirit of
the LORD spake by me, and his word was in my
tongue.
23:3 The God of Israel said, the Rock of
Israel spake to me, He that
ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the
fear of God.
23:4 And he shall be as the light of the
morning, when the sun riseth,
even a morning without clouds; as the tender
grass springing out of
the earth by clear shining after rain.
23:5 Although my house be not so with God;
yet he hath made with me an
everlasting covenant, ordered in all things,
and sure: for this is all
my salvation, and all my desire, although he
make it not to grow.
23:6 But the sons of Belial shall be all of
them as thorns thrust
away, because they cannot be taken with
hands: 23:7 But the man that
shall touch them must be fenced with iron
and the staff of a spear;
and they shall be utterly burned with fire
in the same place.
23:8 These be the names of the mighty men
whom David had: The
Tachmonite that sat in the seat, chief among
the captains; the same
was Adino the Eznite: he lift up his spear
against eight hundred, whom
he slew at one time.
23:9 And after him was Eleazar the son of
Dodo the Ahohite, one of the
three mighty men with David, when they
defied the Philistines that
were there gathered together to battle, and
the men of Israel were
gone away: 23:10 He arose, and smote the
Philistines until his hand
was weary, and his hand clave unto the
sword: and the LORD wrought a
great victory that day; and the people
returned after him only to
spoil.
23:11 And after him was Shammah the son of
Agee the Hararite. And the
Philistines were gathered together into a
troop, where was a piece of
ground full of lentiles: and the people fled
from the Philistines.
23:12 But he stood in the midst of the
ground, and defended it, and
slew the Philistines: and the LORD wrought a
great victory.
23:13 And three of the thirty chief went
down, and came to David in
the harvest time unto the cave of Adullam:
and the troop of the
Philistines pitched in the valley of
Rephaim.
23:14 And David was then in an hold, and the
garrison of the
Philistines was then in Bethlehem.
23:15 And David longed, and said, Oh that
one would give me drink of
the water of the well of Bethlehem, which is
by the gate! 23:16 And
the three mighty men brake through the host
of the Philistines, and
drew water out of the well of Bethlehem,
that was by the gate, and
took it, and brought it to David:
nevertheless he would not drink
thereof, but poured it out unto the LORD.
23:17 And he said, Be it far from me, O
LORD, that I should do this:
is not this the blood of the men that went
in jeopardy of their lives?
therefore he would not drink it. These
things did these three mighty
men.
23:18 And Abishai, the brother of Joab, the
son of Zeruiah, was chief
among three. And he lifted up his spear
against three hundred, and
slew them, and had the name among three.
23:19 Was he not most honourable of three?
therefore he was their
captain: howbeit he attained not unto the
first three.
23:20 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the
son of a valiant man, of
Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he slew two
lionlike men of Moab: he
went down also and slew a lion in the midst
of a pit in time of snow:
23:21 And he slew an Egyptian, a goodly man:
and the Egyptian had a
spear in his hand; but he went down to him
with a staff, and plucked
the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and
slew him with his own spear.
23:22 These things did Benaiah the son of
Jehoiada, and had the name
among three mighty men.
23:23 He was more honourable than the
thirty, but he attained not to
the first three. And David set him over his
guard.
23:24 Asahel the brother of Joab was one of
the thirty; Elhanan the
son of Dodo of Bethlehem, 23:25 Shammah the
Harodite, Elika the
Harodite, 23:26 Helez the Paltite, Ira the
son of Ikkesh the Tekoite,
23:27 Abiezer the Anethothite, Mebunnai the
Hushathite, 23:28 Zalmon
the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite, 23:29
Heleb the son of Baanah,
a Netophathite, Ittai the son of Ribai out
of Gibeah of the children
of Benjamin, 23:30 Benaiah the Pirathonite,
Hiddai of the brooks of
Gaash, 23:31 Abialbon the Arbathite,
Azmaveth the Barhumite, 23:32
Eliahba the Shaalbonite, of the sons of
Jashen, Jonathan, 23:33
Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam the son of
Sharar the Hararite, 23:34
Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai, the son of the
Maachathite, Eliam the
son of Ahithophel the Gilonite, 23:35 Hezrai
the Carmelite, Paarai the
Arbite, 23:36 Igal the son of Nathan of
Zobah, Bani the Gadite, 23:37
Zelek the Ammonite, Nahari the Beerothite,
armourbearer to Joab the
son of Zeruiah, 23:38 Ira an Ithrite, Gareb
an Ithrite, 23:39 Uriah
the Hittite: thirty and seven in all.
24:1 And again the anger of the LORD was
kindled against Israel, and
he moved David against them to say, Go,
number Israel and Judah.
24:2 For the king said to Joab the captain
of the host, which was with
him, Go now through all the tribes of
Israel, from Dan even to
Beersheba, and number ye the people, that I
may know the number of the
people.
24:3 And Joab said unto the king, Now the
LORD thy God add unto the
people, how many soever they be, an
hundredfold, and that the eyes of
my lord the king may see it: but why doth my
lord the king delight in
this thing? 24:4 Notwithstanding the king's
word prevailed against
Joab, and against the captains of the host.
And Joab and the captains
of the host went out from the presence of
the king, to number the
people of Israel.
24:5 And they passed over Jordan, and
pitched in Aroer, on the right
side of the city that lieth in the midst of
the river of Gad, and
toward Jazer: 24:6 Then they came to Gilead,
and to the land of
Tahtimhodshi; and they came to Danjaan, and
about to Zidon, 24:7 And
came to the strong hold of Tyre, and to all
the cities of the Hivites,
and of the Canaanites: and they went out to
the south of Judah, even
to Beersheba.
24:8 So when they had gone through all the
land, they came to
Jerusalem at the end of nine months and
twenty days.
24:9 And Joab gave up the sum of the number
of the people unto the
king: and there were in Israel eight hundred
thousand valiant men that
drew the sword; and the men of Judah were
five hundred thousand men.
24:10 And David's heart smote him after that
he had numbered the
people.
And David said unto the LORD, I have sinned
greatly in that I have
done: and now, I beseech thee, O LORD, take
away the iniquity of thy
servant; for I have done very foolishly.
24:11 For when David was up in the morning,
the word of the LORD came
unto the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying,
24:12 Go and say unto
David, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee
three things; choose thee one
of them, that I may do it unto thee.
24:13 So Gad came to David, and told him,
and said unto him, Shall
seven years of famine come unto thee in thy
land? or wilt thou flee
three months before thine enemies, while
they pursue thee? or that
there be three days' pestilence in thy land?
now advise, and see what
answer I shall return to him that sent me.
24:14 And David said unto Gad, I am in a
great strait: let us fall now
into the hand of the LORD; for his mercies
are great: and let me not
fall into the hand of man.
24:15 So the LORD sent a pestilence upon
Israel from the morning even
to the time appointed: and there died of the
people from Dan even to
Beersheba seventy thousand men.
24:16 And when the angel stretched out his
hand upon Jerusalem to
destroy it, the LORD repented him of the
evil, and said to the angel
that destroyed the people, It is enough:
stay now thine hand. And the
angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace
of Araunah the Jebusite.
24:17 And David spake unto the LORD when he
saw the angel that smote
the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and
I have done wickedly: but
these sheep, what have they done? let thine
hand, I pray thee, be
against me, and against my father's house.
24:18 And Gad came that day to David, and
said unto him, Go up, rear
an altar unto the LORD in the threshingfloor
of Araunah the Jebusite.
24:19 And David, according to the saying of
Gad, went up as the LORD
commanded.
24:20 And Araunah looked, and saw the king
and his servants coming on
toward him: and Araunah went out, and bowed
himself before the king on
his face upon the ground.
24:21 And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord
the king come to his
servant? And David said, To buy the
threshingfloor of thee, to build
an altar unto the LORD, that the plague may
be stayed from the people.
24:22 And Araunah said unto David, Let my
lord the king take and offer
up what seemeth good unto him: behold, here
be oxen for burnt
sacrifice, and threshing instruments and
other instruments of the oxen
for wood.
24:23 All these things did Araunah, as a
king, give unto the king. And
Araunah said unto the king, The LORD thy God
accept thee.
24:24 And the king said unto Araunah, Nay;
but I will surely buy it of
thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt
offerings unto the LORD my
God of that which doth cost me nothing. So
David bought the
threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty
shekels of silver.
24:25 And David built there an altar unto
the LORD, and offered burnt
offerings and peace offerings. So the LORD
was intreated for the land,
and the plague was stayed from Israel.
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