1 Then all Israel gathered themselves to David unto Hebron, saying,
2 And moreover in time past, even when Saul was king, thou wast he
3 Therefore came all the elders of Israel to the king to Hebron;
4 And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem, which is Jebus; where
5 And the inhabitants of Jebus said to David, Thou shalt not come
6 And David said, Whosoever smiteth the Jebusites first shall be
7 And David dwelt in the castle; therefore they called it the city
8 And he built the city round about, even from Millo round about:
9 So David waxed greater and greater: for the LORD of hosts was
10 These also are the chief of the mighty men whom David had, who
11 And this is the number of the mighty men whom David had;
12 And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, who was
13 He was with David at Pasdammim, and there the Philistines were
14 And they set themselves in the midst of that parcel, and
15 Now three of the thirty captains went down to the rock to David,
16 And David was then in the hold, and the Philistines’ garrison
17 And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of
19 And said, My God forbid it me, that I should do this thing:
20 And Abishai the brother of Joab, he was chief of the three: for
21 Of the three, he was more honourable than the two; for he was
22 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of
23 And he slew an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits
24 These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had the name
25 Behold, he was honourable among the thirty, but attained not to
26 Also the valiant men of the armies were, Asahel the brother of