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Adam, Seth, Enosh,
Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared,
Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech,
Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and
Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, and Diphath, and Togarmah.
The sons of Javan: Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.
The sons of Ham: Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
The sons of Cush: Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raama, and
Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba, and Dedan.
Cush became the father of Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one in
the earth.
Mizraim became the father of Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and
Naphtuhim,
and Pathrusim, and Casluhim (where the Philistines came from),
and Caphtorim.
Canaan became the father of Sidon his firstborn, and Heth,
and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite,
and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite.
The sons of Shem: Elam, and Asshur, and Arpachshad, and Lud, and
Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech.
Arpachshad became the father of Shelah, and Shelah became the
father of Eber.
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.
Joktan became the father of Almodad, and Sheleph, and
Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,
and Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,
and Ebal, and Abimael, and Sheba,
and Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of
Joktan.
Shem, Arpachshad, Shelah,
Eber, Peleg, Reu,
Serug, Nahor, Terah,
Abram (the same is Abraham).
The sons of Abraham: Isaac, and Ishmael.
These are their generations: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth;
then Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,
Mishma, and Dumah, Massa, Hadad, and Tema,
Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These are the sons of Ishmael.
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.
The sons of Midian: Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abida, and
Eldaah. All these were the sons of Keturah.
Abraham became the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau, and
Israel.
The sons of Esau: Eliphaz, Reuel, and Jeush, and Jalam, and
Korah.
The sons of Eliphaz: Teman, and Omar, Zephi, and Gatam, Kenaz,
and Timna, and Amalek.
The sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.
The sons of Seir: Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah, and
Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan.
The sons of Lotan: Hori, and Homam; and Timna was Lotan’s
sister.
The sons of Shobal: Alian, and Manahath, and Ebal, Shephi, and
Onam. The sons of Zibeon: Aiah, and Anah.
The sons of Anah: Dishon. The sons of Dishon: Hamran, and Eshban,
and Ithran, and Cheran.
The sons of Ezer: Bilhan, and Zaavan, Jaakan. The sons of Dishan:
Uz, and Aran.
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.
Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his
place.
Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in
his place.
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.
Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his place.
Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth by the River reigned in his
place.
Shaul died, and Baal Hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his
place.
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.
Hadad died. The chiefs of Edom were: chief Timna, chief Aliah,
chief Jetheth,
chief Oholibamah, chief Elah, chief Pinon,
chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar,
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These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and
Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun,
Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
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 Yahweh;
and he killed him.
Tamar his daughter-in-law bore him Perez and Zerah. All the sons
of Judah were five.
The sons of Perez: Hezron, and Hamul.
The sons of Zerah: Zimri, and Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol, and
Dara; five of them in all.
The sons of Carmi: Achar, the troubler of Israel, who committed
a trespass in the devoted thing.
The sons of Ethan: Azariah.
The sons also of Hezron, who were born to him: Jerahmeel, and
Ram, and Chelubai.
Ram became the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab became the
father of Nahshon, prince of the children of Judah;
and Nahshon became the father of Salma, and Salma became the
father of Boaz,
and Boaz became the father of Obed, and Obed became the father
of Jesse;
and Jesse became the father of his firstborn Eliab, and Abinadab
the second, and Shimea the third,
Nethanel the fourth, Raddai the fifth,
Ozem the sixth, David the seventh;
and their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. The sons of Zeruiah:
Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three.
Abigail bore Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the
Ishmaelite.
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.
Azubah died, and Caleb took to him Ephrath, who bore him Hur.
Hur became the father of Uri, and Uri became the father of
Bezalel.
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.
Segub became the father of Jair, who had twenty-three cities in
the land of Gilead.
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.
After that Hezron was dead in Caleb Ephrathah, then Abijah
Hezron’s wife bore him Ashhur the father of Tekoa.
The sons of Jerahmeel the firstborn of Hezron were Ram the
firstborn, and Bunah, and Oren, and Ozem, Ahijah.
Jerahmeel had another wife, whose name was Atarah; she was the
mother of Onam.
The sons of Ram the firstborn of Jerahmeel were Maaz, and Jamin,
and Eker.
The sons of Onam were Shammai, and Jada. The sons of Shammai:
Nadab, and Abishur.
The name of the wife of Abishur was Abihail; and she bore him
Ahban, and Molid.
The sons of Nadab: Seled, and Appaim; but Seled died without
children.
The sons of Appaim: Ishi. The sons of Ishi: Sheshan. The sons of
Sheshan: Ahlai.
The sons of Jada the brother of Shammai: Jether, and Jonathan;
and Jether died without children.
The sons of Jonathan: Peleth, and Zaza. These were the sons of
Jerahmeel.
Now Sheshan had no sons, but daughters. Sheshan had a servant,
an Egyptian, whose name was Jarha.
Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his servant as wife; and she
bore him Attai.
Attai became the father of Nathan, and Nathan became the father
of Zabad,
and Zabad became the father of Ephlal, and Ephlal became the
father of Obed,
and Obed became the father of Jehu, and Jehu became the father
of Azariah,
and Azariah became the father of Helez, and Helez became the
father of Eleasah,
and Eleasah became the father of Sismai, and Sismai became the
father of Shallum,
and Shallum became the father of Jekamiah, and Jekamiah became
the father of Elishama.
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.
The sons of Hebron: Korah, and Tappuah, and Rekem, and Shema.
Shema became the father of Raham, the father of Jorkeam; and
Rekem became the father of Shammai.
The son of Shammai was Maon; and Maon was the father of Beth Zur.
Ephah, Caleb’s concubine, bore Haran, and Moza, and Gazez; and
Haran became the father of Gazez.
The sons of Jahdai: Regem, and Jothan, and Geshan, and Pelet,
and Ephah, and Shaaph.
Maacah, Caleb’s concubine, bore Sheber and Tirhanah.
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.
These were the sons of Caleb, the son of Hur, the firstborn of
Ephrathah: Shobal the father of Kiriath Jearim,
Salma the father of Bethlehem, Hareph the father of Beth Gader.
Shobal the father of Kiriath Jearim had sons: Haroeh, half of
the Menuhoth.
The families of Kiriath Jearim: The Ithrites, and the Puthites,
and the Shumathites, and the Mishraites; of them came the
Zorathites and the Eshtaolites.
The sons of Salma: Bethlehem, and the Netophathites, Atroth Beth
Joab, and half of the Manahathites, the Zorites.
The families of scribes who lived at Jabez: the Tirathites, the
Shimeathites, the Sucathites. These are the Kenites who came of
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2:3 “Yahweh” is
God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other
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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;
the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king
of Geshur; the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith;
the fifth, Shephatiah of Abital; the sixth, Ithream by Eglah his
wife:
six were born to him in Hebron; and there he reigned seven years
and six months. In Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three years;
and these were born to him in Jerusalem: Shimea, and Shobab, and
Nathan, and Solomon, four, of Bathshua the daughter of Ammiel;
and Ibhar, and Elishama, and Eliphelet,
and Nogah, and Nepheg, and Japhia,
and Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphelet, nine.
All these were the sons of David, besides the sons of the
concubines; and Tamar was their sister.
Solomon’s son was Rehoboam, Abijah his son, Asa his son,
Jehoshaphat his son,
Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son,
Amaziah his son, Azariah his son, Jotham his son,
Ahaz his son, Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son,
Amon his son, Josiah his son.
The sons of Josiah: the firstborn Johanan, the second Jehoiakim,
the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum.
The sons of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, Zedekiah his son.
The sons of Jeconiah, the captive: Shealtiel his son,
and Malchiram, and Pedaiah, and Shenazzar, Jekamiah, Hoshama,
and Nedabiah.
The sons of Pedaiah: Zerubbabel, and Shimei. The sons of
Zerubbabel: Meshullam, and Hananiah; and Shelomith was their
sister;
and Hashubah, and Ohel, and Berechiah, and Hasadiah, Jushab
Hesed, five.
The sons of Hananiah: Pelatiah, and Jeshaiah; the sons of
Rephaiah, the sons of Arnan, the sons of Obadiah, the sons of
Shecaniah.
The sons of Shecaniah: Shemaiah. The sons of Shemaiah: Hattush,
and Igal, and Bariah, and Neariah, and Shaphat, six.
The sons of Neariah: Elioenai, and Hizkiah, and Azrikam, three.
The sons of Elioenai: Hodaviah, and Eliashib, and Pelaiah, and
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The sons of Judah: Perez, Hezron, and Carmi, and Hur, and Shobal.
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.
These were the sons of the father of Etam: Jezreel, and
Ishma, and Idbash; and the name of their sister was Hazzelelponi;
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.
Ashhur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.
Naarah bore him Ahuzzam, and Hepher, and Temeni, and Haahashtari.
These were the sons of Naarah.
The sons of Helah were Zereth, Izhar, and Ethnan.
Hakkoz became the father of Anub, and Zobebah, and the families
of Aharhel the son of Harum.
Jabez was more honorable than his brothers: and his mother named
him Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him with sorrow.”
Jabez called on the God 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.
Chelub the brother of Shuhah became the father of Mehir, who was
the father of Eshton.
Eshton became the father of Beth Rapha, and Paseah, and Tehinnah
the father of Ir Nahash. These are the men of Recah.
The sons of Kenaz: Othniel, and Seraiah. The sons of Othniel:
Hathath.
Meonothai became the father of Ophrah: and Seraiah became the
father of Joab the father of Ge Harashim; for they were
craftsmen.
The sons of Caleb the son of Jephunneh: Iru, Elah, and Naam; and
the sons of Elah; and Kenaz.
The sons of Jehallelel: Ziph, and Ziphah, Tiria, and Asarel.
The sons of Ezrah: Jether, and Mered, and Epher, and Jalon; and
she bore Miriam, and Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa.
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.
The sons of the wife of Hodiah, the sister of Naham, were the
father of Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Maacathite.
The sons of Shimon: Amnon, and Rinnah, Ben Hanan, and Tilon. The
sons of Ishi: Zoheth, and Ben Zoheth.
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;
and Jokim, and the men of Cozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who had
dominion in Moab, and Jashubilehem. The records are ancient.
These were the potters, and the inhabitants of Netaim and
Gederah: there they lived with the king for his work.
The sons of Simeon: Nemuel, and Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, Shaul;
Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son.
The sons of Mishma: Hammuel his son, Zaccur his son, Shimei his
son.
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.
They lived at Beersheba, and Moladah, and Hazarshual,
and at Bilhah, and at Ezem, and at Tolad,
and at Bethuel, and at Hormah, and at Ziklag,
and at Beth Marcaboth, and Hazar Susim, and at Beth Biri, and at
Shaaraim. These were their cities to the reign of David.
Their villages were Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan,
five cities;
and all their villages that were around the same cities, to
Baal. These were their habitations, and they have their
genealogy.
Meshobab, and Jamlech, and Joshah the son of Amaziah,
and Joel, and Jehu the son of Joshibiah, the son of Seraiah, the
son of Asiel,
and Elioenai, and Jaakobah, and Jeshohaiah, and Asaiah, and
Adiel, and Jesimiel, and Benaiah,
and Ziza the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah,
the son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah—
these mentioned by name were princes in their families: and
their fathers’ houses increased greatly.
They went to the entrance of Gedor, even to the east side of the
valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.
They found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and
quiet, and peaceable; for those who lived there before were of
Ham.
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.
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.
They struck the remnant of the Amalekites who escaped, and have
lived there to this day.
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4:10 The
Hebrew word rendered “God” is “Elohim.”
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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.
For Judah prevailed above his brothers, and of him came the
prince; but the birthright was Joseph’s:)
the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel: Hanoch, and Pallu,
Hezron, and Carmi.
The sons of Joel: Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his son,
Micah his son, Reaiah his son, Baal his son,
Beerah his son, whom Tilgath Pilneser king of Assyria carried
away captive: he was prince of the Reubenites.
His brothers by their families, when the genealogy of their
generations was reckoned: the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah,
and Bela the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel, who
lived in Aroer, even to Nebo and Baal Meon:
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.
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.
The sons of Gad lived over against them, in the land of Bashan
to Salecah:
Joel the chief, and Shapham the second, and Janai, and Shaphat
in Bashan.
Their brothers of their fathers’ houses: Michael, and Meshullam,
and Sheba, and Jorai, and Jacan, and Zia, and Eber, seven.
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;
Ahi the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, chief of their fathers’
houses.
They lived in Gilead in Bashan, and in its towns, and in all the
suburbs of Sharon, as far as their borders.
All these were reckoned by genealogies in the days of Jotham
king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel.
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.
They made war with the Hagrites, with Jetur, and Naphish, and
Nodab.
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.
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.
For there fell many slain, because the war was of God. They
lived in their place until the captivity.
The children of the half-tribe of Manasseh lived in the land:
they increased from Bashan to Baal Hermon and Senir and Mount
Hermon.
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.
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.
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,
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The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel.
The children of Amram: Aaron, and Moses, and Miriam. The sons of
Aaron: Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
Eleazar became the father of Phinehas, Phinehas became the
father of Abishua,
and Abishua became the father of Bukki, and Bukki became the
father of Uzzi,
and Uzzi became the father of Zerahiah, and Zerahiah became the
father of Meraioth,
Meraioth became the father of Amariah, and Amariah became the
father of Ahitub,
and Ahitub became the father of Zadok, and Zadok became the
father of Ahimaaz,
and Ahimaaz became the father of Azariah, and Azariah became the
father of Johanan,
and Johanan became the father of Azariah, (he it is who executed
the priest’s office in the house that Solomon built in
Jerusalem),
and Azariah became the father of Amariah, and Amariah became the
father of Ahitub,
and Ahitub became the father of Zadok, and Zadok became the
father of Shallum,
and Shallum became the father of Hilkiah, and Hilkiah became the
father of Azariah,
and Azariah became the father of Seraiah, and Seraiah became the
father of Jehozadak;
Jehozadak went into captivity, when Yahweh carried away
Judah and Jerusalem by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.
The sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.
These are the names of the sons of Gershom: Libni and Shimei.
The sons of Kohath were Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel.
The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of
the Levites according to their fathers’ houses.
Of Gershom: Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son,
Joah his son, Iddo his son, Zerah his son, Jeatherai his son.
The sons of Kohath: Amminadab his son, Korah his son, Assir his
son,
Elkanah his son, and Ebiasaph his son, and Assir his son,
Tahath his son, Uriel his son, Uzziah his son, and Shaul his
son.
The sons of Elkanah: Amasai, and Ahimoth.
As for Elkanah, the sons of Elkanah: Zophai his son, and Nahath
his son,
Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elkanah his son.
The sons of Samuel: the firstborn Joel, and the second
Abijah.
The sons of Merari: Mahli, Libni his son, Shimei his son, Uzzah
his son,
Shimea his son, Haggiah his son, Asaiah his son.
These are they whom David set over the service of song in the
house of Yahweh, after that the ark had rest.
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.
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,
the son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the
son of Toah,
the son of Zuph, the son of Elkanah, the son of Mahath, the son
of Amasai,
the son of Elkanah, the son of Joel, the son of Azariah, the son
of Zephaniah,
the son of Tahath, the son of Assir, the son of Ebiasaph, the
son of Korah,
the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, the son of
Israel.
His brother Asaph, who stood on his right hand, even Asaph the
son of Berechiah, the son of Shimea,
the son of Michael, the son of Baaseiah, the son of Malchijah,
the son of Ethni, the son of Zerah, the son of Adaiah,
the son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei,
the son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi.
On the left hand their brothers the sons of Merari: Ethan the
son of Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of Malluch,
the son of Hashabiah, the son of Amaziah, the son of Hilkiah,
the son of Amzi, the son of Bani, the son of Shemer,
the son of Mahli, the son of Mushi, the son of Merari, the son
of Levi.
Their brothers the Levites were appointed for all the service of
the tabernacle of the house of God.
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.
These are the sons of Aaron: Eleazar his son, Phinehas his son,
Abishua his son,
Bukki his son, Uzzi his son, Zerahiah his son,
Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son,
Zadok his son, Ahimaaz his son.
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),
to them they gave Hebron in the land of Judah, and its suburbs
around it;
but the fields of the city, and its villages, they gave to Caleb
the son of Jephunneh.
To the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of refuge, Hebron;
Libnah also with its suburbs, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa with its
suburbs,
and Hilen with its suburbs, Debir with its suburbs,
and Ashan with its suburbs, and Beth Shemesh with its suburbs;
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.
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.
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.
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.
The children of Israel gave to the Levites the cities with their
suburbs.
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.
Some of the families of the sons of Kohath had cities of their
borders out of the tribe of Ephraim.
They gave to them the cities of refuge, Shechem in the hill
country of Ephraim with its suburbs; Gezer also with its
suburbs,
and Jokmeam with its suburbs, and Beth Horon with its suburbs,
and Aijalon with its suburbs, and Gath Rimmon with its suburbs;
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.
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;
and out of the tribe of Issachar, Kedesh with its suburbs,
Daberath with its suburbs,
and Ramoth with its suburbs, and Anem with its suburbs;
and out of the tribe of Asher, Mashal with its suburbs, and
Abdon with its suburbs,
and Hukok with its suburbs, and Rehob with its suburbs;
and out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its
suburbs, and Hammon with its suburbs, and Kiriathaim with its
suburbs.
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;
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,
and Kedemoth with its suburbs, and Mephaath with its suburbs;
and out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its suburbs,
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Of the sons of Issachar: Tola, and Puah, Jashub, and Shimron,
four.
The sons of Tola: Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai,
and Ibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their fathers’ houses, to
wit, of Tola; mighty men of valor in their generations:
their number in the days of David was twenty-two thousand six
hundred.
The sons of Uzzi: Izrahiah. The sons of Izrahiah: Michael, and
Obadiah, and Joel, Isshiah, five; all of them chief men.
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.
Their brothers among all the families of Issachar, mighty men of
valor, reckoned in all by genealogy, were eighty-seven thousand.
The sons of Benjamin: Bela, and Becher, and Jediael,
three.
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.
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.
They were reckoned by genealogy, after their generations, heads
of their fathers’ houses, mighty men of valor, twenty thousand
two hundred.
The sons of Jediael: Bilhan. The sons of Bilhan: Jeush, and
Benjamin, and Ehud, and Chenaanah, and Zethan, and Tarshish, and
Ahishahar.
All these were sons of Jediael, according to the heads of their
fathers’ houses, mighty men of valor, seventeen thousand
and two hundred, who were able to go forth in the army for war.
Shuppim also, and Huppim, the sons of Ir, Hushim, the sons of
Aher.
The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shallum,
the sons of Bilhah.
The sons of Manasseh: Asriel, whom his concubine the Aramitess
bore: she bore Machir the father of Gilead:
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.
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.
The sons of Ulam: Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead the son
of Machir, the son of Manasseh.
His sister Hammolecheth bore Ishhod, and Abiezer, and Mahlah.
The sons of Shemida were Ahian, and Shechem, and Likhi, and
Aniam.
The sons of Ephraim: Shuthelah, and Bered his son, and Tahath
his son, and Eleadah his son, and Tahath his son,
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.
Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came to
comfort him.
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.
His daughter was Sheerah, who built Beth Horon the lower and the
upper, and Uzzen Sheerah.
Rephah was his son, and Resheph, and Telah his son, and Tahan
his son,
Ladan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son,
Nun his son, Joshua his son.
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;
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.
The sons of Asher: Imnah, and Ishvah, and Ishvi, and Beriah, and
Serah their sister.
The sons of Beriah: Heber, and Malchiel, who was the father of
Birzaith.
Heber became the father of Japhlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and
Shua their sister.
The sons of Japhlet: Pasach, and Bimhal, and Ashvath. These are
the children of Japhlet.
The sons of Shemer: Ahi, and Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram.
The sons of Helem his brother: Zophah, and Imna, and Shelesh,
and Amal.
The sons of Zophah: Suah, and Harnepher, and Shual, and Beri,
and Imrah,
Bezer, and Hod, and Shamma, and Shilshah, and Ithran, and Beera.
The sons of Jether: Jephunneh, and Pispa, and Ara.
The sons of Ulla: Arah, and Hanniel, and Rizia.
All these were the children of Asher, heads of the fathers’
houses, choice and mighty men of valor, chief of the princes.
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Benjamin became the father of Bela his firstborn, Ashbel the
second, and Aharah the third,
Nohah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth.
Bela had sons: Addar, and Gera, and Abihud,
and Abishua, and Naaman, and Ahoah,
and Gera, and Shephuphan, and Huram.
These are the sons of Ehud: these are the heads of fathers’
houses of the inhabitants of Geba, and they carried them
captive to Manahath:
and Naaman, and Ahijah, and Gera, he carried them captive: and
he became the father of Uzza and Ahihud.
Shaharaim became the father of children in the field of Moab,
after he had sent them away; Hushim and Baara were his wives.
He became the father of Hodesh his wife, Jobab, and Zibia, and
Mesha, and Malcam,
and Jeuz, and Shachia, and Mirmah. These were his sons, heads of
fathers’ houses.
Of Hushim he became the father of Abitub and Elpaal.
The sons of Elpaal: Eber, and Misham, and Shemed, who built Ono
and Lod, with its towns;
and Beriah, and Shema, who were heads of fathers’ houses
of the inhabitants of Aijalon, who put to flight the inhabitants
of Gath;
and Ahio, Shashak, and Jeremoth,
and Zebadiah, and Arad, and Eder,
and Michael, and Ishpah, and Joha, the sons of Beriah,
and Zebadiah, and Meshullam, and Hizki, and Heber,
and Ishmerai, and Izliah, and Jobab, the sons of Elpaal,
and Jakim, and Zichri, and Zabdi,
and Elienai, and Zillethai, and Eliel,
and Adaiah, and Beraiah, and Shimrath, the sons of Shimei,
and Ishpan, and Eber, and Eliel,
and Abdon, and Zichri, and Hanan,
and Hananiah, and Elam, and Anthothijah,
and Iphdeiah, and Penuel, the sons of Shashak,
and Shamsherai, and Shehariah, and Athaliah,
and Jaareshiah, and Elijah, and Zichri, the sons of Jeroham.
These were heads of fathers’ houses throughout their
generations, chief men: these lived in Jerusalem.
In Gibeon there lived the father of Gibeon, Jeiel, whose
wife’s name was Maacah;
and his firstborn son Abdon, and Zur, and Kish, and Baal, and
Nadab,
and Gedor, and Ahio, and Zecher.
Mikloth became the father of Shimeah. They also lived with their
brothers in Jerusalem, over against their brothers.
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.
The son of Jonathan was Merib Baal; and Merib Baal became the
father of Micah.
The sons of Micah: Pithon, and Melech, and Tarea, and Ahaz.
Ahaz became the father of Jehoaddah; and Jehoaddah became the
father of Alemeth, and Azmaveth, and Zimri; and Zimri became the
father of Moza.
Moza became the father of Binea; Raphah was his son, Eleasah his
son, Azel his son.
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.
The sons of Eshek his brother: Ulam his firstborn, Jeush the
second, and Eliphelet the third.
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.
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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.
Now the first inhabitants who lived in their possessions in
their cities were Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the
Nethinim.
In Jerusalem lived of the children of Judah, and of the children
of Benjamin, and of the children of Ephraim and Manasseh:
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.
Of the Shilonites: Asaiah the firstborn, and his sons.
Of the sons of Zerah: Jeuel, and their brothers, six hundred
ninety.
Of the sons of Benjamin: Sallu the son of Meshullam, the son of
Hodaviah, the son of Hassenuah,
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;
and their brothers, according to their generations, nine hundred
fifty-six. All these men were heads of fathers’ houses by their
fathers’ houses.
Of the priests: Jedaiah, and Jehoiarib, Jachin,
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 the
house of God;
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;
and their brothers, heads of their fathers’ houses, one thousand
seven hundred sixty; very able men for the work of the service
of the house of God.
Of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam,
the son of Hashabiah, of the sons of Merari;
and Bakbakkar, Heresh, and Galal, and Mattaniah the son of Mica,
the son of Zichri, the son of Asaph,
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.
The porters: Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and
their brothers (Shallum was the chief),
who hitherto waited in the king’s gate eastward: they were the
porters for the camp of the children of Levi.
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.
Phinehas the son of Eleazar was ruler over them in time past,
and Yahweh was with him.
Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah was porter of the door of the
Tent of Meeting.
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 did ordain in
their office of trust.
So they and their children had the oversight of the gates of the
house of Yahweh, even the house of the tent, by wards.
On the four sides were the porters, toward the east, west,
north, and south.
Their brothers, in their villages, were to come in every seven
days from time to time to be with them:
for the four chief porters, who were Levites, were in an office
of trust, and were over the rooms and over the treasuries in the
house of God.
They lodged around the house of God, because that duty was on
them; and to them pertained its opening morning by morning.
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.
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.
Some of the sons of the priests prepared the confection of the
spices.
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.
Some of their brothers, of the sons of the Kohathites, were over
the show bread, to prepare it every Sabbath.
These are the singers, heads of fathers’ houses of the Levites,
who lived in the rooms and were free from other service; for
they were employed in their work day and night.
These were heads of fathers’ houses of the Levites, throughout
their generations, chief men: these lived at Jerusalem.
In Gibeon there lived the father of Gibeon, Jeiel, whose wife’s
name was Maacah:
and his firstborn son Abdon, and Zur, and Kish, and Baal, and
Ner, and Nadab,
and Gedor, and Ahio, and Zechariah, and Mikloth.
Mikloth became the father of Shimeam. They also lived with their
brothers in Jerusalem, over against their brothers.
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.
The son of Jonathan was Merib Baal; and Merib Baal became the
father of Micah.
The sons of Micah: Pithon, and Melech, and Tahrea, and Ahaz.
Ahaz became the father of Jarah; and Jarah became the father of
Alemeth, and Azmaveth, and Zimri; and Zimri became the father of
Moza;
and Moza became the father of Binea; and Rephaiah his son,
Eleasah his son, Azel his son.
Azel had six sons, whose names are these: Azrikam, Bocheru, and
Ishmael, and Sheariah, and Obadiah, and Hanan: these were the
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Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel
fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain on Mount
Gilboa.
The Philistines followed hard after Saul and after his sons; and
the Philistines killed Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchishua,
the sons of Saul.
The battle went hard against Saul, and the archers overtook him;
and he was distressed by reason of the archers.
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.
When his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell
on his sword, and died.
So Saul died, and his three sons; and all his house died
together.
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.
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.
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.
They put his armor in the house of their gods, and fastened his
head in the house of Dagon.
When all Jabesh Gilead heard all that the Philistines had done
to Saul,
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.
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 thereby,
and didn’t inquire of Yahweh: therefore he killed him, and
turned the kingdom to David the son of Jesse.
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Then all Israel gathered themselves to David to Hebron, saying,
“Behold, we are your bone and your flesh.
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.’”
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.
David and all Israel went to Jerusalem (the same is Jebus); and
the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, were there.
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.
David said, “Whoever strikes the Jebusites first shall be chief
and captain.” Joab the son of Zeruiah went up first, and was
made chief.
David lived in the stronghold; therefore they called it the city
of David.
He built the city all around, from Millo even around; and Joab
repaired the rest of the city.
David grew greater and greater; for Yahweh of Armies was with
him.
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.
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.
After him was Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, who was one
of the three mighty men.
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.
They stood in the midst of the plot, and defended it, and killed
the Philistines; and Yahweh saved them by a great victory.
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.
David was then in the stronghold, and the garrison of the
Philistines was then in Bethlehem.
David longed, and said, “Oh that one would give me water to
drink of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!”
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,
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.
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.
Of the three, he was more honorable than the two, and was made
their captain: however he didn’t attain to the first three.
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.
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.
These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had a name
among the three mighty men.
Behold, he was more honorable than the thirty, but he didn’t
attain to the first three: and David set him over his guard.
Also the mighty men of the armies: Asahel the brother of Joab,
Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,
Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite,
Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer the Anathothite,
Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite,
Maharai the Netophathite, Heled the son of Baanah the
Netophathite,
Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin,
Benaiah the Pirathonite,
Hurai of the brooks of Gaash, Abiel the Arbathite,
Azmaveth the Baharumite, Eliahba the Shaalbonite,
the sons of Hashem the Gizonite, Jonathan the son of Shagee the
Hararite,
Ahiam the son of Sacar the Hararite, Eliphal the son of Ur,
Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijah the Pelonite,
Hezro the Carmelite, Naarai the son of Ezbai,
Joel the brother of Nathan, Mibhar the son of Hagri,
Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Berothite, the armor bearer of
Joab the son of Zeruiah,
Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,
Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai,
Adina the son of Shiza the Reubenite, a chief of the Reubenites,
and thirty with him,
Hanan the son of Maacah, and Joshaphat the Mithnite,
Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Jeiel the sons of Hotham the
Aroerite,
Jediael the son of Shimri, and Joha his brother, the Tizite,
Eliel the Mahavite, and Jeribai, and Joshaviah, the sons of
Elnaam, and Ithmah the Moabite,
Eliel, and Obed, and Jaasiel the Mezobaite.
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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.
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.
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,
and Ishmaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty man among the thirty, and
over the thirty, and Jeremiah, and Jahaziel, and Johanan, and
Jozabad the Gederathite,
Eluzai, and Jerimoth, and Bealiah, and Shemariah, and Shephatiah
the Haruphite,
Elkanah, and Isshiah, and Azarel, and Joezer, and Jashobeam, the
Korahites,
and Joelah, and Zebadiah, the sons of Jeroham of Gedor.
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;
Ezer the chief, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third,
Mishmannah the fourth, Jeremiah the fifth,
Attai the sixth, Eliel the seventh,
Johanan the eighth, Elzabad the ninth,
Jeremiah the tenth, Machbannai the eleventh.
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.
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.
There came of the children of Benjamin and Judah to the
stronghold to David.
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.”
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.
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.”
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.
They helped David against the band of rovers: for they were all
mighty men of valor, and were captains in the army.
For from day to day men came to David to help him, until there
was a great army, like the army of God.
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.
The children of Judah who bore shield and spear were six
thousand and eight hundred, armed for war.
Of the children of Simeon, mighty men of valor for the war,
seven thousand and one hundred.
Of the children of Levi four thousand and six hundred.
Jehoiada was the leader of the house of Aaron; and with
him were three thousand and seven hundred,
and Zadok, a young man mighty of valor, and of his father’s
house twenty-two captains.
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.
Of the children of Ephraim twenty thousand eight hundred, mighty
men of valor, famous men in their fathers’ houses.
Of the half-tribe of Manasseh eighteen thousand, who were
mentioned by name, to come and make David king.
Of the children of Issachar, men who had understanding of the
times, to know what Israel ought to do, the heads of them were
two hundred; and all their brothers were at their commandment.
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 order the battle array, and
were not of double heart.
Of Naphtali one thousand captains, and with them with shield and
spear thirty-seven thousand.
Of the Danites who could set the battle in array, twenty-eight
thousand six hundred.
Of Asher, such as were able to go out in the army, who could set
the battle in array, forty thousand.
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.
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.
They were there with David three days, eating and drinking; for
their brothers had made preparation for them.
Moreover those who were near to them, even 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.
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David consulted with the captains of thousands and of hundreds,
even with every leader.
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;
and let us bring again the ark of our God to us. For we didn’t
seek it in the days of Saul.”
All the assembly said that they would do so; for the thing was
right in the eyes of all the people.
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.
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.
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.
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.
When they came to the threshing floor of Chidon, Uzza put forth
his hand to hold the ark; for the oxen stumbled.
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.
David was displeased, because Yahweh had broken forth on Uzza;
and he called that place Perez Uzza, to this day.
David was afraid of God that day, saying, “How shall I bring the
ark of God home to me?”
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.
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.
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Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees,
and masons, and carpenters, to build him a house.
David perceived that Yahweh had established him king over
Israel; for his kingdom was exalted on high, for his people
Israel’s sake.
David took more wives at Jerusalem; and David became the father
of more sons and daughters.
These are the names of the children whom he had in Jerusalem:
Shammua, and Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon,
and Ibhar, and Elishua, and Elpelet,
and Nogah, and Nepheg, and Japhia,
and Elishama, and Beeliada, and Eliphelet.
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.
Now the Philistines had come and made a raid in the valley of
Rephaim.
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.”
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.
They left their gods there; and David gave commandment, and they
were burned with fire.
The Philistines yet again made a raid in the valley.
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.
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.”
David did as God commanded him: and they struck the army of the
Philistines from Gibeon even to Gezer.
The fame of David went out into all lands; and Yahweh brought
the fear of him on all nations.
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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.
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.”
David assembled all Israel at Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of
Yahweh to its place, which he had prepared for it.
David gathered together the sons of Aaron, and the Levites:
of the sons of Kohath, Uriel the chief, and his brothers one
hundred twenty;
of the sons of Merari, Asaiah the chief, and his brothers two
hundred twenty;
of the sons of Gershom, Joel the chief, and his brothers one
hundred thirty;
of the sons of Elizaphan, Shemaiah the chief, and his brothers
two hundred;
of the sons of Hebron, Eliel the chief, and his brothers eighty;
of the sons of Uzziel, Amminadab the chief, and his brothers one
hundred twelve.
David called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the
Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, and Joel, Shemaiah, and Eliel, and
Amminadab,
and said to them, “You are the heads of the fathers’ houses 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.
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.”
So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up
the ark of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
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.
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.
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;
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.
So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were appointed with
cymbals of brass to sound aloud;
and Zechariah, and Aziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni,
and Eliab, and Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with stringed instruments
set to Alamoth;
and Mattithiah, and Eliphelehu, and Mikneiah, and Obed-Edom, and
Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps tuned to the eight-stringed lyre,
to lead.
Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, was over the song: he
instructed about the song, because he was skillful.
Berechiah and Elkanah were doorkeepers for the ark.
Shebaniah, and Joshaphat, and Nethanel, and Amasai, and
Zechariah, and Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, did blow the
trumpets before the ark of God: and Obed-Edom and Jehiah were
doorkeepers for the ark.
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.
It happened, when God helped the Levites who bore the ark of the
covenant of Yahweh, that they sacrificed seven bulls and seven
rams.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
When David had made an end of offering the burnt offering and
the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of
Yahweh.
He dealt to everyone of Israel, both man and woman, to every one
a loaf of bread, and a portion of flesh, and a cake of
raisins.
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:
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;
and Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually,
before the ark of the covenant of God.
Then on that day David first ordained to give thanks to Yahweh,
by the hand of Asaph and his brothers.
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Oh give thanks to Yahweh.
- Call on his name.
- Make his doings known among the peoples.
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Sing to him.
- Sing praises to him.
- Tell of all his marvelous works.
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Glory in his holy name.
- Let the heart of those who seek Yahweh rejoice.
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Seek Yahweh and his strength.
- Seek his face forever more.
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Remember his marvelous works that he has done,
- his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth,
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you seed of Israel his servant,
- you children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
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He is Yahweh our God.
- His judgments are in all the earth.
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Remember his covenant forever,
- the word which he commanded to a thousand generations,
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the covenant which he made with Abraham,
- his oath to Isaac.
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He confirmed the same to Jacob for a statute,
- and to Israel for an everlasting covenant,
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saying, “I will give you the land of Canaan,
- The lot of your inheritance,”
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when you were but a few men in number,
- yes, very few, and foreigners were in it.
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They went about from nation to nation,
- from one kingdom to another people.
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He allowed no man to do them wrong.
- Yes, he reproved kings for their sakes,
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“Don’t touch my anointed ones!
- Do my prophets no harm!”
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Sing to Yahweh, all the earth!
- Display his salvation from day to day.
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Declare his glory among the nations,
- and his marvelous works among all the peoples.
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For great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised.
- He also is to be feared above all gods.
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For all the gods of the peoples are idols,
- but Yahweh made the heavens.
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Honor and majesty are before him.
- Strength and gladness are in his place.
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Ascribe to Yahweh, you relatives of the peoples,
- ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength!
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Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due to his name.
- Bring an offering, and come before him.
- Worship Yahweh in holy array.
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Tremble before him, all the earth.
- The world also is established that it can’t be moved.
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Let the heavens be glad,
- and let the earth rejoice!
- Let them say among the nations, “Yahweh reigns!”
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Let the sea roar, and its fullness!
- Let the field exult, and all that is therein!
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Then the trees of the forest will sing for joy before Yahweh,
- for he comes to judge the earth.
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Oh give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good,
- for his loving kindness endures forever.
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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.”
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Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel,
- from everlasting even to everlasting.
All the people said, “Amen,” and praised Yahweh.
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;
and Obed-Edom with their brothers, sixty-eight; Obed-Edom also
the son of Jeduthun and Hosah to be doorkeepers;
and Zadok the priest, and his brothers the priests, before the
tabernacle of Yahweh in the high place that was at Gibeon,
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;
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;
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.
All the people departed every man to his house: and David
returned to bless his house.
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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.”
Nathan said to David, “Do all that is in your heart; for God is
with you.”
It happened the same night, that the word of God came to Nathan,
saying,
“Go and tell David my servant, ‘Thus says Yahweh, “You shall not
build me a house to dwell in;
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.
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?’”’
“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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
He shall build me a house, and I will establish his throne
forever.
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;
but I will settle him in my house and in my kingdom forever. His
throne shall be established forever.”’”
According to all these words, and according to all this vision,
so Nathan spoke to David.
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?
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.
What can David say yet more to you concerning the honor which is
done to your servant? For you know your servant.
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.
Yahweh, there is none like you, neither is there any God besides
you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
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?
For your people Israel you made your own people forever; and
you, Yahweh, became their God.
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.
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.’
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.
Now, Yahweh, you are God, and have promised this good thing to
your servant.
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.”
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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.
He struck Moab; and the Moabites became servants to David, and
brought tribute.
David struck Hadadezer king of Zobah to Hamath, as he went to
establish his dominion by the river Euphrates.
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.
When the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of
Zobah, David struck of the Syrians twenty-two thousand men.
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.
David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of
Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.
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.
When Tou king of Hamath heard that David had struck all the army
of Hadadezer king of Zobah,
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.
These also did king David dedicate 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.
Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah struck of the Edomites in
the Valley of Salt eighteen thousand.
He put garrisons in Edom; and all the Edomites became servants
to David. Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went.
David reigned over all Israel; and he executed justice and
righteousness to all his people.
Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the army; and Jehoshaphat the
son of Ahilud was recorder;
and Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Abimelech the son of Abiathar,
were priests; and Shavsha was scribe;
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It happened after this, that Nahash the king of the children of
Ammon died, and his son reigned in his place.
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.
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?”
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.
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.”
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.
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.
When David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the army of the
mighty men.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
So Joab and the people who were with him drew near before the
Syrians to the battle; and they fled before him.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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It happened, at the time of the return of the year, at the time
when kings go out to battle, 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
When he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea David’s
brother killed him.
These were born to the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand
of David, and by the hand of his servants.
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Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to number Israel.
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.”
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?”
Nevertheless the king’s word prevailed against Joab. Therefore
Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to
Jerusalem.
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.
But he didn’t count Levi and Benjamin among them; for the king’s
word was abominable to Joab.
God was displeased with this thing; therefore he struck Israel.
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.”
Yahweh spoke to Gad, David’s seer, saying,
“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.”’”
So Gad came to David, and said to him, “Thus says Yahweh, ‘Take
your choice:
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.’”
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.”
So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel; and seventy thousand men
of Israel fell.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spoke in the name
of Yahweh.
Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons who were
with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.
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.
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.”
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.”
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.”
So David gave to Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight for
the place.
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.
Yahweh commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into
its sheath.
At that time, when David saw that Yahweh had answered him in the
threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.
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.
But David couldn’t go before it to inquire of God; for he was
afraid because of the sword of the angel of Yahweh.
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Then David said, “This is the house of Yahweh God, and this is
the altar of burnt offering for Israel.”
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 the house of God.
David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of
the gates, and for the couplings; and brass in abundance without
weight;
and cedar trees without number: for the Sidonians and they of
Tyre brought cedar trees in abundance to David.
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.
Then he called for Solomon his son, and commanded him to build a
house for Yahweh, the God of Israel.
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.
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.
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.
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.’
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.”
David also commanded all the princes of Israel to help Solomon
his son, saying,
“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.
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.”
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Now David was old and full of days; and he made Solomon his son
king over Israel.
He gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests
and the Levites.
The Levites were numbered from thirty years old and upward: and
their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight
thousand.
David said, “Of these, twenty-four thousand were to oversee the
work of the house of Yahweh; six thousand were officers and
judges;
four thousand were doorkeepers; and four thousand praised Yahweh
with the instruments which I made, for giving praise.”
David divided them into divisions according to the sons of Levi:
Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
Of the Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei.
The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the chief, and Zetham, and Joel,
three.
The sons of Shimei: Shelomoth, and Haziel, and Haran, three.
These were the heads of the fathers’ houses of Ladan.
The sons of Shimei: Jahath, Zina, and Jeush, and Beriah. These
four were the sons of Shimei.
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.
The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four.
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.
But as for Moses the man of God, his sons were named among the
tribe of Levi.
The sons of Moses: Gershom and Eliezer.
The sons of Gershom: Shebuel the chief.
The sons of Eliezer were: Rehabiah the chief; and Eliezer had no
other sons; but the sons of Rehabiah were very many.
The sons of Izhar: Shelomith the chief.
The sons of Hebron: Jeriah the chief, Amariah the second,
Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth.
The sons of Uzziel: Micah the chief, and Isshiah the second.
The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The sons of Mahli: Eleazar
and Kish.
Eleazar died, and had no sons, but daughters only: and their
brothers the sons of Kish took them to wife.
The sons of Mushi: Mahli, and Eder, and Jeremoth, three.
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.
For David said, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, has given rest to
his people; and he dwells in Jerusalem forever.
Also the Levites will no longer need to carry the tabernacle and
all its vessels for its service.”
For by the last words of David the sons of Levi were numbered,
from twenty years old and upward.
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 the house of God;
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;
and to stand every morning to thank and praise Yahweh, and
likewise in the evening;
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;
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.
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These were the divisions of the sons of Aaron. The sons of
Aaron: Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no
children: therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the priest’s
office.
David with Zadok of the sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the
sons of Ithamar, divided them according to their ordering in
their service.
There were more chief men found of the sons of Eleazar than of
the sons of Ithamar; and thus were they divided: of the
sons of Eleazar there were sixteen, heads of fathers’ houses;
and of the sons of Ithamar, according to their fathers’ houses,
eight.
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.
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’ houses of the priests and of the
Levites; one fathers’ house being taken for Eleazar, and one
taken for Ithamar.
Now the first lot came forth to Jehoiarib, the second to Jedaiah,
the third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim,
the fifth to Malchijah, the sixth to Mijamin,
the seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to Abijah,
the ninth to Jeshua, the tenth to Shecaniah,
the eleventh to Eliashib, the twelfth to Jakim,
the thirteenth to Huppah, the fourteenth to Jeshebeab,
the fifteenth to Bilgah, the sixteenth to Immer,
the seventeenth to Hezir, the eighteenth to Happizzez,
the nineteenth to Pethahiah, the twentieth to Jehezkel,
the twenty-first to Jachin, the twenty-second to Gamul,
the twenty-third to Delaiah, the twenty-fourth to Maaziah.
This was the ordering of them 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.
Of the rest of the sons of Levi: of the sons of Amram, Shubael;
of the sons of Shubael, Jehdeiah.
Of Rehabiah: of the sons of Rehabiah, Isshiah the chief.
Of the Izharites, Shelomoth; of the sons of Shelomoth, Jahath.
The sons of Hebron: Jeriah the chief, Amariah the
second, Jahaziel the third, Jekameam the fourth.
The sons of Uzziel, Micah; of the sons of Micah, Shamir.
The brother of Micah, Isshiah; of the sons of Isshiah,
Zechariah.
The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi; the sons of Jaaziah: Beno.
The sons of Merari: of Jaaziah, Beno, and Shoham, and Zaccur,
and Ibri.
Of Mahli: Eleazar, who had no sons.
Of Kish; the sons of Kish: Jerahmeel.
The sons of Mushi: Mahli, and Eder, and Jerimoth. These were the
sons of the Levites after their fathers’ houses.
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’ houses of the
priests and of the Levites; the fathers’ houses of the
chief even as those of his younger brother.
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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:
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.
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.
Of Heman; the sons of Heman: Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel,
and Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti, and
Romamti-Ezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, Mahazioth.
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.
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 the house of God; Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman
being under the order of the king.
The number of them, with their brothers who were instructed in
singing to Yahweh, even all who were skillful, was two hundred
eighty-eight.
They cast lots for their offices, all alike, as well the small
as the great, the teacher as the scholar.
Now the first lot came forth for Asaph to Joseph: the second to
Gedaliah; he and his brothers and sons were twelve:
the third to Zaccur, his sons and his brothers, twelve:
the fourth to Izri, his sons and his brothers, twelve:
the fifth to Nethaniah, his sons and his brothers, twelve:
the sixth to Bukkiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve:
the seventh to Jesharelah, his sons and his brothers, twelve:
the eighth to Jeshaiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve:
the ninth to Mattaniah, his sons and his brothers, twelve:
the tenth to Shimei, his sons and his brothers, twelve:
the eleventh to Azarel, his sons and his brothers, twelve:
the twelfth to Hashabiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve:
for the thirteenth, Shubael, his sons and his brothers, twelve:
for the fourteenth, Mattithiah, his sons and his brothers,
twelve:
for the fifteenth to Jeremoth, his sons and his brothers,
twelve:
for the sixteenth to Hananiah, his sons and his brothers,
twelve:
for the seventeenth to Joshbekashah, his sons and his brothers,
twelve:
for the eighteenth to Hanani, his sons and his brothers, twelve:
for the nineteenth to Mallothi, his sons and his brothers,
twelve:
for the twentieth to Eliathah, his sons and his brothers,
twelve:
for the one and twentieth to Hothir, his sons and his brothers,
twelve:
for the two and twentieth to Giddalti, his sons and his
brothers, twelve:
for the three and twentieth to Mahazioth, his sons and his
brothers, twelve:
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For the divisions of the doorkeepers: of the Korahites,
Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph.
Meshelemiah had sons: Zechariah the firstborn, Jediael the
second, Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth,
Elam the fifth, Jehohanan the sixth, Eliehoenai the seventh.
Obed-Edom had sons: Shemaiah the firstborn, Jehozabad the
second, Joah the third, and Sacar the fourth, and Nethanel the
fifth,
Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Peullethai the eighth;
for God blessed him.
Also to Shemaiah his son were sons born, who ruled over the
house of their father; for they were mighty men of valor.
The sons of Shemaiah: Othni, and Rephael, and Obed, Elzabad,
whose brothers were valiant men, Elihu, and Semachiah.
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.
Meshelemiah had sons and brothers, valiant men, eighteen.
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),
Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, Zechariah the fourth:
all the sons and brothers of Hosah were thirteen.
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.
They cast lots, the small as well as the great, according to
their fathers’ houses, for every gate.
The lot eastward fell to Shelemiah. Then for Zechariah his son,
a wise counselor, they cast lots; and his lot came out
northward.
To Obed-Edom southward; and to his sons the storehouse.
To Shuppim and Hosah westward, by the gate of Shallecheth, at
the causeway that goes up, watch against watch.
Eastward were six Levites, northward four a day, southward four
a day, and for the storehouse two and two.
For Parbar westward, four at the causeway, and two at Parbar.
These were the divisions of the doorkeepers; of the sons of the
Korahites, and of the sons of Merari.
Of the Levites, Ahijah was over the treasures of the house of
God, and over the treasures of the dedicated things.
The sons of Ladan, the sons of the Gershonites belonging to
Ladan, the heads of the fathers’ houses belonging to
Ladan the Gershonite: Jehieli.
The sons of Jehieli: Zetham, and Joel his brother, over the
treasures of the house of Yahweh.
Of the Amramites, of the Izharites, of the Hebronites, of the
Uzzielites:
and Shebuel the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, was ruler over
the treasures.
His brothers: of Eliezer came Rehabiah his son, and
Jeshaiah his son, and Joram his son, and Zichri his son, and
Shelomoth his son.
This Shelomoth and his brothers were over all the treasures of
the dedicated things, which David the king, and the heads of the
fathers’ houses, the captains over thousands and
hundreds, and the captains of the army, had dedicated.
Out of the spoil won in battles did they dedicate to repair the
house of Yahweh.
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.
Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons were for the outward
business over Israel, for officers and judges.
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.
Of the Hebronites was Jerijah the chief, even of the Hebronites,
according to their generations by fathers’ houses. 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.
His brothers, men of valor, were two thousand seven hundred,
heads of fathers’ houses, 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
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Now the children of Israel after their number, the heads of
fathers’ houses 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.
Over the first division for the first month was Jashobeam the
son of Zabdiel: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.
He was of the children of Perez, the chief of all the
captains of the army for the first month.
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.
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.
This is that Benaiah, who was the mighty man of the thirty, and
over the thirty: and of his division was Ammizabad his
son.
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.
The fifth captain for this fifth month was Shamhuth the Izrahite:
and in his division were twenty-four thousand.
The sixth captain for the sixth month was Ira the son of
Ikkesh the Tekoite: and in his division were twenty-four
thousand.
The seventh captain for the seventh month was Helez the
Pelonite, of the children of Ephraim: and in his division were
twenty-four thousand.
The eighth captain for the eighth month was Sibbecai the
Hushathite, of the Zerahites: and in his division were
twenty-four thousand.
The ninth captain for the ninth month was Abiezer the
Anathothite, of the Benjamites: and in his division were
twenty-four thousand.
The tenth captain for the tenth month was Maharai the
Netophathite, of the Zerahites: and in his division were
Twenty-four thousand.
The eleventh captain for the eleventh month was Benaiah
the Pirathonite, of the children of Ephraim: and in his division
were twenty-four thousand.
The twelfth captain for the twelfth month was Heldai the
Netophathite, of Othniel: and in his division were twenty-four
thousand.
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:
of Levi, Hashabiah the son of Kemuel: of Aaron, Zadok:
of Judah, Elihu, one of the brothers of David: of Issachar, Omri
the son of Michael:
of Zebulun, Ishmaiah the son of Obadiah: of Naphtali, Jeremoth
the son of Azriel:
of the children of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Azaziah: of the
half-tribe of Manasseh, Joel the son of Pedaiah:
of the half-tribe of Manasseh in Gilead, Iddo the son of
Zechariah: of Benjamin, Jaasiel the son of Abner:
of Dan, Azarel the son of Jeroham. These were the captains of
the tribes of Israel.
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.
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.
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:
Over those who did the work of the field for tillage of the
ground was Ezri the son of Chelub:
and over the vineyards was Shimei the Ramathite: and over the
increase of the vineyards for the winecellars was Zabdi the
Shiphmite:
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:
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:
and over the camels was Obil the Ishmaelite: and over the
donkeys was Jehdeiah the Meronothite: and over the flocks was
Jaziz the Hagrite.
All these were the rulers of the substance which was king
David’s.
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:
Ahithophel was the king’s counselor: and Hushai the Archite was
the king’s friend:
and after Ahithophel was Jehoiada the son of Benaiah, and
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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.
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.
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.’
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.
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.
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.
I will establish his kingdom forever, if he continues to do my
commandments and my ordinances, as at this day.’
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.
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.
Take heed now; for Yahweh has chosen you to build a house for
the sanctuary. Be strong, and do it.”
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;
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 the house of God, and for the treasuries of
the dedicated things;
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;
of gold by weight for the vessels of gold, for all
vessels of every kind of service; of silver for all the
vessels of silver by weight, for all vessels of every kind of
service;
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, silver by weight for every
lampstand and for its lamps, according to the use of every
lampstand;
and the gold by weight for the tables of show bread, for every
table; and silver for the tables of silver;
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;
and for the altar of incense refined gold by weight; and gold
for the pattern of the chariot, even the cherubim, that
spread out their wings, and covered the ark of the
covenant of Yahweh.
“All this,” said David, “I have been made to understand in
writing from the hand of Yahweh, even all the works of this
pattern.”
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.
Behold, there are the divisions of the priests and the Levites,
for all the service of the house of God. 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.”
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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.
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.
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,
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;
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 artificers. Who then offers willingly to
consecrate himself this day to Yahweh?”
Then the princes of the fathers’ houses, 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;
and they gave for the service of the house of God 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.
They with whom precious stones were found gave them to
the treasure of the house of Yahweh, under the hand of Jehiel
the Gershonite.
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.
Therefore David blessed Yahweh before all the assembly; and
David said, “You are blessed, Yahweh, the God of Israel our
father, forever and ever.
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.
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.
Now therefore, our God, we thank you, and praise your glorious
name.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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;
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.”
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.
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,
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.
Then Solomon sat on the throne of Yahweh as king instead of
David his father, and prospered; and all Israel obeyed him.
All the princes, the mighty men, and also all of the sons of
king David submitted themselves to Solomon the king.
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.
Now David the son of Jesse reigned over all Israel.
The time that he reigned over Israel was forty years; he reigned
seven years in Hebron, and thirty-three years reigned he
in Jerusalem.
He died in a good old age, full of days, riches, and honor: and
Solomon his son reigned in his place.
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,
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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