11: 2 In times past, even when Saul was king, it was thou that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and Jehovah thy God said unto thee, Thou shalt be shepherd of my people Israel, and thou shalt be 115prince over my people Israel.
115Or, leader
11: 3 So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before Jehovah; and they anointed David king over Israel, according to the word of Jehovah by Samuel.
11: 4 And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem (the same is Jebus); and the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, were there.
11: 5 And the inhabitants of Jebus said to David, Thou shalt not come in hither. Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion; the same is the city of David.
11: 6 And David said, Whosoever smiteth the Jebusites first shall be chief and captain. And Joab the son of Zeruiah went up first, and was made chief.
11: 7 And David dwelt in the stronghold; therefore they called it the city of David.
11: 8 And he built the city round about, from Millo even round about; and Joab 116repaired the rest of the city.
116Hb. revived
11: 9 And David waxed greater and greater; for Jehovah of hosts was with him.
11: 10 Now these are the chief of the mighty men whom David had, who 117showed themselves strong with him in his kingdom, together with all Israel, to make him king, according to the word of Jehovah concerning Israel.
117Or, held strongly with him
11: 11 And this is the number of the mighty men whom David had: Jashobeam, the son of a Hachmonite, the chief of the 118thirty; he lifted up his spear against three hundred 119and slew them at one time.
118Targum reads, captains
119Hb. slain at one time.
11: 12 And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, who was one of the three mighty men.
11: 13 He was with David at 120Pasdammim, and there the Philistines were gathered together to battle, where was a plot of ground full of barley; and the people fled from before the Philistines.
120In 1Sa 17:1, Ephes-dammim
11: 14 And they stood in the midst of the plot, and defended it, and slew the Philistines; and Jehovah saved them by a great 121victory.
121Hb. salvation.
11: 15 And three of the thirty chief men went down to the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the host of the Philistines were encamped in the valley of Rephaim.
11: 16 And David was then in the stronghold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Beth-lehem.
11: 17 And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me water to drink of the well of Beth-lehem, which is by the gate!
11: 18 And the three brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Beth-lehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: but David would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto Jehovah,
11: 19 and said, My God forbid it me, that I should do this: shall I drink the blood of these men 122that have put their souls in jeopardy? for with the jeopardy of their souls they brought it. Therefore he would not drink it. These things did the three mighty men.
122Hb. with their souls in jeopardy
11: 20 And 123Abishai, the brother of Joab, he was chief of the three; for he lifted up his spear against three hundred 124and slew them, and had a name among the three.
123Hb. Abshai, And so elsewhere.
124Hb. slain,
11: 21 125Of the three, he was more honorable than the two, and was made their captain: howbeit he attained not to the first three.
125Or, Of the three in the second rank he was the most honorable,
11: 22 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, he slew the two sons of Ariel of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow.
11: 23 And he slew an Egyptian, a man of great stature, 126five 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 slew him with his own spear.
126That is, 2.22 m (or, 7 feet 3½ inch)
11: 24 These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had a name among the three mighty men.
11: 25 Behold he was more honorable than the thirty, but he attained not to the first three: and David set him over his 127guard.
127Or, council.
11: 26 Also the mighty men of the armies: Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Beth-lehem,
11: 27 128Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the 129Pelonite,
128In 2Sa 23:25, Shammah the Harodite,
129In 2Sa 23:26, Paltite
11: 28 Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer the Anathothite,
11: 29 130Sibbecai the Hushathite, 131Ilai the Ahohite,
130In 2Sa 23:27, Mebunnai
131In 2Sa 23:28, Zalmon
11: 30 Maharai the Netophathite, 132Heled the son of Baanah the Netophathite,
132In 2Sa 23:29, Heleb
11: 31 Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite,
11: 32 133Hurai of the brooks of Gaash, 134Abiel the Arbathite,
133In 2Sa 23:30, Hiddai
134In 2Sa 23:31, Abi-albon
11: 33 Azmaveth the Baharumite, Eliahba the Shaalbonite,
11: 34 the sons of 135Hashem the Gizonite, Jonathan the son of Shagee the Hararite,
135In 2Sa 23:32, Jashen
11: 35 Ahiam the son of 136Sacar the Hararite, 137Eliphal the son of Ur,
136In 2Sa 23:33, Sharar
137In 2Sa 23:34, Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai,
11: 36 Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijah the Pelonite,
11: 37 Hezro the Carmelite, 138Naarai the son of Ezbai,
138In 2Sa 23:35, Paarai the Arbite,
11: 38 Joel the brother of Nathan, Mibhar the son of Hagri,
11: 39 Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Berothite, the armor-bearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah,
11: 40 Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,
11: 41 Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai,
11: 42 Adina the son of Shiza the Reubenite, a chief of the Reubenites, and thirty with him,
11: 43 Hanan the son of Maacah, and Joshaphat the Mithnite,
11: 44 Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Jeiel the sons of Hotham the Aroerite,
11: 45 Jediael the son of Shimri, and Joha his brother, the Tizite,
11: 46 Eliel the Mahavite, and Jeribai, and Joshaviah, the sons of Elnaam, and Ithmah the Moabite,
11: 47 Eliel, and Obed, and Jaasiel the Mezobaite.
