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II Samuel Chapter 23

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David is sent to fight the Philistines at the border of Gath, but Samuel warns him that the battle will be disastrous. The chapter ends with the Philistines destroying the Israelite camp and David’s men being taken captive.

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(1) Now these be the last words of David. David the son of Jesse said, and the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said,
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Genesis 49:1Deuteronomy 33:1Joshua 23:1Joshua 23:2Joshua 23:3Joshua 23:4Joshua 23:5Joshua 23:6Joshua 23:7Joshua 23:8Joshua 23:9Joshua 23:10

(2) The Spirit of the LORD spake by me, and his word was in my tongue.
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Matthew 22:43Mark 12:36Acts 2:25Acts 2:26Acts 2:27Acts 2:28Acts 2:29Acts 2:30Acts 2:31Hebrews 3:7Hebrews 3:8II Peter 1:21

(3) The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.
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Genesis 33:20Exodus 3:15Exodus 19:5Exodus 19:6Exodus 20:2II Samuel 22:2II Samuel 22:32Deuteronomy 32:4Deuteronomy 32:30Deuteronomy 32:31Psalms 42:9Psalms 110:2

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Leviticus 19:36Ezekiel 45:10

(4) And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
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Judges 5:31Psalms 89:36Psalms 110:3Proverbs 4:18Isaiah 60:1Isaiah 60:3Isaiah 60:18Isaiah 60:19Isaiah 60:20Hosea 6:5Malachi 4:2Luke 1:78

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Isaiah 30:26I Samuel 29:10Zechariah 10:1Ecclesiastes 12:2Isaiah 60:19Luke 11:36

(5) Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to grow.
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II Samuel 7:18II Samuel 12:10II Samuel 13:14II Samuel 13:28II Samuel 18:14I Kings 1:5I Kings 2:24I Kings 2:25I Kings 11:6I Kings 11:7I Kings 11:8I Kings 12:14

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Jeremiah 31:32Ezekiel 11:16Genesis 17:7Genesis 17:13Genesis 17:19Leviticus 26:42

(6) But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands:
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II Samuel 20:1Deuteronomy 13:13I Samuel 2:12Genesis 3:18Song of Solomon 2:2Isaiah 33:12Ezekiel 2:6

(7) But the man that shall touch them must be fenced with iron and the staff of a spear; and they shall be utterly burned with fire in the same place.
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II Samuel 22:8II Samuel 22:9II Samuel 22:10Isaiah 27:4Matthew 3:10Matthew 3:11Matthew 3:12Matthew 13:42Luke 19:14Luke 19:27John 15:6II Thessalonians 1:8

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II Samuel 23:21I Chronicles 11:23I Samuel 17:7Daniel 2:40Daniel 2:41

(8) These be the names of the mighty men whom David had: The Tachmonite that sat in the seat, chief among the captains; the same was Adino the Eznite: he lift up his spear against eight hundred, whom he slew at one time.
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I Chronicles 11:11I Chronicles 11:12I Chronicles 27:2I Chronicles 27:32

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II Samuel 23:21I Chronicles 11:23I Chronicles 28:1I Samuel 20:25Deuteronomy 1:15II Chronicles 32:21

(9) And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with David, when they defied the Philistines that were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel were gone away:
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I Chronicles 11:12I Chronicles 11:13I Chronicles 11:14I Chronicles 27:4Numbers 23:7Numbers 23:8I Samuel 17:10I Samuel 17:26I Samuel 17:36I Samuel 17:45I Samuel 17:46Isaiah 63:3

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I Samuel 7:7I Samuel 17:1I Chronicles 11:13I Samuel 29:4Exodus 16:18Numbers 11:32

(10) He arose, and smote the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand clave unto the sword: and the LORD wrought a great victory that day; and the people returned after him only to spoil.
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Joshua 10:10Joshua 10:42Joshua 11:8Judges 15:14Judges 15:18I Samuel 11:13I Samuel 14:6I Samuel 14:23I Samuel 19:5II Kings 5:1Psalms 108:13Psalms 144:10

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Jeremiah 47:4I Samuel 13:3I Samuel 17:35II Samuel 8:1I Chronicles 18:1I Samuel 17:52

(11) And after him was Shammah the son of Agee the Hararite. And the Philistines were gathered together into a troop, where was a piece of ground full of lentiles: and the people fled from the Philistines.
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I Chronicles 11:27I Chronicles 11:13I Chronicles 11:14

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I Chronicles 11:13I Samuel 7:7I Samuel 31:1I Chronicles 10:1I Samuel 17:1I Samuel 28:4

(12) But he stood in the midst of the ground, and defended it, and slew the Philistines: and the LORD wrought a great victory.
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II Samuel 23:10Psalms 3:8Psalms 44:2Proverbs 21:31

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I Samuel 14:45II Samuel 23:11I Chronicles 11:13Judges 16:30I Samuel 4:2I Samuel 31:2

(13) And three of the thirty chief went down, and came to David in the harvest time unto the cave of Adullam: and the troop of the Philistines pitched in the valley of Rephaim.
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I Chronicles 11:15I Chronicles 11:16I Chronicles 11:17I Chronicles 11:18I Chronicles 11:19Joshua 12:15Joshua 15:35I Samuel 22:1Micah 1:15II Samuel 5:18II Samuel 5:22I Chronicles 14:9

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I Chronicles 11:15I Samuel 4:1Judges 10:4Judges 12:9I Samuel 13:5Luke 10:2

(14) And David was then in an hold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem.
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I Samuel 22:1I Samuel 22:4I Samuel 22:5I Samuel 24:22I Chronicles 12:16I Samuel 10:5I Samuel 13:4I Samuel 13:23I Samuel 14:1I Samuel 14:6

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I Chronicles 11:16II Samuel 5:17I Samuel 7:7I Samuel 13:3I Samuel 13:4I Samuel 14:11

(15) And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!
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Numbers 11:4Numbers 11:5Psalms 42:1Psalms 42:2Psalms 63:1Psalms 119:81Isaiah 41:17Isaiah 44:3John 4:10John 4:14John 7:37

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I Chronicles 11:17Nehemiah 12:39Ezekiel 46:9II Kings 4:26Ezekiel 40:23Ezekiel 46:2

(16) And the three mighty men brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: nevertheless he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto the LORD.
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II Samuel 23:9I Samuel 19:5Acts 20:24Romans 5:7II Corinthians 5:14Numbers 28:7I Samuel 7:6Lamentations 2:19Philippians 2:17

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I Chronicles 11:18Nehemiah 12:39Ezekiel 46:9II Kings 4:26Ezekiel 40:23Ezekiel 46:2

(17) And he said, Be it far from me, O LORD, that I should do this: is not this the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives? therefore he would not drink it. These things did these three mighty men.
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II Samuel 20:20Genesis 44:17I Samuel 2:30I Samuel 26:11I Kings 21:3I Chronicles 11:19Genesis 9:4Leviticus 17:10Psalms 72:14Matthew 26:28Mark 14:24John 6:52

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I Chronicles 11:19II Samuel 19:5

(18) And Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief among three. And he lifted up his spear against three hundred, and slew them, and had the name among three.
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II Samuel 2:18II Samuel 3:30II Samuel 10:10II Samuel 10:14II Samuel 18:2II Samuel 20:10I Samuel 26:6I Samuel 26:7I Samuel 26:8I Chronicles 2:16I Chronicles 11:20I Chronicles 11:21

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II Samuel 23:21I Chronicles 11:23I Chronicles 11:20I Samuel 26:6I Chronicles 2:16II Samuel 3:30

(19) Was he not most honourable of three? therefore he was their captain: howbeit he attained not unto the first three.
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II Samuel 23:9II Samuel 23:13II Samuel 23:16I Chronicles 11:25Matthew 13:8Matthew 13:23I Corinthians 15:41

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I Chronicles 11:21

(20) And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he slew two lionlike men of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow:
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II Samuel 8:18II Samuel 20:23I Kings 1:8I Kings 1:26I Kings 1:38I Kings 2:29I Kings 2:30I Kings 2:31I Kings 2:32I Kings 2:33I Kings 2:34I Kings 2:35

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I Chronicles 11:22Numbers 31:8Judges 7:25Judges 16:30II Samuel 23:21I Kings 2:34

(21) And he slew an Egyptian, a goodly man: and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear.
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I Chronicles 11:23I Samuel 17:51Colossians 2:15

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I Chronicles 11:23II Samuel 21:19I Chronicles 20:5Joshua 8:18II Samuel 2:23II Samuel 23:8

(22) These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had the name among three mighty men.
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I Kings 1:8

(23) He was more honourable than the thirty, but he attained not to the first three. And David set him over his guard.
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I Chronicles 27:6II Samuel 8:8II Samuel 20:23I Samuel 22:14

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I Chronicles 11:25Judges 10:4Judges 12:9

(24) Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,
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II Samuel 2:18I Chronicles 11:26I Chronicles 27:7

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I Chronicles 11:26Judges 10:4Judges 12:9II Samuel 2:32II Samuel 2:18I Kings 2:28

(25) Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite,
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I Chronicles 11:27I Chronicles 11:28

(26) Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite,
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I Chronicles 11:27I Chronicles 27:10I Chronicles 11:28I Chronicles 27:9II Samuel 14:2

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I Chronicles 11:28I Chronicles 27:9

(27) Abiezer the Anethothite, Mebunnai the Hushathite,
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I Chronicles 11:28I Chronicles 27:12I Chronicles 11:19

(28) Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite,
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I Chronicles 11:30I Chronicles 27:13

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I Chronicles 11:30

(29) Heleb the son of Baanah, a Netophathite, Ittai the son of Ribai out of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin,
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I Chronicles 11:30I Chronicles 27:15I Chronicles 11:31

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II Samuel 4:2I Chronicles 11:31I Chronicles 11:30

(30) Benaiah the Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash,
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I Chronicles 11:31I Chronicles 27:14Judges 12:15I Chronicles 11:32Deuteronomy 1:24Judges 2:9

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Isaiah 19:7

(31) Abialbon the Arbathite, Azmaveth the Barhumite,
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I Chronicles 11:32I Chronicles 11:33

(32) Eliahba the Shaalbonite, of the sons of Jashen, Jonathan,
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I Chronicles 11:34

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I Samuel 19:7

(33) Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam the son of Sharar the Hararite,
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I Chronicles 11:27I Chronicles 11:35

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II Samuel 23:11I Chronicles 11:35

(34) Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai, the son of the Maachathite, Eliam the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite,
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II Samuel 11:3II Samuel 15:31II Samuel 17:23I Chronicles 27:33I Chronicles 27:34

(35) Hezrai the Carmelite, Paarai the Arbite,
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I Chronicles 11:37

(36) Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite,
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I Chronicles 11:38

(37) Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, armourbearer to Joab the son of Zeruiah,
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I Chronicles 11:39I Chronicles 11:37

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I Chronicles 11:39I Chronicles 2:16I Kings 2:28

(38) Ira an Ithrite, Gareb an Ithrite,
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II Samuel 20:26I Chronicles 2:53I Chronicles 11:40

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I Chronicles 11:40

(39) Uriah the Hittite: thirty and seven in all.
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II Samuel 11:3II Samuel 11:6II Samuel 11:7II Samuel 11:8II Samuel 11:9II Samuel 11:10II Samuel 11:11II Samuel 11:12II Samuel 11:13II Samuel 11:14II Samuel 11:15II Samuel 11:16

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Judges 10:4Judges 12:9II Samuel 11:6

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