2 Samuel 22:8

“Then the earth reeled and rocked; the foundations of the heavens trembled and quaked, because he was angry.

2 Samuel 22:10

He bowed the heavens and came down; thick darkness was under his feet.

2 Samuel 22:11

He rode on a cherub and flew; he was seen on the wings of the wind.

2 Samuel 22:13

Out of the brightness before him coals of fire flamed forth.

2 Samuel 22:14

The Lord thundered from heaven, and the Most High uttered his voice.

2 Samuel 22:16

Then the channels of the sea were seen; the foundations of the world were laid bare, at the rebuke of the Lord, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.

2 Samuel 22:19

They confronted me in the day of my calamity, but the Lord was my support.

2 Samuel 22:21

“The Lord dealt with me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he rewarded me.

2 Samuel 22:22

For I have kept the ways of the Lord and have not wickedly departed from my God.

2 Samuel 22:25

And the Lord has rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to my cleanness in his sight.

2 Samuel 22:26

“With the merciful you show yourself merciful; with the blameless man you show yourself blameless;

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with the purified you deal purely, and with the crooked you make yourself seem tortuous.

2 Samuel 22:28

You save a humble people, but your eyes are on the haughty to bring them down.

2 Samuel 22:31

This God—his way is perfect; the word of the Lord proves true; he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him.

2 Samuel 22:32

“For who is God, but the Lord? And who is a rock, except our God?

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He made my feet like the feet of a deer and set me secure on the heights.

2 Samuel 22:36

You have given me the shield of your salvation, and your gentleness made me great.

2 Samuel 22:40

For you equipped me with strength for the battle; you made those who rise against me sink under me.

2 Samuel 22:42

They looked, but there was none to save; they cried to the Lord, but he did not answer them.

2 Samuel 22:43

I beat them fine as the dust of the earth; I crushed them and stamped them down like the mire of the streets.

2 Samuel 22:44

“You delivered me from strife with my people; you kept me as the head of the nations; people whom I had not known served me.

2 Samuel 22:47

“The Lord lives, and blessed be my rock, and exalted be my God, the rock of my salvation,

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the God who gave me vengeance and brought down peoples under me,

2 Samuel 22:50

“For this I will praise you, O Lord, among the nations, and sing praises to your name.

2 Samuel 23:1

Now these are the last words of David: The oracle of David, the son of Jesse, the oracle of the man who was raised on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, the sweet psalmist of Israel:

2 Samuel 23:2

“The Spirit of the Lord speaks by me; his word is on my tongue.

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The God of Israel has spoken; the Rock of Israel has said to me: When one rules justly over men, ruling in the fear of God,

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he dawns on them like the morning light, like the sun shining forth on a cloudless morning, like rain that makes grass to sprout from the earth.

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But worthless men are all like thorns that are thrown away, for they cannot be taken with the hand;

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but the man who touches them arms himself with iron and the shaft of a spear, and they are utterly consumed with fire.”

2 Samuel 23:8

These are the names of the mighty men whom David had: Josheb-basshebeth a Tahchemonite; he was chief of the three. He wielded his spear against eight hundred whom he killed at one time.

2 Samuel 23:9

And next to him among the three mighty men was Eleazar the son of Dodo, son of Ahohi. He was with David when they defied the Philistines who were gathered there for battle, and the men of Israel withdrew.

2 Samuel 23:10

He rose and struck down the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand clung to the sword. And the Lord brought about a great victory that day, and the men returned after him only to strip the slain.

2 Samuel 23:11

And next to him was Shammah, the son of Agee the Hararite. The Philistines gathered together at Lehi, where there was a plot of ground full of lentils, and the men fled from the Philistines.

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But he took his stand in the midst of the plot and defended it and struck down the Philistines, and the Lord worked a great victory.

2 Samuel 23:13

And three of the thirty chief men went down and came about harvest time to David at the cave of Adullam, when a band of Philistines was encamped in the Valley of Rephaim.

2 Samuel 23:14

David was then in the stronghold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then at Bethlehem.

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And David said longingly, “Oh, that someone would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem that is by the gate!”

2 Samuel 23:16

Then the three mighty men broke through the camp of the Philistines and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem that was by the gate and carried and brought it to David. But he would not drink of it. He poured it out to the Lord

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and said, “Far be it from me, O Lord, that I should do this. Shall I drink the blood of the men who went at the risk of their lives?” Therefore he would not drink it. These things the three mighty men did.

2 Samuel 23:18

Now Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief of the thirty. And he wielded his spear against three hundred men and killed them and won a name beside the three.

2 Samuel 23:19

He was the most renowned of the thirty and became their commander, but he did not attain to the three.

2 Samuel 23:20

And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was a valiant man of Kabzeel, a doer of great deeds. He struck down two ariels of Moab. He also went down and struck down a lion in a pit on a day when snow had fallen.

2 Samuel 23:21

And he struck down an Egyptian, a handsome man. The Egyptian had a spear in his hand, but Benaiah went down to him with a staff and snatched the spear out of the Egyptian's hand and killed him with his own spear.

2 Samuel 23:22

These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and won a name beside the three mighty men.

2 Samuel 23:23

He was renowned among the thirty, but he did not attain to the three. And David set him over his bodyguard.

2 Samuel 23:24

Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,

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Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh of Tekoa,

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Abiezer of Anathoth, Mebunnai the Hushathite,

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Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai of Netophah,