Hello, and welcome
back to His Words are Life.
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I'm Kelly Mowrer, and we're
reading together in the book
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of Second Samuel, the stories
of the reign of King David,
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Before we start,
let's pray together.
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Oh, God, our Father, please come
and be with us now as we read
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your words. Please teach us
what you have for each one of to
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learn here. You know what
we need from you and we ask you
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to please give it to us now
as we sit here in your Presence.
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We love you and thank
you for loving us. Amen.
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When we were last together,
we were reading in 2nd Samuel,
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a list of some of the giants
that the men of David slew.
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We're going to pick up now in
chapter 21, verse 22. These four
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were born to the giant in Gath
and fell by the hand of David,
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and by the hand of his servants.
We're continuing in 2nd Samuel,
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chapter 22. This is
the King James Version.
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And David spake unto the
Lord the words of this song
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in the day that the Lord had
delivered him out of the hand
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of all his enemies, and out of
the hand of Saul: And he said,
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The Lord is my rock, and
my fortress, and my deliverer;
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The God of my rock, in him will
I trust: he is my shield, and
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the horn of my salvation,
my high tower, and my refuge,
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saviour; thou savest me from
violence. I will call on the
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Lord, who is worthy to be
praised. So shall I be saved
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from mine enemies. When the
waves of death compassed me,
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the floods of ungodly men made
me afraid; the sorrows of hell
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compassed me about; the
snares of death prevented me;
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in my distress I called upon
the Lord, and cried to my God:
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and he did hear my voice out of
his temple, and my cry did enter
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into his ears. Then the
earth shook and trembled;
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the foundations of heaven moved
and shook, because he was wroth.
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There went up a smoke out of
his nostrils, and the fire out
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of his mouth devoured: coals
were kindled by it. He bowed
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the heavens also, and came down;
and darkness was under his feet.
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And he rode upon a cherub, and
did fly: and he was seen upon
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the wings of the wind. And
he made darkness pavilions round
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about him, dark waters,
and thick clouds of the skies.
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Through the brightness before
him were coals of fire kindled.
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The Lord thundered from heaven,
and the most High uttered his
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voice. And he sent out arrows,
and scattered them; lightning,
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and discomfited them. And the
channels of the sea appeared,
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the foundations of the world
were discovered, at the rebuking
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of the Lord, at the blast
of the breath of his nostrils.
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He sent from above, he took me;
he drew me out of many waters;
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He delivered me from my strong
enemy, and from them that hated
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me: for they were too strong for
me. They prevented me in the day
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of my calamity: but the Lord
was my stay. He brought me forth
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also into a large place:
he delivered me, because he
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delighted in me. The
Lord rewarded me according
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to my righteousness: according
to the cleaness of my hands
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hath he recompensed me. For I
have kept the ways of the Lord,
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and have not wickedly departed
from my God. For all his
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judgments were before me: and
as for his statutes, I did not
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depart from them. I was
also upright before him and have
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kept myself from mine iniquity.
Therefore the Lord hath
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recompensed me according to my
righteousness; according to my
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cleanness in his eye sight.
With the merciful thou wilt shew
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thyself merciful, and with
the upright man thou wilt shew
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thy self upright. With the pure
thou wilt shew thyself pure;
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and with the froward thou
shalt shew thyself unsavoury.
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And the afflicted people thou
wilt save: but thine eyes are
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upon the haughty, that
thou mayest bring them down.
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For thou art my lamp, O
Lord: and the Lord will lighten
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my darkness. For by thee I have
run through a troop: by my God
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have I leaped over a wall.
As for God, his way is perfect;
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the word of the Lord is tried:
he is a buckler to all them
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that trust in him. For
who is God, save the Lord?
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And who is a rock, save out God?
God is my strength and power:
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And he maketh my way perfect.
He maketh my feet like hinds'
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feet: and setteth
me upon my high places.
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He teacheth my hands to war;
so that a bow of steel is broken
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by mine arms. Thou hast
also given me the shield of thy
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salvation: and thy
gentleness hath made me great.
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Thou hast enlarged my
steps under me; so that my feet
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did not slip. I have pursued
mine enemies, and destroyed
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them; and turned not
again until I had consumed them.
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And I have consumed
them, and wounded them,
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and they could not arise: yea,
they are fallen under my feet.
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For thou hast girded me
with strength to battle:
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them that rose up against
me hast thou subdued under me.
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Thou hast also given me
the necks of mine enemies,
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that I might destroy them
that hate me. They looked,
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but there was none to save; even
unto the Lord, but he answered
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them not. Then did I
beat them as small as the dust
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of the earth, I did stamp
them as the mire of the street,
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and did spread them abroad.
Thou also hast delivered me
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from the strivings of my people,
thou hast kept me to be head of
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the heathen: a people
which I knew not shall serve me.
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Strangers shall
submit themselves unto me:
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as soon as the hear, they
shall be obedient unto me.
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Strangers shall fade away,
and they shall be afraid out of
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their close places. The Lord
liveth; and blessed be my rock;
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and exalted be the God
of the rock of my salvation.
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It is God that avengeth me,
and it bringeth down the people
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under me, and that bringeth
me forth from mine enemies:
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thou also hast lifted me up
on high above them that rose up
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against me: thou hast delivered
me from the violent man.
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Therefore I will give
thanks unto thee, O Lord, among
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the heathen, and I will
sing praises unto thy name.
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He is the tower of salvation
for his king: and sheweth mercy
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to his anointed, unto David,
and to his seed forevermore.
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Continuing in 2nd
Samuel, chapter 23.
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And this is the
King James Version.
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Now these be the last words
of David. David the son of Jesse
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said, and the man who was
raised up on high, the anointed
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of the God of Jacob, and the
sweet psalmist of Israel, said,
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The spirit of the Lord spake
by me, and his word was in my
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tongue. The God of Israel said,
the Rock of Israel spake to me,
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He that ruleth over men must be
just, ruling in the fear of God.
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And he shall be as the light of
the morning when the sun riseth,
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even a morning without clouds;
as the tender grass springing
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out of the earth by
clear shining after rain.
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Although my house be not so with
God; yet he hath made with me
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an everlasting covenant,
ordered in all things, and sure:
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for this is all my salvation and
all my desire, although he make
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it not to grow. But the sons of
Belial shall be all of them as
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thorns thrust away, because
they cannot be taken with hands:
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But the man that shall touch
them must be fenced with iron
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and the staff of a spear;
and they shall be utterly burned
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with fire in the same place.
These be the names of the mighty
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men whom David had: The
Tachmonite that sat in the seat,
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chief among the captains;
the same was Adino the Eznite:
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he lift up his spear against
800 whom he slew at one time.
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And after him was Eleazar
the son of Dodo the Ahohite,
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one of the three mighty men
with David, when they defied
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the Philistines that were there
gathered together to battle,
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and the men of Israel were
gone away: He arose, and smote
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the Philistines until his hand
was weary, and his hand clave
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unto the sword: and the Lord
wrought a great victory that day
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and the people returned
after him only to spoil.
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And after him was Shammah
the son of Agee the Hararite.
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And the Philistines were
gathered together into a troop,
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where was a piece of ground
full of lentiles: and the people
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fled from the Philistines.
But he stood in the midst of the
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ground, and defended it,
and slew the Philistines:
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and the Lord wrought a great
victory. And 3 of the 30 chief
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went down and came to David in
the harvest time unto the cave
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of Adullam: and the troop of
the Philistines pitched in the
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valley of Rephaim. And David was
then in an hold and the garrison
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of the Philistines was then
in Bethlehem. And David longed,
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and said, Oh that one would give
me a drink of the water of the
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well of Bethlehem, which is by
the gate! And the 3 mighty men
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brake through the host of the
Philistines, and drew water out
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of the well of Bethlehem, that
was by the gate, and took it,
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and brought it to David:
nevertheless he would not drink
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thereof, but poured it out unto
the Lord. And he said, Be it far
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from me, O Lord, that I should
do this: is not this the blood
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of the men that went in
jeopardy of their lives?
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therefore he would not drink
it. These things did these three
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mighty men. And Abishai,
the brother of Joab, the son of
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Zeruiah, was chief among three.
And he lifted up his spear
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against 300, and slew them,
and had the name among three.
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Was he not most honorable of 3?
therefore he was their captain:
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Howbeit he attained not unto the
first three. And Benaiah the son
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of Jehoiada, the son of
a valiant man, of Kabzeel,
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who had done many acts, he
slew two lionlike men of Moab:
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he went down also and slew
a lion in the midst of a pit
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in time of snow: And he
slew an Egyptian, a goodly man:
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and the Egyptian had a spear
in his hand; but he went down
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to him with a staff, and plucked
the spear out of the Egyptian's
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hand, and slew him with his own
spear. These things did Benaiah
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the son of Jehoiada, and had
the name among three mighty men.
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He was more honorable than the
thirty, but he attained not to
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the first three. And
David set him over his guard.
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Asahel the brother of
Joab was one of the thirty:
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Elhanan the son of Dodo of
Bethlehem, Shammah the Harodite,
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Elika the Harodite, Helez the
Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh
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the Tekoite, Abiezer
the Anethothite, Mebunnai
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the Hushathite, Zalmon the
Ahohite, Mahrai the Netophathite
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Heleb the son of Baanah, a
Netophathite, Ittai the son of
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Ribai out of Gibeah of
the children of Benjamin,
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Benaiah the Pirathonite,
Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash,
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Abialbon the Arbathite,
Azmaveth the Barhumite,
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Eliahba the Shaalbonite, of
the sons of Jashen, Jonathan,
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Ahammah the Hararite, Ahiram
the son of Sharar the Hararite,
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Eliphalet the son of
Ahasbai, the son of Maachathite,
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Eliam the son of Ahithophel the
Gilonite, Hezrai the Carmelite,
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Paarai the Arbite, Igal
the son of Nathan of Zobah,
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Bani the Gadite, Zelek the
Ammonite, Nahari the Beerothite,
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armour bearer to Joab the son of
Zeruiah Ira an Ithrite, Gareb an
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Ithrite, Uriah the Hittite:
thirty and seven in all.
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Continuing with
2nd Samuel, chapter 24.
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This is the King James Version.
And again the anger of the Lord
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was kindled against Israel, and
he moved David against them to
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say, Go number Israel and
Judah. For the king said to Joab
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the captain of the host, which
was with him, Go now through all
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the tribes of Israel, from Dan
even to Beer-sheba, and number
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ye the people, that I may
know the number of the people.
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And Joab said unto the king, Now
the Lord thy God add unto the
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people, how many soever they be,
an hundredfold and that the eyes
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of my lord the king may see it:
but why doth my lord the king
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delight in this
thing? notwithstanding
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the king's word prevailed
against Joab, and against
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the captains of the host.
And Joab and the captains of the
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host went out from the presence
of the king to number the people
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of Israel. And they passed over
Jordan. They pitched in Aroer,
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on the right side of the city
that lieth in the midst of the
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river of Gad, and toward
Jazer: Then they came to Gilead,
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and to the land of Tahtimhodshi;
and they came to Danjaan,
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and about to Zidon, and
came to the strong hold of Tyre,
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and to all the cities of the
Hivites, and of the Canaanites:
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and they went out to the south
of Judah, even to Beersheba.
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So when they had
gone through all the land,
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they came to Jerusalem at
the end of 9 months and 20 days.
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And Joab gave up the sum of the
number of the people unto the
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king and there were in
Israel 800,000 valiant men
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that drew the sword; and the
men of Judah were 500,000 men.
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And David's heart smote
him after that he had numbered
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the people. And David said unto
the Lord, I have sinned greatly
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in that I have done: and
now, I beseech thee, O lord,
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take away the iniquity of
thy servant; for I have done
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very foolishly. For when
David was up in the morning,
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the word of the Lord came unto
the prophet, Gad, David's seer,
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saying, Go and say unto
David, Thus saith the Lord,
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I offer thee 3 things;
choose thee one of them,
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that I may do it unto thee.
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When we come back together, we
will finish reading 2nd Samuel.
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and continue on. But until that
time, may God keep us in his
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love and care, and may his word
bear fruit in our lives. Goodbye
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