Hi, and welcome to
His Words are Life.
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I'm Kelly Mowrer, and
we're going to continue reading
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together today in 2nd
Kings, the story of when
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king Nebuchadnezzar
came against Jerusalem.
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Before we continue, let's pray
together. Dear God, thank you
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for bringing us apart at
this moment to hear your word,
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and the story of your people,
Israel. Help us to learn the
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lesson that you have
for each of our lives today,
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in the stories that you
have preserved through all these
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centuries. Please send
the Holy Spirit now to give us
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wisdom as we hear these
words. We love you and thank you
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for loving us. Amen.
Were reading in 2nd Kings,
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and king Nebuchadnezzar
has come against Jerusalem,
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We're now reading how
his servant, Nebuzaradan,
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is handling this situation;
picking up in 2nd Kings,
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chapter 25, verse 16.
This is the King James Version.
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The two pillars, one sea,
and the bases which Solomon had
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made for the house of the Lord;
the brass of all these vessels
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was without weight. The height
of the one pillar was 18 cubits,
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and the chapiter upon it
was brass: and the height of the
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chapiter three cubits; and the
wreathen work, and pomegranates
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upon the chapiter round about,
all of brass and like unto these
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had the 2nd pillar with wreathen
work. And the captain of the
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guard took Seraiah the chief
priest, and Zephaniah the second
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priest, and the 3 keepers of
the door: and out of the city
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he took an officer that was set
over the men of war, and 5 men
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of them that were in the king's
presence, which were found
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in the city, and the principal
scribe of the host, which
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mustered the people of
the land and threescore men of
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the people of the land
that were found in the city:
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and Nebuzaradan captain of the
guard took these, and brought
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them to the king of Babylon to
Riblah: and the king of Babylon
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smote them, and slew them at
Riblah in the land of Hamath.
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So Judah was carried
away out of their land.
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And as for the people that
remained in the land of Judah,
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whom Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babylon had left, even over them
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he made Gedaliah the son
of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan,
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ruler. And when all the captains
of the armies, they and their
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men, heard that the king
of Babylon had made Gedaliah
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governor, there came to Gedaliah
to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son
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of Nethaniah, and Johanan
the son of Careah, and Seraiah
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the son of
Tanhumeth the Nethtophathite,
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and Jaazniah the son of a
Maachathite, they and their men.
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And Gedaliah sware to them,
and to their men, and said unto
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them, Fear not to be the
servants of the Chaldees:
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dwell in the land, and
serve the king of Babylon;
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and it will be well
with you. But it came to pass
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in the 7th month, that
Ishmael the son of Nethaniah,
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the son of Elishama, of the
seed royal, came, and 10 men
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with him, and smote Gedaliah,
that he died, and the Jews
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and the Chaldees that were with
him at Mizpah and all the people
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both small and great, and the
captains of the armies, arose,
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and came to Egypt: for they
were afraid of the Chaldees.
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And it came to pass in the
seven and thirtieth year of
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the captivity of Jehoiachin
king of Judah, in the 12th month
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on the seven and twentieth day
of the month, that Evilmerodach
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king of Babylon in the year that
he began to reign did lift up
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the head of Jehoiachin
king of Judah out of prison;
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And he spake kindly to him, and
set his throne above the throne
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of the kings that were
with him in Babylon; And changed
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his prison garments: and he did
eat bread continually before him
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all the days of his life. And
his allowance was a continual
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allowance given him of the king,
a daily rate for every day,
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all the days of his life.
We're going to continue now
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with the first
book of the Chronicles.
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And in the first 10 chapters
there is a very long list
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of genealogies that we're going
to skip but we're going to pause
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just briefly to read of one name
mentioned in 1st Chronicles,
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chapter 4, and verse 9.
This is the King James Version.
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And Jabez was more honourable
than his brethren and his mother
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called his name Jabez, saying,
Because I bare him with sorrow.
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And Jabez called on the God
of Israel, saying, Oh that thou
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wouldest bless me indeed, and
enlarge my coast, and that thine
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hand might be with me,
and that thou wouldest keep me
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from evil, that it may
not grieve me! And God granted
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him that which he requested.
So in the whole list of
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genealogy that goes on for ten
chapters, Jabez gets the mention
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for that incredible prayer
to God, that his hand would be
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with him to keep him from sin,
that he wouldn't cause pain,
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that he would enlarge his
territory, and God answered
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that prayer. Let's
continue now and keep reading
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in 1st Chronicles, picking up in
chapter 10 as the long list of
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genealogies come to an
end. We'll start with verse 1
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and this is the
King James Version.
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Now the Philistines
fought against Israel;
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and the men of Israel fled
from before the Philistines,
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and fell down slain in mount
Gilboa. and the Philistines
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followed hard after
Saul, and after his sons;
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and the Philistines
slew Jonathan, and Abinadab,
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and Malchishua, the sons of
Saul. And the battle went sore
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against Saul, and the archers
hit him and he was wounded
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of the archers. Then said
Saul to his armour bearer,
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Draw thy sword, and thrust
me through therewith; lest these
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uncircumcised come and abuse me.
But his armour bearer would not;
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for he was sore afraid. So
Saul took a sword, and fell
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upon it. And when his armour
bearer saw that Saul was dead,
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He fell likewise on the
sword, and died. So Saul died,
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and his 3 sons, and all
his house died together.
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And when all the men of Israel
that were in the valley saw
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that they fled, and that
Saul and his sons were dead,
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then they forsook their cities,
and fled: and the Philistines
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came and dwelt in them. And
it came to pass on the morrow,
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when the Philistines came to
strip the slain, that they found
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Saul and his sons fallen in
mount Gilboa. And when they had
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stripped him, they took
his head, and his armour,
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and sent into the land of
the Philistines round about,
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to carry tidings unto
their idols, and to the people.
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And they put his armour in the
house of their gods and fastened
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his head in the temple of Dagon.
And when all Jabesh-gilead heard
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all that the Philistines
had done to Saul, they arose,
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all the valiant men, and
took away the body of Saul,
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and the bodies of his
sons, and brought them to Jabesh
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and buried their bones under the
oak in Jabesh, and fasted 7 days
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So Saul died for his
transgression which he committed
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against the Lord, even
against the word of the Lord,
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which he kept not, and also
for asking counsel of one that
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had a familiar spirit to inquire
of it; and inquired not of
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the Lord: therefore he
slew him, and turned the kingdom
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unto David the son of
Jesse. We'll continue reading
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now in 1st
Chronicles, chapter 11,
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and this is the
King James Version.
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Then all Israel
gathered themselves to David
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unto Hebron, saying, Behold,
we are thy bone and thy flesh.
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And moreover in time
past, even when Saul was king,
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thou wast he that leadest
out and broughtest in Israel:
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And the Lord thy God said unto
thee, Thou shalt feed my people
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Israel and thou shalt be
ruler over my people Israel.
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Therefore came all the elders
of Israel to the king to Hebron
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and David made a covenant with
them in Hebron before the Lord.
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And they anointed
David king over Israel,
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according to word
of the Lord by Samuel.
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And David and all Israel went
to Jerusalem, which is Jebus;
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where the Jebusites were,
the inhabitants of the land.
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And the inhabitants of Jebus
said to David, Thou shalt not
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come hither. Nevertheless
David took the castle of Zion,
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which is the city of David. And
David said, Whosoever smiteth
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the Jebusites first
shall be chief and captain.
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So Joab the son of Zeruiah
went first up, and was chief.
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And David dwelt in the
castle; therefore they called it
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the city of David. And he
built the city round about,
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even from Millo round about:
and Joab repaired the rest of
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the city. So David
waxed greater and greater:
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for the Lord of hosts was with
him. These also are the chief
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of the mighty men whom David
had: who strengthened themselves
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with him in his kingdom,
and with all Israel, to make him
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king, according to the word
of the Lord concerning Israel.
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And this is the number of
the mighty men whom David had;
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Jashobeam, an Hachmonite,
the chief of the captains:
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he lifted up his spear against
300 slain by him at one time.
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And after him was Eleazar
the son of Dodo, the Ahohite,
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who was one of the 3 mighties.
He was with David at Pasdammim,
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and there the Philistines were
gathered together to battle,
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where was a parcel of ground
full of barley; and the people
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fled from before the Philistines
and they set themselves
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in the midst of that parcel,
and delivered it, and slew the
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Philistines. And the Lord saved
them by a great deliverance.
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Now 3 of the 30 captains
went down to the rock to David,
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into the cave of Adullam;
and the host of the Philistines
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encamped in the valley of
Rephaim. And David was then
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in the hole, and the Philistines
garrison was then at Bethlehem.
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And David longed, and said,
O that one would give me drink
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of the water of the well of
Bethlehem, that is at the gate!
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And the 3 brake through
the host of the Philistines,
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and drew water out of the well
of Bethlehem, that was by the
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gate and took it, and brought
it to David: but David would not
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drink of it, but poured
it out to the Lord, and said,
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My God forbid it me,
that I should do this thing:
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shall I drink the blood of these
men that have put their lives
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in jeopardy? for with the
jeopardy of their lives they
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brought it. Therefore he
would not drink it. These things
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did these 3 mightiest. And
Abishai the brother of Joab,
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he was chief of the three:
for lifting up his spear against
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300, he slew them, and
had a name among the three.
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Of the three, he was
more honourable than the two;
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for he was their
captain: howbeit he attained not
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to the first three. Benaiah the
son of Jehoiada, the son of a
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valiant men of Kabzeel, who
had done man acts; he slew two
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lion like men of Moab: also
he went down and slew a lion
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in a pit in a snowy day. And
he slew an Egyptian, a man of
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great stature, 5 cubits high;
and in the Egyptian's hand was
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a spear like a weaver's
beam; and he went down to him
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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 the three mighties.
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Behold, he was honourable among
the thirty, but attained not to
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the first three: and
David set him over his guard.
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And for the rest of
first Chronicles, chapter 11,
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we see a continued list of
all the mighty men of David.
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We're going to continue now
with chapter 12, and verse 1.
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and this is the
King James Version.
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Now these are they that came
to David to Ziklag, while he yet
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kept himself close
because of Saul the son of Kish:
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and they were among the
mighty men helpers of the war.
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They were armed with bows, and
could use both the right hand
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and the left in hurling stones
and shooting arrows out of a bow
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even of Saul's
brethren of Benjamin.
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And again continuing with a
long list of names, we're going
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to skip to verse 14.
These were the sons of Gad.
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Captains of the host: one of
the least was over and hundred,
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and the greatest over 1,000.
These are they that went over
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Jordan in the first month, when
it had overflown all his banks;
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and they put to flight all them
of the valleys, both toward the
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east, and toward the west.
And there came of the children
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of Benjamin and Judah
to the hold unto David.
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And David went out to meet
them and answered and said unto
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them, if ye be come
peaceably unto me to help me,
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mine heart shall be knit unto
you: but if ye be come to betray
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me to mine enemies, seeing
there is no wrong in mine hands,
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the God of our fathers,
look thereon, and rebuke it.
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Then the spirit came upon Amasai
who was chief of the captains,
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and he said, Thine are
we, David and on thy side,
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thou son of Jesse: peace, peace
be unto thee, and peace be to
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thine helpers; for
thy God helpeth thee.
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Then David received them, and
made them captains of the band.
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And there fell some of Manasseh
to David, when he came with the
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Philistines against Saul to
battle: but they helped them
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not: for the lords of the
Philistines upon advisement
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sent him away, saying, He
will fall to his master Saul
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to the jeopardy of our heads.
As he went to Ziklag, there fell
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to him of Manasseh,
Adnah and Jozabad, and Jediael,
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and Michael, and Jozabad,
and Elihu, and Zilthai, captains
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of the thousands that were of
Manasseh. And they helped David
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against the band of the rovers:
for they were all mighty men
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of valour, and were captains
in the host. Please join me
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again next time to continue
to read the story of David.
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Goodbye.
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