2 SAMUEL 23:1-19

23 And these are the last words of David: "The utterance of David the son of Jesse, And the utterance of the able-bodied man that was raised up on high, The annointed of the God of Jacob, And the pleasant one of the melodies of Israel. 2 The spirit of Jehovah it was that spoke by me, And his word was upon my tongue. 3 The God of Israel said, To me the Rock of Israel spoke, 'When one ruling over mankind is righteous, Ruling in the fea of God, 4 Then it is as the light of morning, when the sun shines forth, A morning without clouds. From brightness, from rain, there is grass out of the earth. 5 For is not my household like that with God? Because it is an indefinitely lasting covenant that he has assigned to me, Nicely put in order in everything and secured. Because it is all my salvation and all my delight, Is that not why he will make it grow? 6 But good-for-nothing persons are chased away, like thornbushes, all of them; For it is not by the hand that they should be taken. 7 When a man touches them He should be fully armed with iron and the shaft of a spear, And with fire they will thoroughly be burned up." 8 These are the names of the mighty men that belonged to David: Joshebbasshebeth a Tahchemonite, the head of the three. He was branishing his spear over eight hundred slain at one time. 9 Next to him Eleazar the son of Dodo the son of Ahohi was among the three mighty men with David when they taunted the Philistines. They had gathered themselves there for the battle, and so the men of Israel retreated. 10 He it was that rose up and kept striking down the Philistines until his hand wearied and his hand kept cleaving to the sword, so that Jehovah performed a great salvation on that day, and as for the people, they returned behind him only to strip [those struck down]. 11 And next to him was Shammah the son of Agee the Hararite. And the Philistines proceeded to gather themselves to Lehi, where there then happened to be a tract of the field full of lentils; and the people full of lentils, and the people themselves fled because of the Philistines. 12 But he took his stand in the middle o the tract and delivered it and kept striking down the Philistines, so that Jehovah performed a great salvation. 13 And three of the thirty head ones proceeded to go down and come at [the] harvest, to David at the cave of Adullam, and a tent village of the Philistines was encamped in the low plain of the Rephaim. 14 And David was then in the place hard to approach, and an outpost of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem. 15 After a while David expressed his craving and said: "O that I might have a drink of the water from the cistern of Bethlehem that is at the gate!" 16 At that the three mighty men forced their way into the camp of the Philistines and drew water from the cistern of Bethlehem that is at the gate and came carrying and bringing it to David, and he did not concent to drink it, but poured it out to Jehovah. 17 And he went on to say: "It is unthinkable on my part, O Jehovah, that I should do this! [Shall I drink] the blood of the men going at the risk of their souls?" And he did not consent to drink it. These are the things the three mighty men did. 18 As for Abishai the brother of Joab the son of Zeruiah, he was the head of the thirty, and he was brandishing his spear over three hundred slain ones, and he had a reputation like the three. 19 Although he was distinguished even more than the rest of the thirty, and he came to be their chief, to the rank of the [first] three he did not come.