1   These also be the ^note last wordes of Dauid: Dauid the sonne of Isai said: and þe; man which was ordayned the annoynted of the God of Iacob and the sweete Psalmist of Israel, sayde:

2   The spirite of the Lorde spake by me, and his word was in my ^note tongue.

3   The God of Israel spake to me, euen the most mightie of Israel sayde: A ruler ouer men being iust, ruling in þe; feare of God:

4   And as the morning lyght when the sunne is vp, a morning in which are no cloudes, [so shal my house be, but not] as the grasse of the earth is by bryghtnesse and rayne.

5   For so shal not my house be with God: ^note For he hath made with me an euerlasting couenaunt, perfect and sure in all poyntes: and this is truly all my health, and all my desyre, ^note that it growe, but not as grasse.

6   But the vngodly man, shall be as a thorne cleane pluckt vp, which can not be taken with handes:

7   But the man that shall touche them, must be defenced with iron, or with the shaft of a speare, and they shalbe burnt with fire in the same place. B   

8   These be the names of the mightie men whom Dauid had: One that sate in the ^note seate of wisedome, being chiefest among the princes, was Adino of Ezni, he slue eyght hundred at one tyme.

9   After him was Eliazar the sonne of Dodo the sonne of Ahohi, one of the three worthies with Dauid, which ^note defyed the Philistines that were there gathered together to battaile, when the men of Israel were ^note gone vp.

10   He arose and layed on the Philistines, vntill his hand was weery, and ^note claue vnto the sword: And the Lorde gaue great victory the same day, and the people returned after him, only to spoyle.

11   After him was Samma the sonne of Age the Hararite: ∧ the Philistines gathered together besyde a towne, where was a parcell of land full of lentils, and the people fled from the Philistines:

12   But he stoode in þe; middest of the gro&ubar;d, and defended it, ∧ slue the Philistines: and the Lorde gaue great victorie. C   

13    ^noteThese three (which were of the thirtie chiefe captaines) went downe to Dauid in the haruest tyme vnto the caue Adullam: and the hoast of the Philistines pytched in the valley of giauntes.

14   And Dauid was then in an houlde, and the souldiers of þe; Philistines were in Bethlehem.

15   And Dauid ^note longed, ∧ saide: Oh that I had of the water that is in the wel by the gate of Bethlehem for to drynke.

16   And the three mightie brake through the hoast of the Philistines, ∧ drue water out of the well of Bethlehem that was by the gate, and toke and brought it to Dauid: Neuerthelesse he would not drinke thereof, but ^note powred it vnto the Lorde,

17   And saide, The Lorde forbyd that I should do so: Is not this the blood of the men that went in ieoperdie of theyr lyues? ∧ therefore he would not drinke it. And these thinges did these three mightie men.

18    ^noteAbisai the brother of Ioab the sonne of Zaruia, was chiefe among the three, ∧ he lyft vp his speare against three hundred, ^note and slue them, ∧ had the name among the three: D   

19   For he was most excellent of the three, and was their captayne: Howbeit he attayned not vnto [the first] three.

20   And Banaiah the sonne of Iehoida the sonne of a mightie man, valiaunt in actes, of Rabzeel, slue two str&obar;g men of Moab: He went downe also, and slue a lion in the middest of a pit in time of snowe.

21   And he slue an Egyptian ^note a goodly bigge man, and the Egyptian had a ^note speare in his hand: But he went downe to him with a staffe, and plucked the speare out of the Egyptians hand, and slue him with his owne speare.

22   These thinges did Banaiah þe; sonne of Iehoida, and had the name among

Dauids worthies. the three worthies.

23   He was honorable among ^note thirtie, but he attayned not to [the first] three: And Dauid made him of his counsel.

24   Asahel the brother of Ioab, was one of the thirtie: Elhanan the sonne of Dodo, of Bethlehem:

25   Samma the Harodite, Elica the Harodite, Helez the Paltite, Ira the sonne of Acces the Thecoite:

26   Abiezer of Anathoth, ^note Mebunnai þe; Husathite: D   

27   Zelmon an Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite:

28   Heleb the sonne of Baanah an Netophatite, Ithai the sonne of Ribai out of Gibea of the children of Beniamin:

29   Banaiah the Pirathonite, Heddai of the ryuer of Gaas:

30   Abialbon the Arbathite, Asmaueth the Barhumite:

31   Eliahba a Saalbonite: of the sonnes of Iasen, Ionathan:

32   Samma the Hararite, Ahiam þe; sonne of Sarar an Hararite:

33   Eliphelet þe; sonne of Aasbai the sonne of Maachathi, Eliam the sonne of Ahithophel the Gilonite:

34   Hezrai the Carmelite, Paarai the Arbite.

35   Igal the sonne of Nathan of Zoba, Bani the Gadite:

36   Zelec the Ammonite, Naharai the Berothite, which was the harnesse bearer of Ioab the sonne of Zaruia:

37   Ira the Iethrite, Gareb þe; Iethrite:

38   Aria the Hethite: thirtie and seuen in all.

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