A    ^noteThen all Israel gathered th&ebar; selues to Dauid vnto Hebron, ∧ sayde: se we be they bones and they fleshe. And moreouer in tyme past, eu&ebar; wh&ebar; Saul was kynge, thou leddest Israel out and in. And the Lorde thy God sayde vnto the: thou shalt fede my people Israel, and thou shalt be captayne ouer my people Israel. And when al the elders of Israel were come to the kynge to Hebr&obar;, Dauid made a couena&ubar;t with them there before the Lorde. And they annoynted Dauid king ouer Israell, accordynge to the worde of the Lorde by the hand of Zamuel.

And Dauid and all Israell went to Ierusalem whyche is Iebus: for there dwelt the Iebusites the enhabiters of the lande. And þe; enhabiters of Iebus sayd to Dauid, thou comest not here. B   Neuerthelater Dauid wanne the castel of Sion, which is called the cytye of Dauid. Then sayde Dauid: whosoeuer smyte the Iebusites fyrst, shalbe the pryncypall captayne ∧ a Lord. And Ioab the sonne of Zaruiah went fyrst vp, and was therfore þe; chefe captayne. And because Dauid dwelt in the castel, therfore it was called the cytye of Dauid. And he built þe; cyty on euery syde euen from Milo roundeabout. But Ioab repared the reste of the cytye. And Dauid prospered and waxed greate, and the Lorde of Hostes was wyth hym.

C    ^noteThese are the principal men of powre þt; claue to Dauid in hys kyngdome wyth all Israel, to make hym kynge vpon Israel accordinge to the worde of the Lorde. And this is the numbre of the myghtye men whyche Dauid had: Isabaam the sonne of Hachamoni the chefe of .xxx. he lyfte vp hys spere agaynst .iij. hundred, ∧ slue th&ebar; at one tyme.

And after hym Eleazar the sonne of Dodo an Ahothite, which was one of the thre mightyest. He was wyth Dauid at Phasdamin where the Philistines were gathered to battel. And there was there a parsell of ground full of barleye, and the people fled for feare of the Phylystines. And they stepte forth into the myddes of the furlonge and saued it and slue the Philistines. And the Lord gaue a great victorye.

Dauid.

D   And the thre of the .xxx. chefe went to a rocke to Dauid at the caue Odolam. And þe; Hoste of the Phylystines had pytched in the valey of Raphaim. And Dauid was in an holde. And there was a garison of the Philistines at Bethlehem that same tyme. And Dauid l&obar;ged ∧ sayde: ^note Oh that one would geue me of the water of the well of Bethleh&ebar; that is in the gate, for to drincke. And þe; thre brake thorow the Host of the Philistines and drew of the water of the well of Bethlehem that was in the gate, and toke it and brought yt to Dauid. Neuerthelesse Dauid woulde not dryncke of yt, but offered yt to the Lorde, and sayd: God forbyd yt me, that I shoulde do thys thynge, that I shoulde dryncke the bloude of these men that haue put theyr lyues in Ieopardye (for with þe; Ieopardye of theyr lyues they brought yt) ∧ therfore he woulde not dryncke it. This dyd the thre myghtyest.

E   And Abisai the brother of Ioab was capitayne of the thre, and he lyfte vp hys spere agaynst .iij. h&ubar;dred and slue them, and had a name amonge the thre. And he was moche more nobler then anye of the thre, and was theyre captayne. But was not lyke to any of the thre in actes.

Banaiah the sonne of Iehoiada the sonne of a stronge man that had done great deades ∧ was of Cabzeel: he slue two stronge lyons of Moab, ∧ went downe and slue a Lyon in a pyt in tyme of snowe, And he slue an Egipcian whyche was a man of a size, euen fyue cubytes longe, and in hys hand had a speare lyke a weuers beame. And the other went to hym wyth a waster and plucked the speare out of the Egipcians hande, and slue hym wyth hys speare. F   Soche thynges dyd Banaiah the sonne of Iehoiada, and had a nawe wyth the thre myghtyest, and was the gloryousest of thyrtye: but attayned not vnto the thre. Also Dauid made hym of hys secret councell.

And these were the beste men of warre of the Hoste: Asahel the brother of Ioab and Elhanan the sonne of Dodo out of Bethlehem. Samoth the Harorite, Helez the Phalonite: Ira the sonne of Akes the Thekuite, Abieser the Anathothite: Sobacai the Husathite, Ilai the Ahohite: Maharai the Nethophathite and Heled the sonne of Baanah the Nethophatite: Ithai the sonne of Rebai of Gabaah that pertayneth to the chyldren of Beniamin: Banaiah the Pharathonite: Haurai of the ryuer of Gaas, and Abiel the Arbathite: Azmoth the Baharumite, Elahaba the Saalbonite. The sonnes of Hassem the Gezonite, Ionathan the sonne of Sagah, an Haratite: Ahiam the sonne of Sacar the Hararite, Eliphal the sonne of Vr. G   Hepher the Mecharathite, Ahiah the Phalonite: Hezro the Carmelite and Naari the sonne of Azbai: Ioel the brother of Nathan: Mibahar the sonne of Gari: Zelec an Ammonite and Nahari a Berothite the bearer of the Harnesse of Ioab the sonne of Zaruiah: Ira the Iethrite and Gareb a Iethrite Vriah the Hethite, Zabad the sonne of Oholni: Adina the sonne of Siza a Rubenite and an head amonge the Rubenites and .xxx. aboute hym: Hanan the sonne of Maacah ∧ Iosaphat a Mathanite: Ozeah an Astharothite: Sama and Iaiel the sonnes of Hothan an Aroerite: Iedial the sonne of Zamri and Ioha hys brother Thozites: Eliel a Mahumite. And Ieribai and Iosoiah the sonnes of Elnaem and Iethmah a Moabite. Eliel and Obed and Iasiel of Masobaiah.

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