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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>2 Samuel 23 JPS Tanakh 1917</title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/jps/2_samuel/23.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/2_samuel/23.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/2_samuel/23-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/">Bible</a> > <a href="../">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> > 2 Samuel 23</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../2_samuel/22.htm" title="2 Samuel 22">◄</a> 2 Samuel 23 <a href="../2_samuel/24.htm" title="2 Samuel 24">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">JPS Tanakh 1917</div><div class="chap"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/23-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Now these are the last words of David:<br></div><div class="po2">The saying of David the son of Jesse,</div><div class="po2">And the saying of the man raised on high,</div><div class="po2">The anointed of the God of Jacob,</div><div class="po2">And the sweet singer of Israel:</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/23-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>The spirit of the LORD spoke by me,</div><div class="po2">And His word was upon my tongue.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/23-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>The God of Israel said,</div><div class="po2">The Rock of Israel spoke to me:</div><div class="po2">‘Ruler over men shall be</div><div class="po2">The righteous, even he that ruleth in the fear of God,</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/23-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth,</div><div class="po2">A morning without clouds;</div><div class="po2">When through clear shining after rain,</div><div class="po2">The tender grass springeth out of the earth.’</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/23-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For is not my house established with God?</div><div class="po2">For an everlasting covenant He hath made with me,</div><div class="po2">Ordered in all things, and sure;</div><div class="po2">For all my salvation, and all my desire,</div><div class="po2">Will he not make it to grow?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/23-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>But the ungodly, they are as thorns thrust away, all of them,</div><div class="po2">For they cannot be taken with the hand;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/23-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>But the man that toucheth them</div><div class="po2">Must be armed with iron and the staff of a spear;</div><div class="po2">And they shall be utterly burned with fire in their place.</div> <p class="section"></p><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/23-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>These are the names of the mighty men whom David had: Josheb-basshebeth a Tahchemonite, chief of the captains; the same was Adino the Eznite; [he lifted up his spear] against eight hundred, whom he slew at one time. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/23-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo the son of an Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with David, when they jeoparded their lives against the Philistines that were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel were gone away; <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/23-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>he stood firm, and smote the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand did cleave unto the sword; and the LORD wrought a great victory that day; and the people returned after him only to strip the slain. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/23-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And after him was Shammah the son of Age the Ararite. And the Philistines were gathered together into a troop, where was a plot of ground full of lentils; and the people fled from the Philistines. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/23-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>But he stood in the midst of the plot, and defended it, and slew the Philistines; and the LORD wrought a great victory. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/23-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And three of the thirty chief went down, and came to David in the harvest time unto the cave of Adullam; and the troop of the Philistines were encamped in the valley of Rephaim. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/23-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And David was then in the stronghold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Beth-lehem. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/23-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And David longed, and said: ‘Oh that one would give me water to drink of the well of Beth-lehem, which is by the gate!’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/23-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And the three mighty men broke through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Beth-lehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David; but he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto the LORD. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/23-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And he said: ‘Be it far from me, O LORD, that I should do this; shall I drink the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives?’ therefore he would not drink it. These things did the three mighty men. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/23-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief of the three. And he lifted up his spear against three hundred and slew them, and had a name among the three. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/23-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>He was most honourable of the three; therefore he was made their captain; howbeit he attained not unto the first three. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/23-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, he smote the two altar-hearths of Moab; he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow; <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/23-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>and he slew an Egyptian, a goodly man; and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand, and slew him with his own spear. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/23-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had a name among the three mighty men. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/23-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>He was more honourable than the thirty, but he attained not to the first three. And David set him over his guard. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/23-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Beth-lehem; <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/23-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite; <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/23-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite; <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/23-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Abiezer the Anathothite, Mebunnai the Hushathite; <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/23-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite; <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/23-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Heleb the son of Baanah the Netophathite, Ittai the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin; <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/23-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Benaiah a Pirathonite, Hiddai of Nahale-gaash; <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/23-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Abi-albon the Arbathite, Azmaveth the Barhumite; <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/23-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Eliahba the Shaalbonite, of the sons of Jashen, Jonathan; <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/23-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam the son of Sharar the Ararite; <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/23-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai, the son of the Maacathite, Eliam the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite; <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/23-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>Hezrai the Carmelite, Paarai the Arbite; <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/23-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite; <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/23-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, armour-bearer to Joab the son of Zeruiah; <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/23-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite; <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/23-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>Uriah the Hittite. 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