1:1 Adam, Seth, Enosh;
1:2 Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared,
1:3 Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech;
1:4 Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
1:5 The sons of Japheth: Gomer and Magog and Madai and Javan
and
Tubal and Meshech and
Tiras.
1:6 And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz and Diphath and
Togarmah.
1:7 And the sons of Javan: Elishah and Tarshish, Kittim and
Rodanim.
1:8 The sons of Ham: Cush and Egypt, Put and Canaan.
1:9 And the sons of Cush: Seba and Havilah and Sabta and
Raama
and Sabteca. And the
sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
1:10 And Cush was the father of Nimrod: he was the first to
be a
great man in the
earth.
1:11 And Egypt was the father of the Ludim and the Anamim
and
the Lehabim and the
Naphtuhim
1:12 And the Pathrusim and the Casluhim and the Caphtorim
(from
whom came the
Philistines).
1:13 And Canaan was the father of Zidon, his oldest son, and
Heth,
1:14 And the Jebusite and the Amorite and the Girgashite,
1:15 And the Hivite and the Arkite and the Sinite,
1:16 And the Arvadite and the Zemarite and the Hamathite.
1:17 The sons of Shem: Elam and Asshur and Arpachshad and
Lud
and Aram and Uz and
Hul and Gether and Meshech.
1:18 And Arpachshad was the father of Shelah, and Shelah was
the
father of Eber.
1:19 And Eber had two sons: the name of the one was Peleg,
because in his days a
division was made of the earth; and his
brother's name was
Joktan.
1:20 And Joktan was the father of Almodad and Sheleph and
Hazarmaveth and Jerah
1:21 And Hadoram and Uzal and Diklah
1:22 And Ebal and Abimael and Sheba
1:23 And Ophir and Havilah and Jobab. All these were the
sons of
Joktan.
1:24 Shem, Arpachshad, Shelah,
1:25 Eber, Peleg, Reu,
1:26 Serug, Nahor, Terah,
1:27 Abram (that is Abraham).
1:28 The sons of Abraham: Isaac and Ishmael.
1:29 These are their generations: the oldest son of Ishmael,
Nebaioth; then Kedar
and Adbeel and Mibsam,
1:30 Mishma and Dumah, Massa, Hadad and Tema,
1:31 Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These are the sons of
Ishmael.
1:32 And the sons of Keturah, Abraham's servant-wife: she
was
the mother of Zimran
and Jokshan and Medan and Midian and
Ishbak and Shuah. And
the sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan.
1:33 And the sons of Midian: Ephah and Epher and Hanoch and
Abida and Eldaah. All
these were the sons of Keturah.
1:34 And Abraham was the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac:
Esau and Israel.
1:35 The sons of Esau: Eliphaz, Reuel and Jeush and Jalam
and
Korah.
1:36 The sons of Eliphaz: Teman and Omar, Zephi and Gatam,
Kenaz
and Timna and Amalek.
1:37 The sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah and Mizzah.
1:38 And the sons of Seir: Lotan and Shobal and Zibeon and
Anah
and Dishon and Ezer
and Dishan.
1:39 And the sons of Lotan: Hori and Homam; and Timna was
Lotan's sister.
1:40 The sons of Shobal: Alian and Manahath and Ebal, Shephi
and
Onam. And the sons of
Zibeon: Aiah and Anah.
1:41 The sons of Anah: Dishon. And the sons of Dishon:
Hamran
and Eshban and Ithran
and Cheran.
1:42 The sons of Ezer: Bilhan and Zaavan, Jaakan. The sons
of
Dishan: Uz and Aran.
1:43 Now these are the kings who were ruling in the land of
Edom, before there
was any king over Israel: Bela, the son of
Beor; his town was
named Dinhabah.
1:44 At his death, Jobab, the son of Zerah of Bozrah, became
king in his place.
1:45 At the death of Jobab, Husham, from the land of the
Temanites, became
king in his place.
1:46 And at the death of Husham, Hadad, the son of Bedad,
who
overcame Midian in
the field of Moab, became king; his town was
named Avith.
1:47 And at the death of Hadad, Samlah of Masrekah became
king
in his place.
1:48 And at the death of Samlah, Shaul of Rehoboth by the
river
became king in his
place,
1:49 And at the death of Shaul, Baal-hanan, the son of
Achbor,
became king in his
place.
1:50 And at the death of Baal-hanan, Hadad became king in
his
place; his town was
named Pai, and his wife's name was
Mehetabel, the
daughter of Matred, the daughter of Me-zahab.
1:51 And Hadad came to his end. Now the chiefs of Edom were:
the
chief of Timna, the
chief of Aliah, the chief of Jetheth,
1:52 The chief of Oholibamah, the chief of Elah, the chief
of
Pinon,
1:53 The chief of Kenaz, the chief of Teman, the chief of
Mibzar,
1:54 The chief of Magdiel, the chief of Iram. These are the
chiefs of Edom.
2:1 These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi and
Judah, Issachar and
Zebulun;
2:2 Dan, Joseph and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad and Asher.
2:3 The sons of Judah: Er and Onan and Shelah; these three
were
his sons by Bathshua,
the Canaanite woman. And Er, Judah's
oldest son, did evil
in the eyes of the Lord; and he put him to
death.
2:4 And Tamar, his daughter-in-law, had Perez and Zerah by
him.
All the sons of Judah
were five.
2:5 The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul.
2:6 And the sons of Zerah: Zimri and Ethan and Heman and
Calcol
and Dara; five of
them.
2:7 And the sons of Carmi: Achan, the troubler of Israel,
who
did wrong about the
cursed thing.
2:8 And the son of Ethan: Azariah.
2:9 And the sons of Hezron, the offspring of his body:
Jerahmeel
and Ram and Chelubai.
2:10 And Ram was the father of Amminadab; and Amminadab was
the
father of Nahshon,
chief of the children of Judah;
2:11 And Nahshon was the father of Salma, and Salma was the
father of Boaz,
2:12 And Boaz was the father of Obed, and Obed was the
father of
Jesse,
2:13 And Jesse was the father of Eliab, his oldest son, and
Abinadab, the second,
and Shimea, the third,
2:14 Nethanel, the fourth, Raddai, the fifth,
2:15 Ozem, the sixth, David, the seventh;
2:16 And their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. And Zeruiah
had
three sons: Abishai
and Joab and Asahel.
2:17 And Abigail was the mother of Amasa; and the father of
Amasa was Jether the
Ishmaelite.
2:18 And Caleb, the son of Hezron, had children by Azubah
his
wife, the daughter of
Jerioth; and these were her sons: Jesher
and Shobab and Ardon.
2:19 And after the death of Azubah, Caleb took as his wife
Ephrath, who was the
mother of Hur.
2:20 And Hur was the father of Uri; and Uri was the father
of
Bezalel.
2:21 And after that, Hezron had connection with the daughter
of
Machir, the father of
Gilead, whom he took as his wife when he
was sixty years old;
and she had Segub by him.
2:22 And Segub was the father of Jair, who had twenty-three
towns in the land of
Gilead.
2:23 And Geshur and Aram took the tent-towns of Jair from
them,
with Kenath and the
small places round it, even sixty towns.
All these were the
sons of Machir, the father of Gilead.
2:24 And after the death of Hezron, Caleb had connection
with
Ephrath, his father
Hezron's wife, and she gave birth to his
son Asshur, the
father of Tekoa.
2:25 And the sons of Jerahmeel, the oldest son of Hezron,
were
Ram, the oldest, and
Bunah and Oren and Ozem and Ahijah.
2:26 And Jerahmeel had another wife, whose name was Atarah:
she
was the mother of
Onam.
2:27 And the sons of Ram, the oldest son of Jerahmeel, were
Maaz
and Jamin and Eker.
2:28 And the sons of Onam were Shammai and Jada; and the
sons of
Shammai: Nadab and
Abishur.
2:29 And the name of Abishur's wife was Abihail; and she had
Ahban and Molid by
him.
2:30 And the sons of Nadab: Seled and Appaim; but Seled came
to
his end without sons.
2:31 And the sons of Appaim: Ishi. And the sons of Ishi:
Sheshan. And the sons
of Sheshan: Ahlai.
2:32 And the sons of Jada, the brother of Shammai: Jether
and
Jonathan; and Jether
came to his end without sons.
2:33 And the sons of Jonathan: Peleth and Zaza. These were
the
sons of Jerahmeel.
2:34 Now Sheshan had no sons, but only daughters. And
Sheshan
had an Egyptian
servant, whose name was Jarha.
2:35 And Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha, his servant, as
a
wife; and she had
Attai by him.
2:36 And Attai was the father of Nathan, and Nathan was the
father of Zabad,
2:37 And Zabad was the father of Ephlal, and Ephlal was the
father of Obed,
2:38 And Obed was the father of Jehu, and Jehu was the
father of
Azariah,
2:39 And Azariah was the father of Helez, and Helez was the
father of Eleasah,
2:40 And Eleasah was the father of Sismai, and Sismai was
the
father of Shallum,
2:41 And Shallum was the father of Jekamiah, and Jekamiah
was
the father of
Elishama.
2:42 And the sons of Caleb, the brother of Jerahmeel, were
Mareshah, his oldest
son, who was the father of Ziph and
Hebron.
2:43 And the sons of Hebron: Korah and Tappuah and Rekem and
Shema.
2:44 And Shema was the father of Raham, the father of
Jorkeam,
and Rekem was the
father of Shammai.
2:45 And the son of Shammai was Maon; and Maon was the
father of
Beth-zur.
2:46 And Ephah, Caleb's servant-wife, had Haran and Moza and
Gazez; and Haran was
the father of Gazez.
2:47 And the sons of Jahdai: Regem and Jotham and Geshan and
Pelet and Ephah and
Shaaph.
2:48 Maacah, Caleb's servant-wife, was the mother of Sheber
and
Tirhanah,
2:49 And Shaaph, the father of Madmannah, Sheva, the father
of
Machbena and the
father of Gibea; and Caleb's daughter was
Achsah. These were
the sons of Caleb.
2:50 The sons of Hur, the oldest son of Ephrathah; Shobal,
the
father of
Kiriath-jearim,
2:51 Salma, the father of Beth-lehem, Hareph, the father of
Beth-gader.
2:52 And Shobal, the father of Kiriath-jearim, had sons:
Haroeh,
half of the
Manahathites.
2:53 And the families of Kiriath-jearim: the Ithrites and
the
Puthites and the
Shumathites and the Mishraites; from them came
the Zorathites and
the Eshtaolites.
2:54 The sons of Salma: Beth-lehem and the Netophathites,
Atroth-beth-Joab and
half of the Manahathites, the Zorites.
2:55 And the families of scribes who were living at Jabez:
the
Tirathites, the
Shimeathites, the Sucathites. These are the
Kenites, the
offspring of Hammath, the father of the family of
Rechab.
3:1 Now these were David's sons, whose birth took place in
Hebron: the oldest
Amnon, by Ahinoam of Jezreel; the second
Daniel, by Abigail
the Carmelite woman;
3:2 The third Absalom, the son of Maacah, the daughter of
Talmai, king of
Geshur; the fourth Adonijah, the son of
Haggith;
3:3 The fifth Shephatiah, by Abital; the sixth Ithream, by
Eglah
his wife.
3:4 He had six sons in Hebron; he was ruling there for seven
years and six months,
and in Jerusalem for thirty-three years.
3:5 And in Jerusalem he had four sons, Shimea and Shobab and
Nathan and Solomon,
by Bath-shua, the daughter of Ammiel;
3:6 And Ibhar and Elishama and Eliphelet
3:7 And Nogah and Nepheg and Japhia
3:8 And Elishama and Eliada and Eliphelet, nine.
3:9 All these were the sons of David, in addition to the
sons of
his servant-wives;
and Tamar was their sister.
3:10 And Solomon's son was Rehoboam, Abijah was his son, Asa
his
son, Jehoshaphat his
son,
3:11 Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son,
3:12 Amaziah his son, Azariah his son, Jotham his son,
3:13 Ahaz his son, Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son,
3:14 Amon his son, Josiah his son.
3:15 And the sons of Josiah: the oldest Johanan, the second
Jehoiakim, the third
Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum.
3:16 And the sons of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, Zedekiah
his
son.
3:17 And the sons of Jeconiah, who was taken prisoner:
Shealtiel
his son,
3:18 And Malchiram and Pedaiah and Shenazzar, Jekamiah, Hoshama
and Nedabiah.
3:19 And the sons of Pedaiah: Zerubbabel and Shimei; and the
sons of Zerubbabel:
Meshullam and Hananiah; and Shelomith was
their sister;
3:20 And Hashubah and Ohel and Berechiah and Hasadiah,
Jushab-hesed, five.
3:21 And the sons of Hananiah: Pelatiah and Jeshaiah; the
sons
of Rephaiah, the sons
of Arnan, the sons of Obadiah, the sons
of Shecaniah.
3:22 And the sons of Shecaniah: Shemaiah; and the sons of
Shemaiah: Hattush and
Igal and Bariah and Neariah and Shaphat,
six.
3:23 And the sons of Neariah: Elioenai and Hizkiah and
Azrikam,
three.
3:24 And the sons of Elioenai: Hodaviah and Eliashib and
Pelaiah
and Akkub and Johanan
and Delaiah and Anani, seven.
4:1 The sons of Judah: Perez, Hezron and Carmi and Hur and
Shobal.
4:2 And Reaiah, the son of Shobal, was the father of Jahath;
and
Jahath was the father
of Ahumai and Lahad. These are the
families of the
Zorathites.
4:3 And these were the sons of Hur, the father of Etam:
Jezreel
and Ishma and Idbash,
and the name of their sister was
Hazzelelponi;
4:4 And Penuel, the father of Gedor, and Ezer, the father of
Hushah. These are the
sons of Hur, the oldest son of Ephrathah,
the father of
Beth-lehem.
4:5 And Ashhur, the father of Tekoa, had two wives, Helah
and
Naarah.
4:6 And Naarah had Ahuzzam by him, and Hepher and Temeni and
Haahashtari. These
were the sons of Naarah.
4:7 And the sons of Helah were Zereth, Izhar and Ethnan.
4:8 And Koz was the father of Anub and Zobebah, and the
families
of Aharhel the son of
Harum.
4:9 And Jabez was honoured more than his brothers; but his
mother had given him
the name Jabez, saying, Because I gave
birth to him with
sorrow.
4:10 And Jabez made a prayer to the God of Israel, saying,
If
only you would truly
give me a blessing, and make wider the
limits of my land,
and let your hand be with me, and keep me
from evil, so that I
may not be troubled by it! And God gave
him his desire.
4:11 And Chelub, the brother of Shuhah, was the father of
Mehir,
who was the father of
Eshton.
4:12 And Eshton was the father of Bethrapha and Paseah and
Tehinnah, the father
of Ir-nahash. These are the men of Recah.
4:13 And the sons of Kenaz: Othniel and Seraiah; and the
sons of
Othniel: Hathath.
4:14 And Meonothai was the father of Ophrah; and Seraiah was
the
father of Joab, the
father of Ge-harashim; they were expert
workmen.
4:15 And the sons of Caleb, the son of Jephunneh: Iru, Elah,
and
Naam; and the son of
Elah: Kenaz.
4:16 And the sons of Jehallelel: Ziph and Ziphah, Tiria and
Asarel.
4:17 And the sons of Ezrah: Jether and Mered and Epher and
Jalon; and these are
the sons of Bithiah, the daughter of
Pharaoh, the wife of
Mered. And she became the mother of Miriam
and Shammai and
Ishbah, the father of Eshtemoa.
4:18 And his wife, a woman of the tribe of Judah, became the
mother of Jered, the
father of Gedor, and Heber, the father of
Soco, and Jekuthiel,
the father of Zanoah.
4:19 And the sons of the wife of Hodiah, the sister of
Naham,
were the father of
Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the
Maacathite.
4:20 And the sons of Shimon: Amnon and Rinnah, Ben-hanan and
Tilon. And the sons
of Ishi: Zoheth; and the son of Zoheth. ...
4:21 The sons of Shelah, the son of Judah: Er, the father of
Lecah, and Laadah,
the father of Mareshah, and the families of
those who made
delicate linen, of the family of Ashbea;
4:22 And Jokim, and the men of Cozeba, and Joash and Saraph,
who
were rulers in Moab,
and went back to Beth-lehem. And the
records are very old.
4:23 These were the potters, and the people living among
planted
fields with walls
round them; they were there to do the king's
work.
4:24 The sons of Simeon: Nemuel and Jamin, Jarib, Zerah,
Shaul;
4:25 Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son.
4:26 And the sons of Mishma: Hammuel his son, Zaccur his
son,
Shimei his son.
4:27 And Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters, but his
brothers had only a
small number of children, and their family
was not as fertile as
the children of Judah.
4:28 And they were living at Beer-sheba and Moladah and
Hazar-shual,
4:29 And at Bilhah, and at Ezem, and at Tolad,
4:30 And at Bethuel, and at Hormah, and at Ziklag,
4:31 And at Beth-marcaboth, and at Hazarsusim, and at
Beth-biri,
and at Shaaraim. These
were their towns till David became king.
4:32 And their small towns were Etam, Ain, Rimmon, and
Tochen
and Ashan, five
towns;
4:33 And all the small places round these towns, as far as
Baalath-beer, the
high place of the South. These were their
living-places, and
they have lists of their generations.
4:34 And Meshobab and Jamlech and Joshah, the son of
Amaziah,
4:35 And Joel and Jehu, the son of Joshibiah, the son of
Seraiah, the son of
Asiel,
4:36 And Elioenai and Jaakobah and Jeshohaiah and Asaiah and
Adiel and Jesimiel
and Benaiah,
4:37 And Ziza, the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son
of
Jedaiah, the son of
Shimri, the son of Shemaiah;
4:38 These, whose names are given, were chiefs in their
families, and their
families became very great in number.
4:39 And they went to the opening into Gedor, as far as the
east
side of the valley,
in search of grass-land for their flocks.
4:40 And they came to some good fertile grass-land, in a
wide
quiet country of
peace-loving people; for the people who were
living there before
were of the offspring of Ham.
4:41 And these whose names are given came in the days of
Hezekiah, king of
Judah, and made an attack on the Meunim who
were living there,
and put an end to them to this day, and took
their place, because
there was grass there for their flocks.
4:42 And some of them, five hundred of the sons of Simeon,
went
to the hill-country
of Seir, with Pelatiah and Neariah and
Rephaiah and Uzziel,
the sons of Ishi, at their head.
4:43 And they put to death the rest of the Amalekites who
had
got away safely, and
made it their living-place to this day.
5:1 And the sons of Reuben, the oldest son of Israel, (for
he
was the oldest son,
but, because he made his father's bride-bed
unclean, his
birthright was given to the sons of Joseph, the
son of Israel; but he
is not to be given the place of the
oldest.
5:2 Though Judah became stronger than his brothers, and from
him
came the ruler, the
birthright was Joseph's:)
5:3 The sons of Reuben, the oldest son of Israel: Hanoch and
Pallu, Hezron and
Carmi.
5:4 The sons of Joel: Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei
his
son,
5:5 Micah his son, Reaiah his son, Baal his son,
5:6 Beerah his son, whom Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria,
took
away as a prisoner:
he was chief of the Reubenites.
5:7 And his brothers by their families, when the list of
their
generations was made
up: the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah,
5:8 And Bela, the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of
Joel, who was living
in Aroer, as far as Nebo and Baal-meon;
5:9 And to the east his limits went as far as the starting
point
of the waste land,
ending at the river Euphrates, because their
cattle were increased
in number in the land of Gilead.
5:10 And in the days of Saul they made war on the Hagarites,
and
overcame them; and
they put up their tents through all the land
east of Gilead.
5:11 And the sons of Gad were living opposite to them, in
the
land of Bashan as far
as Salecah:
5:12 Joel the chief, and Shapham the second, and Janai and
Shaphat in Bashan;
5:13 And their brothers, the men of their family: Michael
and
Meshullam and Sheba
and Jorai and Jacan and Zia and Eber, seven
of them.
5:14 These were the sons of Abihail, the son of Huri, the
son of
Jaroah, the son of
Gilead, the son of Michael, the son of
Jeshishai, the son of
Jahdo, the son of Buz;
5:15 Ahi, the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, head of their
families.
5:16 And they were living in Gilead in Bashan, in its small
towns and in all the
grass-land of Sirion as far as its limits.
5:17 All these were listed under the names of their
families, in
the time of Jotham,
king of Judah, and in the time of Jeroboam,
king of Israel.
5:18 There were forty-four thousand, seven hundred and sixty
of
the sons of Reuben
and of the Gadites and of the half-tribe of
Manasseh, all strong
men, expert in the use of the body-cover,
the sword, and the
bow, and in the art of war, all able to take
up arms.
5:19 And they went to war against the Hagarites, with Jetur
and
Naphish and Nodab.
5:20 And they were helped against them, so that the
Hagarites,
and those with them,
were given into their power. For they sent
up prayers to God in
the fight, and he gave ear to them,
because they put
their faith in him.
5:21 And they took away their cattle: fifty thousand camels,
two
hundred and fifty
thousand sheep, and two thousand asses, and a
hundred thousand men.
5:22 And a very great number went to their death, because
the
war was God's
purpose. And they went on living in their place
till they were taken
away as prisoners.
5:23 And the men of the half-tribe of Manasseh were living
in
the land: and their
numbers were increased till all the land
from Bashan to
Baal-hermon and Senir and the mountain Hermon
was theirs.
5:24 And these were the heads of their families: Epher and
Ishi
and Eliel and Azriel
and Jeremiah and Hodaviah and Jahdiel, men
of war, of great
name, heads of families.
5:25 And they did evil against the God of their fathers,
worshipping the gods
of the people of the land, whom God had
put to destruction
before them.
5:26 And the God of Israel put an impulse into the heart of
Pul,
king of Assyria, and
of Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria, who
took them away as
prisoners, all the Reubenites and the Gadites
and the half-tribe of
Manasseh, to Halah and Habor and Hara and
to the river of
Gozan, to this day.
6:1 The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
6:2 And the sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and
Uzziel.
6:3 And the sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses and Miriam. And
the
sons of Aaron: Nadab
and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
6:4 Eleazar was the father of Phinehas; Phinehas was the
father
of Abishua;
6:5 And Abishua was the father of Bukki, and Bukki was the
father of Uzzi,
6:6 And Uzzi was the father of Zerahiah, and Zerahiah was
the
father of Meraioth;
6:7 Meraioth was the father of Amariah, and Amariah was the
father of Ahitub,
6:8 And Ahitub was the father of Zadok, and Zadok was the
father
of Ahimaaz,
6:9 And Ahimaaz was the father of Azariah, and Azariah was
the
father of Johanan,
6:10 And Johanan was the father of Azariah, (he was priest
in
the house which
Solomon put up in Jerusalem:)
6:11 And Azariah was the father of Amariah, and Amariah was
the
father of Ahitub,
6:12 And Ahitub was the father of Zadok, and Zadok was the
father of Shallum,
6:13 And Shallum was the father of Hilkiah, and Hilkiah was
the
father of Azariah,
6:14 And Azariah was the father of Seraiah, and Seraiah was
the
father of Jehozadak;
6:15 And Jehozadak went as a prisoner when the Lord took
away
Judah and Jerusalem
by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.
6:16 The sons of Levi; Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.
6:17 And these are the names of the sons of Gershom: Libni
and
Shimei.
6:18 And the sons of Kohath were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and
Uzziel.
6:19 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. And these are the
families of the
Levites listed by the names of their fathers.
6:20 Of Gershom: Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his
son,
6:21 Joah his son, Iddo his son, Zerah his son, Jeatherai
his
son.
6:22 The sons of Kohath: Amminadab his son, Korah his son,
Assir
his son,
6:23 Elkanah his son, and Ebiasaph his son, and Assir his
son,
6:24 Tahath his son, Uriel his son, Uzziah his son, and
Shaul
his son.
6:25 And the sons of Elkanah: Amasai and Ahimoth.
6:26 Elkanah his son: Zophai his son, and Nahath his son,
6:27 Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elkanah his son, Samuel
his
son.
6:28 And the sons of Samuel: the oldest Joel, and the second
Abiah.
6:29 The sons of Merari: Mahli, Libni his son, Shimei his
son,
Uzzah his son,
6:30 Shimea his son, Haggiah his son, Asaiah his son.
6:31 And these are those whom David made responsible for the
music in the house of
the Lord, after the ark had rest.
6:32 They gave worship with songs before the House of the
Tent
of meeting, till
Solomon put up the house of the Lord in
Jerusalem; and they
took their places for their work in their
regular order.
6:33 And these are those who did this work, and their sons.
Of
the sons of the
Kohathites: Heman, who made melody, the son of
Joel, the son of
Samuel,
6:34 The son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of
Eliel,
the son of Toah,
6:35 The son of Zuph, the son of Elkanah, the son of Mahath,
the
son of Amasai,
6:36 The son of Elkanah, the son of Joel, the son of
Azariah,
the son of Zephaniah,
6:37 The son of Tahath, the son of Assir, the son of
Ebiasaph,
the son of Korah,
6:38 The son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi,
the
son of Israel.
6:39 And his brother Asaph, whose place was at his right
hand,
Asaph, the son of
Berechiah, the son of Shimea,
6:40 The son of Michael, the son of Baaseiah, the son of
Malchijah,
6:41 The son of Ethni, the son of Zerah, the son of Adaiah,
6:42 The son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei,
6:43 The son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi.
6:44 And on the left their brothers, the sons of Merari:
Ethan,
the son of Kishi, the
son of Abdi, the son of Malluch,
6:45 The son of Hashabiah, the son of Amaziah, the son of
Hilkiah,
6:46 The son of Amzi, the son of Bani, the son of Shemer,
6:47 The son of Mahli, the son of Mushi, the son of Merari,
the
son of Levi.
6:48 And their brothers the Levites were responsible for all
the
work of the Tent of
the house of God.
6:49 But Aaron and his sons made offerings on the altar of
burned offering, and
on the altar of perfume, for all the work
of the most holy
place, and to take away the sin of Israel,
doing everything
ordered by Moses, the servant of God.
6:50 And these are the sons of Aaron: Eleazar his son,
Phinehas
his son, Abishua his
son,
6:51 Bukki his son, Uzzi his son, Zerahiah his son,
6:52 Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son,
6:53 Zadok his son, Ahimaaz his son.
6:54 Now these are their living-places, the limits inside
which
they were to put up
their tents: to the sons of Aaron, of the
families of the
Kohathites, because they had the first
selection,
6:55 To them they gave Hebron and its outskirts in the land
of
Judah;
6:56 But the open country of the town, and the small places
round it, they gave
to Caleb, the son of Jephunneh.
6:57 And to the sons of Aaron they gave Hebron, the town to
which men might go in
flight and be safe, and Libnah with its
outskirts, and
Jattir, and Eshtemoa with its outskirts,
6:58 And Hilen with its outskirts, Debir with its outskirts,
6:59 And Ashan with its outskirts, and Beth-shemesh with its
outskirts;
6:60 And from the tribe of Benjamin: Geba with its
outskirts,
and Alemeth with its
outskirts, and Anathoth with its
outskirts. All their
towns among their families were thirteen
towns.
6:61 And to the rest of the sons of Kohath there were given
by
the Lord's decision
ten towns out of the families of the tribe
of Ephraim and out of
the tribe of Dan and out of the
half-tribe of
Manasseh.
6:62 And to the sons of Gershom, by their families, out of
the
tribe of Issachar,
and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of
the tribe of
Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh in
Bashan, thirteen
towns.
6:63 And to the sons of Merari, by their families, twelve
towns
were given by the
Lord's decision, out of the tribe of Reuben,
and out of the tribe
of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun.
6:64 And the children of Israel gave to the Levites the
towns
with their outskirts.
6:65 And they gave by the Lord's decision out of the tribe
of
the children of
Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of
Simeon, and out of
the tribe of the children of Benjamin, these
towns whose names are
given.
6:66 And to the families of the sons of Kohath were given
towns
by the Lord's
decision out of the tribe of Ephraim.
6:67 And they gave them the town to which men might go in
flight
and be safe, Shechem
in the hill-country of Ephraim with its
outskirts, and Gezer
with its outskirts,
6:68 And Jokmeam with its outskirts, and Beth-horon with its
outskirts,
6:69 And Aijalon with its outskirts, and Gath-rimmon with
its
outskirts;
6:70 And out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Aner with its
outskirts, and Bileam
with its outskirts, for the rest of the
family of the sons of
Kohath.
6:71 To the sons of Gershom were given, out of the family of
the
half-tribe of
Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with its outskirts, and
Ashtaroth with its
outskirts;
6:72 And out of the tribe of Issachar, Kedesh with its
outskirts, and
Daberath with its outskirts,
6:73 And Ramoth with its outskirts, and Anem with its
outskirts;
6:74 And out of the tribe of Asher, Mashal with its
outskirts,
and Abdon with its
outskirts,
6:75 And Hukok with its outskirts, and Rehob with its
outskirts;
6:76 And out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee
with
its outskirts, and
Hammon with its outskirts, and Kiriathaim
with its outskirts.
6:77 To the rest of the Levites, the sons of Merari, were
given,
out of the tribe of
Zebulun, Rimmono with its outskirts, Tabor
with its outskirts;
6:78 And on the other side of Jordan, at Jericho, on the
east
side of Jordan, were
given them, out of the tribe of Reuben,
Bezer in the waste
land with its outskirts, and Jahzah with its
outskirts,
6:79 And Kedemoth with its outskirts, and Mephaath with its
outskirts;
6:80 And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its
outskirts, and
Mahanaim with its outskirts,
6:81 And Heshbon with its outskirts, and Jazer with its
outskirts.
7:1 And of the sons of Issachar: Tola and Puah, Jashub and
Shimron, four.
7:2 And the sons of Tola: Uzzi and Rephaiah and Jeriel and
Jahmai and Ibsam and
Shemuel, heads of their families; they
were men of war; in
the record of their generations their
number in the time of
David was twenty-two thousand, six
hundred.
7:3 And the sons of Uzzi; Izrahiah; and the sons of
Izrahiah:
Michael and Obadiah
and Joel and Isshiah, five; all of them
chiefs.
7:4 And with them, recorded in generations by their
families,
were bands of
fighting-men, thirty-six thousand of them, for
they had a great
number of wives and sons.
7:5 And there were recorded among all the families of
Issachar,
great men of war,
eighty-seven thousand.
7:6 The sons of Benjamin: Bela and Becher and Jediael,
three.
7:7 And the sons of Bela: Ezbon and Uzzi and Uzziel and
Jerimoth
and Iri, five; heads
of their families, great men of war; there
were twenty-two
thousand and thirty-four of them recorded by
their families.
7:8 And the sons of Becher: Zemirah and Joash and Eliezer
and
Elioenai and Omri and
Jerimoth and Abijah and Anathoth and
Alemeth. All these
were the sons of Becher.
7:9 And they were recorded by their generations, heads of
their
families, great men
of war, twenty thousand, two hundred.
7:10 And the sons of Jediael: Bilhan; and the sons of
Bilhan:
Jeush and Benjamin
and Ehud and Chenaanah and Zethan and
Tarshish and
Ahishahar.
7:11 All these were the sons of Jediael, by the heads of
their
families, seventeen
thousand, two hundred men of war, able to
go out with the army
for war.
7:12 And Shuppim and Huppim. The sons of Dan, Hushim his
son,
one.
7:13 The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel and Guni and Jezer and
Shallum, the sons of
Bilhah.
7:14 The sons of Manasseh by his servant-wife, the Aramaean
woman: she gave birth
to Machir, the father of Gilead;
7:15 (And Gilead took a wife, whose name was Maacah, and his
sister's name was
Hammoleketh;) and the name of his brother was
Zelophehad, who was
the father of daughters.
7:16 And Maacah, the wife of Gilead, gave birth to a son to
whom
she gave the name
Peresh; and his brother was named Sheresh;
and his sons were
Ulam and Rakem.
7:17 And the son of Ulam: Bedan. These were the sons of
Gilead,
the son of Machir the
son of Manasseh.
7:18 And his sister Hammoleketh was the mother of Ishhod and
Abiezer and Mahlah.
7:19 And the sons of Shemida were Ahian and Shechem and
Likhi
and Aniam.
7:20 And the sons of Ephraim: Shuthelah and Bered his son,
and
Tahath his son, and
Eleadah his son, and Tahath his son,
7:21 And Zabad his son, and Shuthelah his son, and Ezer and
Elead, whom the men
of Gath, who had been living in the land
from their birth, put
to death, because they came down to take
away their cattle.
7:22 And for a long time Ephraim their father went on
weeping
for them, and his
brothers came to give him comfort.
7:23 After that, he had connection with his wife, and she
became
with child and gave
birth to a son, to whom his father gave the
name of Beriah,
because trouble had come on his family.
7:24 And his daughter was Sheerah, the builder of Beth-horon
the
lower and the higher,
and Uzzen-sheerah.
7:25 And Rephah was his son, and Resheph; his son was Telah,
and
his son was Tahan;
7:26 Ladan was his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son,
7:27 Nun his son, Joshua his son.
7:28 Their heritage and their living-places were Beth-el and
its
daughter-towns, and
Naaran to the east, and Gezer to the west,
with its
daughter-towns, as well as Shechem and its
daughter-towns as far
as Azzah and its daughter-towns;
7:29 And by the limits of the children of Manasseh,
Beth-shean
and its
daughter-towns, Taanach, Megiddo, and Dor, with their
daughter-towns. In
these the children of Joseph, the son of
Israel, were living.
7:30 The sons of Asher: Imnah and Ishvah and Ishvi and
Beriah
and Serah, their
sister.
7:31 And the sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel, who was the
father of Birzaith.
7:32 And Heber was the father of Japhlet and Shomer and
Hotham
and Shua, their
sister.
7:33 And the sons of Japhlet: Pasach and Bimhal and Ashvath.
These are the sons of
Japhlet.
7:34 And the sons of Shomer: Ahi and Rohgah, Jehubbah and
Aram.
7:35 And the sons of Hotham, his brother: Zophah and Imna
and
Shelesh and Amal.
7:36 The sons of Zophah: Suah and Harnepher and Shual and
Beri
and Imrah,
7:37 Bezer and Hod and Shamma and Shilshah and Ithran and
Beera.
7:38 And the sons of Jether: Jephunneh and Pispah and Ara.
7:39 And the sons of Ulla: Arah and Hanniel and Rizia.
7:40 All these were the children of Asher, heads of their
families, specially
strong men of war, chiefs of the rulers.
They were recorded in
the army for war, twenty-six thousand men
in number.
8:1 And Benjamin was the father of Bela his oldest son,
Ashbel
the second, and
Aharah the third,
8:2 Nohah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth.
8:3 And Bela had sons, Addar and Gera, the father of Ehud,
8:4 And Abishua and Naaman and Ahoah
8:5 And Gera and Shephuphan and Huram.
8:6 And these are the sons of Ehud, heads of families of
those
living in Geba:
Iglaam and Alemeth
8:7 And Naaman and Ahijah and Gera; and Iglaam was the
father of
Uzza and Ahihud.
8:8 And Shaharaim became the father of children in the
country
of the Moabites after
driving out Hushim and Beerah his wives;
8:9 And by Hodesh his wife he became the father of Jobab and
Zibia and Mesha and
Malcam.
8:10 And Jeuz and Shachia and Mirmah. These were his sons,
heads
of families.
8:11 And Hushim became the father of Abitub and Elpaal.
8:12 And the sons of Elpaal: Eber and Misham and Shemed (he
was
the builder of Ono
and Lod and their daughter-towns);
8:13 And Beriah and Shema, who were heads of the families of
those who were living
in Aijalon, who put to flight the people
living in Gath;
8:14 And their brothers Shashak and Jeremoth.
8:15 And Zebadiah and Arad and Eder
8:16 And Michael and Ishpah and Joha, the sons of Beriah;
8:17 And Zebadiah and Meshullam and Hizki and Heber
8:18 And Ishmerai and Izliah and Jobab, the sons of Elpaal;
8:19 And Jakim and Zichri and Zabdi
8:20 And Elienai and Zillethai and Eliel
8:21 And Adaiah and Beraiah and Shimrath, the sons of
Shimei;
8:22 And Ishpan and Eber and Eliel
8:23 And Abdon and Zichri and Hanan
8:24 And Hananiah and Elam and Anathothijah
8:25 And Iphdeiah and Penuel, the sons of Shashak;
8:26 And Shamsherai and Shehariah and Athaliah
8:27 And Jaareshiah and Elijah and Zichri, the sons of
Jeremoth.
8:28 These were heads of families in their generations;
chief
men: these were
living in Jerusalem.
8:29 And in Gibeon was living the father of Gibeon, Jeiel,
whose
wife's name was
Maacah;
8:30 And his oldest son Abdon, and Zur and Kish and Baal and
Ner
and Nadab
8:31 And Gedor and Ahio and Zechariah and Mikloth.
8:32 And Mikloth was the father of Shimeah. And they were
living
with their brothers
in Jerusalem opposite their brothers.
8:33 And Ner was the father of Abner, and Kish was the
father of
Saul, and Saul was
the father of Jonathan and Malchi-shua and
Abinadab and Eshbaal.
8:34 And the son of Jonathan was Merib-baal; and Merib-baal
was
the father of Micah.
8:35 And the sons of Micah: Pithon and Melech and Tarea and
Ahaz.
8:36 And Ahaz was the father of Jehoaddah; and Jehoaddah was
the
father of Alemeth and
Azmaveth and Zimri; and Zimri was the
father of Moza;
8:37 And Moza was the father of Binea: Raphah was his son,
Eleasah his son, Azel
his son;
8:38 And Azel had five sons, whose names are: Azrikam, his
oldest, and Ishmael
and Sheariah and Obadiah and Hanan. All
these were the sons
of Azel.
8:39 And the sons of Eshek his brother: Ulam his oldest son,
Jeush the second, and
Eliphelet the third.
8:40 And the sons of Ulam were men of war, bowmen, and had a
great number of sons
and sons' sons, a hundred and fifty. All
these were the sons
of Benjamin.
9:1 So all Israel was listed by their families; and, truly,
they
are recorded in the
book of the kings of Israel. And Judah was
taken away as
prisoners to Babylon because of their sin.
9:2 Now the first to take up their heritage in their towns
were:
Israel, the priests,
the Levites, and the Nethinim.
9:3 And in Jerusalem there were living some of the sons of
Judah, and of
Benjamin, and of Ephraim and Manasseh;
9:4 Uthai, the son of Ammihud, the son of Omri, the son of
Imri,
the son of Bani, of
the sons of Perez, the son of Judah.
9:5 And of the Shilonites: Asaiah the oldest, and his sons.
9:6 And of the sons of Zerah: Jeuel, and their brothers, six
hundred and ninety.
9:7 And of the sons of Benjamin: Sallu, the son of
Meshullam,
Judah, the son of
Hassenuah,
9:8 And Ibneiah, the son of Jeroham, and Elah, the son of
Uzzi,
the son of Michri,
and Meshullam, the son of Shephatiah, the
son of Reuel, the son
of Ibnijah;
9:9 And their brothers, in the list of their generations,
nine
hundred and
fifty-six. All these men were heads of families,
listed by the names
of their fathers.
9:10 And of the priests: Jedaiah and Jehoiarib and Jachin
9:11 And Azariah, the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam,
the
son of Zadok, the son
of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the ruler
of the house of God;
9:12 And Adaiah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Pashhur, the
son
of Malchijah, and
Maasai, the son of Adiel, the son of
Jahzerah, the son of
Meshullam, the son of Meshillemith, the
son of Immer;
9:13 And their brothers, heads of their families, a thousand
and
seven hundred and
sixty: able men, doing the work of the house
of God.
9:14 And of the Levites: Shemaiah, the son of Hasshub, the
son
of Azrikam, the son
of Hashabiah, of the sons of Merari;
9:15 And Bakbakkar, Heresh, and Galal, and Mattaniah, the
son of
Mica, the son of
Zichri, the son of Asaph;
9:16 And Obadiah, the son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the
son
of Jeduthun, and
Berechiah, the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah,
who were living in
the small towns of the Netophathites.
9:17 And the door-keepers: Shallum and Akkub and Talmon and
Ahiman and their
brothers: Shallum was the chief.
9:18 Up till then they had been at the king's door to the
east.
They were
door-keepers for the tents of the sons of Levi.
9:19 And Shallum, the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the
son
of Korah, and his
brothers, of his family, the Korahites, were
responsible for
everything which had to be done in connection
with the order of
worship, keepers of the doors of the Tent;
their fathers had had
the care of the tents of the Lord, being
keepers of the doorway.
9:20 In the past Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, had been
ruler
over them; may the
Lord be with him!
9:21 Zechariah, the son of Meshelemiah, was keeper of the
door
of the Tent of
meeting.
9:22 There were two hundred and twelve whose business it was
to
keep the doorway.
These were listed by families in the country
places where they
were living, whom David and Samuel the seer
put in their
responsible positions.
9:23 So they and their sons had the care of the doors of the
house of the Lord,
the house of the Tent, as watchers.
9:24 There were keepers of the doors on the four sides, to
the
east, west, north,
and south.
9:25 And their brothers, in the country places where they
were
living, were to come
in every seven days to be with them from
time to time.
9:26 For the four chief door-keepers, who were Levites, had
a
special position,
looking after the rooms and the store-houses
of the house of God.
9:27 Their sleeping-rooms were round the house of God, for
they
had the care of it,
and were responsible for opening it morning
by morning.
9:28 Certain of them had the care of the vessels used in
worship, to keep an
account of them when they came in and when
they were taken out
again.
9:29 And some of them were responsible for the holy things
and
for the vessels of
the holy place, and the meal and the wine
and the oil and the
perfume and the spices.
9:30 And some of the sons of the priests were responsible
for
crushing the spices.
9:31 And Mattithiah, one of the Levites, the oldest son of
Shallum the Korahite,
was responsible for cooking the flat
cakes.
9:32 And some of their brothers, sons of the Kohathites,
were
responsible for the
holy bread which was put in order before
the Lord, to get it
ready every Sabbath.
9:33 And these were those who had the ordering of the music
and
songs, heads of
families of the Levites, who were living in the
rooms, and were free
from other work, for their work went on
day and night.
9:34 These were heads of families of the Levites in their
generations, chief
men; they were living at Jerusalem.
9:35 And in Gibeon was living the father of Gibeon, Jeiel,
whose
wife's name was
Maacah;
9:36 And Abdon his oldest son, and Zur and Kish and Baal and
Ner
and Nadab
9:37 And Gedor and Ahio and Zechariah and Mikloth
9:38 Mikloth was the father of Shimeam. They were living
with
their brothers in
Jerusalem opposite their brothers.
9:39 And Ner was the father of Kish; and Kish was the father
of
Saul; and Saul was
the father of Jonathan and Malchi-shua and
Abinadab and Eshbaal.
9:40 And the son of Jonathan was Merib-baal; and Merib-baal
was
the father of Micah.
9:41 And the sons of Micah: Pithon and Melech and Tahrea and
Ahaz.
9:42 And Ahaz was the father of Jarah; and Jarah was the
father
of Alemeth and
Azmaveth and Zimri; and Zimri was the father of
Moza.
9:43 And Moza was the father of Binea; and Rephaiah was his
son,
Eleasah his son, Azel
his son.
9:44 And Azel had five sons, whose names are: Azrikam, his
oldest son, and
Ishmael and Sheariah and Obadiah and Hanan:
these were the sons
of Azel.
10:1 Now the Philistines were fighting against Israel; and
the
men of Israel went in
flight before the Philistines, falling
down wounded in Mount
Gilboa.
10:2 And the Philistines went hard after Saul and his sons,
and
put to death Jonathan
and Abinadab and Malchi-shua, the sons of
Saul.
10:3 And the fight was going against Saul, and the archers
came
across him, and he
was wounded by the archers.
10:4 Then Saul said to the servant who had the care of his
arms,
Take your sword and
put it through me, before these men without
circumcision come and
make sport of me. But his servant, full
of fear, would not do
so. Then Saul took out his sword, falling
on it himself.
10:5 And when his servant saw that Saul was dead, he did the
same, and came to his
death.
10:6 So death overtook Saul and his three sons; all his
family
came to an end
together.
10:7 And when all the men of Israel who were in the valley
saw
that the men of
Israel had gone in flight and that Saul and his
sons were dead, they
went in flight away from their towns; and
the Philistines came
and took them for themselves.
10:8 Now the day after, when the Philistines came to take
their
goods from the dead,
they saw Saul and his sons dead in Mount
Gilboa.
10:9 And they took everything off him, and took his head and
his
war-dress, and sent
word into the land of the Philistines round
about to give the
news to their gods and to the people.
10:10 And they put his war-dress in the house of their gods,
and
put up his head in
the house of Dagon.
10:11 And when the news came to Jabesh-gilead of what the
Philistines had done
to Saul,
10:12 All the fighting-men came up and took away Saul's body
and
the bodies of his
sons, and took them to Jabesh, and put their
bones to rest under
the oak-tree in Jabesh, and took no food
for seven days.
10:13 So death came to Saul because of the sin which he did
against the Lord,
that is, because of the word of the Lord
which he kept not;
and because he went for directions to one
who had an evil
spirit,
10:14 And not to the Lord: for this reason, he put him to
death
and gave the kingdom
to David, the son of Jesse.
11:1 Then all Israel came together to David at Hebron, and
said,
Truly, we are your
bone and your flesh.
11:2 In the past, when Saul was king, it was you who went at
the
head of Israel when
they went out or came in; and the Lord your
God said to you, You
are to be the keeper of my people Israel,
and their ruler.
11:3 So all the responsible men of Israel came to the king
at
Hebron; and David
made an agreement with them in Hebron before
the Lord; and they
put the holy oil on David and made him king
over Israel, as the
Lord had said by Samuel.
11:4 Then David and all Israel went to Jerusalem (which is
Jebus); and the
Jebusites, the people of the land, were there.
11:5 And the people of Jebus said to David, You will not
come in
here. But still,
David took the strong place of Zion, which is
the town of David.
11:6 And David said, The first to overcome the Jebusites
will be
chief and captain.
And Joab, the son of Zeruiah, went up first,
and became chief.
11:7 And David took the strong tower for his living-place,
so it
was named the town of
David.
11:8 And he took in hand the building of the town all round,
starting from the
Millo; and Joab put the rest of the town in
order.
11:9 And David became greater and greater in power, because
the
Lord of armies was
with him.
11:10 Now these are the chief of David's men of war who were
his
strong supporters in
the kingdom, and, with all Israel, made
him king, as the Lord
had said about Israel.
11:11 This is the list of David's men of war: Ishbaal, the
son
of a Hachmonite, the
chief of the three: he put to death three
hundred at one time
with his spear.
11:12 And after him was Eleazar, the son of Dodo the
Ahohite,
who was one of the
three great fighters.
11:13 He was with David at Pas-dammim, where the Philistines
had
come together for the
fight, near a bit of land full of barley;
and the people went
in flight before the Philistines.
11:14 And he took up his position in the middle of the bit
of
land, and kept back
their attack, and overcame the Philistines;
and the Lord gave a
great salvation.
11:15 And three of the thirty went down to David, to the
rock,
into the strong place
of Adullam; and the army of the
Philistines had taken
up their position in the valley of
Rephaim.
11:16 At that time David had taken cover in the strong
place,
and an armed force of
the Philistines was in Beth-lehem.
11:17 And David, moved by a strong desire, said, If only
someone
would give me a drink
of the water from the water-hole of
Beth-lehem by the
doorway into the town!
11:18 So the three, forcing a way through the Philistine
army,
got water from the
water-hole of Beth-lehem, by the doorway
into the town, and
took it back to David; but David would not
take it, but made an
offering of it, draining it out to the
Lord,
11:19 Saying, By my God, far be it from me to do this! How
may I
take as drink the
life-blood of these men who have put their
lives in danger? so
he did not take it. These things did the
three great men of
war.
11:20 And Abishai, the brother of Joab, was chief of the
thirty,
for he put to death
three hundred with his spear, but he had
not a name among the
three.
11:21 Of the thirty, he was the noblest, and was made their
captain, but he was
not equal to the first three.
11:22 Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, a fighting-man of
Kabzeel,
had done great acts;
he put to death two young lions going into
their secret place;
and he went down into a hole and put a lion
to death in time of
snow.
11:23 And he made an attack on an Egyptian, a very tall man
about five cubits
high, armed with a spear like a
cloth-worker's rod;
he went down to him with a stick, and
pulling his spear out
of the hand of the Egyptian, put him to
death with that same
spear.
11:24 These were the acts of Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada,
who
had a great name
among the thirty men of war.
11:25 He was honoured over the thirty, but he was not equal
to
the first three: and
David put him over his servants.
11:26 And these were the great men of war: Asahel, the
brother
of Joab, Elhanan, the
son of Dodo of Beth-lehem,
11:27 Shammoth the Harodite, Helez the Pelonite,
11:28 Ira, the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer the
Anathothite,
11:29 Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite,
11:30 Maharai the Netophathite, Heled, the son of Baanah the
Netophathite,
11:31 Ithai, the son of Ribai of Gibeah, of the children of
Benjamin, Benaiah the
Pirathonite,
11:32 Hurai of Nahale-gaash, Abiel the Arbathite,
11:33 Azmaveth of Bahurim, Eliahba the Shaalbonite,
11:34 The sons of Hashem the Gizonite, Jonathan, the son of
Shage the Hararite,
11:35 Ahiam, the son of Sacar the Hararite, Eliphal, the son
of
Ur,
11:36 Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijah the Pelonite,
11:37 Hezro the Carmelite, Naarai, the son of Ezbai,
11:38 Joel, the brother of Nathan, Mibhar, the son of Hagri,
11:39 Zelek the Ammonite, and Naharai the Berothite, the
servant
who had the care of
the arms of Joab, the son of Zeruiah;
11:40 Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,
11:41 Uriah the Hittite, Zabad, the son of Ahlai,
11:42 Adina, the son of Shiza the Reubenite, a chief of the
Reubenites, and
thirty with him;
11:43 Hanan, the son of Maacah, and Joshaphat the Mithnite,
11:44 Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Jeiel, the sons of
Hotham the Aroerite,
11:45 Jediael, the son of Shimri, and Joha his brother, the
Tizite,
11:46 Eliel the Mahavite, and Jeribai and Joshaviah, the
sons of
Elnaam, and Ithmah
the Moabite,
11:47 Eliel and Obed, and Jaasiel the Mezobaite.
12:1 Now these are the men who came to David at Ziklag,
while he
was still shut up,
because of Saul, the son of Kish; they were
among the strong men,
his helpers in war.
12:2 They were armed with bows, and were able to send
stones,
and arrows from the
bow, with right hand or left: they were
Saul's brothers, of
Benjamin.
12:3 Ahiezer was their chief, then Joash, the sons of
Shemaah
the Gibeathite; and
Jeziel and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth; and
Beracah and Jehu the
Anathothite;
12:4 And Ishmaiah the Gibeonite, a great man among the
thirty,
and their chief; and
Jeremiah and Jehaziel and Johanan and
Jozabad the
Gederathite;
12:5 Eluzai and Jerimoth and Bealiah and Shemariah and
Shephatiah the
Haruphite;
12:6 Elkanah and Isshiah and Azarel and Joezer and
Jashobeam,
the Korahites;
12:7 And Joelah and Zebadiah, the sons of Jeroham of Gedor.
12:8 And some of the Gadites, siding with David, went to his
strong place in the
waste land, great and strong men, trained
for war, expert in
the use of arms, whose faces were like the
faces of lions, and
they were quick-footed like roes on the
mountains;
12:9 Ezer their chief, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third,
12:10 Mishmannah the fourth, Jeremiah the fifth,
12:11 Attai the sixth, Eliel the seventh,
12:12 Johanan the eighth, Elzabad the ninth,
12:13 Jeremiah the tenth, Machbannai the eleventh.
12:14 These Gadites were captains of the army; the least of
them
was captain over a
hundred men, and the greatest over a
thousand.
12:15 It was they who went over Jordan in the first month,
when
the river was
overflowing, and put to flight all the people of
the valleys, to the
east and to the west.
12:16 And some of the children of Benjamin and Judah came to
David in his strong
place.
12:17 And David went out to them, and said to them, If you
have
come in peace to give
me help, my heart will be united with
yours; but if you
have come to give me up to those who would
take my life, though
my hands are clean from wrongdoing, then
may the God of our
fathers see it and give you punishment.
12:18 Then the spirit came on Amasai, who was chief of the
captains, and he
said, We are yours, David, we are on your
side, O son of Jesse:
may peace be with you and peace be with
your helpers; for God
is your helper. Then David took them into
his army and made
them captains of the band.
12:19 And some of the men of Manasseh came over to David,
when
he went with the
Philistines to the war against Saul, but he
gave them no help:
for the lords of the Philistines, after
discussion, sent him
away, saying, He will go back to his
master Saul, at the
price of our lives.
12:20 Then when he went back to Ziklag, there came over to
him,
of the men of
Manasseh, Adnah and Jozabad and Jediael and
Michael and Jozabad
and Elihu and Zillethai, captains of
thousands from the
armies of Manasseh.
12:21 And they gave David help against the armed bands, for
they
were all great men of
war, and captains in the army.
12:22 And from day to day more supporters came to David,
till he
had a great army like
the army of God.
12:23 These are the numbers of the chiefs of the armed men,
ready for war, who
came to David at Hebron, to give the kingdom
of Saul into his
hands, as the Lord had said.
12:24 There were six thousand, eight hundred spearmen of the
children of Judah,
armed for war;
12:25 Seven thousand, one hundred of the children of Simeon,
great men of war;
12:26 Of the children of Levi, four thousand, six hundred.
12:27 And Jehoiada, chief of the family of Aaron, and with
him
three thousand, seven
hundred men;
12:28 And Zadok, a young man, great and strong in war, with
twenty-two captains
from his father's people.
12:29 And of the children of Benjamin, the brothers of Saul,
three thousand; for
up to that time the greater part of them
had been true to
Saul.
12:30 And of the children of Ephraim, twenty thousand, eight
hundred great men of
war, men of great name in their families.
12:31 And from the half-tribe of Manasseh, eighteen
thousand,
listed by name, came
to make David king.
12:32 And of the children of Issachar, there were two
hundred
chiefs, men who had
expert knowledge of the times and what it
was best for Israel
to do, and all their brothers were under
their orders.
12:33 Of Zebulun, there were fifty thousand men, who went
out
with the army, expert
in ordering the fight, to give help with
all sorts of arms;
true-hearted men.
12:34 And of Naphtali, a thousand captains with thirty-seven
thousand spearmen.
12:35 And of the Danites, twenty-eight thousand, six
hundred,
expert in ordering
the fight.
12:36 And of Asher, forty thousand who went out with the
army,
expert in ordering
the fight.
12:37 From the other side of Jordan, there were a hundred
and
twenty thousand of
the Reubenites and the Gadites and the men
of the half-tribe of
Manasseh, armed with every sort of
instrument of war.
12:38 All these men of war, expert in ordering the fight,
came
to Hebron with the
full purpose of making David king over all
Israel; and all the
rest of Israel were united in their desire
to make David king.
12:39 For three days they were there with David, feasting at
his
table, for their
brothers had made ready food for them.
12:40 And those who were near, as far as Issachar and
Zebulun
and Naphtali, came
with food on asses and camels and mules and
oxen, with meal for
food and cakes of figs and masses of
grapes, and wine and
oil and oxen and sheep in great numbers,
for there was joy in
Israel.
13:1 Then David had discussions with the captains of
thousands
and the captains of
hundreds and with every chief.
13:2 And David said to all the men of Israel who had come
together there, If it
seems good to you and if it is the
purpose of the Lord
our God, let us send to all the rest of our
brothers, everywhere
in the land of Israel, and to the priests
and the Levites in
their towns and the country round them, and
get them to come
together here to us;
13:3 And let us get back for ourselves the ark of our God:
for
in the days of Saul
we did not go to it for directions.
13:4 And all the people said they would do so, for it seemed
right to them.
13:5 So David sent for all Israel to come together, from
Shihor,
the river of Egypt,
as far as the way into Hamath, to get the
ark of God from
Kiriath-jearim.
13:6 And David went up, with all Israel, to Baalah, that is,
to
Kiriath-jearim in
Judah, to get up from there the ark of God,
over which the holy
Name is named, the name of the Lord whose
place is between the
winged ones.
13:7 And they put the ark of God on a new cart, and took it
out
of the house of
Abinadab; and Uzza and Ahio were the drivers of
the cart.
13:8 Then David and all Israel made melody before God with
all
their strength, with
songs and corded instruments of music, and
with brass
instruments and horns.
13:9 And when they came to the grain-floor of Chidon, Uzza
put
out his hand to keep
the ark in its place, for the oxen were
slipping.
13:10 And the wrath of the Lord, burning against Uzza, sent
destruction on him
because he had put his hand on the ark, and
death came to him
there before God.
13:11 And David was angry because of the Lord's outburst of
wrath against Uzza,
and he gave that place the name Perez-uzza,
to this day.
13:12 And so great was David's fear of God that day, that he
said, How may I let
the ark of God come to me?
13:13 So David did not let the ark come back to him to the
town
of David, but had it
turned away and put into the house of
Obed-edom the
Gittite.
13:14 And the ark of God was in the house of Obed-edom for
three
months; and the Lord
sent a blessing on the house of Obed-edom
and on all he had.
14:1 And Hiram, king of Tyre, sent men to David with
cedar-trees, and
stoneworkers and woodworkers for the building
of his house.
14:2 And David saw that the Lord had made his position safe
as
king over Israel,
lifting up his kingdom on high because of his
people Israel.
14:3 And while he was living in Jerusalem, David took more
wives
and became the father
of more sons and daughters.
14:4 These are the names of the children he had in
Jerusalem:
Shammua and Shobab,
Nathan and Solomon
14:5 And Ibhar and Elishua and Elpelet
14:6 And Nogah and Nepheg and Japhia
14:7 And Elishama and Beeliada and Eliphelet.
14:8 And when the Philistines had news that David had been
made
king over all Israel,
they went up in search of David, and
David, hearing of it,
went out against them.
14:9 Now the Philistines had come, and had gone out in every
direction in the
valley of Rephaim.
14:10 And David, desiring directions from God, said, Am I to
go
up against the
Philistines? and will you give them into my
hands? And the Lord
said, Go up; for I will give them into your
hands.
14:11 So they went up to Baal-perazim, and David overcame
them
there, and David
said, God has let the forces fighting against
me be broken by my
hand, as a wall is broken down by rushing
water; so they gave
that place the name of Baal-perazim.
14:12 And the Philistines did not take their images with
them in
their flight; and at
David's orders they were burned with fire.
14:13 Then the Philistines again went out in every direction
in
the valley.
14:14 And David went for directions to God; and God said to
him,
You are not to go up
after them; but, turning away from them,
come face to face
with them opposite the spice-trees.
14:15 And at the sound of footsteps in the tops of the
trees, go
out to the fight, for
God has gone out before you to overcome
the army of the
Philistines.
14:16 And David did as the Lord had said; and they overcame
the
army of the
Philistines, attacking them from Gibeon as far as
Gezer.
14:17 And David's name was honoured in all lands; and the
Lord
put the fear of him
on all nations.
15:1 And David made houses for himself in the town of David;
and
he got ready a place
for the ark of God, and put up a tent for
it.
15:2 Then David said, The ark of God may not be moved by any
but
the Levites, for they
have been marked out by God to take the
ark of God, and to do
his work for ever.
15:3 And David made all Israel come together at Jerusalem,
to
take the ark of the
Lord to its place, which he had got ready
for it.
15:4 And David got together the sons of Aaron, and the
Levites;
15:5 Of the sons of Kohath: Uriel the chief, and his
brothers, a
hundred and twenty;
15:6 Of the sons of Merari: Asaiah the chief, and his
brothers,
two hundred and
twenty;
15:7 Of the sons of Gershom: Joel the chief, and his brothers,
a
hundred and thirty;
15:8 Of the sons of Elizaphan: Shemaiah the chief, and his
brothers, two
hundred;
15:9 Of the sons of Hebron: Eliel the chief, and his
brothers,
eighty;
15:10 Of the sons of Uzziel: Amminadab the chief, and his
brothers, a hundred
and twelve.
15:11 And David sent for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and
for
the Levites, Uriel,
Asaiah and Joel, Shemaiah and Eliel and
Amminadab,
15:12 And said to them, You are the heads of the families of
the
Levites: make
yourselves holy, you and your brothers, so that
you may take the ark
of the Lord, the God of Israel, to the
place which I have
made ready for it.
15:13 For because you did not take it at the first, the Lord
our
God sent punishment
on us, because we did not get directions
from him in the right
way.
15:14 So the priests and the Levites made themselves holy to
take up the ark of
the Lord, the God of Israel.
15:15 And the sons of the Levites took up the ark of God,
lifting it by its
rods, as the Lord had said to Moses.
15:16 And David gave orders to the chief of the Levites to
put
their brothers the
music-makers in position, with instruments
of music, corded
instruments and brass, with glad voices making
sounds of joy.
15:17 So Heman, the son of Joel, and, of his brothers,
Asaph,
the son of Berechiah;
and of the sons of Merari their brothers,
Ethan, the son of
Kushaiah, were put in position by the
Levites;
15:18 And with them their brothers of the second order,
Zechariah, Bani and
Jaaziel and Shemiramoth and Jehiel and
Unni, Eliab and
Benaiah and Maaseiah and Mattithiah and
Eliphelehu and
Mikneiah, and Obed-edom and Jeiel, the
door-keepers.
15:19 So those who made melody, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan,
were
put in position, with
brass instruments, sounding loudly;
15:20 And Zechariah and Aziel and Shemiramoth and Jehiel,
Unni
and Eliab and
Maaseiah and Benaiah, with corded instruments put
to Alamoth.
15:21 And Mattithiah and Eliphelehu and Mikneiah and
Obed-edom
and Jeiel and
Azaziah, with corded instruments on the octave,
to give the first
note of the song.
15:22 And Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, was master of the
music: he gave
directions about the song, because he was
expert.
15:23 And Berechiah and Elkanah were door-keepers for the
ark.
15:24 And Shebaniah and Joshaphat and Nethanel and Amasai
and
Zechariah and Benaiah
and Eliezer, the priests, made music on
the horns before the
ark of God; and Obed-edom and Jehiah were
door-keepers for the
ark.
15:25 So David, and the responsible men of Israel, and the
captains over
thousands, went with joy to get the ark of the
agreement of the Lord
out of the house of Obed-edom.
15:26 And when God gave help to the Levites who were lifting
up
the ark of the agreement
of the Lord, they made an offering of
seven oxen and seven
sheep.
15:27 And David was clothed with a robe of fair linen, as
were
all the Levites who
took up the ark, and those who made melody,
and Chenaniah the
master of those who made melody; and David
had on a linen ephod;
15:28 So all Israel took up the ark of the agreement of the
Lord, with loud cries
and with horns and brass and corded
instruments sounding
loudly.
15:29 And when the ark of the agreement of the Lord came
into
the town of David,
Michal, the daughter of Saul, looking out of
the window, saw King
David dancing and playing; and to her mind
he seemed foolish.
16:1 Then they took in the ark of God and put it inside the
tent
which David had put
up for it; and they made offerings, burned
offerings and
peace-offerings before God.
16:2 And when David had come to an end of making the burned
offerings and
peace-offerings, he gave the people a blessing in
the name of the Lord.
16:3 And he gave to everyone, every man and woman of Israel,
a
cake of bread, some
meat, and a cake of dry grapes.
16:4 And he put some of the Levites before the ark of the
Lord
as servants, to keep
the acts of the Lord in memory, and to
give worship and
praise to the Lord, the God of Israel:
16:5 Asaph the chief, and second to him Zechariah, Uzziel
and
Shemiramoth and
Jehiel and Mattithiah and Eliab and Benaiah and
Obed-edom and Jeiel,
with corded instruments of music; and
Asaph, with brass
instruments sounding loudly;
16:6 And Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests, blowing horns all
the
time before the ark
of the agreement of God.
16:7 Then on that day David first made the giving of praise
to
the Lord the work of
Asaph and his brothers.
16:8 O give praise to the Lord; give honour to his name,
talking
of his doings among
the peoples.
16:9 Let your voice be sounded in songs and melody; let all
your
thoughts be of the
wonder of his works.
16:10 Have glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those
who
are searching after
the Lord be glad.
16:11 Let your search be for the Lord and for his strength;
let
your hearts ever be
turned to him.
16:12 Keep in mind the great works which he has done; his
wonders, and the
decisions of his mouth;
16:13 O you seed of Israel his servant, you children of
Jacob,
his loved ones.
16:14 He is the Lord our God: he is judge of all the earth.
16:15 He has kept his agreement in mind for ever, the word
which
he gave for a
thousand generations;
16:16 The agreement which he made with Abraham, and his oath
to
Isaac;
16:17 And he gave it to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for
an
eternal agreement;
16:18 Saying, To you will I give the land of Canaan, the
measured line of your
heritage:
16:19 When you were still small in number, and strange in
the
land;
16:20 When they went about from one nation to another, and
from
one kingdom to
another people;
16:21 He would not let anyone do them wrong; he even kept
back
kings because of
them,
16:22 Saying, Put not your hand on those who have been
marked
with my holy oil, and
do my prophets no wrong.
16:23 Make songs to the Lord, all the earth; give the good
news
of his salvation day
by day.
16:24 Make clear his glory to the nations, and his wonders
to
all the peoples.
16:25 For the Lord is great, and greatly to be praised; and
he
is more to be feared
than all other gods.
16:26 For all the gods of the nations are false gods; but
the
Lord made the
heavens.
16:27 Honour and glory are before him: strength and joy are
in
his holy place.
16:28 Give to the Lord, O you families of the peoples, give
to
the Lord glory and
strength.
16:29 Give to the Lord the glory of his name; take with you
an
offering and come
before him; give worship to the Lord in holy
robes.
16:30 Be in fear before him, all the earth: the world is
ordered
so that it may not be
moved.
16:31 Let the heavens have joy and let the earth be glad;
let
them say among the
nations, The Lord is King.
16:32 Let the sea be thundering with all its waters; let the
field be glad, and
everything which is in it;
16:33 Then let all the trees of the wood be sounding with
joy
before the Lord, for
he is come to be the judge of the earth.
16:34 O give praise to the Lord, for he is good: for his
mercy
is unchanging for
ever.
16:35 And say, Be our saviour, O God of our salvation, and
let
us come back, and
give us salvation from the nations, so that
we may give honour to
your holy name and have glory in your
praise.
16:36 Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, for ever and
for
ever. And all the
people said, So be it; and gave praise to the
Lord.
16:37 So he made Asaph and his brothers keep their places
there
before the ark of the
agreement of the Lord, to do whatever had
to be done before the
ark at all times day by day:
16:38 And Obed-edom, the son of Jeduthun, and Hosah, with
their
brothers, sixty-eight
of them, to be door-keepers:
16:39 And Zadok the priest, with his brothers the priests,
before the House of
the Lord in the high place at Gibeon;
16:40 To give burned offerings to the Lord on the altar of
burned offerings
morning and evening, every day, as it is
ordered in the law of
the Lord which he gave to Israel;
16:41 And with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest who
were
marked out by name to
give praise to the Lord, for his mercy is
unchanging for ever;
16:42 And Heman and Jeduthun had horns and brass instruments
sounding loudly, and
instruments of music for the songs of God;
and the sons of
Jeduthun were to be at the door.
16:43 And all the people went away, every man to his house;
and
David went back to
give a blessing to his family.
17:1 Now when David was living in his house, he said to
Nathan
the prophet, See, I
am living in a house of cedar-wood, but the
ark of the Lord's
agreement is under the curtains of a tent.
17:2 And Nathan said to David, Do whatever is in your heart,
for
God is with you.
17:3 But that same night, the word of God came to Nathan,
saying,
17:4 Go and say to David my servant, The Lord says, You are
not
to make me a house
for my living-place:
17:5 For from the day when I took Israel up, till this day,
I
have had no house,
but have gone from tent to tent, and from
living-place to
living-place.
17:6 In all the places where I have gone with all Israel,
did I
ever say to any of
the judges of Israel, whom I made the
keepers of my people,
Why have you not made for me a house of
cedar?
17:7 So now, say to my servant David, The Lord of armies
says, I
took you from the
fields, from keeping sheep, so that you might
be a ruler over my
people Israel;
17:8 And I have been with you wherever you went, cutting off
before you all those
who were against you; and I will make your
name like the name of
the greatest ones of the earth.
17:9 And I will make a resting-place for my people Israel,
planting them there,
so that they may be in the place which is
theirs and never
again be moved; and never again will they be
made waste by evil
men, as they were at first,
17:10 From the time when I put judges over my people Israel;
and
I will overcome all
those who are against you; and I will make
you great and the
head of a line of kings.
17:11 And when the time comes for you to go to your fathers,
I
will put in your
place your seed after you, one of your sons,
and I will make his
kingdom strong.
17:12 He will be the builder of my house, and I will make
the
seat of his authority
certain for ever.
17:13 I will be to him a father and he will be to me a son;
and
I will not take my
mercy away from him as I took it from him
who was before you;
17:14 But I will make his place in my house and in my
kingdom
certain for ever; and
the seat of his authority will never be
overturned.
17:15 So Nathan gave David an account of all these words and
this vision.
17:16 Then David the king went in and took his seat before
the
Lord, and said, Who
am I, O Lord God, and what is my family,
that you have been my
guide till now?
17:17 And this was only a small thing to you, O God; but
your
words have even been
about the far-off future of your servant's
family, looking on me
as on one of high position, O Lord God.
17:18 What more may David say to you? for you have knowledge
of
your servant.
17:19 O Lord, because of your servant, and from your heart,
you
have done all these
great things and let them be seen.
17:20 O Lord, there is no one like you, and no other God but
you, as is clear from
everything which has come to our ears.
17:21 And what other nation in the earth, like your people
Israel, did a god go
out to take for himself, to be his people,
making his name great
and to be feared, driving out the nations
from before your
people whom you made free and took out of
Egypt?
17:22 For your people Israel you made yours for ever; and
you,
Lord, became their
God.
17:23 And now, Lord, let your words about your servant and
about
his family be made
certain for ever, and do as you have said.
17:24 So let your words be made certain and your name be
made
great, when men say,
The Lord of armies is the God of Israel;
and when the family
of David your servant is made strong before
you.
17:25 For you, O my God, have let your servant see that you
will
make him head of a
line of kings; and so it has come into your
servant's heart to
make his prayer to you.
17:26 And now, O Lord, you are God, and you have said you
will
give this good thing
to your servant:
17:27 And now you have been pleased to give your blessing to
the
family of your
servant, so that it may go on for ever before
you; you, O Lord,
have given your blessing, and a blessing will
be on it for ever.
18:1 And it came about after this that David made an attack
on
the Philistines and
overcame them, and took Gath with its
daughter-towns out of
the hands of the Philistines.
18:2 And he overcame Moab, and the Moabites became his
servants
and gave him
offerings.
18:3 Then David overcame Hadadezer, king of Zobah, near
Hamath,
when he was going to
make his power seen by the river
Euphrates.
18:4 And David took from him a thousand war-carriages and
seven
thousand horsemen and
twenty thousand footmen: and he had the
leg-muscles of all
the horses cut, keeping only enough of them
for a hundred
war-carriages.
18:5 And when the Aramaeans of Damascus came to the help of
Hadadezer, king of
Zobah, David put to the sword twenty-two
thousand Aramaeans.
18:6 Then David put armed forces in Damascus, and the
Aramaeans
became his servants
and gave him offerings. And the Lord made
David overcome
wherever he went.
18:7 And the gold body-covers of the servants of Hadadezer,
David took to
Jerusalem.
18:8 And from Tibhath and from Cun, towns of Hadadezer,
David
took a great store of
brass, of which Solomon made the great
brass water-vessel
and the brass pillars and vessels.
18:9 Now when Tou, king of Hamath, had news that David had
overcome all the army
of Hadadezer, king of Zobah,
18:10 He sent his son Hadoram to King David, to give him
words
of peace and
blessing, because he had overcome Hadadezer in the
fight, for Hadadezer
had been at war with Tou; and he gave him
all sorts of vessels
of gold and silver and brass.
18:11 These King David made holy to the Lord, together with
the
silver and gold he
had taken from all nations; from Edom and
Moab and from the
children of Ammon and from the Philistines
and from Amalek.
18:12 And when he came back from putting to the sword
eighteen
thousand of the
Edomites in the Valley of Salt,
18:13 David put armed forces in all the towns of Edom; and
all
the Edomites became
servants to David. The Lord made David
overcome wherever he
went.
18:14 So David was king over all Israel, judging and giving
right decisions for
all his people.
18:15 And Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief of the army;
and
Jehoshaphat, son of
Ahilud, was keeper of the records.
18:16 And Zadok, the son of Ahitub; and Ahimelech, the son
of
Abiathar, were
priests; and Shavsha was the scribe;
18:17 And Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, was over the
Cherethites
and the Pelethites;
and the sons of David were chief of those
whose places were at
the king's side.
19:1 Now it came about after this that death came to Nahash,
the
king of the children
of Ammon, and his son became king in his
place.
19:2 And David said, I will be a friend to Hanun, the son of
Nahash, because his
father was a friend to me. So David sent
men to him, to give
him words of comfort on account of his
father. And the
servants of David came to Hanun, to the land of
the children of
Ammon, offering him comfort.
19:3 But the chiefs of the children of Ammon said to Hanun,
Does
it seem to you that
David is honouring your father, by sending
comforters to you? is
it not clear that these men have only
come to go through
the land and to make secret observation of
it so that they may
overcome it?
19:4 So Hanun took David's servants, and cutting off their
hair
and the skirts of
their robes up to the middle, sent them away.
19:5 Then certain men went and gave David word of what had
been
done to them. And he
sent out with the purpose of meeting them;
for the men were
greatly shamed. And the king said, Keep where
you are at Jericho
till your hair is long again, and then come
back.
19:6 And when the children of Ammon saw that they had made
themselves hated by
David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent
a thousand talents of
silver as payment for war-carriages and
horsemen from
Mesopotamia and Aram-maacah and Zobah.
19:7 So with this money they got thirty-two thousand
war-carriages, and
the help of the king of Maacah and his
people, who came and
took up their position in front of Medeba.
And the children of
Ammon came together from their towns for
the fight.
19:8 And David, hearing of it, sent Joab with all the army
of
fighting-men.
19:9 So the children of Ammon came out and put their forces
in
position on the way
into the town; and the kings who had come
were stationed by
themselves in the field.
19:10 Now when Joab saw that their forces were in position
against him in front
and at his back, he took all the best men
of Israel, and put
them in line against the Aramaeans;
19:11 And the rest of the people he put in position against
the
children of Ammon
with Abishai, his brother, at their head.
19:12 And he said, If the Aramaeans are stronger and get the
better of me, then
come to my help; and if the children of
Ammon get the better
of you, I will come to your help.
19:13 Take heart, and let us be strong for our people and
for
the towns of our God;
and may the Lord do what seems good to
him.
19:14 So Joab and the people who were with him went forward
into
the fight against the
Aramaeans, and they went in flight before
him.
19:15 And when the children of Ammon saw the flight of the
Aramaeans, they
themselves went in flight from Abishai, his
brother, and came
into the town. Then Joab came back to
Jerusalem.
19:16 And when the Aramaeans saw that Israel had overcome
them,
they sent men to get
the Aramaeans who were on the other side
of the River, with
Shophach, the captain of Hadadezer's army,
at their head.
19:17 And word of this was given to David; and he got all
Israel
together and went
over Jordan and came to Helam and put his
forces in position
against them. And when David's forces were
in position against
the Aramaeans, the fight was started.
19:18 And the Aramaeans went in flight before Israel; and
David
put to the sword the
men of seven thousand Aramaean
war-carriages and
forty thousand footmen, and put to death
Shophach, the captain
of the army.
19:19 And when the servants of Hadadezer saw that they were
overcome by Israel,
they made peace with David and became his
servants: and the
Aramaeans would give no more help to the
children of Ammon.
20:1 Now in the spring, at the time when kings go out to
war,
Joab went out at the
head of the armed forces and made waste
all the land of the
Ammonites and put his men in position
before Rabbah,
shutting it in. But David was still at
Jerusalem. And Joab
took Rabbah and made it waste.
20:2 And David took the crown of Milcom from off his head;
its
weight was a talent
of gold and it had stones of great price in
it; and it was put on
David's head, and he took a great store
of goods from the
town.
20:3 And he took the people out of the town and put them to
work
with wood-cutting
instruments, and iron grain-crushers, and
axes. And this he did
to all the towns of the children of
Ammon. Then David and
all the people went back to Jerusalem.
20:4 Now after this there was war with the Philistines at
Gezer;
then Sibbecai the
Hushathite put to death Sippai, one of the
offspring of the
Rephaim; and they were overcome.
20:5 And again there was war with the Philistines; and
Elhanan,
the son of Jair, put
to death Lahmi, the brother of Goliath the
Gittite, the stem of
whose spear was like a cloth-worker's rod.
20:6 And again there was war at Gath, where there was a very
tall man, who had
twenty-four fingers and toes, six fingers on
his hands and six
toes on his feet; he was one of the offspring
of the Rephaim.
20:7 And when he put shame on Israel, Jonathan, the son of
Shimea, David's
brother, put him to death.
20:8 These were of the offspring of the Rephaim in Gath;
they
came to their death
by the hands of David and his servants.
21:1 Now Satan, designing evil against Israel, put into
David's
mind the impulse to
take the number of Israel.
21:2 And David said to Joab and the captains of the people,
Now
let all Israel, from
Beer-sheba to Dan, be numbered; and give
me word so that I may
be certain of their number.
21:3 And Joab said, May the Lord make his people a hundred
times
more in number than
they are; but, my lord king, are they not
all my lord's
servants? why would my lord have this done? why
will he become a
cause of sin to Israel?
21:4 But the king's word was stronger than Joab's. So Joab
went
out and went through
all Israel and came to Jerusalem.
21:5 And Joab gave David the number of all the people; all
the
men of Israel, able
to take up arms, were one million, one
hundred thousand men;
and those of Judah were four hundred and
seventy thousand men,
able to take up arms.
21:6 But Levi and Benjamin were not numbered among them, for
Joab was disgusted
with the king's order.
21:7 And God was not pleased with this thing; so he sent
punishment on Israel.
21:8 Then David said to God, Great has been my sin in doing
this; but now, be
pleased to take away the sin of your servant,
for I have done very
foolishly.
21:9 Then the word of the Lord came to Gad, David's seer,
saying,
21:10 Go and say to David, The Lord says, Three things are
offered to you: say
which of them you will have, so that I may
do it to you.
21:11 So Gad came to David and said to him, The Lord says,
Take
whichever you will:
21:12 Three years when there will not be enough food; or
three
months of war, when
you will go in flight before your haters,
being in great danger
of the sword; or three days of the sword
of the Lord, disease
in the land, and the angel of the Lord
taking destruction
through all the land of Israel. Now give
thought to the answer
I am to take back to him who sent me.
21:13 And David said to Gad, This is a hard decision for me
to
make: let me come
into the hands of the Lord, for great are his
mercies: let me not
come into the hands of men.
21:14 So the Lord sent disease on Israel, causing the death
of
seventy thousand men.
21:15 And God sent an angel to Jerusalem for its
destruction:
and when he was about
to do so, the Lord saw, and had regret
for the evil, and
said to the angel of destruction, It is
enough; do no more.
Now the angel of the Lord was by the
grain-floor of Ornan
the Jebusite.
21:16 And David, lifting up his eyes, saw the angel of the
Lord
there between earth
and heaven, with an uncovered sword in his
hand stretched out
over Jerusalem. Then David and the
responsible men,
clothed in haircloth, went down on their
faces.
21:17 And David said to God, Was it not I who gave the order
for
the people to be
numbered? It is I who have done the sin and
the great wrong; but
these are only sheep; what have they done?
let your hand, O Lord
God, be lifted up against me and against
my family, but not
against your people to send disease on them.
21:18 Then the angel of the Lord gave orders to Gad to say
to
David that he was to
go and put up an altar to the Lord on the
grain-floor of Ornan
the Jebusite.
21:19 And David went up, as Gad had said in the name of the
Lord.
21:20 And Ornan, turning back, saw the angel, and his four
sons
who were with him
went to a secret place. Now Ornan was
crushing his grain.
21:21 And when David came, Ornan, looking, saw him, and came
out
from the grain-floor
and went down on his face to the earth
before him.
21:22 Then David said to Ornan, Give me the place where this
grain-floor is, so
that I may put up an altar here to the Lord:
let me have it for
its full price; so that this disease may be
stopped among the
people.
21:23 And Ornan said to David, Take it, and let my lord the
king
do what seems right
to him. See, I give you the oxen for burned
offerings and the
grain-cleaning instruments for fire-wood, and
the grain for the
meal offering; I give it all.
21:24 And King David said to Ornan, No; I will certainly
give
you the full price
for it, because I will not take for the Lord
what is yours, or give
a burned offering without payment.
21:25 So David gave Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by
weight
for the place.
21:26 And David put up an altar there to the Lord, offering
burned offerings and
peace-offerings with prayers to the Lord;
and he gave him an
answer from heaven, sending fire on the
altar of burned
offering.
21:27 Then the Lord gave orders to the angel, and he put
back
his sword into its
cover.
21:28 At that time, when David saw that the Lord had given
him
an answer on the
grain-floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he made an
offering there.
21:29 For the House of the Lord, which Moses had made in the
waste land, and the
altar of burned offerings, were at that
time in the high
place at Gibeon.
21:30 But David was not able to go before it to get
directions
from the Lord, so
great was his fear of the sword of the angel
of the Lord.
22:1 Then David said, This is the house of the Lord God, and
this is the altar for
Israel's burned offerings.
22:2 And David gave orders to get together all the men from
strange lands who
were in the land of Israel; and he put
stone-cutters to
work, cutting stones for building the house of
God.
22:3 And he got together a great store of iron, for the
nails
for the doors and for
the joins; and brass, more in weight than
might be measured;
22:4 And cedar-trees without number, for the Zidonians and
the
men of Tyre came with
a great amount of cedar-trees for David.
22:5 And David said, Solomon my son is young and untested,
and
the house which is to
be put up for the Lord is to be very
great, a thing of
wonder and glory through all countries; so I
will make ready what
is needed for it. So David got ready a
great store of
material before his death.
22:6 Then he sent for his son Solomon, and gave him orders
for
the building of a
house for the Lord, the God of Israel.
22:7 And David said to Solomon, My son, it was my desire to
put
up a house for the
name of the Lord my God.
22:8 But the word of the Lord came to me saying, You have
taken
lives without number
and made great wars; I will not let you be
the builder of a
house for my name, because of the lives you
have taken on the
earth before my eyes.
22:9 But you will have a son who will be a man of rest; and
I
will give him rest
from wars on every side. His name will be
Solomon, and in his
time I will give Israel peace and quiet;
22:10 He will be the builder of a house for my name; he will
be
to me a son, and I
will be to him a father; and I will make the
seat of his rule over
Israel certain for ever.
22:11 Now, my son, may the Lord be with you; and may you do
well, and put up the
house of the Lord your God, as he has said
of you.
22:12 Only may the Lord give you wisdom, and knowledge of
his
orders for Israel, so
that you may keep the law of the Lord
your God.
22:13 And all will go well for you, if you take care to keep
the
laws and the rules
which the Lord gave to Moses for Israel: be
strong and take
heart; have no fear and do not be troubled.
22:14 Now see, poor though I am, I have got ready for the
house
of the Lord a hundred
thousand talents of gold and a million
talents of silver;
and a weight of brass and iron greater than
may be measured; and
wood and stone have I made ready, and you
may put more to it.
22:15 And you have a great number of workmen, cutters and
workers of stone and
wood, and experts in every sort of work,
22:16 In gold and silver and brass and iron more than may be
numbered. Up! then,
and to work; and may the Lord be with you.
22:17 Then David gave orders to all the chiefs of Israel to
give
their help to Solomon
his son, saying,
22:18 Is not the Lord your God with you? and has he not
given
you rest on every
side? for the Lord has given the people of
the land into my
hands, and the land is overcome before the
Lord and before his
people.
22:19 Now give your heart and soul to the worship of the
Lord
your God; and get to
work on the building of the holy place of
the Lord God, so that
you may put the ark of the Lord's
agreement and the
holy vessels of God in the house which is to
be made for the name
of the Lord.
23:1 Now David was old and full of days; and he made his son
Solomon king over
Israel.
23:2 And he got together all the chiefs of Israel, with the
priests and the
Levites.
23:3 And the Levites, all those of thirty years old and
over,
were numbered; and
the number of them, by heads, man by man,
was thirty-eight
thousand.
23:4 Of these, twenty-four thousand were to be overseers of
the
work of the house of
the Lord, and six thousand were judges and
men of authority;
23:5 Four thousand were door-keepers; and four thousand gave
praise to the Lord
with the instruments which I made, said
David, for giving
praise.
23:6 And David put them into divisions under the names of
the
sons of Levi:
Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
23:7 Of the Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei.
23:8 The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the chief, and Zetham and
Joel,
three.
23:9 The sons of Shimei: Shelomoth and Haziel and Haran,
three;
these were the heads
of the families of Ladan.
23:10 And the sons of Shimei: Jahath, Zizah and Jeush and
Beriah; these four
were the sons of Shimei.
23:11 Jahath was the chief and Zizah the second; but Jeush
and
Beriah had only a
small number of sons, so they were grouped
together as one
family.
23:12 The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel,
four.
23:13 The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses; and Aaron was made
separate and holy, he
and his sons for ever, for the care of
the most holy things
and the burning of offerings before the
Lord, to do his work
and give blessings in his name for ever.
23:14 And the sons of Moses, the man of God, were put into
the
list of the tribe of
Levi.
23:15 The sons of Moses: Gershom and Eliezer.
23:16 The sons of Gershom: Shebuel the first.
23:17 And the sons of Eliezer: Rehabiah the first; and
Eliezer
had no other sons,
but Rehabiah had a great number.
23:18 The sons of Izhar: Shelomith the first.
23:19 The sons of Hebron: Jeriah the first, Amariah the
second,
Jahaziel the third,
and Jekameam the fourth.
23:20 The sons of Uzziel: Micah the first, and Isshiah the
second.
23:21 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi; the sons of
Mahli:
Eleazar and Kish.
23:22 And at his death Eleazar had no sons, but only
daughters,
and their relations,
the sons of Kish, took them as wives.
23:23 The sons of Mushi: Mahli and Eder and Jeremoth, three.
23:24 These were the sons of Levi, grouped by families, the
heads of the families
of those who were numbered by name, by
heads, all those of
twenty years old and over who did the work
of the house of the
Lord.
23:25 For David said, The Lord, the God of Israel, has given
his
people rest, and he
has made his resting-place in Jerusalem for
ever;
23:26 And from now, there will be no need for the House of
the
Lord, and the vessels
used in it, to be moved about by the
Levites.
23:27 So among the last acts of David was the numbering of
the
sons of Levi, from
twenty years old and over.
23:28 Their place was by the side of the sons of Aaron in
all
the work of the house
of the Lord, in the open spaces and in
the rooms, in the
making clean of all the holy things, in doing
all the work of the
house of the Lord,
23:29 The holy bread was in their care, and the crushed
grain
for the meal
offering, of unleavened cakes or meal cooked over
the fire or in water;
they had control of all sorts of weights
and measures;
23:30 They had to take their places every morning to give
praise
and make melody to
the Lord, and in the same way at evening;
23:31 At every offering of burned offerings to the Lord, on
Sabbaths, and at the
new moons, and on the regular feasts, in
the number ordered by
the law, at all times before the Lord;
23:32 And they had the care of the Tent of meeting and the
holy
place, under the
direction of the sons of Aaron their brothers,
for the work of the
house of the Lord.
24:1 Now the divisions into which the sons of Aaron were
grouped
were these: the sons
of Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and
Ithamar.
24:2 But Nadab and Abihu came to their end before their
father,
and had no children;
so Eleazar and Ithamar did the work of
priests.
24:3 And David, with Zadok of the sons of Eleazar, and
Ahimelech
of the sons of
Ithamar, made distribution of them into their
positions for their
work.
24:4 And there were more chiefs among the sons of Eleazar
than
among the sons of
Ithamar; and this is how they were grouped:
of the sons of
Eleazar there were sixteen, all heads of
families; and of the
sons of Ithamar, heads of families, there
were eight.
24:5 So they were put into groups, by the Lord's decision,
one
with another; for
there were rulers of the holy place and
rulers of the house
of God among the sons of Eleazar and the
sons of Ithamar.
24:6 And Shemaiah, the son of Nethanel the scribe, who was a
Levite, put down
their names in writing, the king being present
with the rulers, and
Zadok the priest, and Ahimelech, the son
of Abiathar, and the
heads of families of the priests and the
Levites; one family
being taken for Eleazar and then one for
Ithamar, and so on.
24:7 Now the first name to come out was that of Jehoiarib;
the
second Jedaiah,
24:8 The third Harim, the fourth Seorim,
24:9 The fifth Malchijah, the sixth Mijamin,
24:10 The seventh Hakkoz, the eighth Abijah,
24:11 The ninth Jeshua, the tenth Shecaniah,
24:12 The eleventh Eliashib, the twelfth Jakim,
24:13 The thirteenth Huppah, the fourteenth Jeshebeab,
24:14 The fifteenth Bilgah, the sixteenth Immer,
24:15 The seventeenth Hezir, the eighteenth Happizzez,
24:16 The nineteenth Pethahiah, the twentieth Jehezkel,
24:17 The twenty-first Jachin, the twenty-second Gamul,
24:18 The twenty-third Delaiah, the twenty-fourth Maaziah.
24:19 So they were put into their different groups, to take
their places in the
house of the Lord, in agreement with the
rules made by Aaron
their father, as the Lord, the God of
Israel, had given him
orders.
24:20 And of the rest of the sons of Levi: of the sons of
Amram,
Shubael; of the sons
of Shubael, Jehdeiah.
24:21 Of Rehabiah; of the sons of Rehabiah, Isshiah the
chief.
24:22 Of the Izharites, Shelomoth; of the sons of Shelomoth,
Jahath.
24:23 And the sons of Hebron: Jeriah the chief, Amariah the
second, Jahaziel the
third, Jekameam the fourth.
24:24 The sons of Uzziel, Micah; of the sons of Micah,
Shamir.
24:25 The brother of Micah, Isshiah; of the sons of Isshiah,
Zechariah.
24:26 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi; the sons of
Jaaziah.
24:27 The sons of Merari: of Jaaziah, Shoham and Zaccur and
Ibri.
24:28 Of Mahli: Eleazar, who had no sons.
24:29 Of Kish: the sons of Kish, Jerahmeel.
24:30 And the sons of Mushi: Mahli and Eder and Jerimoth.
These
were the sons of the
Levites by their families.
24:31 Selection was made of these in the same way as of
their
brothers the sons of
Aaron, David the king being present, with
Zadok, and Ahimelech,
and the heads of families of the priests
and of the Levites;
the families of the chief in the same way
as those of his
younger brother.
25:1 Further, David and the chiefs of the servants of the
holy
place made selection
of certain of the sons of Asaph and of
Heman and of Jeduthun
for the work of prophets, to make melody
with corded
instruments and brass; and the number of the men
for the work they had
to do was:
25:2 Of the sons of Asaph: Zaccur and Joseph and Nethaniah
and
Asharelah, sons of
Asaph; under the direction of Asaph, acting
as a prophet under
the orders of the king;
25:3 Of Jeduthun: the six sons of Jeduthun, Gedaliah and
Zeri
and Jeshaiah,
Hashabiah and Mattithiah; under the direction of
their father Jeduthun
who, acting as a prophet, with corded
instruments gave
praise and glory to the Lord.
25:4 Of Heman, the sons of Heman: Bukkiah, Mattaniah,
Uzziel,
Shebuel and Jerimoth,
Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti and
Romamti-ezer,
Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, Mahazioth;
25:5 All these were sons of Heman, the king's seer in the
words
of God. And to make
great his power God gave Heman fourteen
sons and three
daughters.
25:6 All these, under the direction of their father, made
music
in the house of the
Lord, with brass and corded instruments,
for the worship of
the house of God; Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman
being under the
orders of the king.
25:7 And the number of them, with their brothers who were
trained and expert in
making melody to the Lord, was two
hundred and
eighty-eight.
25:8 And selection was made of them for their special work,
all
having equal chances,
small as well as great, the teacher as
the learner.
25:9 Now of the group of Asaph, the first name to come out
was
Joseph; the second
Gedaliah; he and his brothers and sons were
twelve?
25:10 The third Zaccur, with his sons and his brothers,
twelve;
25:11 The fourth Izri, with his sons and his brothers,
twelve;
25:12 The fifth Nethaniah, with his sons and his brothers,
twelve;
25:13 The sixth Bukkiah, with his sons and his brothers,
twelve;
25:14 The seventh Jesharelah, with his sons and his
brothers,
twelve;
25:15 The eighth Jeshaiah, with his sons and his brothers,
twelve;
25:16 The ninth Mattaniah, with his sons and his brothers,
twelve;
25:17 The tenth Shimei, with his sons and his brothers,
twelve;
25:18 The eleventh Azarel, with his sons and his brothers,
twelve;
25:19 The twelfth Hashabiah, with his sons and his brothers,
twelve;
25:20 The thirteenth Shubael, with his sons and his
brothers,
twelve;
25:21 The fourteenth Mattithiah, with his sons and his
brothers,
twelve;
25:22 The fifteenth Jeremoth, with his sons and his
brothers,
twelve;
25:23 The sixteenth Hananiah, with his sons and his
brothers,
twelve;
25:24 The seventeenth Joshbekashah, with his sons and his
brothers, twelve;
25:25 The eighteenth Hanani, with his sons and his brothers,
twelve;
25:26 The nineteenth Mallothi, with his sons and his
brothers,
twelve;
25:27 The twentieth Eliathah, with his sons and his
brothers,
twelve;
25:28 The twenty-first Hothir, with his sons and his
brothers,
twelve;
25:29 The twenty-second Giddalti, with his sons and his
brothers, twelve;
25:30 The twenty-third Mahazioth, with his sons and his
brothers, twelve;
25:31 The twenty-fourth Romamti-ezer, with his sons and his
brothers, twelve.
26:1 For the divisions of the door-keepers: of the
Korahites,
Meshelemiah, the son
of Kore, of the sons of Ebiasaph.
26:2 And Meshelemiah had sons: Zechariah the oldest, Jediael
the
second, Zebadiah the
third, Jathniel the fourth,
26:3 Elam the fifth, Jehohanan the sixth, Eliehoenai the
seventh.
26:4 And Obed-edom had sons: Shemaiah the oldest, Jehozabad
the
second, Joah the
third, and Sacar the fourth, and Nethanel the
fifth,
26:5 Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Peullethai the
eighth; for the
blessing of God was on him.
26:6 And Shemaiah his son had sons, rulers over the family
of
their father, for
they were able men.
26:7 The sons of Shemaiah: Othni and Rephael and Obed,
Elzabad,
whose brothers were
great men of war, Elihu and Semachiah.
26:8 All these were sons of Obed-edom: they and their sons
and
their brothers, able
men and strong for the work; sixty-two
sons of Obed-edom.
26:9 Meshelemiah had sons and brothers, eighteen able men.
26:10 And Hosah, a son of the children of Merari, had sons:
Shimri the chief (for
though he was not the oldest, his father
made him chief);
26:11 Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, Zechariah the
fourth: Hosah had
thirteen sons and brothers.
26:12 Of these were the divisions of the door-keepers, men
of
authority, having
responsible positions like their brothers to
be servants in the
house of the Lord.
26:13 And the families were taken by the decision of the
Lord
for every door; the
small family had the same chance as the
great.
26:14 And the care of the door on the east came out for
Shelemiah. Then the
name of Zechariah his son, a man wise in
discussion, came out,
and the door on the north was given to
him.
26:15 To Obed-edom, that on the south; and to his sons, the
store-house.
26:16 To Hosah, the door on the west, by the door of
Shallecheth, at the
footway which goes up, watch by watch.
26:17 On the east were six Levites a day, and on the north
and
the south four a day,
and for the store-house two and two.
26:18 For the pillared way, on the west, four at the footway
and
two at the pillared
way itself.
26:19 These were the divisions of door-keepers, of the sons
of
the Korahites and of
the sons of Merari.
26:20 And the Levites their brothers were responsible for
the
stores of the house
of God and the holy things.
26:21 The sons of Ladan: sons of the Gershonites of the
family
of Ladan, heads of
families of Ladan the Gershonite, Jehieli.
26:22 The sons of Jehieli: Zetham and Joel, his brother, had
the
care of the stores of
the house of the Lord.
26:23 Of the Amramites, of the Izharites, of the Hebronites,
of
the Uzzielites:
26:24 And Shebuel, the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, was
controller of the
stores.
26:25 And his brothers: of Eliezer, Rehabiah his son, and
Jeshaiah his son, and
Joram his son, and Zichri his son, and
Shelomoth his son.
26:26 Shelomoth and his brothers were responsible for all
the
store of holy things
which David the king and the heads of
families, the
captains of thousands and of hundreds, and the
captains of the army,
had given to the Lord.
26:27 From the goods taken in war, they gave, as a holy
offering, materials
for the building of the house of the Lord.
26:28 And everything Samuel the prophet and Saul, the son of
Kish, and Abner, the
son of Ner, and Joab, the son of Zeruiah,
had made holy;
whatever anyone had given, it was under the care
of Shelomoth and his
brothers.
26:29 Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons had to do all
the
public business of
Israel, in relation to judges and men in
authority.
26:30 Of the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his brothers,
seventeen
hundred able men,
were overseers of Israel on the other side of
the Jordan, to the west,
being responsible for all the work of
the Lord's house and
for the work done by the king's servants.
26:31 Of the Hebronites, Jerijah was the chief of all the
Hebronites, in their
generations by families. In the fortieth
year of the rule of
David a search was made, and able men were
seen among them at
Jazer of Gilead.
26:32 And his brothers were two thousand, seven hundred able
men, heads of
families, whom King David made overseers over the
Reubenites and the
Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, in
everything to do with
God, and for the king's business.
27:1 Now the number of the children of Israel, that is, the
heads of families,
and the captains of thousands and of
hundreds, and the men
in authority who were servants of the
king in anything to
do with the divisions which came in and
went out month by
month through all the months of the year, in
every division were
twenty-four thousand.
27:2 Over the first division for the first month was
Ishbaal,
the son of Zabdiel;
and in his division were twenty-four
thousand.
27:3 He was of the sons of Perez, and the chief of all the
captains of the army
for the first month.
27:4 And over the division for the second month was Eleazar,
the
son of Dodai the
Ahohite, the ruler; and in his division were
twenty-four thousand.
27:5 The third captain of the army for the third month was
Benaiah, the son of
Jehoiada the priest; and in his division
were twenty-four
thousand.
27:6 This is the same Benaiah who was the great man of the
thirty, chief of the
thirty; and in his division was Ammizabad
his son.
27:7 The fourth captain for the fourth month was Asahel, the
brother of Joab, and
Zebadiah his son after him; and in his
division were
twenty-four thousand.
27:8 The fifth captain for the fifth month was Shamhuth the
Izrahite; and in his
division were twenty-four thousand.
27:9 The sixth captain for the sixth month was Ira, the son
of
Ikkesh the Tekoite;
and in his division were twenty-four
thousand.
27:10 The seventh captain for the seventh month was Helez
the
Pelonite, of the sons
of Ephraim; and in his division were
twenty-four thousand.
27:11 The eighth captain for the eighth month was Sibbecai
the
Hushathite, of the
Zerahites; and in his division were
twenty-four thousand.
27:12 The ninth captain for the ninth month was Abiezer the
Anathothite, of the
Benjamites; and in his division were
twenty-four thousand.
27:13 The tenth captain for the tenth month was Maharai the
Netophathite, of the
Zerahites; and in his division were
twenty-four thousand.
27:14 The eleventh captain for the eleventh month was
Benaiah
the Pirathonite, of
the sons of Ephraim; and in his division
were twenty-four
thousand.
27:15 The twelfth captain for the twelfth month was Heldai
the
Netophathite, of
Othniel; and in his division were twenty-four
thousand.
27:16 And over the tribes of Israel: the ruler of the
Reubenites
was Eliezer, the son
of Zichri; of the Simeonites, Shephatiah,
the son of Maacah;
27:17 Of Levi, Hashabiah, the son of Kemuel; of Aaron,
Zadok;
27:18 Of Judah, Elihu, one of the brothers of David; of
Issachar, Omri, the
son of Michael;
27:19 Of Zebulun, Ishmaiah, the son of Obadiah; of Naphtali,
Jerimoth, the son of
Azriel;
27:20 Of the children of Ephraim, Hoshea, the son of
Azaziah; of
the half-tribe of
Manasseh, Joel, the son of Pedaiah;
27:21 Of the half-tribe of Manasseh in Gilead, Iddo, the son
of
Zechariah; of
Benjamin, Jaasiel, the son of Abner;
27:22 Of Dan, Azarel, the son of Jeroham. These were the
captains of the
tribes of Israel.
27:23 But David did not take the number of those who were
under
twenty years old, for
the Lord had said that he would make
Israel like the stars
of heaven in number.
27:24 The numbering was started by Joab, the son of Zeruiah,
but
he did not go on to
the end; and because of it, wrath came on
Israel and the number
was not recorded in the history of King
David.
27:25 And Azmaveth, the son of Adiel, was controller of the
king's property;
Jonathan, the son of Uzziah, had control of
all store-houses in
country places and in the towns and little
towns and strong
places;
27:26 Ezri, the son of Chelub, had authority over the
field-workers and
farmers;
27:27 Shimei the Ramathite was responsible for the
vine-gardens;
Zabdi the Shiphmite
was responsible for the produce of the
vine-gardens and for
all the stores of wine;
27:28 Baal-hanan the Gederite was responsible for the
olive-trees and the
sycamore-trees in the lowlands; and Joash
for the stores of
oil;
27:29 And Shitrai the Sharonite was responsible for the
herds in
the grass-lands of
Sharon, and Shaphat, the son of Adlai, for
those in the valleys;
27:30 Obil the Ishmaelite had control of the camels and
Jehdeiah
the Meronothite of
the she-asses;
27:31 The flocks were in the care of Jaziz the Hagarite. All
these were the
controllers of King David's property.
27:32 Now Jonathan, David's father's brother, expert in
discussion, and a man
of good sense, was a scribe; and Jehiel
the son of Hachmoni,
had the care of the king's sons;
27:33 And Ahithophel was the king's expert in discussion and
Hushai the Archite
was the king's friend.
27:34 After Ahithophel was Jehoiada, the son of Benaiah, and
Abiathar; and the
captain of the king's army was Joab.
28:1 And David got together at Jerusalem all the rulers of
Israel, the chiefs of
the tribes and the captains of the
divisions waiting on
the king in turn, and the captains of
thousands and the
captains of hundreds and the controllers of
all the goods and
property of the king and his sons, with the
unsexed servants and
the great men of war.
28:2 Then David the king got up and said, Give ear to me, my
brothers and my
people; it was my desire to put up a house, a
resting-place for the
ark of the Lord's agreement, and for the
foot-rest of our God;
and I had got material ready for the
building of it.
28:3 But God said to me, You are not to be the builder of a
house for my name,
because you are a man of war and have taken
life;
28:4 Though the Lord, the God of Israel, took me out of all
my
father's family, to
be king over Israel for ever, marking out
Judah to be chief,
and, of the people of Judah, my father's
family; and among the
sons of my father he was pleased to make
me king over all
Israel;
28:5 And of all my sons (for the Lord has given me a great
number of sons) he
has made selection of Solomon to take his
place on the seat of
the kingdom of the Lord over Israel.
28:6 And he said to me, Solomon your son will be the builder
of
my house and the open
spaces round it; for I have taken him to
be my son, and I will
be his father.
28:7 I will keep his kingdom in its place for ever, if he is
strong at all times
to do my orders and keep my rules, as at
this day.
28:8 So now, before the eyes of all Israel, the people of
the
Lord, and in the
hearing of our God, keep and be true to the
orders of the Lord
your God; so that you may have this good
land for yourselves
and give it for a heritage to your children
after you for ever.
28:9 And you, Solomon my son, get knowledge of the God of
your
father, and be his
servant with a true heart and with a strong
desire, for the Lord
is the searcher of all hearts, and has
knowledge of all the
designs of men's thoughts; if you make
search for him, he
will be near you; but if you are turned away
from him, he will
give you up for ever.
28:10 Now then, take note; for the Lord has made selection
of
you to be the builder
of a house for the holy place. Be strong
and do it.
28:11 Then David gave to his son Solomon the design of the
doorway of the house
of God and of its houses and its
store-houses, and the
higher rooms and the inner rooms and the
place for the
mercy-seat;
28:12 And the design of all he had in his heart for the
outer
squares of the house
of the Lord, and for the rooms all round
it, and for the
store-houses of the house of the Lord, and for
the store-houses for
the holy things;
28:13 And for the divisions of the priests and Levites, and
for
all the work in
connection with the worship of the house of the
Lord, and all the
vessels used in the house of the Lord;
28:14 Of gold, by weight, for the vessels of gold, for all
the
vessels of different
uses; and silver for all the vessels of
silver by weight, for
vessels of different uses;
28:15 And gold by weight for the light-supports and the
vessels
for the lights, the
weight of gold needed for every support and
every vessel for lights;
and for the silver light-supports, the
weight of silver
needed for every support and for the different
vessels as every one
was to be used;
28:16 And gold by weight for the tables for the holy bread
for
every table, and
silver for the silver tables;
28:17 Clear gold for the meat-hooks and the basins and the
cups;
for the gold basins,
gold enough by weight for every basin; and
silver by weight for
every silver basin;
28:18 And the best gold for the altar of perfumes; and gold
for
the design of the
carriage, for the winged ones whose wings
were outstretched
covering the ark of the Lord's agreement.
28:19 All this, said David, the design for all these things,
has
been made dear to me
in writing by the hand of the Lord.
28:20 And David said to his son Solomon, Be strong and of a
good
heart and do your
work; have no fear and do not be troubled,
for the Lord God, my
God, is with you; he will not give you up,
and his face will not
be turned away from you, till all the
work necessary for
the house of the Lord is complete.
28:21 And see, there are the divisions of the priests and
Levites for all the
work of the house of God; and every trained
and expert workman
will be ready to do for you whatever is
needed; and the captains
and the people will be under your
orders in everything.
29:1 And David the king said to all the people, Solomon my
son,
the only one who has
been marked out by God, is still young and
untested, and the
work is great, for this great house is not
for man, but for the
Lord God.
29:2 Now as far as I am able, I have made ready what is
needed
for the house of my
God; the gold for the things of gold, and
the silver for the
silver things, and the brass for the brass
things, iron for the
things of iron, and wood for the things of
wood; beryls and
jewels to be framed, and stones of different
colours for ornament;
all sorts of stones of great price, and
polished
building-stone, as much as is needed and more.
29:3 And because this house of God is dear to me, I give my
private store of gold
and silver to the house of my God, in
addition to all I
have got ready for the holy house;
29:4 Even three thousand talents of gold of Ophir and seven
thousand talents of
the best silver, for plating the walls of
the house:
29:5 Gold for the gold things, and silver for the silver
things,
and for every sort of
work to be done by the expert workmen.
Who then will come
forward, offering himself this day for the
Lord's work?
29:6 Then the heads of families and the chiefs of the tribes
of
Israel, and the
captains of thousands and of hundreds, with the
controllers of the
king's business, freely gave themselves;
29:7 And they gave for the use of the house of the Lord,
five
thousand talents and
ten thousand darics of gold, and ten
thousand talents of
silver, and eighteen thousand talents of
brass, and a hundred
thousand talents of iron.
29:8 And those who had stones of great price gave them to
the
store of the house of
the Lord, under the care of Jehiel the
Gershonite.
29:9 Then the people were glad because their offerings were
freely given, for
with a true heart they freely gave what they
had to the Lord; and
David the king was full of joy.
29:10 So David gave praise to the Lord before all the
people;
and David said,
Praise be to you, O Lord the God of Israel, our
father for ever and
ever.
29:11 Yours, O Lord, is the strength and the power and the
glory, and the
authority and the honour: for everything in
heaven and on earth
is yours; yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and
you are lifted up as
head over all.
29:12 Wealth and honour come from you, and you are ruler
over
all, and in your hand
is power and strength; it is in your
power to make great,
and to give strength to all.
29:13 So now, our God, we give you praise, honouring the
glory
of your name.
29:14 But who am I and what is my people, that we have power
to
give so freely in
this way? for all things come from you, and
what we have given
you is yours.
29:15 For we, as all our fathers were, are like men from a
strange country
before you, who have got a place for a time in
the land; our days on
the earth are like a shade, and there is
no hope of going on.
29:16 O Lord our God, all this store, which we have made
ready
for the building of a
house for your holy name, comes from your
hand and is yours.
29:17 And I am conscious, my God, that you are the searcher
of
hearts, taking
pleasure in righteousness. As for me, with an
upright heart I have
freely given all these things; and I have
seen with joy your
people who are here to make their offerings
freely to you.
29:18 O Lord, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel,
our
fathers, keep this
for ever in the deepest thoughts of your
people, and let their
hearts be fixed and true to you;
29:19 And give to Solomon my son a true heart, to keep your
orders, your rules,
and your laws, and to do all these things,
and to put up this
great house for which I have made ready.
29:20 And David said to all the people, Now give praise to
the
Lord your God. And
all the people gave praise to the Lord, the
God of their fathers,
with bent heads worshipping the Lord and
the king.
29:21 And they made offerings to the Lord, and gave burned
offerings to the
Lord, on the day after, a thousand oxen, a
thousand sheep, and a
thousand lambs, with their drink
offerings, and a
great wealth of offerings for all Israel.
29:22 And with great joy they made a feast before the Lord that
day. And they made
Solomon, the son of David, king a second
time, putting the
holy oil on him to make him holy to the Lord
as ruler, and on
Zadok as priest.
29:23 So Solomon was put on the seat of the Lord as king in
place of his father
David, and everything went well for him;
and all Israel was
under his authority.
29:24 And all the chiefs and the men of war and all the sons
of
King David put
themselves under the authority of Solomon the
king.
29:25 And the Lord made Solomon great in the eyes of all
Israel,
clothing him with
glory and honour such as no other king in
Israel had had before
him.
29:26 Now David, the son of Jesse, was king over all Israel.
29:27 For forty years he was ruling as king over Israel,
seven
years in Hebron and
thirty-three years in Jerusalem.
29:28 And he came to his end after a long life, full of days
and
great wealth and
honour; and Solomon his son became king in his
place.
29:29 Now all the acts of David, first and last, are
recorded in
the words of Samuel
the seer, and the words of Nathan the
prophet, and the
words of Gad the seer;
29:30 Together with all his rule and his power, and the
events
which took place in
his time, in Israel and in all the kingdoms
of other lands.