Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters, but his brothers did not have many children. But all their families did not multiply like the men of Judah.

So Saul died on account of his sin which he had sinned against Yahweh concerning the command of Yahweh that he did not keep. He also consulted a medium to seek [guidance].

But he did not seek Yahweh. So Yahweh put him to death and turned over the kingship to David, the son of Jesse.

And he said, "Far be it from me [that] I would do this before my God. Shall I drink the lifeblood of these men? For {at the risk of their lives} they brought it." And he was not willing to drink it. These things the three mighty men did.

{He was twice as renowned} among the three and was their commander. But he did not attain to the three.

[And] Benaiah the son of Jehoiada [was] {a strong man} from Kabzeel, [one who did] great deeds. He himself struck down two [sons of] Ariel of Moab. And he himself went down and struck down a lion within a pit on a snowy day.

These things Benaiah son of Jehoiada did and had a name among the three mighty warriors.

He himself was certainly distinguished among the thirty, but he did not attain to the three. And David appointed him over his bodyguard.

And some Manassites deserted to David when he came with the Philistines to the battle against Saul, but he did not help them, for the rulers of the Philistines sent him away upon counsel, saying, "He will desert to his master Saul at [the cost of] our heads."

Then let us bring around the ark of our God to us, for we did not seek it in the days of Saul."

So David did not move the ark to himself into the city of David but diverted it to the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite.

And David did as God commanded him, and they struck the camp of the Philistines from Gibeon to Gezer.

Because the first time you did not, [and] Yahweh our God burst out against us, for we did not care for it according to the law."

he did not allow anyone to oppress them, and he rebuked kings on their account,

In every [place] I have moved about, did I say one word [with] the judges of Israel I commanded to shepherd my people, saying, 'Why have you not built for me a house of cedar?'" '

According to all these words and according to all this revelation, thus did Nathan speak to David.

And the people who [were] in it he brought out, and {he set them to work with saws and iron implements and axes}. Thus David did to all the cities of the {Ammonites}. Then David returned, and all the nation [went] with him.

But he did not count Levi and Benjamin among them, for the word of the king was repulsive to Joab.

And Jahath was the chief, and Zizah the second, but Jeush and Beriah did not have many sons. They were enrolled as one for the house of a father.

And Eleazar died, and he did not have sons, but only daughters. And the sons of Kish, their relatives, married them.

And David did not {take a census of those twenty years old or under} because Yahweh promised to make Israel more numerous than the stars of heaven.

Joab the son of Zeruiah began to count, but he did not finish. But wrath came upon Israel concerning this, and the number was not included in {the chronicles} of King David.

And over those who did the work in the field to till the soil [was] Ezri the son of Kelub.