Choose thee, either three years of famine, or three months to be destroyed before thine adversaries while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee, or three days the sword of Jehovah and the pestilence in the land, and the angel of Jehovah destroying through all the borders of Israel. And now consider what word I shall bring again to him that sent me.

And Abishai the brother of Joab, he was the chief of three; and he brandished his spear against three hundred and slew them; and he had a name among the three.

Of the three he was more honourable than the two, and he was their captain; but he did not attain to the first three.

The sons of Benjamin: Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three.

The sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah: which three were born to him of the daughter of Shua the Canaanitess. And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of Jehovah; and he slew him.

and their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three.

And Segub begot Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead;

six were born to him in Hebron. And there he reigned seven years and six months. And in Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three years.

And the sons of Neariah: Elioenai, and Hezekiah, and Azrikam, three.

Go and speak to David saying, Thus saith Jehovah: I offer thee three things; choose one of them, that I may do it unto thee.

The sons of Laadan: the head was Jehiel, and Zetham, and Joel, three.

The sons of Shimei: Shelomith, and Haziel, and Haran, three. These were the chief fathers of Laadan.

So Saul died, and his three sons, and all his house died together.

And this is the number of the mighty men whom David had: Jashobeam, the son of Hachmoni, the chief of the captains; he brandished his spear against three hundred, slain by him at one time.

And after him, Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite; he was one of the three mighty men.

And three of the thirty chiefs went down to the rock to David, to the cave of Adullam, when the army of the Philistines was encamped in the valley of Rephaim.

And the three broke through the camp of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, which is in the gate, and took it, and brought it to David; David however would not drink of it, but poured it out to Jehovah.

And he said, My God forbid it me, that I should do this thing! should I drink the blood of these men who went at the risk of their lives? for at the risk of their lives they brought it. Therefore he would not drink it. These things did the three mighty men.

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

Behold, he was honoured above the thirty, but he did not attain to the first three. And David set him in his council.

And Jehoiada the prince of Aaron, and with him were three thousand seven hundred;

And of the children of Benjamin, the brethren of Saul, three thousand; but hitherto the greater part of them had adhered to the house of Saul.

And there they were with David three days, eating and drinking; for their brethren had prepared for them;

And the ark of God remained with the family of Obed-Edom in his house three months. And Jehovah blessed the house of Obed-Edom, and all that he had.

The sons of Mushi: Mahli, and Eder, and Jeremoth, three.

all these were sons of Heman the king's seer in the words of God, to exalt his power; and God had given to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.

three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the houses;

And the time that he reigned over Israel was forty years: he reigned seven years in Hebron, and he reigned thirty-three years in Jerusalem.