And when Bela was dead, Jobab the son of Zereh of Bozrah reigned in his stead.

for there fell many dead because the war was of God. And they dwelt there in their steads until the time that they were carried away.

All these were chosen fellows to keep the thresholds, two hundred and twelve, and were numbered in their villages. And them did David and Samuel the seer institute in their fidelity.

And when his harness bearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell on a sword also and died.

And when all the men that dwelt in the valleys saw how they fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook their cities and ran away, and the Philistines came and dwelt in them.

And on the morrow when the Philistines came to strip the dead bodies, they found Saul and his sons overthrown in mount Gilboa.

And after him, Eleazar the son of Dodo an Ahohite which was one of the three mightiest.

and said, "God forbid it me, that I should do this thing, that I should drink the blood of these men that have put their lives in Jeopardy." For with the Jeopardy of their lives they brought it, and therefore he would not drink it. This did the three mightiest.

Such things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had a name with the three mightiest,

And these were the best men of war of the Host: Asahel the brother of Joab and Elhanan the son of Dodo out of Bethlehem.

And of the children of Benjamin the brethren of Saul, were three thousand. And a great part of them did yet follow the house of Saul.

And David did as God commanded him. And they smote the host of the Philistines all the way from Gibeon to Gezer.

And that same time David did appoint chiefly to thank the LORD by Asaph and his brethren:

Remember his marvels which he did, and his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth:

I will be his father and he shall be my son, and I will not put my mercy away from him as I did from him that was before thee.

And David reigned over all Israel and did right and equity unto all his people.

But the Levites and Benjamin he counted not among them. For the king's deed seemed abominable to Joab.

And David said unto God, "Is it not I that commanded to number the people? And I am he that have sinned and done evil in deed. But what have these sheep done? Let thine hand therefore O LORD God be on me and on my father's house, and not on thy people to destroy them."

And David and the captains of the host appointed out to do service, the sons of Asaph of Heman and Jeduthun, which did prophesy with harps, psalteries and cymbals. And they were numbered unto the work according to their office.

Over the company of the second month Dodai an Ahohite, and in his host was Mikloth a ruler. And in his company were twenty four thousand.

And they slew plenteously throughout all Israel, and did eat and drink before the LORD the same day with great gladness. And they made Solomon the son of David king of Israel the second time, and anointed him unto the LORD, to be ruler, and Zadok to be the priest.