And David waxed fainty, and Ishbi of Nob one of the sons of the Giants whose spear head weighed three hundredth sicles of brass, and was girded with a new sword, thought to have slain David.

But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succoured him and smote the Philistine and killed him. Then the servants of David sware unto him, saying, "Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that the light of Israel be not put out."

And there was yet, after this, battle with the Philistines at Nob, in which Sibbecai the Hushathite slew Saph of the sons of Haraphah.

And there was yet the third battle in Gob, with the Philistines, where Elhanan the son of the Jair slew Lahmi, the brother of Goliath the Gittite: the staff of whose spear was as great as a weaver's cloth beam.

And there was yet battle in Gath, where was a man of a size and had on every hand six fingers and on every foot six toes - twenty four in all - and was also of the kindred of the Giants, and defied Israel.

And Jonathan the son of Shimei, the brother of David, slew him.

These four were of the sons of the Giants in Gath, and were overthrown by the hand of David and by the hands of his servants.

And David spake the words of this song unto the LORD, what time the LORD had delivered him out of the hands of all his enemies, and out of the hands of Saul.

And he said, "The LORD is my rock, my castle and my deliverer.

God is my strength, and in him will I trust: my shield and the horn that defendeth me: mine high hold and refuge.

I will praise and call on the LORD, and so shall be saved from mine enemies.

For the waves of death have closed me about, and the floods of Belial have feared me.

The cords of hell have compassed me about, and the snares of death have overtaken me.

In my tribulation I called to the LORD, and cried to my God. And he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry entered into his ears.

And the earth trembled and quoke, and the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was angry.

Smoke went up out of his nostrils, and consuming fire out of his mouth, that coals were kindled of him.

And he bowed heaven and came down, and darkness underneath his feet.

And he rode upon Cherub and flew: and appeared upon the wings of the wind.

And he made darkness a tabernacle round about him, with water gathered together in thick clouds.

The LORD thundered from heaven, and the most high put out his voice.

And he shot arrows and scattered them, and hurled lightning and turmoiled them.

And the bottom of the sea appeared, and the foundations of the world were seen, by the reason of the rebuking of the LORD, and through the blasting of the breath of his nostrils.

He sent from on high and fetched me, and plucked me out of mighty waters.

He delivered me from my mighty enemy, and from them that hated me and were too strong for me.

And he brought me out into roomth, and delivered me, because he delighted in me.

The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness, and according to the pureness of my hands he dealt with me.

For I kept the ways of the LORD, and did no wickedness, forsaking my God.

But I had all his laws in my sight, and I turned my face from none of his ordinances.

But was pure unto him ward, and kept myself from wickedness.

And the LORD did to me again, according to my righteousness, and after my pureness that I had in his sight.

With the holy thou shalt be holy, and with the man that is uncorrupt, thou shalt be uncorrupt.

With the pure thou shalt be pure, and with the froward thou shalt be froward also.

And the people that are in adversity, thou shalt help. And on the proud shalt thou cast thine eyes.

Thou art my light, O LORD, and the LORD shall light my darkness.

With thy help I will run through a host of men, and by the aid of my God will spring over a wall.

The way of God is undefiled, and the word of the LORD fined as gold, and he a shield to all that trust in him.

Who is a God save the LORD, and who mighty save our God?

God is my strength in war, and riddeth the way clear before me.

And maketh my feet as swift as a hind's, and setteth me fast upon my high hold.

And teacheth my hands to fight, that a bow of brass is too weak for mine arms.

And thou hast saved me with thy shield, and keptest me ever in meekness.

And thou madest me space to walk in, that my feet should not stumble.

I followed mine enemies and destroyed them, and turned not again until I had consumed them.

I wasted them and so clouted them, that they could not arise: but fell under my feet.

And thou compassedest me about with might to battle, and madest them that rose against me to stoop under me.

And thou madest mine enemies to turn their backs to me, and them that hated me, and I destroyed them.

They looked for help, but none came to save them: unto the LORD they cried, but he heard them not.

And I will beat them as small as the dust of the earth, and will stamp them as the dirt of the street, and will spread them abroad.

And thou deliveredst me from the dissension of my people, and keepest me to be a head over nations, for the people which I knew not became my servants.

And the aliens crouched unto me, and obeyed me at a word.

And the aliens that shrink away shall tremble for fear in their defended places.

The LORD live, and blessed be he that is my strength: and exalted be God the strength that saveth me.

It is God that avengeth me, and bringeth down the people under me.

And delivereth me from mine enemies: thou liftest me up on high from them that rise against me, and deliverest me from the wicked men.

And therefore I will praise thee O LORD among the heathen, and will sing unto thy name.

For thy great and manifold saving of thy king, and showing mercy unto thine anointed, even to David, and his seed forever.

These be the last sayings of David. David the son of Jesse said: and the man which is lifted up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob and pleasant Psalmist of Israel said,

"The spirit of the LORD spake in me, and his words were on my tongue.

The God of Israel spake unto me, and the strength of Israel said, 'He that beareth rule over men, he that ruleth justly in the fear of God,

shall be as the morning light, when the sun shineth in a morning in which are no clouds to let the brightness; and as the grass of the earth is by the virtue of the rain.'

And is not mine house so with God? In that he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, perfect in all points. And in that he shall fulfill all that is healthsome unto me, and all my desires thereto;

But the man that shall touch them must be armed with iron on a long helve. And then shall they be burned with fire to sit thereby."

And next to him, Eleazar the son of Dodi the son of Ahohi, one of the three principal that were with David, which - when they defied the Philistines that were there gathered together in battle, and the men of Israel were gone up -

arose and laid on the Philistines until his hand ached and clave unto the sword. And the LORD made a great victory the same day. And the people returned and went after him only to spoil.

After him was Shammah the son of Agee the Hararite, which - when the Philistines were gathered together in Lehi, where was a parcel of land full of rice, and the people were fled for fear of the Philistines -

stood in the midst of the said ground, and defended it and slew the Philistines. And the LORD gave him a great victory.

And these three of the thirty of the lords went down and came to David in the harvest time unto the cave Adullam. And the Host of the Philistines had pitched in the valley of Giants.

And David was then in a hold. And the soldiers of the Philistines were then in Bethlehem.

And David longed and said, "Oh, that I had of the water that is in the well in the gate of Bethlehem for to drink."

And anon the three mighty brake through the Host of the Philistines and fetched water out of the well of Bethlehem that was in the gate, and took and brought it to David: Nevertheless he would not drink thereof, but offered it unto the LORD

and said, "The LORD forbid that I should do so! Should I drink the blood of men that were in jeopardy of their lives?" And so he would not drink it. These things did these three mighty men.

Then Abishai the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah: he was a captain over the three, and he lifted up his spear against three hundred and slew them, and was named with the three.

For he was nobler man than the three and was their captain. Howbeit he attained not unto those three in acts.

Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada the son of a lusty man valiant in acts of Kabzeel, he slew two lions of Moab. He went down and slew a lion in a pit in time of snow.

And he slew an Egyptian, a goodly man, which had a spear in his hand. And Benaiah went down to him with a staff and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand and slew him with his own spear.

Such things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada and was the noblest of thirty: But not like to any of the three in facts of war.

And David made him of his counsel.

Uriah the Hittite: in all thirty and seven.

And the LORD was wroth again against Israel, and stirred up David against them, saying, "Go and number both Israel and Judah."

And forthwith the king said to Joab the captain of his Host, "Go abroad, I pray thee, throughout all the tribes of Israel, even from Dan to Beersheba, and number the people that I may know the number of them."

And Joab said unto the king, "I beseech that the LORD thy God make the people as many more as they be: yea and a hundred times so many more, and that the eyes of my lord the king may see them. But how is it that my lord the king hath a lust in this thing?"

Notwithstanding, the king's words prevailed against Joab and against all the captains of the Host. Then Joab and the captains of the Host went out from the king, to view the people of Israel.

And they passed over Jordan and pitched in Aroer on the right side of the city that lieth in the midst of the valley of Gad and so forth to Jazer.

And then they went to Gilead and to the nether land of Hodshi, and from thence to Dan-Jaan, and about to Sidon,

and came to the strong town of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites and of the Cananites, and then went out to the South of Judah even to Beersheba.

And so when they had been abroad throughout all the land they returned to Jerusalem again at the end of nine months and twenty days.

And then Joab delivered up the reckoning of the number of the people unto the king. And there were found in Israel nine hundred thousand men of might that drew swords. And the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.

And David's heart smote him after that he had numbered the people. And he said unto the LORD, "I have sinned exceedingly in that I have done. And now LORD take away the trespass of thy servant: for I have done foolishly."

And when David was up in a morning, the word of the LORD came unto the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying,

"Go and say unto David, 'Thus sayeth the LORD: I offer thee three things, choose which of them I shall do to thee.'"

And Gad came to David and showed him and said unto him, "Whether wilt thou have seven years hunger in thy land, or that thou flee three months before thine enemies and they following thee, or that there be three days pestilence in thy land? Now understand, and see what word I shall bring again to him that sent me."

Then said David unto Gad, "I am in a marvelous strait. But let me fall I pray thee, into the hands of the LORD, for much is his mercy, and let me not fall into the hands of men.

And the LORD sent a pestilence in Israel from the morning unto the end of the time appointed. And there died of the people between Dan and Beersheba seventy thousand men.

And when the Angel stretched out his hand unto Jerusalem to have destroyed it, the LORD had compassion to do that evil, and said to the Angel that destroyed the people, "It is sufficient: let thine hand cease." And the Angel was at the threshing place of Araunah the Jebusite.

Then spake David unto the LORD when he saw the Angel that smote the people, and said, "Lo, it is I that have sinned, and I that have done wickedly. But these sheep what have they done? Let I pray thee thine hand be on me and on my father's house."

And Gad came the same day to David and said unto him, "Go up and rear an altar unto the LORD in the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite."

And David according to the saying of Gad went up as the LORD commanded.

And when Araunah looked and saw the king and his servants coming toward him, he went out: and bowed himself to the king flat on his face to the ground,

and said, "Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant?" And David said, "To buy the threshing floor of thee, for to make an altar unto the LORD that the plague may cease from the people."

And Araunah said unto the king, "Let my lord the king take and offer what seemeth him good in his eyes: Behold, oxen for sacrifice, and sleds and the other instruments of the oxen for wood."