And these are the last words of David: faithful David, son of Jesse, and a faithful man whom the Lord raised up over the anointed of God, of Jacob, and the beautiful psalms of Israel.
For not thus is my house with the mighty; for he set for me an everlasting covenant, prepared in every time, kept, because all my salvation and all my desire, because the lawless one shall not surely sprout.
These are the names of the mighty men of David: Jebosthe the Canaanaean, chief of the third, is Adinon the Asonaean; he drew out his sword against eight hundred wounded at one time.
And after him Eleazar, son of his paternal uncle, son of the Sousite, among the three mighty men, this one was with David at Serran, and when the Philistines taunted him, they were gathered there for battle, and the men of Israel went up.
He rose and struck among the Philistines until his hand grew weary, and his hand stuck to the sword, and the Lord worked a great deliverance on that day, and the people sat behind him, only to strip off clothing.
And after him was Shammah son of Asha, the Arouchite; and the Philistines were gathered together at Theria, and there was there a portion of a field full of lentils, and the people fled from before the Philistines
And David longed and said, Who will give me water from the cistern that is in Bethlehem, that is by the gate? Now the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem.
And the three mighty men broke through into the camp of the Philistines and drew water from the cistern that was in Bethlehem, that was in the gate, and they took it and came to David; and he was not willing to drink it, and he poured it out to the Lord.
and he said, Far be it from me, Lord, to do this; shall I drink the blood of the men who went at the risk of their lives? and he was not willing to drink it. These things the three mighty men did.
And Abessa, brother of Joab, son of Sarouia, he was chief among the three, and he himself lifted up his spear against three hundred wounded men, and he had a name among the three.
And Benaiah son of Jehoiada, a man abundant in deeds, from Kabzeel, even he struck the two sons of Ariel of Moab, and he himself went down and struck the lion in the midst of the pit on the day of snow.
He struck the Egyptian man, a man of stature; and in the Egyptian’s hand was a spear like a weaver’s beam. And he went down to him with a staff and seized the spear from the hand of the Egyptian and killed him with his own spear.
And these are the names of the mighty men of King David: Asahel the brother of Joab, he was among the thirty; Elhanan son of Dodo, his uncle’s son, in Bethlehem.