2 Samuel 23 :: Amplified Bible (AMP)

“The Spirit of the LORD spoke by me,

And His word was on my tongue.

“The God of Israel,

The Rock of Israel spoke to me,

‘He who rules over men righteously,

Who rules in the fear of God,

Is like the morning light when the sun rises,

A morning without clouds,

When the fresh grass springs out of the earth

Through sunshine after rain.’

“Truly is not my house so [blessed] with God?

For He has made an everlasting covenant with me,

Ordered in all things, and secured.

For will He not cause to grow and prosper

All my salvation and my every wish?

Will He not make it grow and prosper?

“But the wicked and worthless are all to be thrown away like thorns,

Because they cannot be taken with the hand;

But the man who touches them

Must be armed with iron and the shaft of a spear,

And they are utterly burned and consumed by fire in their place.”

These are the names of the mighty men (warriors) whom David had: Josheb-basshebeth, a Tahchemonite, chief of the [fn]captains, also called Adino the Eznite (spear) because of the [fn]eight hundred men killed [by him] at one time.

Next to Eleazar was Shammah the son of Agee the Hararite. The Philistines were gathered into an army where there was a plot of ground full of lentils, and the people [of Israel] fled from the Philistines.

Then three of the thirty chief men went down and came to David at harvest time in the cave of Adullam, while an army of Philistines was encamped in the Valley of Rephaim.

Now Abishai the brother of Joab the son of Zeruiah was chief of the [fn]thirty. He wielded his spear against three hundred men and killed them, and gained a reputation beside the three.

Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done many notable acts, killed two [famous] warriors of Moab. He also went down and killed a lion in the middle of a pit on a snowy day.

Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty; then Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,