32 For who isGod, save the LORD? and who isa rock, save our God?
33 God ismy strength andpower: and he maketh my way perfect.
34 He maketh my feet like hinds' feet: and setteth me upon my high places.
35 He teacheth my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.
36 Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy gentleness hath made me great.
37 Thou hast enlarged my steps under me; so that my feet did not slip.
38 I have pursued mine enemies, and destroyed them; and turned not again until I had consumed
them.
39 And I have consumed them, and wounded them, that they could not arise: yea, they are fallen
under my feet.
40 For thou hast girded me with strength to battle: them that rose up against me hast thou
subdued under me.
41 Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me.
42 They looked, but there wasnone to save; evenunto the LORD, but he answered them not.
43 Then did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I did stamp them as the mire of the
street, anddid spread them abroad.
44 Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people, thou hast kept me to behead of
the heathen: a people whichI knew not shall serve me.
45 Strangers shall submit themselves unto me: as soon as they hear, they shall be obedient
unto me.
46 Strangers shall fade away, and they shall be afraid out of their close places.
47 The LORD liveth; and blessed bemy rock; and exalted be the God of the rock of my salvation.
48 It isGod that avengeth me, and that bringeth down the people under me,
49 And that bringeth me forth from mine enemies: thou also hast lifted me up on high above
them that rose up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man.
50 Therefore I will give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the heathen, and I will sing praises
unto thy name.
51 He isthe tower of salvation for his king: and sheweth mercy to his anointed, unto David, and
to his seed for evermore.
1 Now these bethe last words of David. David the son of Jesse said, and the man who was
raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said,
2 The Spirit of the LORD spake by me, and his word wasin my tongue.
3 The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must bejust,
ruling in the fear of God.
4 And he shall beas the light of the morning, whenthe sun riseth, evena morning without
clouds; asthe tender grass springingout of the earth by clear shining after rain.
5 Although my house benot so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant,
ordered in all things, and sure: for this isall my salvation, and all mydesire, although he make
itnot to grow.
6 But the sonsof Belial shall beall of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be
taken with hands:
7 But the man thatshall touch them must be fenced with iron and the staff of a spear; and they
shall be utterly burned with fire in the sameplace.
8 These bethe names of the mighty men whom David had: The Tachmonite that sat in the seat,
chief among the captains; the same wasAdino the Eznite: he lift up his spearagainst eight
hundred, whom he slew at one time.
9 And after him wasEleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite, oneof the three mighty men with
David, when they defied the Philistines thatwere there gathered together to battle, and the men
10 He arose, and smote the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand clave unto the
sword: and the LORD wrought a great victory that day; and the people returned after him only to
spoil.
11 And after him wasShammah the son of Agee the Hararite. And the Philistines were gathered
together into a troop, where was a piece of ground full of lentiles: and the people fled from the
Philistines.
12 But he stood in the midst of the ground, and defended it, and slew the Philistines: and the
LORD wrought a great victory.
13 And three of the thirty chief went down, and came to David in the harvest time unto the
cave of Adullam: and the troop of the Philistines pitched in the valley of Rephaim.
14 And David wasthen in an hold, and the garrison of the Philistines wasthen inBethlehem.
15 And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of
Bethlehem, which isby the gate!
16 And the three mighty men brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of
the well of Bethlehem, that wasby the gate, and took it, and brought itto David: nevertheless
he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto the LORD.
17 And he said, Be it far from me, O LORD, that I should do this: is not thisthe blood of the men
that went in jeopardy of their lives? therefore he would not drink it. These things did these
three mighty men.
18 And Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief among three. And he lifted up
his spear against three hundred, andslew them, and had the name among three.
19 Was he not most honourable of three? therefore he was their captain: howbeit he attained
not unto the firstthree.
20 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of Kabzeel, who had done many
acts, he slew two lionlike men of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit
in time of snow:
21 And he slew an Egyptian, a goodly man: and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went
down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with
his own spear.
22 These thingsdid Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had the name among three mighty men.
23 He was more honourable than the thirty, but he attained not to the firstthree. And David set
him over his guard.
24 Asahel the brother of Joab wasone of the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,
25 Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite,
26 Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite,
27 Abiezer the Anethothite, Mebunnai the Hushathite,
28 Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite,
29 Heleb the son of Baanah, a Netophathite, Ittai the son of Ribai out of Gibeah of the children
of Benjamin,
30 Benaiah the Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash,
31 Abialbon the Arbathite, Azmaveth the Barhumite,
32 Eliahba the Shaalbonite, of the sons of Jashen, Jonathan,
33 Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam the son of Sharar the Hararite,
34 Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai, the son of the Maachathite, Eliam the son of Ahithophel the
Gilonite,
35 Hezrai the Carmelite, Paarai the Arbite,
36 Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite,
37 Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, armourbearer to Joab the son of Zeruiah,
38 Ira an Ithrite, Gareb an Ithrite,
39 Uriah the Hittite: thirty and seven in all.
1 And again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them
to say, Go, number Israel and Judah.
2 For the king said to Joab the captain of the host, which waswith him, Go now through all the
tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, and number ye the people, that I may know the
number of the people.
3 And Joab said unto the king, Now the LORD thy God add unto the people, how many soever they
be, an hundredfold, and that the eyes of my lord the king may see it: but why doth my lord the
king delight in this thing?
4 Notwithstanding the king's word prevailed against Joab, and against the captains of the host.
And Joab and the captains of the host went out from the presence of the king, to number the
people of Israel.
5 And they passed over Jordan, and pitched in Aroer, on the right side of the city that liethin
the midst of the river of Gad, and toward Jazer:
6 Then they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtimhodshi; and they came to Danjaan, and
about to Zidon,
7 And came to the strong hold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites, and of the
Canaanites: and they went out to the south of Judah, evento Beersheba.
8 So when they had gone through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months
and twenty days.
9 And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people unto the king: and there were in Israel
eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew the sword; and the men of Judah werefive
hundred thousand men.
10 And David's heart smote him after that he had numbered the people. And David said unto the
LORD, I have sinned greatly in that I have done: and now, I beseech thee, O LORD, take away the
iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.
11 For when David was up in the morning, the word of the LORD came unto the prophet Gad,
David's seer, saying,
12 Go and say unto David, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee three things; choose thee one of
them, that I may do itunto thee.
13 So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him, Shall seven years of famine come
unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thine enemies, while they pursue
thee? or that there be three days' pestilence in thy land? now advise, and see what answer I
shall return to him that sent me.
14 And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of the LORD; for
his mercies aregreat: and let me not fall into the hand of man.
15 So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and
there died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men.
16 And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented
him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine
hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.
17 And David spake unto the LORD when he saw the angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I
have sinned, and I have done wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I
pray thee, be against me, and against my father's house.
18 And Gad came that day to David, and said unto him, Go up, rear an altar unto the LORD in the
threshingfloor of Araunah the Jebusite.
19 And David, according to the saying of Gad, went up as the LORD commanded.
20 And Araunah looked, and saw the king and his servants coming on toward him: and Araunah
