And moreover in timepast, evenwhenSaul was king, thouwast he thatleddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the LORD thy God saiduntothee, Thoushaltfeed my peopleIsrael, and thoushalt be rulerover my peopleIsrael.
Thereforecame all the elders of Israel to the king to Hebron; and Davidmade a covenantwiththem in Hebronbefore the LORD; and theyanointedDavidkingoverIsrael, according to the word of the LORD by Samuel.
Thesealso are the chief of the mighty men whomDavid had, who strengthenedthemselveswith him in his kingdom, and with all Israel, to make him king, according to the word of the LORDconcerningIsrael.
And this is the number of the mighty men whomDavid had; Jashobeam, an Hachmonite, the chief of the captains: he lifted up his spearagainstthreehundredslain by him at one time.
He was withDavid at Pasdammim, and there the Philistinesweregatheredtogether to battle, where was a parcel of groundfull of barley; and the peoplefledfrombefore the Philistines.
Now three of the thirtycaptainswentdown to the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the host of the Philistinesencamped in the valley of Rephaim.
And the threebrakethrough the host of the Philistines, and drewwater out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: but Davidwould not drink of it, but poured it out to the LORD,
And said, My God forbid it me, that I should do thisthing: shall I drink the blood of these men thathave put theirlives in jeopardy? for with the jeopardy of theirlivestheybrought it. Therefore he would not drink it. Thesethings did thesethreemightiest.
Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had donemanyacts; he slew two lionlike men of Moab: also he wentdown and slew a lion in a pit in a snowy day.
And he slew an Egyptian, a man of greatstature, fivecubitshigh; and in the Egyptian’shand was a spearlike a weaver’sbeam; and he wentdown to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian’shand, and slew him with his own spear.