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38 I haue pursued mine enemies and destroyed the man that shall touch them, must be defensed
them, and haue not turned againe vntill I had with yron, or with the shaft of a speare: and they
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consumed them. 39 Yea, I haue consumed them shall be burnt with fire in the same place. These
and thrust them through, and they shall not be the names of the mightie men whome Dauid
arise, but shall fall vnder my feete. 40 For thou had. He that sate in the seate of wisedome, being
hast girded me with power to battell, and them chiefe of the princes, was Adino of Ezni, he slewe
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that arose against me, hast thou subdued vnder eight hundreth at one time. And after him was
me. 41 And thou hast giuen me the neckes of Eleazar the sonne of Dodo, the sonne of Ahohi,
mine enemies, that I might destroy them that one of the three worthies with Dauid, when they
hate me. 42 They looked about, but there was defied the Philistims gathered there to battel,
none to saue them, euen vnto the Lord, but he when the men of Israel were gone vp. 10 He arose
answered them not. 43 Then did I beate them as and smote the Philistims vntill his hande was
small as the dust of the earth: I did treade them wearie, and his hande claue vnto the sworde: and
flat as the clay of the streete, and did spread them the Lord gaue great victorie the same day, and
abroad. 44 Thou hast also deliuered me from the the people returned after him onely to spoyle.
contentions of my people: thou hast preserued 11 After him was Shammah the sonne of Age the
me to be the head ouer nations: the people which Hararite: for the Philistims assembled at a towne,
I knewe not, doe serue me. 45 Strangers shalbe where was a piece of a fielde full of lentils, and
in subiection to me: assoone as they heare, they the people fled from the Philistims. 12 But he
shall obey me. 46 Strangers shall shrinke away, stoode in the middes of the fielde, and defended
and feare in their priuie chambers. 47 Let the Lord it, and slewe the Philistims: so the Lord gaue
liue, and blessed be my strength: and God, euen great victorie. 13 Afterward three of the thirtie
the force of my saluation be exalted. 48 It is God captaines went downe, and came to Dauid in the
that giueth me power to reuenge me, and subdue haruest time vnto the caue of Adullam, and the
the people vnder me, 49 And rescueth me from hoste of the Philistims pitched in the valley of
mine enemies: (thou also hast lift me vp from Rephaim. 14 And Dauid was then in an holde, and
them that rose against me, thou hast deliuered the garison of ye Philistims was then in Beth-
me from the cruell man. 50 Therefore I will praise lehem. 15 And Dauid longed, and said, Oh, that
thee, O Lord amog the nations, and will sing vnto one would giue me to drinke of the water of
thy Name) 51 He is the tower of saluation for his the well of Beth-lehem, which is by the gate.
King, and sheweth mercie to his anointed, euen 16 The the three mightie brake into the host of
to Dauid, and to his seede for euer. the Philistims, and drew water out of the well
of Beth-lehem that was by the gate, and tooke

23 and brought it to Dauid, who woulde not drinke
thereof, but powred it for an offring vnto ye Lord,
1 These also be the last wordes of Dauid, Dauid 17 And said, O Lord, be it farre from me, that I
the sonne of Ishai saith, euen the man who was should doe this. Is not this the blood of the men
set vp on hie, the Anointed of the God of Iacob, that went in ieopardie of their liues? therefore
and the sweete singer of Israel saith, The Spirit he woulde not drinke it. These things did these
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of the Lord spake by me, and his worde was in three mightie men. 18 And Abishai the brother of
my tongue. 3 The God of Israel spake to me, ye Ioab, the sonne of Zeruiah, was chiefe among the
strength of Israel saide, Thou shalt beare rule three, and he lifted vp his speare against three
ouer men, being iust, and ruling in the feare of hundreth, and slewe them, and he had the name
God. Euen as the morning light when the sunne among the three. 19 For he was most excellent of
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riseth, the morning, I say, without cloudes, so the three, and was their captaine, but he attained
shall mine house be, and not as the grasse of the not vnto the first three. 20 And Benaiah the sonne
earthisbythebrightraine. Forsoshallnotmine of Iehoiada the sonne of a valiant man, which had
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house be with God: for he hath made with me an done many actes, and was of Kabzeel, slewe two
euerlasting couenant, perfite in all pointes, and strong men of Moab: he went downe also, and
sure: therefore all mine health and whole desire slewe a lyon in the middes of a pit in the time
is, that he will not make it growe so. 6 But the of snowe. 21 And he slewe an Egyptian a man of
wicked shalbe euery one as thornes thrust away, great stature, and the Egyptian had a speare in his
because they can not be taken with handes. But hande: but he went downe to him with a staffe,
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