¹And all Israel converged on David, in Hebron, and they said, “Here we are; we are your bone and your flesh. ²Throughout the past when Saul was king, it was you who brought Israel out and led it in. And the Lord your God said to you, ‘You will shepherd my people Israel, and you will be a leader over my people Israel.’ ” ³And all the elders of Israel came to the king in Hebron, and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before the Lord, and they anointed David as king over Israel, according to the word of the Lord through the intermediacy of Samuel. ⁴And David and the whole of Israel went to Jerusalem, which is Jebus, and the Jebusites were there, inhabiting the land. ⁵And the inhabitants of Jebus said to David, “You shall not come here.” But David captured the stronghold of Zion, which is the City of David. ⁶And David said, “Whoever strikes a Jebusite first will be a head and a commander.” And Joab the son of Zeruiah went up first, and he became head. ⁷And David resided in the citadel, which is why they called it the City of David. ⁸And he built the city round about, from the Millo to the surrounding area. And Joab fortified the remainder of the city. ⁹And David continued to become greater, and the Lord of hosts was with him. ¹⁰And these were the heads of the warriors whom David had, who showed themselves strong with him in his kingdom with all Israel, in making him king according to the word of the Lord concerning Israel. ¹¹And these are the number of the warriors whom David had: Jashobam a member of the Hachmonites, a head of thirty. He raised his spear against three hundred who were struck down by him on one occasion. ¹²And after him came Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite. He was among the three warriors. ¹³He was with David in Pas-Dammim, where the Philistines had assembled for war, and where there was a parcel of land in the field full of barley, and the people fled from the presence of the Philistines. ¹⁴But they took a stand in the middle of the parcel of land, and they saved it, and they struck the Philistines, and the Lord brought about a great salvation. ¹⁵And three of the thirty heads went down to the rock, to David, to the cave of Adullam, while the Philistines' camp was pitched in the Valley of the Rephaim. ¹⁶And David was then in the stronghold, whereas the garrison of the Philistines was at that time in Bethlehem. ¹⁷And David had a longing and said, “Who will give me a drink of water from the cistern in Bethlehem, which is at the gate?” ¹⁸And the three broke through into the Philistines' camp and drew water from the cistern in Bethlehem, which is at the gate, and they carried it, and they brought it to David, but David was not willing to drink it, and he poured it out to the Lord. ¹⁹And he said, “Far be it from me, O God of mine, that I should do this. Shall I drink the blood of these men who went at the risk of their lives? For they brought it at the risk of their lives.” So he was not willing to drink it. The three warriors did these things. ²⁰And Abishai the brother of Joab was the head of the three, and he raised his spear against three hundred who were struck down by him, and he had fame among the three. ²¹Of the three he was more honoured than the two, and he became their commander, but he did not equal the three. ²²There was Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of many exploits, from Kabzeel. He struck down two men of Ariel of Moab, and he went down and struck a lion inside a pit on a snowy day. ²³And he struck down an Egyptian man, a man of five cubits in height, and in the Egyptian's hand was a spear like a weaver's beam, and he went down against him with a staff, and he wrenched the spear from the Egyptian's hand and killed him with his spear. ²⁴Benaiah the son of Jehoiada did these things, and he had fame among the three warriors. ²⁵You see how he was the most honoured of the thirty, but he did not equal the three, and David appointed him to his council. ²⁶And the valiant warriors were Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo from Bethlehem, ²⁷Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite, ²⁸Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer the Anathothite, ²⁹Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite, ³⁰Mahrai the Netophathite, Heled the son of Baanah the Netophathite, ³¹Ithai the son of Ribai from Gibeah of the sons of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite, ³²Hurai of the brooks of Gaash, Abiel the Arbathite, ³³Azmaveth the Baharumite, Eliahba the Shaalbonite, ³⁴the sons of Hashem the Gizonite, Jonathan the son of Shageh the Hararite, ³⁵Ahiam the son of Sacar the Hararite, Eliphal the son of Ur, ³⁶Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijah the Pelonite, ³⁷Hezro the Carmelite, Naarai the son of Ezbai, ³⁸Joel the brother of Nathan, Mibhar the son of Hagri, ³⁹Zelek the Ammonite, Nahrai the Berothite, the arms-bearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah, ⁴⁰Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite, ⁴¹Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai, ⁴²Adina the son of Shiza the Reubenite, a head of the Reubenites, with thirty alongside him, ⁴³Hanan the son of Maachah and Joshaphat the Mithnite, ⁴⁴Uzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Jeiel the sons of Hotham the Aroerite, ⁴⁵Jediael the son of Shimri, and Joha his brother the Tizite, ⁴⁶Eliel of the Mahavites and Jeribai and Joshaviah the sons of Elnaam, and Ithmah the Moabite, ⁴⁷Eliel and Obed, and Jasiel the Mezobaite.