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Day 92 of 365

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2 Samuel 22-23

2 Samuel Chapter 22

¹David spoke to the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul, ²and he said: “The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer, even mine; ³God is my rock in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge. My savior, you save me from violence. ⁴I call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised; So shall I be saved from my enemies. ⁵For the waves of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid. ⁶The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death caught me. ⁷In my distress, I called on the LORD. Yes, I called to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry came into his ears. ⁸Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations of heaven quaked and were shaken, because he was angry. ⁹Smoke went up out of his nostrils. Consuming fire came out of his mouth. Coals were kindled by it. ¹⁰He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet. ¹¹He rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he was seen on the wings of the wind. ¹²He made darkness a shelter around himself, gathering of waters, and thick clouds of the skies. ¹³At the brightness before him, coals of fire were kindled. ¹⁴The LORD thundered from heaven. The Most High uttered his voice. ¹⁵He sent out arrows and scattered them, lightning and confused them. ¹⁶Then the channels of the sea appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare by the LORD’s rebuke, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils. ¹⁷He sent from on high and he took me. He drew me out of many waters. ¹⁸He delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me, for they were too mighty for me. ¹⁹They came on me in the day of my calamity, but the LORD was my support. ²⁰He also brought me out into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me. ²¹The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness. He rewarded me according to the cleanness of my hands. ²²For I have kept the LORD’s ways, and have not wickedly departed from my God. ²³For all his ordinances were before me. As for his statutes, I didn’t depart from them. ²⁴I was also perfect toward him. I kept myself from my iniquity. ²⁵Therefore the LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness, According to my cleanness in his eyesight. ²⁶With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the perfect man you will show yourself perfect. ²⁷With the pure you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd. ²⁸You will save the afflicted people, but your eyes are on the arrogant, that you may bring them down. ²⁹For you are my lamp, LORD. The LORD will light up my darkness. ³⁰For by you, I run against a troop. By my God, I leap over a wall. ³¹As for God, his way is perfect. The LORD’s word is tested. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him. ³²For who is God, besides the LORD? Who is a rock, besides our God? ³³God is my strong fortress. He makes my way perfect. ³⁴He makes his feet like hinds’ feet, and sets me on my high places. ³⁵He teaches my hands to war, so that my arms bend a bow of bronze. ³⁶You have also given me the shield of your salvation. Your gentleness has made me great. ³⁷You have enlarged my steps under me. My feet have not slipped. ³⁸I have pursued my enemies and destroyed them. I didn’t turn again until they were consumed. ³⁹I have consumed them, and struck them through, so that they can’t arise. Yes, they have fallen under my feet. ⁴⁰For you have armed me with strength for the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me. ⁴¹You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me. ⁴²They looked, but there was no one to save; even to the LORD, but he didn’t answer them. ⁴³Then I beat them as small as the dust of the earth. I crushed them as the mire of the streets, and spread them abroad. ⁴⁴You also have delivered me from the strivings of my people. You have kept me to be the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known will serve me. ⁴⁵The foreigners will submit themselves to me. As soon as they hear of me, they will obey me. ⁴⁶The foreigners will fade away, and will come trembling out of their close places. ⁴⁷The LORD lives! Blessed be my rock! Exalted be God, the rock of my salvation, ⁴⁸even the God who executes vengeance for me, who brings down peoples under me, ⁴⁹who brings me away from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man. ⁵⁰Therefore I will give thanks to you, LORD, among the nations, and will sing praises to your name. ⁵¹He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving kindness to his anointed, to David and to his offspring, forever more.”

1: David spoke to the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul,

2: and he said: “The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer, even mine;

3: God is my rock in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge. My savior, you save me from violence.

4: I call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised; So shall I be saved from my enemies.

5: For the waves of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.

6: The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death caught me.

7: In my distress, I called on the LORD. Yes, I called to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry came into his ears.

8: Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations of heaven quaked and were shaken, because he was angry.

9: Smoke went up out of his nostrils. Consuming fire came out of his mouth. Coals were kindled by it.

10: He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet.

11: He rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he was seen on the wings of the wind.

12: He made darkness a shelter around himself, gathering of waters, and thick clouds of the skies.

13: At the brightness before him, coals of fire were kindled.

14: The LORD thundered from heaven. The Most High uttered his voice.

15: He sent out arrows and scattered them, lightning and confused them.

16: Then the channels of the sea appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare by the LORD’s rebuke, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.

17: He sent from on high and he took me. He drew me out of many waters.

18: He delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me, for they were too mighty for me.

19: They came on me in the day of my calamity, but the LORD was my support.

20: He also brought me out into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me.

21: The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness. He rewarded me according to the cleanness of my hands.

22: For I have kept the LORD’s ways, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

23: For all his ordinances were before me. As for his statutes, I didn’t depart from them.

24: I was also perfect toward him. I kept myself from my iniquity.

25: Therefore the LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness, According to my cleanness in his eyesight.

26: With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the perfect man you will show yourself perfect.

27: With the pure you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.

28: You will save the afflicted people, but your eyes are on the arrogant, that you may bring them down.

29: For you are my lamp, LORD. The LORD will light up my darkness.

30: For by you, I run against a troop. By my God, I leap over a wall.

31: As for God, his way is perfect. The LORD’s word is tested. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.

32: For who is God, besides the LORD? Who is a rock, besides our God?

33: God is my strong fortress. He makes my way perfect.

34: He makes his feet like hinds’ feet, and sets me on my high places.

35: He teaches my hands to war, so that my arms bend a bow of bronze.

36: You have also given me the shield of your salvation. Your gentleness has made me great.

37: You have enlarged my steps under me. My feet have not slipped.

38: I have pursued my enemies and destroyed them. I didn’t turn again until they were consumed.

39: I have consumed them, and struck them through, so that they can’t arise. Yes, they have fallen under my feet.

40: For you have armed me with strength for the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.

41: You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me.

42: They looked, but there was no one to save; even to the LORD, but he didn’t answer them.

43: Then I beat them as small as the dust of the earth. I crushed them as the mire of the streets, and spread them abroad.

44: You also have delivered me from the strivings of my people. You have kept me to be the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known will serve me.

45: The foreigners will submit themselves to me. As soon as they hear of me, they will obey me.

46: The foreigners will fade away, and will come trembling out of their close places.

47: The LORD lives! Blessed be my rock! Exalted be God, the rock of my salvation,

48: even the God who executes vengeance for me, who brings down peoples under me,

49: who brings me away from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man.

50: Therefore I will give thanks to you, LORD, among the nations, and will sing praises to your name.

51: He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving kindness to his anointed, to David and to his offspring, forever more.”

2 Samuel Chapter 23

¹Now these are the last words of David. David the son of Jesse says, the man who was raised on high says, the anointed of the God of Jacob, the sweet psalmist of Israel: ²“The LORD’s Spirit spoke by me. His word was on my tongue. ³The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me, ‘One who rules over men righteously, who rules in the fear of God, ⁴shall be as the light of the morning when the sun rises, a morning without clouds, when the tender grass springs out of the earth, through clear shining after rain.’ ⁵Isn’t my house so with God? Yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure, for it is all my salvation and all my desire. Won’t he make it grow? ⁶But all the ungodly will be as thorns to be thrust away, because they can’t be taken with the hand. ⁷The man who touches them must be armed with iron and the staff of a spear. They will be utterly burned with fire in their place.” ⁸These are the names of the mighty men whom David had: Josheb Basshebeth, a Tahchemonite, chief of the captains; he was called Adino the Eznite, who killed eight hundred at one time. ⁹After him was Eleazar the son of Dodai the son of an Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with David when they defied the Philistines who were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel had gone away. ¹⁰He arose and struck the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand froze to the sword; and the LORD worked a great victory that day; and the people returned after him only to take plunder. ¹¹After him was Shammah the son of Agee, a Hararite. The Philistines had gathered together into a troop where there was a plot of ground full of lentils; and the people fled from the Philistines. ¹²But he stood in the middle of the plot and defended it, and killed the Philistines; and the LORD worked a great victory. ¹³Three of the thirty chief men went down, and came to David in the harvest time to the cave of Adullam; and the troop of the Philistines was encamped in the valley of Rephaim. ¹⁴David was then in the stronghold; and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem. ¹⁵David said longingly, “Oh that someone would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!” ¹⁶The three mighty men broke through the army of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem that was by the gate and took it and brought it to David; but he would not drink of it, but poured it out to the LORD. ¹⁷He said, “Be it far from me, LORD, that I should do this! Isn’t this the blood of the men who risked their lives to go?” Therefore he would not drink it. The three mighty men did these things. ¹⁸Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief of the three. He lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them, and had a name among the three. ¹⁹Wasn’t he most honorable of the three? Therefore he was made their captain. However he wasn’t included as one of the three. ²⁰Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, killed the two sons of Ariel of Moab. He also went down and killed a lion in the middle of a pit in a time of snow. ²¹He killed a huge Egyptian, 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 killed him with his own spear. ²²Benaiah the son of Jehoiada did these things, and had a name among the three mighty men. ²³He was more honorable than the thirty, but he didn’t attain to the three. David set him over his guard. ²⁴Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty: Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem, ²⁵Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite, ²⁶Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, ²⁷Abiezer the Anathothite, Mebunnai the Hushathite, ²⁸Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite, ²⁹Heleb the son of Baanah the Netophathite, Ittai the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin, ³⁰Benaiah a Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash. ³¹Abialbon the Arbathite, Azmaveth the Barhumite, ³²Eliahba the Shaalbonite, the sons of Jashen, Jonathan, ³³Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam the son of Sharar the Ararite, ³⁴Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai, the son of the Maacathite, Eliam the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite, ³⁵Hezro the Carmelite, Paarai the Arbite, ³⁶Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite, ³⁷Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, armor bearers to Joab the son of Zeruiah, ³⁸Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite, ³⁹and Uriah the Hittite: thirty-seven in all.

1: Now these are the last words of David. David the son of Jesse says, the man who was raised on high says, the anointed of the God of Jacob, the sweet psalmist of Israel:

2: “The LORD’s Spirit spoke by me. His word was on my tongue.

3: The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me, ‘One who rules over men righteously, who rules in the fear of God,

4: shall be as the light of the morning when the sun rises, a morning without clouds, when the tender grass springs out of the earth, through clear shining after rain.’

5: Isn’t my house so with God? Yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure, for it is all my salvation and all my desire. Won’t he make it grow?

6: But all the ungodly will be as thorns to be thrust away, because they can’t be taken with the hand.

7: The man who touches them must be armed with iron and the staff of a spear. They will be utterly burned with fire in their place.”

8: These are the names of the mighty men whom David had: Josheb Basshebeth, a Tahchemonite, chief of the captains; he was called Adino the Eznite, who killed eight hundred at one time.

9: After him was Eleazar the son of Dodai the son of an Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with David when they defied the Philistines who were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel had gone away.

10: He arose and struck the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand froze to the sword; and the LORD worked a great victory that day; and the people returned after him only to take plunder.

11: After him was Shammah the son of Agee, a Hararite. The Philistines had gathered together into a troop where there was a plot of ground full of lentils; and the people fled from the Philistines.

12: But he stood in the middle of the plot and defended it, and killed the Philistines; and the LORD worked a great victory.

13: Three of the thirty chief men went down, and came to David in the harvest time to the cave of Adullam; and the troop of the Philistines was encamped in the valley of Rephaim.

14: David was then in the stronghold; and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem.

15: David said longingly, “Oh that someone would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!”

16: The three mighty men broke through the army of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem that was by the gate and took it and brought it to David; but he would not drink of it, but poured it out to the LORD.

17: He said, “Be it far from me, LORD, that I should do this! Isn’t this the blood of the men who risked their lives to go?” Therefore he would not drink it. The three mighty men did these things.

18: Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief of the three. He lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them, and had a name among the three.

19: Wasn’t he most honorable of the three? Therefore he was made their captain. However he wasn’t included as one of the three.

20: Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, killed the two sons of Ariel of Moab. He also went down and killed a lion in the middle of a pit in a time of snow.

21: He killed a huge Egyptian, 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 killed him with his own spear.

22: Benaiah the son of Jehoiada did these things, and had a name among the three mighty men.

23: He was more honorable than the thirty, but he didn’t attain to the three. David set him over his guard.

24: Asahel the brother of Joab was one 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 Anathothite, Mebunnai the Hushathite,

28: Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite,

29: Heleb the son of Baanah the Netophathite, Ittai the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin,

30: Benaiah a Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash.

31: Abialbon the Arbathite, Azmaveth the Barhumite,

32: Eliahba the Shaalbonite, the sons of Jashen, Jonathan,

33: Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam the son of Sharar the Ararite,

34: Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai, the son of the Maacathite, Eliam the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite,

35: Hezro the Carmelite, Paarai the Arbite,

36: Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite,

37: Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, armor bearers to Joab the son of Zeruiah,

38: Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,

39: and Uriah the Hittite: thirty-seven in all.

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