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If looking your father looks for me, then you shall say, David asked earnestly of me to run to his city Bethlehem; for the yearly sacrifice is there for all the family.

And Jonathan answered Saul, David earnestly asked of me to go to Bethlehem.

And they lifted up Asahel and buried him in the burying place of his father, which is in Bethlehem. And they went all night, Joab and his men; and it was light to them coming into Hebron.

And David was then in a stronghold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem.

And David longed, and said, Who shall give me drink from the water of the well of Bethlehem beside the gate?

And the three mighty ones cut through the camp of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem beside the gate, and took it up, and brought it to David. But he was not willing to drink it, and poured it out toJehovah;

Asahel the brother of Joab was of the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem;

Salma the father of Bethlehem; Hareph the father of Beth-gader.

The sons of Salma: Bethlehem, and the Netophathites, Ataroth, the house of Joab; and half the Manahethites; the Zorites.

and Penuel the father of Gedor; and Ezer the father of Hushah; these are the sons of Hur, the first-born of Ephratah, the father of Bethlehem.

And David was then in the stronghold, and the command post of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem.

And David longed, and said, Who shall give me drink, water from the well of Bethlehem that is by the gate?

And the three broke through the army of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem at the gate, and took it and brought to David. But David was not willing to drink it, and poured it out to Jehovah,

And the mighty ones of the army were Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,

And he built Bethlehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,

The sons of Bethlehem, a hundred and twenty three.

The men of Bethlehem and Netophah were a hundred and eighty eight.

And they departed and lived in the inn of Chimham, which is by Bethlehem, to go to enter Egypt,

And you, Bethlehem Ephratah, being least among the thousands of Judah, out of you He shall come forth to Me to become One ruling in Israel; and His goings forth have been from of old, from the days of eternity.

And when Jesus had been born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men arrived from the east to Jerusalem,