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Then Ishbi-benob, who was among the descendants of the giant, the weight of whose spear was three hundred shekels of bronze in weight, had strapped on a new sword, and he intended to kill David.

And there was war with the Philistines again at Gob, and Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim the Bethlehemite killed Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.

And there was war at Gath again, where there was a man of great stature who had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in number; and he also had been born to the giant.

"He rode on a cherub and flew; He appeared on the wings of the wind.

"He made darkness canopies around Him, A mass of waters, thick clouds of the sky.

"For by You I can run at a troop of warriors; By my God I can leap over a wall.

"As for God, His way is blameless; The word of the LORD is refined; He is a shield to all who take refuge in Him.

"For who is God, except the LORD? And who is a rock, except our God?

"He trains my hands for battle, So that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.

"You have also saved me from the contentions of my people; You have kept me as head of the nations; A people I have not known serve me.

"He is a tower of salvation to His king, And shows favor to His anointed, To David and his descendants forever."

Is like the light of the morning when the sun rises, A morning without clouds, When the fresh grass springs out of the earth From sunshine after rain.'

Instead, the man who touches them Must be armed with iron and the shaft of a spear, And they will be completely burned with fire in their place."

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 because of eight hundred who were killed by him at one time.

He rose up and struck the Philistines until his hand was weary and it clung to the sword, and the LORD brought about a great victory that day; and the people returned after him only to plunder the dead.

Now after him was Shammah the son of Agee, a Hararite. And the Philistines were gathered into an army where there was a plot of land full of lentils, and the people fled from the Philistines.

But he took his stand in the midst of the plot, defended it, and struck the Philistines; and the LORD brought about a great victory.

And David had a craving and said, "Oh that someone would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem which is by the gate!"

Now Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief of the thirty. And he swung his spear against three hundred and killed them, and had a name as well as the three.

Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done great deeds, killed the two sons of Ariel of Moab. He also went down and killed a lion in the middle of a pit on a snowy day.