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Adina the son of Shiza the Reubenite, a chief of the Reubenites, and thirty with him,

and Ishmaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty man among the thirty, and in charge of the thirty. Then Jeremiah, Jahaziel, Johanan, Jozabad the Gederathite,

From the Gadites valiant mighty men went over to David at the stronghold in the wilderness, men trained for war who could handle a large shield and spear, whose faces were like the faces of lions, and they were as swift as the gazelles on the mountains.

These men from the sons of Gad were captains of the army; the one who was least was equal to a hundred, and the greatest, to a thousand.

For day by day men came to David to help him, until there was a great army like the army of God.

also Zadok, a young valiant mighty man, and from his father's house, twenty-two captains.

From Naphtali there were a thousand captains, and with them thirty-seven thousand with shield and spear.

All of these, being men of war who helped in battle formation, came to Hebron with a perfect heart to make David king over all Israel; and all the rest of Israel also were of one mind to make David king.

And they carried the ark of God on a new cart from the house of Abinadab, and Uzza and Ahio drove the cart.

Now Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David with cedar trees, masons, and carpenters, to build a house for him.

Now the Philistines had come and carried out a raid in the Valley of Rephaim.

Now David built houses for himself in the city of David; and he prepared a place for the ark of God and pitched a tent for it.

Now David was clothed with a robe of fine linen with all the Levites who were carrying the ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah the leader of the singing with the singers. David also wore an ephod of linen.

Then he distributed to everyone of Israel, both men and women, to everyone a loaf of bread, a portion of meat, and a raisin cake.

Remember His covenant forever, The word which He commanded to a thousand generations,

He also confirmed it to Jacob as a statute, To Israel as an everlasting covenant,

When they were only a few in number, Very few, and strangers in it,

And it came about, when David lived in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, "Look, I am living in a house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of the LORD is under tent curtains."

"Go and tell David My servant, 'This is what the LORD says: "You shall not build a house for Me to dwell in;

for I have not dwelt in a house since the day that I brought up Israel to this day, but I have gone from tent to tent and from one dwelling place to another.