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So they & their children had the ouersight of the gates of the house of the Lord, euen of the house of the Tabernacle by wardes.

Ithai the sonne of Ribai of Gibeah of the children of Beniamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite,

And there came of the children of Beniamin, and Iudah to the hold vnto Dauid,

The children of Iudah that bare shield and speare, were sixe thousand and eight hundreth armed to the warre.

Of the children of Simeon valiant men of warre, seuen thousand and an hundreth.

Of the children of Leui foure thousande and sixe hundreth.

And of the children of Beniamin the brethren of Saul three thousande: for a great part of them vnto that time kept the warde of the house of Saul.

And of the children of Ephraim twentie thousande, and eight hundreth valiant men and famous men in the housholde of their fathers.

And of the children of Issachar which were men that had vnderstanding of the times, to knowe what Israel ought to doe: the heades of them were two hundreth, & all their brethren were at their commandement.

And these are the names of the children which he had at Ierusalem, Shammua, and Shobab, Nathan, and Salomon,

O seede of Israel his seruant, O the children of Iaakob his chosen.

And King Dauid did dedicate them vnto the Lorde, with the siluer and golde that hee brought from all the nations, from Edom, and from Moab, and from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistims, and from Amalek.

After this also Nahash the King of the children of Ammon dyed, and his sonne reigned in his stead.

And Dauid said, I will shew kindnesse vnto Hanun the sonne of Nahash, because his father shewed kindnesse vnto me. And Dauid sent messengers to comfort him for his father. So the seruants of Dauid came into the lande of the children of Ammon to Hanun to comfort him.

And the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, Thinkest thou that Dauid doeth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters vnto thee? Are not his seruants come to thee to search, to seeke and to spie out the land?

When the children of Ammon saw that they stanke in the sight of Dauid, then sent Hanun and the children of Ammon a thousande talents of siluer to hire them charets and horsemen out of Aram Naharaim and out of Aram Maachah, and out of Zobah.

And they hired them two and thirty thousande charets, and the King of Maachah and his people, which came and pitched before Medeba: and the children of Ammon gathered themselues together from their cities, and came to the battell.

And the children of Ammon came out, and set their battell in aray at the gate of the citie. And the Kings that were come, were by them selues in the fielde.

And the rest of the people he deliuered vnto the hande of Abishai his brother, and they put them selues in aray against the children of Ammon.

And he saide, If Aram be too strong for me, then thou shalt succour me: and if the children of Ammon preuaile against thee, then I wil succour thee.