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

The LORD thundered from heaven, The Elyon uttered his voice.

Then the channels of the sea appeared, The foundations of the world were laid bare, By the rebuke of the LORD, At the blast of the breath of his nostrils.

For all his ordinances were before me; As for his statutes, I did not depart from them.

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

As for God, his way is perfect: The word of the LORD is tried; He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.

God is my strong fortress; He guides the perfect in his way.

He makes his feet like hinds' [feet], Sets me on my high places.

Great deliverance gives he to his king, Shows lovingkindness to his anointed, To David and to his seed, forevermore.

The Spirit of the LORD spoke by me, His word was on my tongue.

He arose, and struck the Pelishtim 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 spoil.

Avishai, the brother of Yo'av, the son of Tzeru'yah, was chief of the three. He lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them, and had a name among the three.

He killed a Mitzrian, a goodly man: and the Mitzrian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Mitzrian's hand, and killed him with his own spear.

He was more honorable than the thirty, but he didn't attain to the [first] three. David set him over his guard.

David said to Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of the LORD; for his mercies are great; and let me not fall into the hand of man.

When the angel stretched out his hand toward Yerushalayim to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, It is enough; now stay your hand. The angel of the LORD was by the threshing floor of Aravna the Yevusi.

Aravna looked forth, and saw the king and his servants coming on toward him: and Aravna went out, and bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground.

Aravna said, Why is my lord the king come to his servant? David said, To buy the threshing floor of you, to build an altar to the LORD, that the plague may be stayed from the people.

Therefore his servants said to him, Let there be sought for my lord the king a young virgin: and let her stand before the king, and cherish him; and let her lie in your bosom, that my lord the king may keep warm.

His father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why have you done so? and he was also a very goodly man; and he was born after Avshalom.