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These four were born descendants of the giants in Geth, the family of Rapha; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.

And David spoke to the Lord the words of this song, in the day in which the Lord rescued him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul.

When I am afflicted I will call upon the Lord, and will cry to my God, and he shall hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry shalt come into his ears.

There went up a smoke in his wrath, and fire out of his mouth devours: coals were kindled at it.

And he bowed the heavens, and came down, and there was darkness under his feet.

And he made darkness his hiding-place; his tabernacle round about him was the darkness of waters, he condensed it with the clouds of the air.

The Lord thundered out of heaven, and the Most High uttered his voice.

And the channels of the sea were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered, at the rebuke of the Lord, at the blast of the breath of his anger.

For all his judgments and his ordinances were before me: I departed not from them.

And the Lord will recompense me according to my righteousness, and according to the purity of my hands in his eye-sight.

As for the Mighty One, his way is blameless: the word of the Lord is strong and tried in the fire: he is a protector to all that put their trust in him.

He magnifies the salvation of his king, and works mercy for his anointed, even for David and for his seed for ever.

The Spirit of the Lord spoke by me, and his word was upon my tongue.

These are the names of the mighty men of David: Jebosthe the Chananite is a captain of the third part: Adinon the Asonite, he drew his sword against eight hundred soldiers at once.

And after him Eleanan the son of his uncle, son of Dudi who was among the three mighty men with David; and when he defied the Philistines they were gathered there to war, and the men of Israel went up.

He arose an smote the Philistines, until his hand was weary, and his hand clave to the sword: and the Lord wrought a great salvation in that day, and the people rested behind him only to strip the slain.

And Abessa the brother of Joab the son of Saruia, he was chief among the three, and he lifted up his spear against three hundred whom he slew; and he had a name among three.

He smote an Egyptian, a wonderful man, and in the hand of the Egyptian was a spear as the side of a ladder; and he went down to him with a staff, and snatched the spear from the Egyptian’s hand, and slew him with his own spear.

He was honourable among the second three, but he reached not to the first three: and David made him his reporter.

Asael Joab’s brother; he was among the thirty. Eleanan son of Dudi his uncle in Bethleem.