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Updated Brenton English Septuagint
Greek: Rahlfs — 2 Samuel
And these are the last words of David. Faithful is David the son of Jesse, And faithful the man whom the Lord raised up to be the anointed of the God of Jacob, And beautiful are the psalms of Israel.
The Spirit of the Lord spoke by me, And his word was upon my tongue.
The God of Israel says, A watchman out of Israel spoke to me a parable: I said among men, How will ye strengthen the fear of the anointed?
And in the morning light of God, let the sun arise in the morning, From the light of which the Lord passed on, And as it were from the rain of the tender grass upon the earth.
All these are as a thorn thrust forth, For they shall not be taken with the hand,
And a man shall not labor among them; And one shall have that which is fully armed with iron, And the staff of a spear, And he shall burn them with fire, and they shall be burned in their shame.
And he stood firm in the midst of the portion, and rescued it, and smote the Philistines; and the Lord wrought a great deliverance.
And three out of the thirty went down, and came to Cason to David, to the cave of Adullam; and there was an army of the Philistines, and they encamped in the Valley of Rephaim.
And David was then in the stronghold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem.
λάκκου Βαιθλεεμ σύστημα Βαιθλεεμ
And David longed, and said, Who will give me water to drink out of the well that is in Bethlehem by the gate? now the band of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem.
Of those three he was most honorable, and he became a chief over them, but he reached not to the first three.
These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and he had a name among the three mighty men.
He was honorable among the second three, but he reached not to the first three: and David made him his reporter. And these are the names of King David’s mighty men.
Ασαηλ Ιωαβ Ελεαναν Δουδι πατραδέλφου Βαιθλεεμ
Asahel Joab’s brother; he was among the thirty. Elhanan son of Dodo his uncle in Bethlehem.
Σαμαι Αρουδαῖος Ελικα Αρωδαῖος
Shammah the Rudaean.
Ελλης Φελωθι Ιρας Εκκας Θεκωίτης
Helez the Kelothite: Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite.
Abiezer the Anothite, of the sons of the Anothite.
Σελμων Αωίτης Μοορε Νετωφαθίτης
Zalmon the Ahohite; Maharai the Netophatite.
Ελα Βαανα Νετωφαθίτης Εθθι Ριβα Γαβαεθ
Ittai the son of Ribai of Gibeah, son of Benjamin the Ephrathite; Asmoth the Bardiamite; Emasu the Shaalbonite:
Βαναιας Φαραθωνίτης Ουρι Ναχαλιγαιας
Αβιηλ Αραβωθίτου Αζμωθ Βαρσαμίτης
Ελιασου Σαλαβωνίτης Ιασαν Ιωναθαν
the sons of Jashen, Jonathan;
Σαμμα Αρωδίτης Αχιαν Σαραδ Αραουρίτης
Shammah the Hararite; Ahiam the son of Sharar the Hararite.
Αλιφαλεθ Ασβίτου Μααχατι Ελιαβ Αχιτοφελ Γελωνίτου
Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai, the son of the Maacah; Eliam the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite.
Hezro the Carmelite the son of Uraeoerchi.
Igal the son of Nathan. The son of much valor, the son of Galaaddi.
Ελιε Αμμανίτης Γελωραι Βηρωθαῖος Ιωαβ Σαρουιας
Elie the Ammonite.
Adroi of the brooks.
Abi-albon son of the Arbathite.
Gelore the Beerothite, armor bearer to Joab, son of Zeruiah.
Ιρας Ιεθιραῖος Γαρηβ Ιεθιραῖος
Ira the Ithrite. Gareb the Ithrite.
Uriah the Hittite: thirty-seven in all.
For my house is not so with the Mighty One: For he has made an everlasting covenant with me, Ready, guarded at every time; For all my salvation and all my desire is, That the wicked should not flourish.
And after him Elhanan the son of his uncle, son of Dodo 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 and smote the Philistines, until his hand was weary, and his hand clove 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 after him Shammah the son of Agee the Hararite: and the Philistines were gathered to Theria; and there was there a portion of ground full of lentils; and the people fled before the Philistines.
And the three mighty men broke through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well that was in Bethlehem in the gate: and they took it, and brought it to David, and he would not drink it, but poured it out before the Lord.
And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, he was abundant in mighty deeds, from Kabzeel, and he smote the two sons of Ariel of Moab: and he went down and smote a lion in the midst of a pit on a snowy day.
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.
