2 The Spirit of the Lord speaks in me, and His word is on my tongue.

3 The God of Israel said, the rock of Israel said of me, He that domineth dominion over men shall be righteous, ruling in the fear of God.

4 And as at the dawn of the morning, when the sun rises in a cloudless sky, grass grows out of the earth because of the radiance after the rain,

5 Is not my house with God? For he hath made an everlasting covenant with me, firm and immutable. Is not this how all my salvation and all my will proceed from Him?

6 But the wicked will be like thorns thrown out, which they do not take with their hands;

7 But whoever touches it is armed with iron or the wood of the spear, and they burn him with fire on the spot.

8 These are the names of the valiant in David: Isboseth the Ahamanites, chief of the three; and he lifted up his spear against eight hundred men, and smote them once.

9 After him Eleazar the son of Dodo the son of Ahocha, of the three valiant men who were with David, when they rebuked the Philistines who were gathered together for war;

10 And the Israelites went out against them, and he stood and smote the Philistines, till his hand was weary, and cleaved to the sword. And the Lord granted that day a great victory, and the people followed him only to rob the slain.

11 And after him was Shammah the son of Ageh, a Hararite. And it came to pass, when the Philistines were gathered together to Phiriah, where there was a field of lentils, and the people fled from the Philistines;

12 And he stood in the midst of the field, and kept it, and smote the Philistines. And then the Lord granted a great victory.

13 And these three chief of the thirty chiefs went and went in at harvest time to David in the cave of Adullam, while the multitudes of the Philistines were standing in the valley of Rephaim.

14 David was then in a fortified place, and the Philistines were in Bethlehem.

15 And David was thirsty, and said, "Who shall give me water to drink out of the well of Bethlehem which is by the gate?"