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11 Adam Sheth Enosh .

12 Kenan Mahalaleel Jered .

13 Henoch Methuselah Lamech .

14 Noah Shem Ham and Japheth .

15 The sons of Japheth Gomer and Magog and Madai and Javan and

Tubal and Meshech and Tiras .

16 And the sons of Gomer Ashchenaz and Riphath and Togarmah .

17 And the sons of Javan Elishah and Tarshish Kittim and

Dodanim .

18 The sons of Ham Cush and Mizraim Put and Canaan .

19 And the sons of Cush Seba and Havilah and Sabta and Raamah

and Sabtecha And the sons of Raamah Sheba and Dedan .

110 And Cush begat Nimrod he began to be mighty upon the earth

111 And Mizraim begat Ludim and Anamim and Lehabim and

Naphtuhim .

112 And Pathrusim and Casluhim (of whom came the Philistines

and Caphthorim .

113 And Canaan begat Zidon his firstborn and Heth .

114 The Jebusite also and the Amorite and the Girgashite .

115 And the Hivite and the Arkite and the Sinite .

116 And the Arvadite and the Zemarite and the Hamathite .

117 The sons of Shem Elam and Asshur and Arphaxad and Lud and

Aram and Uz and Hul and Gether and Meshech .

118 And Arphaxad begat Shelah and Shelah begat Eber .

119 And unto Eber were born two sons the name of the one was

Peleg because in his days the earth was divided and his

brother's name was Joktan .

120 And Joktan begat Almodad and Sheleph and Hazarmaveth and

Jerah .

121 Hadoram also and Uzal and Diklah .

122 And Ebal and Abimael and Sheba .

123 And Ophir and Havilah and Jobab All these were the sons of

Joktan .

124 Shem Arphaxad Shelah .

125 Eber Peleg Reu .

126 Serug Nahor Terah .

127 Abram the same is Abraham .

128 The sons of Abraham Isaac and Ishmael .

129 These are their generations The firstborn of Ishmael

Nebaioth then Kedar and Adbeel and Mibsam .

130 Mishma and Dumah Massa Hadad and Tema .

131 Jetur Naphish and Kedemah These are the sons of Ishmael .

132 Now the sons of Keturah Abraham's concubine she bare

Zimran and Jokshan and Medan and Midian and Ishbak and Shuah And

the sons of Jokshan Sheba and Dedan .

133 And the sons of Midian Ephah and Epher and Henoch and

Abida and Eldaah All these are the sons of Keturah .

134 And Abraham begat Isaac The sons of Isaac Esau and Israel .

135 The sons of Esau Eliphaz Reuel and Jeush and Jaalam and

Korah .

136 The sons of Eliphaz Teman and Omar Zephi and Gatam Kenaz

and Timna and Amalek .

137 The sons of Reuel Nahath Zerah Shammah and Mizzah .

138 And the sons of Seir Lotan and Shobal and Zibeon and Anah

and Dishon and Ezar and Dishan .

139 And the sons of Lotan Hori and Homam and Timna was Lotan's

sister .

140 The sons of Shobal Alian and Manahath and Ebal Shephi and

Onam And the sons of Zibeon Aiah and Anah .

141 The sons of Anah Dishon And the sons of Dishon Amram and

Eshban and Ithran and Cheran .

142 The sons of Ezer Bilhan and Zavan and Jakan The sons of

Dishan Uz and Aran .

143 Now these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom

before any king reigned over the children of Israel Bela the son

of Beor and the name of his city was Dinhabah .

144 And when Bela was dead Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah

reigned in his stead .

145 And when Jobab was dead Husham of the land of the

Temanites reigned in his stead .

146 And when Husham was dead Hadad the son of Bedad which

smote Midian in the field of Moab reigned in his stead and the

name of his city was Avith .

147 And when Hadad was dead Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his

stead .

148 And when Samlah was dead Shaul of Rehoboth by the river

reigned in his stead .

149 And when Shaul was dead Baalhanan the son of Achbor

reigned in his stead .

150 And when Baalhanan was dead Hadad reigned in his stead and

the name of his city was Pai and his wife's name was Mehetabel

the daughter of Matred the daughter of Mezahab .

151 Hadad died also And the dukes of Edom were duke Timnah

duke Aliah duke Jetheth .

152 Duke Aholibamah duke Elah duke Pinon .

153 Duke Kenaz duke Teman duke Mibzar .

154 Duke Magdiel duke Iram These are the dukes of Edom .

* 21 These are the sons of Israel Reuben Simeon Levi and Judah

Issachar and Zebulun .

22 Dan Joseph and Benjamin Naphtali Gad and Asher .

23 The sons of Judah Er and Onan and Shelah which three were

born unto him of the daughter of Shua the Canaanitess And Er the

firstborn of Judah was evil in the sight of the LORD and he slew

him .

24 And Tamar his daughter in law bare him Pharez and Zerah All

the sons of Judah were five .

25 The sons of Pharez Hezron and Hamul .

26 And the sons of Zerah Zimri and Ethan and Heman and Calcol

and Dara five of them in all .

27 And the sons of Carmi Achar the troubler of Israel who

transgressed in the thing accursed .

28 And the sons of Ethan Azariah .

29 The sons also of Hezron that were born unto him Jerahmeel

and Ram and Chelubai .

210 And Ram begat Amminadab and Amminadab begat Nahshon prince

of the children of Judah .

211 And Nahshon begat Salma and Salma begat Boaz .

212 And Boaz begat Obed and Obed begat Jesse .

213 And Jesse begat his firstborn Eliab and Abinadab the

second and Shimma the third .

214 Nethaneel the fourth Raddai the fifth .

215 Ozem the sixth David the seventh .

216 Whose sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail And the sons of

Zeruiah Abishai and Joab and Asahel three .

217 And Abigail bare Amasa and the father of Amasa was Jether

the Ishmeelite .

218 And Caleb the son of Hezron begat children of Azubah his

wife and of Jerioth her sons are these Jesher and Shobab and

Ardon .

219 And when Azubah was dead Caleb took unto him Ephrath which

bare him Hur .

220 And Hur begat Uri and Uri begat Bezaleel .

221 And afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the

father of Gilead whom he married when he was threescore years

old and she bare him Segub .

222 And Segub begat Jair who had three and twenty cities in

the land of Gilead .

223 And he took Geshur and Aram with the towns of Jair from

them with Kenath and the towns thereof even threescore cities

All these belonged to the sons of Machir the father of Gilead .

224 And after that Hezron was dead in Calebephratah then Abiah

Hezron's wife bare him Ashur the father of Tekoa .

225 And the sons of Jerahmeel the firstborn of Hezron were Ram

the firstborn and Bunah and Oren and Ozem and Ahijah .

226 Jerahmeel had also another wife whose name was Atarah she

was the mother of Onam .

227 And the sons of Ram the firstborn of Jerahmeel were Maaz

and Jamin and Eker .

228 And the sons of Onam were Shammai and Jada And the sons of

Shammai Nadab and Abishur .

229 And the name of the wife of Abishur was Abihail and she

bare him Ahban and Molid .

230 And the sons of Nadab Seled and Appaim but Seled died

without children .

231 And the sons of Appaim Ishi And the sons of Ishi Sheshan

And the children of Sheshan Ahlai .

232 And the sons of Jada the brother of Shammai Jether and

Jonathan and Jether died without children .

233 And the sons of Jonathan Peleth and Zaza These were the

sons of Jerahmeel .

234 Now Sheshan had no sons but daughters And Sheshan had a

servant an Egyptian whose name was Jarha .

235 And Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his servant to wife

and she bare him Attai .

236 And Attai begat Nathan and Nathan begat Zabad .

237 And Zabad begat Ephlal and Ephlal begat Obed .

238 And Obed begat Jehu and Jehu begat Azariah .

239 And Azariah begat Helez and Helez begat Eleasah .

240 And Eleasah begat Sisamai and Sisamai begat Shallum .

241 And Shallum begat Jekamiah and Jekamiah begat Elishama .

242 Now the sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel were Mesha

his firstborn which was the father of Ziph and the sons of

Mareshah the father of Hebron .

243 And the sons of Hebron Korah and Tappuah and Rekem and

Shema .

244 And Shema begat Raham the father of Jorkoam and Rekem

begat Shammai .

245 And the son of Shammai was Maon and Maon was the father of

Bethzur .

246 And Ephah Caleb's concubine bare Haran and Moza and Gazez

and Haran begat Gazez .

247 And the sons of Jahdai Regem and Jotham and Gesham and

Pelet and Ephah and Shaaph .

248 Maachah Caleb's concubine bare Sheber and Tirhanah .

249 She bare also Shaaph the father of Madmannah Sheva the

father of Machbenah and the father of Gibea and the daughter of

Caleb was Achsa .

250 These were the sons of Caleb the son of Hur the firstborn

of Ephratah Shobal the father of Kirjathjearim .

251 Salma the father of Bethlehem Hareph the father of

Bethgader .

252 And Shobal the father of Kirjathjearim had sons Haroeh and

half of the Manahethites .

253 And the families of Kirjathjearim the Ithrites and the

Puhites and the Shumathites and the Mishraites of them came the

Zareathites and the Eshtaulites .

254 The sons of Salma Bethlehem and the Netophathites Ataroth

the house of Joab and half of the Manahethites the Zorites .

255 And the families of the scribes which dwelt at Jabez the

Tirathites the Shimeathites and Suchathites These are the

Kenites that came of Hemath the father of the house of Rechab .

* 31 Now these were the sons of David which were born unto him

in Hebron the firstborn Amnon of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess the

second Daniel of Abigail the Carmelitess .

32 The third Absalom the son of Maachah the daughter of Talmai

king of Geshur the fourth Adonijah the son of Haggith .

33 The fifth Shephatiah of Abital the sixth Ithream by Eglah

his wife .

34 These six were born unto him in Hebron and there he reigned

seven years and six months and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty

and three years .

35 And these were born unto him in Jerusalem Shimea and Shobab

and Nathan and Solomon four of Bathshua the daughter of Ammiel .

36 Ibhar also and Elishama and Eliphelet .

37 And Nogah and Nepheg and Japhia .

38 And Elishama and Eliada and Eliphelet nine .

39 These were all the sons of David beside the sons of the

concubines and Tamar their sister .

310 And Solomon's son was Rehoboam Abia his son Asa his son

Jehoshaphat his son .

311 Joram his son Ahaziah his son Joash his son .

312 Amaziah his son Azariah his son Jotham his son .

313 Ahaz his son Hezekiah his son Manasseh his son .

314 Amon his son Josiah his son .

315 And the sons of Josiah were the firstborn Johanan the

second Jehoiakim the third Zedekiah the fourth Shallum .

316 And the sons of Jehoiakim Jeconiah his son Zedekiah his

son .

317 And the sons of Jeconiah Assir Salathiel his son .

318 Malchiram also and Pedaiah and Shenazar Jecamiah Hoshama

and Nedabiah .

319 And the sons of Pedaiah were Zerubbabel and Shimei and the

sons of Zerubbabel Meshullam and Hananiah and Shelomith their

sister .

320 And Hashubah and Ohel and Berechiah and Hasadiah

Jushabhesed five .

321 And the sons of Hananiah Pelatiah and Jesaiah the sons of

Rephaiah the sons of Arnan the sons of Obadiah the sons of

Shechaniah .

322 And the sons of Shechaniah Shemaiah and the sons of

Shemaiah Hattush and Igeal and Bariah and Neariah and Shaphat

six .

323 And the sons of Neariah Elioenai and Hezekiah and Azrikam

three .

324 And the sons of Elioenai were Hodaiah and Eliashib and

Pelaiah and Akkub and Johanan and Dalaiah and Anani seven .

* 41 The sons of Judah Pharez Hezron and Carmi and Hur and

Shobal .

42 And Reaiah the son of Shobal begat Jahath and Jahath begat

Ahumai and Lahad These are the families of the Zorathites .

43 And these were of the father of Etam Jezreel and Ishma and

Idbash and the name of their sister was Hazelelponi .

44 And Penuel the father of Gedor and Ezer the father of

Hushah These are the sons of Hur the firstborn of Ephratah the

father of Bethlehem .

45 And Ashur the father of Tekoa had two wives Helah and

Naarah .

46 And Naarah bare him Ahuzam and Hepher and Temeni and

Haahashtari These were the sons of Naarah .

47 And the sons of Helah were Zereth and Jezoar and Ethnan .

48 And Coz begat Anub and Zobebah and the families of Aharhel

the son of Harum .

49 And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren and his

mother called his name Jabez saying Because I bare him with

sorrow .

410 And Jabez called on the God of Israel saying Oh that thou

wouldest bless me indeed and enlarge my coast and that thine

hand might be with me and that thou wouldest keep me from evil

that it may not grieve me And God granted him that which he

requested .

411 And Chelub the brother of Shuah begat Mehir which was the

father of Eshton .

412 And Eshton begat Bethrapha and Paseah and Tehinnah the

father of Irnahash These are the men of Recah .

413 And the sons of Kenaz Othniel and Seraiah and the sons of

Othniel Hathath .

414 And Meonothai begat Ophrah and Seraiah begat Joab the

father of the valley of Charashim for they were craftsmen .

415 And the sons of Caleb the son of Jephunneh Iru Elah and

Naam and the sons of Elah even Kenaz .

416 And the sons of Jehaleleel Ziph and Ziphah Tiria and

Asareel .

417 And the sons of Ezra were Jether and Mered and Epher and

Jalon and she bare Miriam and Shammai and Ishbah the father of

Eshtemoa .

418 And his wife Jehudijah bare Jered the father of Gedor and

Heber the father of Socho and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah And

these are the sons of Bithiah the daughter of Pharaoh which

Mered took .

419 And the sons of his wife Hodiah the sister of Naham the

father of Keilah the Garmite and Eshtemoa the Maachathite .

420 And the sons of Shimon were Amnon and Rinnah Benhanan and

Tilon And the sons of Ishi were Zoheth and Benzoheth .

421 The sons of Shelah the son of Judah were Er the father of

Lecah and Laadah the father of Mareshah and the families of the

house of them that wrought fine linen of the house of Ashbea .

422 And Jokim and the men of Chozeba and Joash and Saraph who

had the dominion in Moab and Jashubilehem And these are ancient

things .

423 These were the potters and those that dwelt among plants

and hedges there they dwelt with the king for his work .

424 The sons of Simeon were Nemuel and Jamin Jarib Zerah and

Shaul .

425 Shallum his son Mibsam his son Mishma his son .

426 And the sons of Mishma Hamuel his son Zacchur his son

Shimei his son .

427 And Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters but his

brethren had not many children neither did all their family

multiply like to the children of Judah .

428 And they dwelt at Beersheba and Moladah and Hazarshual .

429 And at Bilhah and at Ezem and at Tolad .

430 And at Bethuel and at Hormah and at Ziklag .

431 And at Bethmarcaboth and Hazarsusim and at Bethbirei and

at Shaaraim These were their cities unto the reign of David .

432 And their villages were Etam and Ain Rimmon and Tochen and

Ashan five cities .

433 And all their villages that were round about the same

cities unto Baal These were their habitations and their

genealogy .

434 And Meshobab and Jamlech and Joshah the son of Amaziah .

435 And Joel and Jehu the son of Josibiah the son of Seraiah

the son of Asiel .

436 And Elioenai and Jaakobah and Jeshohaiah and Asaiah and

Adiel and Jesimiel and Benaiah .

437 And Ziza the son of Shiphi the son of Allon the son of

Jedaiah the son of Shimri the son of Shemaiah .

438 These mentioned by their names were princes in their

families and the house of their fathers increased greatly .

439 And they went to the entrance of Gedor even unto the east

side of the valley to seek pasture for their flocks .

440 And they found fat pasture and good and the land was wide

and quiet and peaceable for they of Ham had dwelt there of old .

441 And these written by name came in the days of Hezekiah

king of Judah and smote their tents and the habitations that

were found there and destroyed them utterly unto this day and

dwelt in their rooms because there was pasture there for their

flocks .

442 And some of them even of the sons of Simeon five hundred

men went to mount Seir having for their captains Pelatiah and

Neariah and Rephaiah and Uzziel the sons of Ishi .

443 And they smote the rest of the Amalekites that were

escaped and dwelt there unto this day .

* 51 Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (for he was

the firstborn but forasmuch as he defiled his father's bed his

birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph the son of Israel

and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright .

52 For Judah prevailed above his brethren and of him came the

chief ruler but the birthright was Joseph's .

53 The sons I say of Reuben the firstborn of Israel were

Hanoch and Pallu Hezron and Carmi .

54 The sons of Joel Shemaiah his son Gog his son Shimei his

son .

55 Micah his son Reaia his son Baal his son .

56 Beerah his son whom Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria carried

away captive he was prince of the Reubenites .

57 And his brethren by their families when the genealogy of

their generations was reckoned were the chief Jeiel and

Zechariah .

58 And Bela the son of Azaz the son of Shema the son of Joel

who dwelt in Aroer even unto Nebo and Baalmeon .

59 And eastward he inhabited unto the entering in of the

wilderness from the river Euphrates because their cattle were

multiplied in the land of Gilead .

510 And in the days of Saul they made war with the Hagarites

who fell by their hand and they dwelt in their tents throughout

all the east land of Gilead .

511 And the children of Gad dwelt over against them in the

land of Bashan unto Salcah .

512 Joel the chief and Shapham the next and Jaanai and Shaphat

in Bashan .

513 And their brethren of the house of their fathers were

Michael and Meshullam and Sheba and Jorai and Jachan and Zia and

Heber seven .

514 These are the children of Abihail the son of Huri the son

of Jaroah the son of Gilead the son of Michael the son of

Jeshishai the son of Jahdo the son of Buz .

515 Ahi the son of Abdiel the son of Guni chief of the house

of their fathers .

516 And they dwelt in Gilead in Bashan and in her towns and in

all the suburbs of Sharon upon their borders .

517 All these were reckoned by genealogies in the days of

Jotham king of Judah and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel .

518 The sons of Reuben and the Gadites and half the tribe of

Manasseh of valiant men men able to bear buckler and sword and

to shoot with bow and skilful in war were four and forty

thousand seven hundred and threescore that went out to the war .

519 And they made war with the Hagarites with Jetur and

Nephish and Nodab .

520 And they were helped against them and the Hagarites were

delivered into their hand and all that were with them for they

cried to God in the battle and he was entreated of them because

they put their trust in him .

521 And they took away their cattle of their camels fifty

thousand and of sheep two hundred and fifty thousand and of

asses two thousand and of men an hundred thousand .

522 For there fell down many slain because the war was of God

And they dwelt in their steads until the captivity .

523 And the children of the half tribe of Manasseh dwelt in

the land they increased from Bashan unto Baalhermon and Senir

and unto mount Hermon .

524 And these were the heads of the house of their fathers

even Epher and Ishi and Eliel and Azriel and Jeremiah and

Hodaviah and Jahdiel mighty men of valour famous men and heads

of the house of their fathers .

525 And they transgressed against the God of their fathers and

went a whoring after the gods of the people of the land whom God

destroyed before them .

526 And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of

Assyria and the spirit of Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria and he

carried them away even the Reubenites and the Gadites and the

half tribe of Manasseh and brought them unto Halah and Habor and

Hara and to the river Gozan unto this day .

* 61 The sons of Levi Gershon Kohath and Merari .

62 And the sons of Kohath Amram Izhar and Hebron and Uzziel .

63 And the children of Amram Aaron and Moses and Miriam The

sons also of Aaron Nadab and Abihu Eleazar and Ithamar .

64 Eleazar begat Phinehas Phinehas begat Abishua .

65 And Abishua begat Bukki and Bukki begat Uzzi .

66 And Uzzi begat Zerahiah and Zerahiah begat Meraioth .

67 Meraioth begat Amariah and Amariah begat Ahitub .

68 And Ahitub begat Zadok and Zadok begat Ahimaaz .

69 And Ahimaaz begat Azariah and Azariah begat Johanan .

610 And Johanan begat Azariah (he it is that executed the

priest's office in the temple that Solomon built in Jerusalem .

611 And Azariah begat Amariah and Amariah begat Ahitub .

612 And Ahitub begat Zadok and Zadok begat Shallum .

613 And Shallum begat Hilkiah and Hilkiah begat Azariah .

614 And Azariah begat Seraiah and Seraiah begat Jehozadak .

615 And Jehozadak went into captivity when the LORD carried

away Judah and Jerusalem by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar .

616 The sons of Levi Gershom Kohath and Merari .

617 And these be the names of the sons of Gershom Libni and

Shimei .

618 And the sons of Kohath were Amram and Izhar and Hebron and

Uzziel .

619 The sons of Merari Mahli and Mushi And these are the

families of the Levites according to their fathers .

620 Of Gershom Libni his son Jahath his son Zimmah his son .

621 Joah his son Iddo his son Zerah his son Jeaterai his son .

622 The sons of Kohath Amminadab his son Korah his son Assir

his son .

623 Elkanah his son and Ebiasaph his son and Assir his son .

624 Tahath his son Uriel his son Uzziah his son and Shaul his

son .

625 And the sons of Elkanah Amasai and Ahimoth .

626 As for Elkanah the sons of Elkanah Zophai his son and

Nahath his son .

627 Eliab his son Jeroham his son Elkanah his son .

628 And the sons of Samuel the firstborn Vashni and Abiah .

629 The sons of Merari Mahli Libni his son Shimei his son Uzza

his son .

630 Shimea his son Haggiah his son Asaiah his son .

631 And these are they whom David set over the service of song

in the house of the LORD after that the ark had rest .

632 And they ministered before the dwelling place of the

tabernacle of the congregation with singing until Solomon had

built the house of the LORD in Jerusalem and then they waited on

their office according to their order .

633 And these are they that waited with their children Of the

sons of the Kohathites Heman a singer the son of Joel the son of

Shemuel .

634 The son of Elkanah the son of Jeroham the son of Eliel the

son of Toah .

635 The son of Zuph the son of Elkanah the son of Mahath the

son of Amasai .

636 The son of Elkanah the son of Joel the son of Azariah the

son of Zephaniah .

637 The son of Tahath the son of Assir the son of Ebiasaph the

son of Korah .

638 The son of Izhar the son of Kohath the son of Levi the son

of Israel .

639 And his brother Asaph who stood on his right hand even

Asaph the son of Berachiah the son of Shimea .

640 The son of Michael the son of Baaseiah the son of Malchiah

641 The son of Ethni the son of Zerah the son of Adaiah .

642 The son of Ethan the son of Zimmah the son of Shimei .

643 The son of Jahath the son of Gershom the son of Levi .

644 And their brethren the sons of Merari stood on the left

hand Ethan the son of Kishi the son of Abdi the son of Malluch .

645 The son of Hashabiah the son of Amaziah the son of Hilkiah

646 The son of Amzi the son of Bani the son of Shamer .

647 The son of Mahli the son of Mushi the son of Merari the

son of Levi .

648 Their brethren also the Levites were appointed unto all

manner of service of the tabernacle of the house of God .

649 But Aaron and his sons offered upon the altar of the burnt

offering and on the altar of incense and were appointed for all

the work of the place most holy and to make an atonement for

Israel according to all that Moses the servant of God had

commanded .

650 And these are the sons of Aaron Eleazar his son Phinehas

his son Abishua his son .

651 Bukki his son Uzzi his son Zerahiah his son .

652 Meraioth his son Amariah his son Ahitub his son .

653 Zadok his son Ahimaaz his son .

654 Now these are their dwelling places throughout their

castles in their coasts of the sons of Aaron of the families of

the Kohathites for theirs was the lot .

655 And they gave them Hebron in the land of Judah and the

suburbs thereof round about it .

656 But the fields of the city and the villages thereof they

gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh .

657 And to the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of Judah

namely Hebron the city of refuge and Libnah with her suburbs and

Jattir and Eshtemoa with their suburbs .

658 And Hilen with her suburbs Debir with her suburbs .

659 And Ashan with her suburbs and Bethshemesh with her

suburbs .

660 And out of the tribe of Benjamin Geba with her suburbs and

Alemeth with her suburbs and Anathoth with her suburbs All their

cities throughout their families were thirteen cities .

661 And unto the sons of Kohath which were left of the family

of that tribe were cities given out of the half tribe namely out

of the half tribe of Manasseh by lot ten cities .

662 And to the sons of Gershom throughout their families out

of the tribe of Issachar and out of the tribe of Asher and out

of the tribe of Naphtali and out of the tribe of Manasseh in

Bashan thirteen cities .

663 Unto the sons of Merari were given by lot throughout their

families out of the tribe of Reuben and out of the tribe of Gad

and out of the tribe of Zebulun twelve cities .

664 And the children of Israel gave to the Levites these

cities with their suburbs .

665 And they gave by lot out of the tribe of the children of

Judah and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon and out of

the tribe of the children of Benjamin these cities which are

called by their names .

666 And the residue of the families of the sons of Kohath had

cities of their coasts out of the tribe of Ephraim .

667 And they gave unto them of the cities of refuge Shechem in

mount Ephraim with her suburbs they gave also Gezer with her

suburbs .

668 And Jokmeam with her suburbs and Bethhoron with her

suburbs .

669 And Aijalon with her suburbs and Gathrimmon with her

suburbs .

670 And out of the half tribe of Manasseh Aner with her

suburbs and Bileam with her suburbs for the family of the

remnant of the sons of Kohath .

671 Unto the sons of Gershom were given out of the family of

the half tribe of Manasseh Golan in Bashan with her suburbs and

Ashtaroth with her suburbs .

672 And out of the tribe of Issachar Kedesh with her suburbs

Daberath with her suburbs .

673 And Ramoth with her suburbs and Anem with her suburbs .

674 And out of the tribe of Asher Mashal with her suburbs and

Abdon with her suburbs .

675 And Hukok with her suburbs and Rehob with her suburbs .

676 And out of the tribe of Naphtali Kedesh in Galilee with

her suburbs and Hammon with her suburbs and Kirjathaim with her

suburbs .

677 Unto the rest of the children of Merari were given out of

the tribe of Zebulun Rimmon with her suburbs Tabor with her

suburbs .

678 And on the other side Jordan by Jericho on the east side

of Jordan were given them out of the tribe of Reuben Bezer in

the wilderness with her suburbs and Jahzah with her suburbs .

679 Kedemoth also with her suburbs and Mephaath with her

suburbs .

680 And out of the tribe of Gad Ramoth in Gilead with her

suburbs and Mahanaim with her suburbs .

681 And Heshbon with her suburbs and Jazer with her suburbs .

* 71 Now the sons of Issachar were Tola and Puah Jashub and

Shimrom four .

72 And the sons of Tola Uzzi and Rephaiah and Jeriel and

Jahmai and Jibsam and Shemuel heads of their father's house to

wit of Tola they were valiant men of might in their generations

whose number was in the days of David two and twenty thousand

and six hundred .

73 And the sons of Uzzi Izrahiah and the sons of Izrahiah

Michael and Obadiah and Joel Ishiah five all of them chief men .

74 And with them by their generations after the house of their

fathers were bands of soldiers for war six and thirty thousand

men for they had many wives and sons .

75 And their brethren among all the families of Issachar were

valiant men of might reckoned in all by their genealogies

fourscore and seven thousand .

76 The sons of Benjamin Bela and Becher and Jediael three .

77 And the sons of Bela Ezbon and Uzzi and Uzziel and Jerimoth

and Iri five heads of the house of their fathers mighty men of

valour and were reckoned by their genealogies twenty and two

thousand and thirty and four .

78 And the sons of Becher Zemira and Joash and Eliezer and

Elioenai and Omri and Jerimoth and Abiah and Anathoth and

Alameth All these are the sons of Becher .

79 And the number of them after their genealogy by their

generations heads of the house of their fathers mighty men of

valour was twenty thousand and two hundred .

710 The sons also of Jediael Bilhan and the sons of Bilhan

Jeush and Benjamin and Ehud and Chenaanah and Zethan and

Tharshish and Ahishahar .

711 All these the sons of Jediael by the heads of their

fathers mighty men of valour were seventeen thousand and two

hundred soldiers fit to go out for war and battle .

712 Shuppim also and Huppim the children of Ir and Hushim the

sons of Aher .

713 The sons of Naphtali Jahziel and Guni and Jezer and

Shallum the sons of Bilhah .

714 The sons of Manasseh Ashriel whom she bare (but his

concubine the Aramitess bare Machir the father of Gilead .

715 And Machir took to wife the sister of Huppim and Shuppim

whose sister's name was Maachah and the name of the second was

Zelophehad and Zelophehad had daughters .

716 And Maachah the wife of Machir bare a son and she called

his name Peresh and the name of his brother was Sheresh and his

sons were Ulam and Rakem .

717 And the sons of Ulam Bedan These were the sons of Gilead

the son of Machir the son of Manasseh .

718 And his sister Hammoleketh bare Ishod and Abiezer and

Mahalah .

719 And the sons of Shemidah were Ahian and Shechem and Likhi

and Aniam .

720 And the sons of Ephraim Shuthelah and Bered his son and

Tahath his son and Eladah his son and Tahath his son .

721 And Zabad his son and Shuthelah his son and Ezer and Elead

whom the men of Gath that were born in that land slew because

they came down to take away their cattle .

722 And Ephraim their father mourned many days and his

brethren came to comfort him .

723 And when he went in to his wife she conceived and bare a

son and he called his name Beriah because it went evil with his

house .

724 (And his daughter was Sherah who built Bethhoron the

nether and the upper and Uzzensherah .

725 And Rephah was his son also Resheph and Telah his son and

Tahan his son .

726 Laadan his son Ammihud his son Elishama his son .

727 Non his son Jehoshuah his son .

728 And their possessions and habitations were Bethel and the

towns thereof and eastward Naaran and westward Gezer with the

towns thereof Shechem also and the towns thereof unto Gaza and

the towns thereof .

729 And by the borders of the children of Manasseh Bethshean

and her towns Taanach and her towns Megiddo and her towns Dor

and her towns In these dwelt the children of Joseph the son of

Israel .

730 The sons of Asher Imnah and Isuah and Ishuai and Beriah

and Serah their sister .

731 And the sons of Beriah Heber and Malchiel who is the

father of Birzavith .

732 And Heber begat Japhlet and Shomer and Hotham and Shua

their sister .

733 And the sons of Japhlet Pasach and Bimhal and Ashvath

These are the children of Japhlet .

734 And the sons of Shamer Ahi and Rohgah Jehubbah and Aram .

735 And the sons of his brother Helem Zophah and Imna and

Shelesh and Amal .

736 The sons of Zophah Suah and Harnepher and Shual and Beri

and Imrah .

737 Bezer and Hod and Shamma and Shilshah and Ithran and Beera

738 And the sons of Jether Jephunneh and Pispah and Ara .

739 And the sons of Ulla Arah and Haniel and Rezia .

740 All these were the children of Asher heads of their

father's house choice and mighty men of valour chief of the

princes And the number throughout the genealogy of them that

were apt to the war and to battle was twenty and six thousand

men .

* 81 Now Benjamin begat Bela his firstborn Ashbel the second

and Aharah the third .

82 Nohah the fourth and Rapha the fifth .

83 And the sons of Bela were Addar and Gera and Abihud .

84 And Abishua and Naaman and Ahoah .

85 And Gera and Shephuphan and Huram .

86 And these are the sons of Ehud these are the heads of the

fathers of the inhabitants of Geba and they removed them to

Manahath .

87 And Naaman and Ahiah and Gera he removed them and begat

Uzza and Ahihud .

88 And Shaharaim begat children in the country of Moab after

he had sent them away Hushim and Baara were his wives .

89 And he begat of Hodesh his wife Jobab and Zibia and Mesha

and Malcham .

810 And Jeuz and Shachia and Mirma These were his sons heads

of the fathers .

811 And of Hushim he begat Abitub and Elpaal .

812 The sons of Elpaal Eber and Misham and Shamed who built

Ono and Lod with the towns thereof .

813 Beriah also and Shema who were heads of the fathers of the

inhabitants of Aijalon who drove away the inhabitants of Gath .

814 And Ahio Shashak and Jeremoth .

815 And Zebadiah and Arad and Ader .

816 And Michael and Ispah and Joha the sons of Beriah .

817 And Zebadiah and Meshullam and Hezeki and Heber .

818 Ishmerai also and Jezliah and Jobab the sons of Elpaal .

819 And Jakim and Zichri and Zabdi .

820 And Elienai and Zilthai and Eliel .

821 And Adaiah and Beraiah and Shimrath the sons of Shimhi .

822 And Ishpan and Heber and Eliel .

823 And Abdon and Zichri and Hanan .

824 And Hananiah and Elam and Antothijah .

825 And Iphedeiah and Penuel the sons of Shashak .

826 And Shamsherai and Shehariah and Athaliah .

827 And Jaresiah and Eliah and Zichri the sons of Jeroham .

828 These were heads of the fathers by their generations chief

men These dwelt in Jerusalem .

829 And at Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon whose wife's name

was Maachah .

830 And his firstborn son Abdon and Zur and Kish and Baal and

Nadab .

831 And Gedor and Ahio and Zacher .

832 And Mikloth begat Shimeah And these also dwelt with their

brethren in Jerusalem over against them .

833 And Ner begat Kish and Kish begat Saul and Saul begat

Jonathan and Malchishua and Abinadab and Eshbaal .

834 And the son of Jonathan was Meribbaal and Meribbaal begat

Micah .

835 And the sons of Micah were Pithon and Melech and Tarea and

Ahaz .

836 And Ahaz begat Jehoadah and Jehoadah begat Alemeth and

Azmaveth and Zimri and Zimri begat Moza .

837 And Moza begat Binea Rapha was his son Eleasah his son

Azel his son .

838 And Azel had six sons whose names are these Azrikam

Bocheru and Ishmael and Sheariah and Obadiah and Hanan All these

were the sons of Azel .

839 And the sons of Eshek his brother were Ulam his firstborn

Jehush the second and Eliphelet the third .

840 And the sons of Ulam were mighty men of valour archers and

had many sons and sons' sons an hundred and fifty All these are

of the sons of Benjamin .

* 91 So all Israel were reckoned by genealogies and behold they

were written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah who

were carried away to Babylon for their transgression .

92 Now the first inhabitants that dwelt in their possessions

in their cities were the Israelites the priests Levites and the

Nethinims .

93 And in Jerusalem dwelt of the children of Judah and of the

children of Benjamin and of the children of Ephraim and Manasseh

94 Uthai the son of Ammihud the son of Omri the son of Imri

the son of Bani of the children of Pharez the son of Judah .

95 And of the Shilonites Asaiah the firstborn and his sons .

96 And of the sons of Zerah Jeuel and their brethren six

hundred and ninety .

97 And of the sons of Benjamin Sallu the son of Meshullam the

son of Hodaviah the son of Hasenuah .

98 And Ibneiah the son of Jeroham and Elah the son of Uzzi the

son of Michri and Meshullam the son of Shephatiah the son of

Reuel the son of Ibnijah .

99 And their brethren according to their generations nine

hundred and fifty and six All these men were chief of the

fathers in the house of their fathers .

910 And of the priests Jedaiah and Jehoiarib and Jachin .

911 And Azariah the son of Hilkiah the son of Meshullam the

son of Zadok the son of Meraioth the son of Ahitub the ruler of

the house of God .

912 And Adaiah the son of Jeroham the son of Pashur the son of

Malchijah and Maasiai the son of Adiel the son of Jahzerah the

son of Meshullam the son of Meshillemith the son of Immer .

913 And their brethren heads of the house of their fathers a

thousand and seven hundred and threescore very able men for the

work of the service of the house of God .

914 And of the Levites Shemaiah the son of Hasshub the son of

Azrikam the son of Hashabiah of the sons of Merari .

915 And Bakbakkar Heresh and Galal and Mattaniah the son of

Micah the son of Zichri the son of Asaph .

916 And Obadiah the son of Shemaiah the son of Galal the son

of Jeduthun and Berechiah the son of Asa the son of Elkanah that

dwelt in the villages of the Netophathites .

917 And the porters were Shallum and Akkub and Talmon and

Ahiman and their brethren Shallum was the chief .

918 Who hitherto waited in the king's gate eastward they were

porters in the companies of the children of Levi .

919 And Shallum the son of Kore the son of Ebiasaph the son of

Korah and his brethren of the house of his father the Korahites

were over the work of the service keepers of the gates of the

tabernacle and their fathers being over the host of the LORD

were keepers of the entry .

920 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar was the ruler over them in

time past and the LORD was with him .

921 And Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah was porter of the

door of the tabernacle of the congregation .

922 All these which were chosen to be porters in the gates

were two hundred and twelve These were reckoned by their

genealogy in their villages whom David and Samuel the seer did

ordain in their set office .

923 So they and their children had the oversight of the gates

of the house of the LORD namely the house of the tabernacle by

wards .

924 In four quarters were the porters toward the east west

north and south .

925 And their brethren which were in their villages were to

come after seven days from time to time with them .

926 For these Levites the four chief porters were in their set

office and were over the chambers and treasuries of the house of

God .

927 And they lodged round about the house of God because the

charge was upon them and the opening thereof every morning

pertained to them .

928 And certain of them had the charge of the ministering

vessels that they should bring them in and out by tale .

929 Some of them also were appointed to oversee the vessels

and all the instruments of the sanctuary and the fine flour and

the wine and the oil and the frankincense and the spices .

930 And some of the sons of the priests made the ointment of

the spices .

931 And Mattithiah one of the Levites who was the firstborn of

Shallum the Korahite had the set office over the things that

were made in the pans .

932 And other of their brethren of the sons of the Kohathites

were over the showbread to prepare it every sabbath .

933 And these are the singers chief of the fathers of the

Levites who remaining in the chambers were free for they were

employed in that work day and night .

934 These chief fathers of the Levites were chief throughout

their generations these dwelt at Jerusalem .

935 And in Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon Jehiel whose

wife's name was Maachah .

936 And his firstborn son Abdon then Zur and Kish and Baal and

Ner and Nadab .

937 And Gedor and Ahio and Zechariah and Mikloth .

938 And Mikloth begat Shimeam And they also dwelt with their

brethren at Jerusalem over against their brethren .

939 And Ner begat Kish and Kish begat Saul and Saul begat

Jonathan and Malchishua and Abinadab and Eshbaal .

940 And the son of Jonathan was Meribbaal and Meribbaal begat

Micah .

941 And the sons of Micah were Pithon and Melech and Tahrea

and Ahaz .

942 And Ahaz begat Jarah and Jarah begat Alemeth and Azmaveth

and Zimri and Zimri begat Moza .

943 And Moza begat Binea and Rephaiah his son Eleasah his son

Azel his son .

944 And Azel had six sons whose names are these Azrikam

Bocheru and Ishmael and Sheariah and Obadiah and Hanan these

were the sons of Azel .

* 101 Now the Philistines fought against Israel and the men of

Israel fled from before the Philistines and fell down slain in

mount Gilboa .

102 And the Philistines followed hard after Saul and after his

sons and the Philistines slew Jonathan and Abinadab and

Malchishua the sons of Saul .

103 And the battle went sore against Saul and the archers hit

him and he was wounded of the archers .

104 Then said Saul to his armourbearer Draw thy sword and

thrust me through therewith lest these uncircumcised come and

abuse me But his armourbearer would not for he was sore afraid

So Saul took a sword and fell upon it .

105 And when his armourbearer saw that Saul was dead he fell

likewise on the sword and died .

106 So Saul died and his three sons and all his house died

together .

107 And when all the men of Israel that were in the valley saw

that they fled and that Saul and his sons were dead then they

forsook their cities and fled and the Philistines came and dwelt

in them .

108 And it came to pass on the morrow when the Philistines

came to strip the slain that they found Saul and his sons fallen

in mount Gilboa .

109 And when they had stripped him they took his head and his

armour and sent into the land of the Philistines round about to

carry tidings unto their idols and to the people .

1010 And they put his armour in the house of their gods and

fastened his head in the temple of Dagon .

1011 And when all Jabeshgilead heard all that the Philistines

had done to Saul .

1012 They arose all the valiant men and took away the body of

Saul and the bodies of his sons and brought them to Jabesh and

buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh and fasted seven days

1013 So Saul died for his transgression which he committed

against the LORD even against the word of the LORD which he kept

not and also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar

spirit to inquire of it .

1014 And inquired not of the LORD therefore he slew him and

turned the kingdom unto David the son of Jesse .

* 111 Then all Israel gathered themselves to David unto Hebron

saying Behold we are thy bone and thy flesh .

112 And moreover in time past even when Saul was king thou

wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel and the LORD

thy God said unto thee Thou shalt feed my people Israel and thou

shalt be ruler over my people Israel .

113 Therefore came all the elders of Israel to the king to

Hebron and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before the

LORD and they anointed David king over Israel according to the

word of the LORD by Samuel .

114 And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem which is Jebus

where the Jebusites were the inhabitants of the land .

115 And the inhabitants of Jebus said to David Thou shalt not

come hither Nevertheless David took the castle of Zion which is

the city of David .

116 And David said Whosoever smiteth the Jebusites first shall

be chief and captain So Joab the son of Zeruiah went first up

and was chief .

117 And David dwelt in the castle therefore they called it the

city of David .

118 And he built the city round about even from Millo round

about and Joab repaired the rest of the city .

119 So David waxed greater and greater for the LORD of hosts

was with him .

1110 These also are the chief of the mighty men whom David had

who strengthened themselves with him in his kingdom and with all

Israel to make him king according to the word of the LORD

concerning Israel .

1111 And this is the number of the mighty men whom David had

Jashobeam an Hachmonite the chief of the captains he lifted up

his spear against three hundred slain by him at one time .

1112 And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite who

was one of the three mighties .

1113 He was with David at Pasdammim and there the Philistines

were gathered together to battle where was a parcel of ground

full of barley and the people fled from before the Philistines .

1114 And they set themselves in the midst of that parcel and

delivered it and slew the Philistines and the LORD saved them by

a great deliverance .

1115 Now three of the thirty captains went down to the rock to

David into the cave of Adullam and the host of the Philistines

encamped in the valley of Rephaim .

1116 And David was then in the hold and the Philistines'

garrison was then at Bethlehem .

1117 And David longed and said Oh that one would give me drink

of the water of the well of Bethlehem that is at the gate .

1118 And the three brake through the host of the Philistines

and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem that was by the gate

and took it and brought it to David but David would not drink of

it but poured it out to the LORD .

1119 And said My God forbid it me that I should do this thing

shall I drink the blood of these men that have put their lives

in jeopardy for with the jeopardy of their lives they brought it

Therefore he would not drink it These things did these three

mightiest .

1120 And Abishai the brother of Joab he was chief of the three

for lifting up his spear against three hundred he slew them and

had a name among the three .

1121 Of the three he was more honourable than the two for he

was their captain howbeit he attained not to the first three .

1122 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada the son of a valiant man of

Kabzeel who had done many acts he slew two lionlike men of Moab

also he went down and slew a lion in a pit in a snowy day .

1123 And he slew an Egyptian a man of great stature five

cubits high and in the Egyptian's hand was a spear like a

weaver's beam and he went down to him with a staff and plucked

the spear out of the Egyptian's hand and slew him with his own

spear .

1124 These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada and had the

name among the three mighties .

1125 Behold he was honourable among the thirty but attained

not to the first three and David set him over his guard .

1126 Also the valiant men of the armies were Asahel the

brother of Joab Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem .

1127 Shammoth the Harorite Helez the Pelonite .

1128 Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite Abiezer the Antothite .

1129 Sibbecai the Hushathite Ilai the Ahohite .

1130 Maharai the Netophathite Heled the son of Baanah the

Netophathite .

1131 Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah that pertained to the

children of Benjamin Benaiah the Pirathonite .

1132 Hurai of the brooks of Gaash Abiel the Arbathite .

1133 Azmaveth the Baharumite Eliahba the Shaalbonite .

1134 The sons of Hashem the Gizonite Jonathan the son of Shage

the Hararite .

1135 Ahiam the son of Sacar the Hararite Eliphal the son of Ur

1136 Hepher the Mecherathite Ahijah the Pelonite .

1137 Hezro the Carmelite Naarai the son of Ezbai .

1138 Joel the brother of Nathan Mibhar the son of Haggeri .

1139 Zelek the Ammonite Naharai the Berothite the armourbearer

of Joab the son of Zeruiah .

1140 Ira the Ithrite Gareb the Ithrite .

1141 Uriah the Hittite Zabad the son of Ahlai .

1142 Adina the son of Shiza the Reubenite a captain of the

Reubenites and thirty with him .

1143 Hanan the son of Maachah and Joshaphat the Mithnite .

1144 Uzzia the Ashterathite Shama and Jehiel the sons of

Hothan the Aroerite .

1145 Jediael the son of Shimri and Joha his brother the Tizite

1146 Eliel the Mahavite and Jeribai and Joshaviah the sons of

Elnaam and Ithmah the Moabite .

1147 Eliel and Obed and Jasiel the Mesobaite .

* 121 Now these are they that came to David to Ziklag while he

yet kept himself close because of Saul the son of Kish and they

were among the mighty men helpers of the war .

122 They were armed with bows and could use both the right

hand and the left in hurling stones and shooting arrows out of a

bow even of Saul's brethren of Benjamin .

123 The chief was Ahiezer then Joash the sons of Shemaah the

Gibeathite and Jeziel and Pelet the sons of Azmaveth and

Berachah and Jehu the Antothite .

124 And Ismaiah the Gibeonite a mighty man among the thirty

and over the thirty and Jeremiah and Jahaziel and Johanan and

Josabad the Gederathite .

125 Eluzai and Jerimoth and Bealiah and Shemariah and

Shephatiah the Haruphite .

126 Elkanah and Jesiah and Azareel and Joezer and Jashobeam

the Korhites .

127 And Joelah and Zebadiah the sons of Jeroham of Gedor .

128 And of the Gadites there separated themselves unto David

into the hold to the wilderness men of might and men of war fit

for the battle that could handle shield and buckler whose faces

were like the faces of lions and were as swift as the roes upon

the mountains .

129 Ezer the first Obadiah the second Eliab the third .

1210 Mishmannah the fourth Jeremiah the fifth .

1211 Attai the sixth Eliel the seventh .

1212 Johanan the eighth Elzabad the ninth .

1213 Jeremiah the tenth Machbanai the eleventh .

1214 These were of the sons of Gad captains of the host one of

the least was over an hundred and the greatest over a thousand .

1215 These are they that went over Jordan in the first month

when it had overflown all his banks and they put to flight all

them of the valleys both toward the east and toward the west .

1216 And there came of the children of Benjamin and Judah to

the hold unto David .

1217 And David went out to meet them and answered and said

unto them If ye be come peaceably unto me to help me mine heart

shall be knit unto you but if ye be come to betray me to mine

enemies seeing there is no wrong in mine hands the God of our

fathers look thereon and rebuke it .

1218 Then the spirit came upon Amasai who was chief of the

captains and he said Thine are we David and on thy side thou son

of Jesse peace peace be unto thee and peace be to thine helpers

for thy God helpeth thee Then David received them and made them

captains of the band .

1219 And there fell some of Manasseh to David when he came

with the Philistines against Saul to battle but they helped them

not for the lords of the Philistines upon advisement sent him

away saying He will fall to his master Saul to the jeopardy of

our heads .

1220 As he went to Ziklag there fell to him of Manasseh Adnah

and Jozabad and Jediael and Michael and Jozabad and Elihu and

Zilthai captains of the thousands that were of Manasseh .

1221 And they helped David against the band of the rovers for

they were all mighty men of valour and were captains in the host

1222 For at that time day by day there came to David to help

him until it was a great host like the host of God .

1223 And these are the numbers of the bands that were ready

armed to the war and came to David to Hebron to turn the kingdom

of Saul to him according to the word of the LORD .

1224 The children of Judah that bare shield and spear were six

thousand and eight hundred ready armed to the war .

1225 Of the children of Simeon mighty men of valour for the

war seven thousand and one hundred .

1226 Of the children of Levi four thousand and six hundred .

1227 And Jehoiada was the leader of the Aaronites and with him

were three thousand and seven hundred .

1228 And Zadok a young man mighty of valour and of his

father's house twenty and two captains .

1229 And of the children of Benjamin the kindred of Saul three

thousand for hitherto the greatest part of them had kept the

ward of the house of Saul .

1230 And of the children of Ephraim twenty thousand and eight

hundred mighty men of valour famous throughout the house of

their fathers .

1231 And of the half tribe of Manasseh eighteen thousand which

were expressed by name to come and make David king .

1232 And of the children of Issachar which were men that had

understanding of the times to know what Israel ought to do the

heads of them were two hundred and all their brethren were at

their commandment .

1233 Of Zebulun such as went forth to battle expert in war

with all instruments of war fifty thousand which could keep rank

they were not of double heart .

1234 And of Naphtali a thousand captains and with them with

shield and spear thirty and seven thousand .

1235 And of the Danites expert in war twenty and eight

thousand and six hundred .

1236 And of Asher such as went forth to battle expert in war

forty thousand .

1237 And on the other side of Jordan of the Reubenites and the

Gadites and of the half tribe of Manasseh with all manner of

instruments of war for the battle an hundred and twenty thousand

1238 All these men of war that could keep rank came with a

perfect heart to Hebron to make David king over all Israel and

all the rest also of Israel were of one heart to make David king

1239 And there they were with David three days eating and

drinking for their brethren had prepared for them .

1240 Moreover they that were nigh them even unto Issachar and

Zebulun and Naphtali brought bread on asses and on camels and on

mules and on oxen and meat meal cakes of figs and bunches of

raisins and wine and oil and oxen and sheep abundantly for there

was joy in Israel .

* 131 And David consulted with the captains of thousands and

hundreds and with every leader .

132 And David said unto all the congregation of Israel If it

seem good unto you and that it be of the LORD our God let us

send abroad unto our brethren every where that are left in all

the land of Israel and with them also to the priests and Levites

which are in their cities and suburbs that they may gather

themselves unto us .

133 And let us bring again the ark of our God to us for we

inquired not at it in the days of Saul .

134 And all the congregation said that they would do so for

the thing was right in the eyes of all the people .

135 So David gathered all Israel together from Shihor of Egypt

even unto the entering of Hemath to bring the ark of God from

Kirjathjearim .

136 And David went up and all Israel to Baalah that is to

Kirjathjearim which belonged to Judah to bring up thence the ark

of God the LORD that dwelleth between the cherubims whose name

is called on it .

137 And they carried the ark of God in a new cart out of the

house of Abinadab and Uzza and Ahio drave the cart .

138 And David and all Israel played before God with all their

might and with singing and with harps and with psalteries and

with timbrels and with cymbals and with trumpets .

139 And when they came unto the threshingfloor of Chidon Uzza

put forth his hand to hold the ark for the oxen stumbled .

1310 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzza and he

smote him because he put his hand to the ark and there he died

before God .

1311 And David was displeased because the LORD had made a

breach upon Uzza wherefore that place is called Perezuzza to

this day .

1312 And David was afraid of God that day saying How shall I

bring the ark of God home to me .

1313 So David brought not the ark home to himself to the city

of David but carried it aside into the house of Obededom the

Gittite .

1314 And the ark of God remained with the family of Obededom

in his house three months And the LORD blessed the house of

Obededom and all that he had .

* 141 Now Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David and

timber of cedars with masons and carpenters to build him an

house .

142 And David perceived that the LORD had confirmed him king

over Israel for his kingdom was lifted up on high because of his

people Israel .

143 And David took more wives at Jerusalem and David begat

more sons and daughters .

144 Now these are the names of his children which he had in

Jerusalem Shammua and Shobab Nathan and Solomon .

145 And Ibhar and Elishua and Elpalet .

146 And Nogah and Nepheg and Japhia .

147 And Elishama and Beeliada and Eliphalet .

148 And when the Philistines heard that David was anointed

king over all Israel all the Philistines went up to seek David

And David heard of it and went out against them .

149 And the Philistines came and spread themselves in the

valley of Rephaim .

1410 And David inquired of God saying Shall I go up against

the Philistines and wilt thou deliver them into mine hand And

the LORD said unto him Go up for I will deliver them into thine

hand .

1411 So they came up to Baalperazim and David smote them there

Then David said God hath broken in upon mine enemies by mine

hand like the breaking forth of waters therefore they called the

name of that place Baalperazim .

1412 And when they had left their gods there David gave a

commandment and they were burned with fire .

1413 And the Philistines yet again spread themselves abroad in

the valley .

1414 Therefore David inquired again of God and God said unto

him Go not up after them turn away from them and come upon them

over against the mulberry trees .

1415 And it shall be when thou shalt hear a sound of going in

the tops of the mulberry trees that then thou shalt go out to

battle for God is gone forth before thee to smite the host of

the Philistines .

1416 David therefore did as God commanded him and they smote

the host of the Philistines from Gibeon even to Gazer .

1417 And the fame of David went out into all lands and the

LORD brought the fear of him upon all nations .

* 151 And David made him houses in the city of David and

prepared a place for the ark of God and pitched for it a tent .

152 Then David said None ought to carry the ark of God but the

Levites for them hath the LORD chosen to carry the ark of God

and to minister unto him for ever .

153 And David gathered all Israel together to Jerusalem to

bring up the ark of the LORD unto his place which he had

prepared for it .

154 And David assembled the children of Aaron and the Levites .

155 Of the sons of Kohath Uriel the chief and his brethren an

hundred and twenty .

156 Of the sons of Merari Asaiah the chief and his brethren

two hundred and twenty .

157 Of the sons of Gershom Joel the chief and his brethren an

hundred and thirty .

158 Of the sons of Elizaphan Shemaiah the chief and his

brethren two hundred .

159 Of the sons of Hebron Eliel the chief and his brethren

fourscore .

1510 Of the sons of Uzziel Amminadab the chief and his

brethren an hundred and twelve .

1511 And David called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests and

for the Levites for Uriel Asaiah and Joel Shemaiah and Eliel and

Amminadab .

1512 And said unto them Ye are the chief of the fathers of the

Levites sanctify yourselves both ye and your brethren that ye

may bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel unto the place

that I have prepared for it .

1513 For because ye did it not at the first the LORD our God

made a breach upon us for that we sought him not after the due

order .

1514 So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to

bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel .

1515 And the children of the Levites bare the ark of God upon

their shoulders with the staves thereon as Moses commanded

according to the word of the LORD .

1516 And David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint

their brethren to be the singers with instruments of music

psalteries and harps and cymbals sounding by lifting up the

voice with joy .

1517 So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel and of his

brethren Asaph the son of Berechiah and of the sons of Merari

their brethren Ethan the son of Kushaiah .

1518 And with them their brethren of the second degree

Zechariah Ben and Jaaziel and Shemiramoth and Jehiel and Unni

Eliab and Benaiah and Maaseiah and Mattithiah and Elipheleh and

Mikneiah and Obededom and Jeiel the porters .

1519 So the singers Heman Asaph and Ethan were appointed to

sound with cymbals of brass .

1520 And Zechariah and Aziel and Shemiramoth and Jehiel and

Unni and Eliab and Maaseiah and Benaiah with psalteries on

Alamoth .

1521 And Mattithiah and Elipheleh and Mikneiah and Obededom

and Jeiel and Azaziah with harps on the Sheminith to excel .

1522 And Chenaniah chief of the Levites was for song he

instructed about the song because he was skilful .

1523 And Berechiah and Elkanah were doorkeepers for the ark .

1524 And Shebaniah and Jehoshaphat and Nethaneel and Amasai

and Zechariah and Benaiah and Eliezer the priests did blow with

the trumpets before the ark of God and Obededom and Jehiah were

doorkeepers for the ark .

1525 So David and the elders of Israel and the captains over

thousands went to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD

out of the house of Obededom with joy .

1526 And it came to pass when God helped the Levites that bare

the ark of the covenant of the LORD that they offered seven

bullocks and seven rams .

1527 And David was clothed with a robe of fine linen and all

the Levites that bare the ark and the singers and Chenaniah the

master of the song with the singers David also had upon him an

ephod of linen .

1528 Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the

LORD with shouting and with sound of the cornet and with

trumpets and with cymbals making a noise with psalteries and

harps .

1529 And it came to pass as the ark of the covenant of the

LORD came to the city of David that Michal the daughter of Saul

looking out at a window saw king David dancing and playing and

she despised him in her heart .

* 161 So they brought the ark of God and set it in the midst of

the tent that David had pitched for it and they offered burnt

sacrifices and peace offerings before God .

162 And when David had made an end of offering the burnt

offerings and the peace offerings he blessed the people in the

name of the LORD .

163 And he dealt to every one of Israel both man and woman to

every one a loaf of bread and a good piece of flesh and a flagon

of wine .

164 And he appointed certain of the Levites to minister before

the ark of the LORD and to record and to thank and praise the

LORD God of Israel .

165 Asaph the chief and next to him Zechariah Jeiel and

Shemiramoth and Jehiel and Mattithiah and Eliab and Benaiah and

Obededom and Jeiel with psalteries and with harps but Asaph made

a sound with cymbals .

166 Benaiah also and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets

continually before the ark of the covenant of God .

167 Then on that day David delivered first this psalm to thank

the LORD into the hand of Asaph and his brethren .

168 Give thanks unto the LORD call upon his name make known

his deeds among the people .

169 Sing unto him sing psalms unto him talk ye of all his

wondrous works .

1610 Glory ye in his holy name let the heart of them rejoice

that seek the LORD .

1611 Seek the LORD and his strength seek his face continually .

1612 Remember his marvellous works that he hath done his

wonders and the judgments of his mouth .

1613 O ye seed of Israel his servant ye children of Jacob his

chosen ones .

1614 He is the LORD our God his judgments are in all the earth

1615 Be ye mindful always of his covenant the word which he

commanded to a thousand generations .

1616 Even of the covenant which he made with Abraham and of

his oath unto Isaac .

1617 And hath confirmed the same to Jacob for a law and to

Israel for an everlasting covenant .

1618 Saying Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan the lot

of your inheritance .

1619 When ye were but few even a few and strangers in it .

1620 And when they went from nation to nation and from one

kingdom to another people .

1621 He suffered no man to do them wrong yea he reproved kings

for their sakes .

1622 Saying Touch not mine anointed and do my prophets no harm

1623 Sing unto the LORD all the earth show forth from day to

day his salvation .

1624 Declare his glory among the heathen his marvellous works

among all nations .

1625 For great is the LORD and greatly to be praised he also

is to be feared above all gods .

1626 For all the gods of the people are idols but the LORD

made the heavens .

1627 Glory and honour are in his presence strength and

gladness are in his place .

1628 Give unto the LORD ye kindreds of the people give unto

the LORD glory and strength .

1629 Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name bring an

offering and come before him worship the LORD in the beauty of

holiness .

1630 Fear before him all the earth the world also shall be

stable that it be not moved .

1631 Let the heavens be glad and let the earth rejoice and let

men say among the nations The LORD reigneth .

1632 Let the sea roar and the fulness thereof let the fields

rejoice and all that is therein .

1633 Then shall the trees of the wood sing out at the presence

of the LORD because he cometh to judge the earth .

1634 O give thanks unto the LORD for he is good for his mercy

endureth for ever .

1635 And say ye Save us O God of our salvation and gather us

together and deliver us from the heathen that we may give thanks

to thy holy name and glory in thy praise .

1636 Blessed be the LORD God of Israel for ever and ever And

all the people said Amen and praised the LORD .

1637 So he left there before the ark of the covenant of the

LORD Asaph and his brethren to minister before the ark

continually as every day's work required .

1638 And Obededom with their brethren threescore and eight

Obededom also the son of Jeduthun and Hosah to be porters .

1639 And Zadok the priest and his brethren the priests before

the tabernacle of the LORD in the high place that was at Gibeon .

1640 To offer burnt offerings unto the LORD upon the altar of

the burnt offering continually morning and evening and to do

according to all that is written in the law of the LORD which he

commanded Israel .

1641 And with them Heman and Jeduthun and the rest that were

chosen who were expressed by name to give thanks to the LORD

because his mercy endureth for ever .

1642 And with them Heman and Jeduthun with trumpets and

cymbals for those that should make a sound and with musical

instruments of God And the sons of Jeduthun were porters .

1643 And all the people departed every man to his house and

David returned to bless his house .

* 171 Now it came to pass as David sat in his house that David

said to Nathan the prophet Lo I dwell in an house of cedars but

the ark of the covenant of the LORD remaineth under curtains .

172 Then Nathan said unto David Do all that is in thine heart

for God is with thee .

173 And it came to pass the same night that the word of God

came to Nathan saying .

174 Go and tell David my servant Thus saith the LORD Thou

shalt not build me an house to dwell in .

175 For I have not dwelt in an house since the day that I

brought up Israel unto this day but have gone from tent to tent

and from one tabernacle to another .

176 Wheresoever I have walked with all Israel spake I a word

to any of the judges of Israel whom I commanded to feed my

people saying Why have ye not built me an house of cedars .

177 Now therefore thus shalt thou say unto my servant David

Thus saith the LORD of hosts I took thee from the sheepcote even

from following the sheep that thou shouldest be ruler over my

people Israel .

178 And I have been with thee whithersoever thou hast walked

and have cut off all thine enemies from before thee and have

made thee a name like the name of the great men that are in the

earth .

179 Also I will ordain a place for my people Israel and will

plant them and they shall dwell in their place and shall be

moved no more neither shall the children of wickedness waste

them any more as at the beginning .

1710 And since the time that I commanded judges to be over my

people Israel Moreover I will subdue all thine enemies

Furthermore I tell thee that the LORD will build thee an house .

1711 And it shall come to pass when thy days be expired that

thou must go to be with thy fathers that I will raise up thy

seed after thee which shall be of thy sons and I will establish

his kingdom .

1712 He shall build me an house and I will stablish his throne

for ever .

1713 I will be his father and he shall be my son and I will

not take my mercy away from him as I took it from him that was

before thee .

1714 But I will settle him in mine house and in my kingdom for

ever and his throne shall be established for evermore .

1715 According to all these words and according to all this

vision so did Nathan speak unto David .

1716 And David the king came and sat before the LORD and said

Who am I O LORD God and what is mine house that thou hast

brought me hitherto .

1717 And yet this was a small thing in thine eyes O God for

thou hast also spoken of thy servant's house for a great while

to come and hast regarded me according to the estate of a man of

high degree O LORD God .

1718 What can David speak more to thee for the honour of thy

servant for thou knowest thy servant .

1719 O LORD for thy servant's sake and according to thine own

heart hast thou done all this greatness in making known all

these great things .

1720 O LORD there is none like thee neither is there any God

beside thee according to all that we have heard with our ears .

1721 And what one nation in the earth is like thy people

Israel whom God went to redeem to be his own people to make thee

a name of greatness and terribleness by driving out nations from

before thy people whom thou hast redeemed out of Egypt .

1722 For thy people Israel didst thou make thine own people

for ever and thou LORD becamest their God .

1723 Therefore now LORD let the thing that thou hast spoken

concerning thy servant and concerning his house be established

for ever and do as thou hast said .

1724 Let it even be established that thy name may be magnified

for ever saying The LORD of hosts is the God of Israel even a

God to Israel and let the house of David thy servant be

established before thee .

1725 For thou O my God hast told thy servant that thou wilt

build him an house therefore thy servant hath found in his heart

to pray before thee .

1726 And now LORD thou art God and hast promised this goodness

unto thy servant .

1727 Now therefore let it please thee to bless the house of

thy servant that it may be before thee for ever for thou

blessest O LORD and it shall be blessed for ever .

* 181 Now after this it came to pass that David smote the

Philistines and subdued them and took Gath and her towns out of

the hand of the Philistines .

182 And he smote Moab and the Moabites became David's servants

and brought gifts .

183 And David smote Hadarezer king of Zobah unto Hamath as he

went to stablish his dominion by the river Euphrates .

184 And David took from him a thousand chariots and seven

thousand horsemen and twenty thousand footmen David also hocked

all the chariot horses but reserved of them an hundred chariots .

185 And when the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadarezer

king of Zobah David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand

men .

186 Then David put garrisons in Syriadamascus and the Syrians

became David's servants and brought gifts Thus the LORD

preserved David whithersoever he went .

187 And David took the shields of gold that were on the

servants of Hadarezer and brought them to Jerusalem .

188 Likewise from Tibhath and from Chun cities of Hadarezer

brought David very much brass wherewith Solomon made the brazen

sea and the pillars and the vessels of brass .

189 Now when Tou king of Hamath heard how David had smitten

all the host of Hadarezer king of Zobah .

1810 He sent Hadoram his son to king David to inquire of his

welfare and to congratulate him because he had fought against

Hadarezer and smitten him (for Hadarezer had war with Tou and

with him all manner of vessels of gold and silver and brass .

1811 Them also king David dedicated unto the LORD with the

silver and the gold that he brought from all these nations from

Edom and from Moab and from the children of Ammon and from the

Philistines and from Amalek .

1812 Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah slew of the Edomites

in the valley of salt eighteen thousand .

1813 And he put garrisons in Edom and all the Edomites became

David's servants Thus the LORD preserved David whithersoever he

went .

1814 So David reigned over all Israel and executed judgment

and justice among all his people .

1815 And Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the host and

Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud recorder .

1816 And Zadok the son of Ahitub and Abimelech the son of

Abiathar were the priests and Shavsha was scribe .

1817 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites

and the Pelethites and the sons of David were chief about the

king .

* 191 Now it came to pass after this that Nahash the king of

the children of Ammon died and his son reigned in his stead .

192 And David said I will show kindness unto Hanun the son of

Nahash because his father showed kindness to me And David sent

messengers to comfort him concerning his father So the servants

of David came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun to

comfort him .

193 But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun

Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father that he hath

sent comforters unto thee are not his servants come unto thee

for to search and to overthrow and to spy out the land .

194 Wherefore Hanun took David's servants and shaved them and

cut off their garments in the midst hard by their buttocks and

sent them away .

195 Then there went certain and told David how the men were

served And he sent to meet them for the men were greatly ashamed

And the king said Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown

and then return .

196 And when the children of Ammon saw that they had made

themselves odious to David Hanun and the children of Ammon sent

a thousand talents of silver to hire them chariots and horsemen

out of Mesopotamia and out of Syriamaachah and out of Zobah .

197 So they hired thirty and two thousand chariots and the

king of Maachah and his people who came and pitched before

Medeba And the children of Ammon gathered themselves together

from their cities and came to battle .

198 And when David heard of it he sent Joab and all the host

of the mighty men .

199 And the children of Ammon came out and put the battle in

array before the gate of the city and the kings that were come

were by themselves in the field .

1910 Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him

before and behind he chose out of all the choice of Israel and

put them in array against the Syrians .

1911 And the rest of the people he delivered unto the hand of

Abishai his brother and they set themselves in array against the

children of Ammon .

1912 And he said If the Syrians be too strong for me then thou

shalt help me but if the children of Ammon be too strong for

thee then I will help thee .

1913 Be of good courage and let us behave ourselves valiantly

for our people and for the cities of our God and let the LORD do

that which is good in his sight .

1914 So Joab and the people that were with him drew nigh

before the Syrians unto the battle and they fled before him .

1915 And when the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians were

fled they likewise fled before Abishai his brother and entered

into the city Then Joab came to Jerusalem .

1916 And when the Syrians saw that they were put to the worse

before Israel they sent messengers and drew forth the Syrians

that were beyond the river and Shophach the captain of the host

of Hadarezer went before them .

1917 And it was told David and he gathered all Israel and

passed over Jordan and came upon them and set the battle in

array against them So when David had put the battle in array

against the Syrians they fought with him .

1918 But the Syrians fled before Israel and David slew of the

Syrians seven thousand men which fought in chariots and forty

thousand footmen and killed Shophach the captain of the host .

1919 And when the servants of Hadarezer saw that they were put

to the worse before Israel they made peace with David and became

his servants neither would the Syrians help the children of

Ammon any more .

* 201 And it came to pass that after the year was expired at

the time that kings go out to battle Joab led forth the power of

the army and wasted the country of the children of Ammon and

came and besieged Rabbah But David tarried at Jerusalem And Joab

smote Rabbah and destroyed it .

202 And David took the crown of their king from off his head

and found it to weigh a talent of gold and there were precious

stones in it and it was set upon David's head and he brought

also exceeding much spoil out of the city .

203 And he brought out the people that were in it and cut them

with saws and with harrows of iron and with axes Even so dealt

David with all the cities of the children of Ammon And David and

all the people returned to Jerusalem .

204 And it came to pass after this that there arose war at

Gezer with the Philistines at which time Sibbechai the

Hushathite slew Sippai that was of the children of the giant and

they were subdued .

205 And there was war again with the Philistines and Elhanan

the son of Jair slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite

whose spear staff was like a weaver's beam .

206 And yet again there was war at Gath where was a man of

great stature whose fingers and toes were four and twenty six on

each hand and six on each foot and he also was the son of the

giant .

207 But when he defied Israel Jonathan the son of Shimea

David's brother slew him .

208 These were born unto the giant in Gath and they fell by

the hand of David and by the hand of his servants .

* 211 And Satan stood up against Israel and provoked David to

number Israel .

212 And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people Go

number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan and bring the number of

them to me that I may know it .

213 And Joab answered The LORD make his people an hundred

times so many more as they be but my lord the king are they not

all my lord's servants why then doth my lord require this thing

why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel .

214 Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab

Wherefore Joab departed and went throughout all Israel and came

to Jerusalem .

215 And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people unto

David And all they of Israel were a thousand thousand and an

hundred thousand men that drew sword and Judah was four hundred

threescore and ten thousand men that drew sword .

216 But Levi and Benjamin counted he not among them for the

king's word was abominable to Joab .

217 And God was displeased with this thing therefore he smote

Israel .

218 And David said unto God I have sinned greatly because I

have done this thing but now I beseech thee do away the iniquity

of thy servant for I have done very foolishly .

219 And the LORD spake unto Gad David's seer saying .

2110 Go and tell David saying Thus saith the LORD I offer thee

three things choose thee one of them that I may do it unto thee .

2111 So Gad came to David and said unto him Thus saith the

LORD Choose thee .

2112 Either three years' famine or three months to be

destroyed before thy foes while that the sword of thine enemies

overtaketh thee or else three days the sword of the LORD even

the pestilence in the land and the angel of the LORD destroying

throughout all the coasts of Israel Now therefore advise thyself

what word I shall bring again to him that sent me .

2113 And David said unto Gad I am in a great strait let me

fall now into the hand of the LORD for very great are his

mercies but let me not fall into the hand of man .

2114 So the LORD sent pestilence upon Israel and there fell of

Israel seventy thousand men .

2115 And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it and as

he was destroying the LORD beheld and he repented him of the

evil and said to the angel that destroyed It is enough stay now

thine hand And the angel of the LORD stood by the threshingfloor

of Ornan the Jebusite .

2116 And David lifted up his eyes and saw the angel of the

LORD stand between the earth and the heaven having a drawn sword

in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem Then David and the

elders of Israel who were clothed in sackcloth fell upon their

faces .

2117 And David said unto God Is it not I that commanded the

people to be numbered even I it is that have sinned and done

evil indeed but as for these sheep what have they done let thine

hand I pray thee O LORD my God be on me and on my father's house

but not on thy people that they should be plagued .

2118 Then the angel of the LORD commanded Gad to say to David

that David should go up and set up an altar unto the LORD in the

threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite .

2119 And David went up at the saying of Gad which he spake in

the name of the LORD .

2120 And Ornan turned back and saw the angel and his four sons

with him hid themselves Now Ornan was threshing wheat .

2121 And as David came to Ornan Ornan looked and saw David and

went out of the threshingfloor and bowed himself to David with

his face to the ground .

2122 Then David said to Ornan Grant me the place of this

threshingfloor that I may build an altar therein unto the LORD

thou shalt grant it me for the full price that the plague may be

stayed from the people .

2123 And Ornan said unto David Take it to thee and let my lord

the king do that which is good in his eyes lo I give thee the

oxen also for burnt offerings and the threshing instruments for

wood and the wheat for the meat offering I give it all .

2124 And king David said to Ornan Nay but I will verily buy it

for the full price for I will not take that which is thine for

the LORD nor offer burnt offerings without cost .

2125 So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels

of gold by weight .

2126 And David built there an altar unto the LORD and offered

burnt offerings and peace offerings and called upon the LORD and

he answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt

offering .

2127 And the LORD commanded the angel and he put up his sword

again into the sheath thereof .

2128 At that time when David saw that the LORD had answered

him in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite then he

sacrificed there .

2129 For the tabernacle of the LORD which Moses made in the

wilderness and the altar of the burnt offering were at that

season in the high place at Gibeon .

2130 But David could not go before it to inquire of God for he

was afraid because of the sword of the angel of the LORD .

* 221 Then David said This is the house of the LORD God and

this is the altar of the burnt offering for Israel .

222 And David commanded to gather together the strangers that

were in the land of Israel and he set masons to hew wrought

stones to build the house of God .

223 And David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the

doors of the gates and for the joinings and brass in abundance

without weight .

224 Also cedar trees in abundance for the Zidonians and they

of Tyre brought much cedar wood to David .

225 And David said Solomon my son is young and tender and the

house that is to be builded for the LORD must be exceeding

magnifical of fame and of glory throughout all countries I will

therefore now make preparation for it So David prepared

abundantly before his death .

226 Then he called for Solomon his son and charged him to

build an house for the LORD God of Israel .

227 And David said to Solomon My son as for me it was in my

mind to build an house unto the name of the LORD my God .

228 But the word of the LORD came to me saying Thou hast shed

blood abundantly and hast made great wars thou shalt not build

an house unto my name because thou hast shed much blood upon the

earth in my sight .

229 Behold a son shall be born to thee who shall be a man of

rest and I will give him rest from all his enemies round about

for his name shall be Solomon and I will give peace and

quietness unto Israel in his days .

2210 He shall build an house for my name and he shall be my

son and I will be his father and I will establish the throne of

his kingdom over Israel for ever .

2211 Now my son the LORD be with thee and prosper thou and

build the house of the LORD thy God as he hath said of thee .

2212 Only the LORD give thee wisdom and understanding and give

thee charge concerning Israel that thou mayest keep the law of

the LORD thy God .

2213 Then shalt thou prosper if thou takest heed to fulfil the

statutes and judgments which the LORD charged Moses with

concerning Israel be strong and of good courage dread not nor be

dismayed .

2214 Now behold in my trouble I have prepared for the house of

the LORD an hundred thousand talents of gold and a thousand

thousand talents of silver and of brass and iron without weight

for it is in abundance timber also and stone have I prepared and

thou mayest add thereto .

2215 Moreover there are workmen with thee in abundance hewers

and workers of stone and timber and all manner of cunning men

for every manner of work .

2216 Of the gold the silver and the brass and the iron there

is no number Arise therefore and be doing and the LORD be with

thee .

2217 David also commanded all the princes of Israel to help

Solomon his son saying .

2218 Is not the LORD your God with you and hath he not given

you rest on every side for he hath given the inhabitants of the

land into mine hand and the land is subdued before the LORD and

before his people .

2219 Now set your heart and your soul to seek the LORD your

God arise therefore and build ye the sanctuary of the LORD God

to bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD and the holy

vessels of God into the house that is to be built to the name

of the LORD .

* 231 So when David was old and full of days he made Solomon

his son king over Israel .

232 And he gathered together all the princes of Israel with

the priests and the Levites .

233 Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years

and upward and their number by their polls man by man was thirty

and eight thousand .

234 Of which twenty and four thousand were to set forward the

work of the house of the LORD and six thousand were officers and

judges .

235 Moreover four thousand were porters and four thousand

praised the LORD with the instruments which I made said David to

praise therewith .

236 And David divided them into courses among the sons of Levi

namely Gershon Kohath and Merari .

237 Of the Gershonites were Laadan and Shimei .

238 The sons of Laadan the chief was Jehiel and Zetham and

Joel three .

239 The sons of Shimei Shelomith and Haziel and Haran three

These were the chief of the fathers of Laadan .

2310 And the sons of Shimei were Jahath Zina and Jeush and

Beriah These four were the sons of Shimei .

2311 And Jahath was the chief and Zizah the second but Jeush

and Beriah had not many sons therefore they were in one

reckoning according to their father's house .

2312 The sons of Kohath Amram Izhar Hebron and Uzziel four .

2313 The sons of Amram Aaron and Moses and Aaron was separated

that he should sanctify the most holy things he and his sons for

ever to burn incense before the LORD to minister unto him and to

bless in his name for ever .

2314 Now concerning Moses the man of God his sons were named

of the tribe of Levi .

2315 The sons of Moses were Gershom and Eliezer .

2316 Of the sons of Gershom Shebuel was the chief .

2317 And the sons of Eliezer were Rehabiah the chief And

Eliezer had none other sons but the sons of Rehabiah were very

many .

2318 Of the sons of Izhar Shelomith the chief .

2319 Of the sons of Hebron Jeriah the first Amariah the second

Jahaziel the third and Jekameam the fourth .

2320 Of the sons of Uzziel Micah the first and Jesiah the

second .

2321 The sons of Merari Mahli and Mushi The sons of Mahli

Eleazar and Kish .

2322 And Eleazar died and had no sons but daughters and their

brethren the sons of Kish took them .

2323 The sons of Mushi Mahli and Eder and Jeremoth three .

2324 These were the sons of Levi after the house of their

fathers even the chief of the fathers as they were counted by

number of names by their polls that did the work for the service

of the house of the LORD from the age of twenty years and upward

2325 For David said The LORD God of Israel hath given rest

unto his people that they may dwell in Jerusalem for ever .

2326 And also unto the Levites they shall no more carry the

tabernacle nor any vessels of it for the service thereof .

2327 For by the last words of David the Levites were numbered

from twenty years old and above .

2328 Because their office was to wait on the sons of Aaron for

the service of the house of the LORD in the courts and in the

chambers and in the purifying of all holy things and the work of

the service of the house of God .

2329 Both for the showbread and for the fine flour for meat

offering and for the unleavened cakes and for that which is

baked in the pan and for that which is fried and for all manner

of measure and size .

2330 And to stand every morning to thank and praise the LORD

and likewise at even .

2331 And to offer all burnt sacrifices unto the LORD in the

sabbaths in the new moons and on the set feasts by number

according to the order commanded unto them continually before

the LORD .

2332 And that they should keep the charge of the tabernacle of

the congregation and the charge of the holy place and the charge

of the sons of Aaron their brethren in the service of the house

of the LORD .

* 241 Now these are the divisions of the sons of Aaron The sons

of Aaron Nadab and Abihu Eleazar and Ithamar .

242 But Nadab and Abihu died before their father and had no

children therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the priest's

office .

243 And David distributed them both Zadok of the sons of

Eleazar and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar according to their

offices in their service .

244 And there were more chief men found of the sons of Eleazar

than of the sons of Ithamar and thus were they divided Among the

sons of Eleazar there were sixteen chief men of the house of

their fathers and eight among the sons of Ithamar according to

the house of their fathers .

245 Thus were they divided by lot one sort with another for

the governors of the sanctuary and governors of the house of God

were of the sons of Eleazar and of the sons of Ithamar .

246 And Shemaiah the son of Nethaneel the scribe one of the

Levites wrote them before the king and the princes and Zadok the

priest and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar and before the chief of

the fathers of the priests and Levites one principal household

being taken for Eleazar and one taken for Ithamar .

247 Now the first lot came forth to Jehoiarib the second to

Jedaiah .

248 The third to Harim the fourth to Seorim .

249 The fifth to Malchijah the sixth to Mijamin .

2410 The seventh to Hakkoz the eighth to Abijah .

2411 The ninth to Jeshuah the tenth to Shecaniah .

2412 The eleventh to Eliashib the twelfth to Jakim .

2413 The thirteenth to Huppah the fourteenth to Jeshebeab .

2414 The fifteenth to Bilgah the sixteenth to Immer .

2415 The seventeenth to Hezir the eighteenth to Aphses .

2416 The nineteenth to Pethahiah the twentieth to Jehezekel .

2417 The one and twentieth to Jachin the two and twentieth to

Gamul .

2418 The three and twentieth to Delaiah the four and twentieth

to Maaziah .

2419 These were the orderings of them in their service to come

into the house of the LORD according to their manner under Aaron

their father as the LORD God of Israel had commanded him .

2420 And the rest of the sons of Levi were these Of the sons

of Amram Shubael of the sons of Shubael Jehdeiah .

2421 Concerning Rehabiah of the sons of Rehabiah the first was

Isshiah .

2422 Of the Izharites Shelomoth of the sons of Shelomoth

Jahath .

2423 And the sons of Hebron Jeriah the first Amariah the

second Jahaziel the third Jekameam the fourth .

2424 Of the sons of Uzziel Michah of the sons of Michah Shamir

2425 The brother of Michah was Isshiah of the sons of Isshiah

Zechariah .

2426 The sons of Merari were Mahli and Mushi the sons of

Jaaziah Beno .

2427 The sons of Merari by Jaaziah Beno and Shoham and Zaccur

and Ibri .

2428 Of Mahli came Eleazar who had no sons .

2429 Concerning Kish the son of Kish was Jerahmeel .

2430 The sons also of Mushi Mahli and Eder and Jerimoth These

were the sons of the Levites after the house of their fathers .

2431 These likewise cast lots over against their brethren the

sons of Aaron in the presence of David the king and Zadok and

Ahimelech and the chief of the fathers of the priests and

Levites even the principal fathers over against their younger

brethren .

* 251 Moreover David and the captains of the host separated to

the service of the sons of Asaph and of Heman and of Jeduthun

who should prophesy with harps with psalteries and with cymbals

and the number of the workmen according to their service was .

252 Of the sons of Asaph Zaccur and Joseph and Nethaniah and

Asarelah the sons of Asaph under the hands of Asaph which

prophesied according to the order of the king .

253 Of Jeduthun the sons of Jeduthun Gedaliah and Zeri and

Jeshaiah Hashabiah and Mattithiah six under the hands of their

father Jeduthun who prophesied with a harp to give thanks and to

praise the LORD .

254 Of Heman the sons of Heman Bukkiah Mattaniah Uzziel

Shebuel and Jerimoth Hananiah Hanani Eliathah Giddalti and

Romamtiezer Joshbekashah Mallothi Hothir and Mahazioth .

255 All these were the sons of Heman the king's seer in the

words of God to lift up the horn And God gave to Heman fourteen

sons and three daughters .

256 All these were under the hands of their father for song in

the house of the LORD with cymbals psalteries and harps for the

service of the house of God according to the king's order to

Asaph Jeduthun and Heman .

257 So the number of them with their brethren that were

instructed in the songs of the LORD even all that were cunning

was two hundred fourscore and eight .

258 And they cast lots ward against ward as well the small as

the great the teacher as the scholar .

259 Now the first lot came forth for Asaph to Joseph the

second to Gedaliah who with his brethren and sons were twelve .

2510 The third to Zaccur he his sons and his brethren were

twelve .

2511 The fourth to Izri he his sons and his brethren were

twelve .

2512 The fifth to Nethaniah he his sons and his brethren were

twelve .

2513 The sixth to Bukkiah he his sons and his brethren were

twelve .

2514 The seventh to Jesharelah he his sons and his brethren

were twelve .

2515 The eighth to Jeshaiah he his sons and his brethren were

twelve .

2516 The ninth to Mattaniah he his sons and his brethren were

twelve .

2517 The tenth to Shimei he his sons and his brethren were

twelve .

2518 The eleventh to Azareel he his sons and his brethren were

twelve .

2519 The twelfth to Hashabiah he his sons and his brethren

were twelve .

2520 The thirteenth to Shubael he his sons and his brethren

were twelve .

2521 The fourteenth to Mattithiah he his sons and his brethren

were twelve .

2522 The fifteenth to Jeremoth he his sons and his brethren

were twelve .

2523 The sixteenth to Hananiah he his sons and his brethren

were twelve .

2524 The seventeenth to Joshbekashah he his sons and his

brethren were twelve .

2525 The eighteenth to Hanani he his sons and his brethren

were twelve .

2526 The nineteenth to Mallothi he his sons and his brethren

were twelve .

2527 The twentieth to Eliathah he his sons and his brethren

were twelve .

2528 The one and twentieth to Hothir he his sons and his

brethren were twelve .

2529 The two and twentieth to Giddalti he his sons and his

brethren were twelve .

2530 The three and twentieth to Mahazioth he his sons and his

brethren were twelve .

2531 The four and twentieth to Romamtiezer he his sons and his

brethren were twelve .

* 261 Concerning the divisions of the porters Of the Korhites

was Meshelemiah the son of Kore of the sons of Asaph .

262 And the sons of Meshelemiah were Zechariah the firstborn

Jediael the second Zebadiah the third Jathniel the fourth .

263 Elam the fifth Jehohanan the sixth Elioenai the seventh .

264 Moreover the sons of Obededom were Shemaiah the firstborn

Jehozabad the second Joah the third and Sacar the fourth and

Nethaneel the fifth .

265 Ammiel the sixth Issachar the seventh Peulthai the eighth

for God blessed him .

266 Also unto Shemaiah his son were sons born that ruled

throughout the house of their father for they were mighty men of

valour .

267 The sons of Shemaiah Othni and Rephael and Obed Elzabad

whose brethren were strong men Elihu and Semachiah .

268 All these of the sons of Obededom they and their sons and

their brethren able men for strength for the service were

threescore and two of Obededom .

269 And Meshelemiah had sons and brethren strong men eighteen .

2610 Also Hosah of the children of Merari had sons Simri the

chief (for though he was not the firstborn yet his father made

him the chief .

2611 Hilkiah the second Tebaliah the third Zechariah the

fourth all the sons and brethren of Hosah were thirteen .

2612 Among these were the divisions of the porters even among

the chief men having wards one against another to minister in

the house of the LORD .

2613 And they cast lots as well the small as the great

according to the house of their fathers for every gate .

2614 And the lot eastward fell to Shelemiah Then for Zechariah

his son a wise counsellor they cast lots and his lot came out

northward .

2615 To Obededom southward and to his sons the house of

Asuppim .

2616 To Shuppim and Hosah the lot came forth westward with the

gate Shallecheth by the causeway of the going up ward against

ward .

2617 Eastward were six Levites northward four a day southward

four a day and toward Asuppim two and two .

2618 At Parbar westward four at the causeway and two at Parbar

2619 These are the divisions of the porters among the sons of

Kore and among the sons of Merari .

2620 And of the Levites Ahijah was over the treasures of the

house of God and over the treasures of the dedicated things .

2621 As concerning the sons of Laadan the sons of the

Gershonite Laadan chief fathers even of Laadan the Gershonite

were Jehieli .

2622 The sons of Jehieli Zetham and Joel his brother which

were over the treasures of the house of the LORD .

2623 Of the Amramites and the Izharites the Hebronites and the

Uzzielites .

2624 And Shebuel the son of Gershom the son of Moses was ruler

of the treasures .

2625 And his brethren by Eliezer Rehabiah his son and Jeshaiah

his son and Joram his son and Zichri his son and Shelomith his

son .

2626 Which Shelomith and his brethren were over all the

treasures of the dedicated things which David the king and the

chief fathers the captains over thousands and hundreds and the

captains of the host had dedicated .

2627 Out of the spoils won in battles did they dedicate to

maintain the house of the LORD .

2628 And all that Samuel the seer and Saul the son of Kish and

Abner the son of Ner and Joab the son of Zeruiah had dedicated

and whosoever had dedicated any thing it was under the hand of

Shelomith and of his brethren .

2629 Of the Izharites Chenaniah and his sons were for the

outward business over Israel for officers and judges .

2630 And of the Hebronites Hashabiah and his brethren men of

valour a thousand and seven hundred were officers among them of

Israel on this side Jordan westward in all the business of the

LORD and in the service of the king .

2631 Among the Hebronites was Jerijah the chief even among the

Hebronites according to the generations of his fathers In the

fortieth year of the reign of David they were sought for and

there were found among them mighty men of valour at Jazer of

Gilead .

2632 And his brethren men of valour were two thousand and

seven hundred chief fathers whom king David made rulers over the

Reubenites the Gadites and the half tribe of Manasseh for every

matter pertaining to God and affairs of the king .

* 271 Now the children of Israel after their number to wit the

chief fathers and captains of thousands and hundreds and their

officers that served the king in any matter of the courses which

came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of

the year of every course were twenty and four thousand .

272 Over the first course for the first month was Jashobeam

the son of Zabdiel and in his course were twenty and four

thousand .

273 Of the children of Perez was the chief of all the captains

of the host for the first month .

274 And over the course of the second month was Dodai an

Ahohite and of his course was Mikloth also the ruler in his

course likewise were twenty and four thousand .

275 The third captain of the host for the third month was

Benaiah the son of Jehoiada a chief priest and in his course

were twenty and four thousand .

276 This is that Benaiah who was mighty among the thirty and

above the thirty and in his course was Ammizabad his son .

277 The fourth captain for the fourth month was Asahel the

brother of Joab and Zebadiah his son after him and in his course

were twenty and four thousand .

278 The fifth captain for the fifth month was Shamhuth the

Izrahite and in his course were twenty and four thousand .

279 The sixth captain for the sixth month was Ira the son of

Ikkesh the Tekoite and in his course were twenty and four

thousand .

2710 The seventh captain for the seventh month was Helez the

Pelonite of the children of Ephraim and in his course were

twenty and four thousand .

2711 The eighth captain for the eighth month was Sibbecai the

Hushathite of the Zarhites and in his course were twenty and

four thousand .

2712 The ninth captain for the ninth month was Abiezer the

Anetothite of the Benjamites and in his course were twenty and

four thousand .

2713 The tenth captain for the tenth month was Maharai the

Netophathite of the Zarhites and in his course were twenty and

four thousand .

2714 The eleventh captain for the eleventh month was Benaiah

the Pirathonite of the children of Ephraim and in his course

were twenty and four thousand .

2715 The twelfth captain for the twelfth month was Heldai the

Netophathite of Othniel and in his course were twenty and four

thousand .

2716 Furthermore over the tribes of Israel the ruler of the

Reubenites was Eliezer the son of Zichri of the Simeonites

Shephatiah the son of Maachah .

2717 Of the Levites Hashabiah the son of Kemuel of the

Aaronites Zadok .

2718 Of Judah Elihu one of the brethren of David of Issachar

Omri the son of Michael .

2719 Of Zebulun Ishmaiah the son of Obadiah of Naphtali

Jerimoth the son of Azriel .

2720 Of the children of Ephraim Hoshea the son of Azaziah of

the half tribe of Manasseh Joel the son of Pedaiah .

2721 Of the half tribe of Manasseh in Gilead Iddo the son of

Zechariah of Benjamin Jaasiel the son of Abner .

2722 Of Dan Azareel the son of Jeroham These were the princes

of the tribes of Israel .

2723 But David took not the number of them from twenty years

old and under because the LORD had said he would increase Israel

like to the stars of the heavens .

2724 Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number but he finished

not because there fell wrath for it against Israel neither was

the number put in the account of the chronicles of king David .

2725 And over the king's treasures was Azmaveth the son of

Adiel and over the storehouses in the fields in the cities and

in the villages and in the castles was Jehonathan the son of

Uzziah .

2726 And over them that did the work of the field for tillage

of the ground was Ezri the son of Chelub .

2727 And over the vineyards was Shimei the Ramathite over the

increase of the vineyards for the wine cellars was Zabdi the

Shiphmite .

2728 And over the olive trees and the sycamore trees that were

in the low plains was Baalhanan the Gederite and over the

cellars of oil was Joash .

2729 And over the herds that fed in Sharon was Shitrai the

Sharonite and over the herds that were in the valleys was

Shaphat the son of Adlai .

2730 Over the camels also was Obil the Ishmaelite and over the

asses was Jehdeiah the Meronothite .

2731 And over the flocks was Jaziz the Hagerite All these were

the rulers of the substance which was king David's .

2732 Also Jonathan David's uncle was a counsellor a wise man

and a scribe and Jehiel the son of Hachmoni was with the king's

sons .

2733 And Ahithophel was the king's counsellor and Hushai the

Archite was the king's companion .

2734 And after Ahithophel was Jehoiada the son of Benaiah and

Abiathar and the general of the king's army was Joab .

* 281 And David assembled all the princes of Israel the princes

of the tribes and the captains of the companies that ministered

to the king by course and the captains over the thousands and

captains over the hundreds and the stewards over all the

substance and possession of the king and of his sons with the

officers and with the mighty men and with all the valiant men

unto Jerusalem .

282 Then David the king stood up upon his feet and said Hear

me my brethren and my people As for me I had in mine heart to

build an house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the LORD

and for the footstool of our God and had made ready for the

building .

283 But God said unto me Thou shalt not build an house for my

name because thou hast been a man of war and hast shed blood .

284 Howbeit the LORD God of Israel chose me before all the

house of my father to be king over Israel for ever for he hath

chosen Judah to be the ruler and of the house of Judah the house

of my father and among the sons of my father he liked me to make

me king over all Israel .

285 And of all my sons (for the LORD hath given me many sons

he hath chosen Solomon my son to sit upon the throne of the

kingdom of the LORD over Israel .

286 And he said unto me Solomon thy son he shall build my

house and my courts for I have chosen him to be my son and I

will be his father .

287 Moreover I will establish his kingdom for ever if he be

constant to do my commandments and my judgments as at this day .

288 Now therefore in the sight of all Israel the congregation

of the LORD and in the audience of our God keep and seek for all

the commandments of the LORD your God that ye may possess this

good land and leave it for an inheritance for your children

after you for ever .

289 And thou Solomon my son know thou the God of thy father

and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind for

the LORD searcheth all hearts and understandeth all the

imaginations of the thoughts if thou seek him he will be found

of thee but if thou forsake him he will cast thee off for ever .

2810 Take heed now for the LORD hath chosen thee to build an

house for the sanctuary be strong and do it .

2811 Then David gave to Solomon his son the pattern of the

porch and of the houses thereof and of the treasuries thereof

and of the upper chambers thereof and of the inner parlours

thereof and of the place of the mercy seat .

2812 And the pattern of all that he had by the spirit of the

courts of the house of the LORD and of all the chambers round

about of the treasuries of the house of God and of the

treasuries of the dedicated things .

2813 Also for the courses of the priests and the Levites and

for all the work of the service of the house of the LORD and for

all the vessels of service in the house of the LORD .

2814 He gave of gold by weight for things of gold for all

instruments of all manner of service silver also for all

instruments of silver by weight for all instruments of every

kind of service .

2815 Even the weight for the candlesticks of gold and for

their lamps of gold by weight for every candlestick and for the

lamps thereof and for the candlesticks of silver by weight both

for the candlestick and also for the lamps thereof according to

the use of every candlestick .

2816 And by weight he gave gold for the tables of showbread

for every table and likewise silver for the tables of silver .

2817 Also pure gold for the fleshhooks and the bowls and the

cups and for the golden basins he gave gold by weight for every

basin and likewise silver by weight for every basin of silver .

2818 And for the altar of incense refined gold by weight and

gold for the pattern of the chariot of the cherubims that spread

out their wings and covered the ark of the covenant of the LORD .

2819 All this said David the LORD made me understand in

writing by his hand upon me even all the works of this pattern .

2820 And David said to Solomon his son Be strong and of good

courage and do it fear not nor be dismayed for the LORD God even

my God will be with thee he will not fail thee nor forsake thee

until thou hast finished all the work for the service of the

house of the LORD .

2821 And behold the courses of the priests and the Levites

even they shall be with thee for all the service of the house of

God and there shall be with thee for all manner of workmanship

every willing skilful man for any manner of service also the

princes and all the people will be wholly at thy commandment .

* 291 Furthermore David the king said unto all the congregation

Solomon my son whom alone God hath chosen is yet young and

tender and the work is great for the palace is not for man but

for the LORD God .

292 Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my

God the gold for things to be made of gold and the silver for

things of silver and the brass for things of brass the iron for

things of iron and wood for things of wood onyx stones and

stones to be set glistering stones and of divers colours and all

manner of precious stones and marble stones in abundance .

293 Moreover because I have set my affection to the house of

my God I have of mine own proper good of gold and silver which I

have given to the house of my God over and above all that I have

prepared for the holy house .

294 Even three thousand talents of gold of the gold of Ophir

and seven thousand talents of refined silver to overlay the

walls of the houses withal .

295 The gold for things of gold and the silver for things of

silver and for all manner of work to be made by the hands of

artificers And who then is willing to consecrate his service

this day unto the LORD .

296 Then the chief of the fathers and princes of the tribes of

Israel and the captains of thousands and of hundreds with the

rulers of the king's work offered willingly .

297 And gave for the service of the house of God of gold five

thousand talents and ten thousand drams and of silver ten

thousand talents and of brass eighteen thousand talents and one

hundred thousand talents of iron .

298 And they with whom precious stones were found gave them to

the treasure of the house of the LORD by the hand of Jehiel the

Gershonite .

299 Then the people rejoiced for that they offered willingly

because with perfect heart they offered willingly to the LORD

and David the king also rejoiced with great joy .

2910 Wherefore David blessed the LORD before all the

congregation and David said Blessed be thou LORD God of Israel

our father for ever and ever .

2911 Thine O LORD is the greatness and the power and the glory

and the victory and the majesty for all that is in the heaven

and in the earth is thine thine is the kingdom O LORD and thou

art exalted as head above all .

2912 Both riches and honour come of thee and thou reignest

over all and in thine hand is power and might and in thine hand

it is to make great and to give strength unto all .

2913 Now therefore our God we thank thee and praise thy

glorious name .

2914 But who am I and what is my people that we should be able

to offer so willingly after this sort for all things come of

thee and of thine own have we given thee .

2915 For we are strangers before thee and sojourners as were

all our fathers our days on the earth are as a shadow and there

is none abiding .

2916 O LORD our God all this store that we have prepared to

build thee an house for thine holy name cometh of thine hand and

is all thine own .

2917 I know also my God that thou triest the heart and hast

pleasure in uprightness As for me in the uprightness of mine

heart I have willingly offered all these things and now have I

seen with joy thy people which are present here to offer

willingly unto thee .

2918 O LORD God of Abraham Isaac and of Israel our fathers

keep this for ever in the imagination of the thoughts of the

heart of thy people and prepare their heart unto the .e

2919 And give unto Solomon my son a perfect heart to keep thy

commandments thy testimonies and thy statutes and to do all

these things and to build the palace for the which I have made

provision .

2920 And David said to all the congregation Now bless the LORD

your God And all the congregation blessed the LORD God of their

fathers and bowed down their heads and worshipped the LORD and

the king .

2921 And they sacrificed sacrifices unto the LORD and offered

burnt offerings unto the LORD on the morrow after that day even

a thousand bullocks a thousand rams and a thousand lambs with

their drink offerings and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel

2922 And did eat and drink before the LORD on that day with

great gladness And they made Solomon the son of David king the

second time and anointed him unto the LORD to be the chief

governor and Zadok to be priest .

2923 Then Solomon sat on the throne of the LORD as king

instead of David his father and prospered and all Israel obeyed

him .

2924 And all the princes and the mighty men and all the sons

likewise of king David submitted themselves unto Solomon the

king .

2925 And the LORD magnified Solomon exceedingly in the sight

of all Israel and bestowed upon him such royal majesty as had

not been on any king before him in Israel .

2926 Thus David the son of Jesse reigned over all Israel .

2927 And the time that he reigned over Israel was forty years

seven years reigned he in Hebron and thirty and three years

reigned he in Jerusalem .

2928 And he died in a good old age full of days riches and

honour and Solomon his son reigned in his stead .

2929 Now the acts of David the king first and last behold they

are written in the book of Samuel the seer and in the book of

Nathan the prophet and in the book of Gad the seer .

2930 With all his reign and his might and the times that went

over him and over Israel and over all the kingdoms of the

countries .