2 Samuel 23:13-39 These three (which were of the thirtie chiefe captaines) went downe to Dauid in the haruest tyme vnto the caue Adullam: and the hoast of the Philistines pytched in the valley of giauntes

Bishops⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹³ These three (which were of the thirtie chiefe captaines) went downe to Dauid in the haruest tyme vnto the caue Adullam: and the hoast of the Philistines pytched in the valley of giauntes ¹⁴ And Dauid was then in an houlde, and the souldiers of ye Philistines were in Bethlehem ¹⁵ And Dauid longed, & saide: Oh that I had of the water that is in the wel by the gate of Bethlehem for to drynke ¹⁶ And the three mightie brake through the hoast of the Philistines, & drue water out of the well of Bethlehem that was by the gate, and toke and brought it to Dauid: Neuerthelesse he would not drinke thereof, but powred it vnto the Lorde ¹⁷ And saide, The Lorde forbyd that I should do so: Is not this the blood of the men that went in ieoperdie of theyr lyues? & therefore he would not drinke it. And these thinges did these three mightie men ¹⁸ Abisai the brother of Ioab the sonne of Zaruia, was chiefe among the three, & he lyft vp his speare against three hundred, and slue them, & had the name among the three ¹⁹ For he was most excellent of the three, and was their captayne: Howbeit he attayned not vnto [the first] three ²⁰ And Banaiah the sonne of Iehoida the sonne of a mightie man, valiaunt in actes, of Rabzeel, slue two strog men of Moab: He went downe also, and slue a lion in the middest of a pit in time of snowe ²¹ And he slue an Egyptian a goodly bigge man, and the Egyptian had a speare in his hand: But he went downe to him with a staffe, and plucked the speare out of the Egyptians hand, and slue him with his owne speare ²² These thinges did Banaiah ye sonne of Iehoida, and had the name among the three worthies ²³ He was honorable among thirtie, but he attayned not to [the first] three: And Dauid made him of his counsel ²⁴ Asahel the brother of Ioab, was one of the thirtie: Elhanan the sonne of Dodo, of Bethlehem ²⁵ Samma the Harodite, Elica the Harodite ²⁶ Helez the Paltite, Ira the sonne of Acces the Thecoite ²⁷ Abiezer of Anathoth, Mebunnai ye Husathite ²⁸ Zelmon an Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite ²⁹ Heleb the sonne of Baanah an Netophatite, Ithai the sonne of Ribai out of Gibea of the children of Beniamin ³⁰ Banaiah the Pirathonite, Heddai of the ryuer of Gaas ³¹ Abialbon the Arbathite, Asmaueth the Barhumite ³² Eliahba a Saalbonite: of the sonnes of Iasen, Ionathan ³³ Samma the Hararite, Ahiam ye sonne of Sarar an Hararite ³⁴ Eliphelet ye sonne of Aasbai the sonne of Maachathi, Eliam the sonne of Ahithophel the Gilonite ³⁵ Hezrai the Carmelite, Paarai the Arbite ³⁶ Igal the sonne of Nathan of Zoba, Bani the Gadite ³⁷ Zelec the Ammonite, Naharai the Berothite, which was the harnesse bearer of Ioab the sonne of Zaruia ³⁸ Ira the Iethrite, Gareb ye Iethrite ³⁹ Aria the Hethite: thirtie and seuen in all