2 Samuel 23:8-39 These be the names of the mightie men whom Dauid had: One that sate in the seate of wisedome, being chiefest among the princes, was Adino of Ezni, he slue eyght hundred at one tyme

Bishops⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁸ These be the names of the mightie men whom Dauid had: One that sate in the seate of wisedome, being chiefest among the princes, was Adino of Ezni, he slue eyght hundred at one tyme ⁹ After him was Eliazar the sonne of Dodo the sonne of Ahohi, one of the three worthies with Dauid, which defyed the Philistines that were there gathered together to battaile, when the men of Israel were gone vp ¹⁰ He arose and layed on the Philistines, vntill his hand was weery, and claue vnto the sword: And the Lorde gaue great victory the same day, and the people returned after him, only to spoyle ¹¹ After him was Samma the sonne of Age the Hararite: & the Philistines gathered together besyde a towne, where was a parcell of land full of lentils, and the people fled from the Philistines ¹² But he stoode in ye middest of the groud, and defended it, & slue the Philistines: and the Lorde gaue great victorie 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