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13 These thre (which were of the thirtye chefe captaynes) went downe to Dauid in the haruest tyme vnto the caue Adullam, & the hoost of the Philistines abode in the valeye of Geauntes.
14 And Dauid was then in an holde. And the Soudioures of the Philistines were in Bethlehem.
15 And Dauid longed and sayde. Oh, that I had of the water that is in the well by the gate of Bethlehem, for to drincke.
16 And the thre myghtie brake thorowe the Host of the Philistines, & fett water out of the well of Bethlehem that was by the gate, and toke and brought it to Dauid: Neuerthelesse he wolde not dryncke therof, but offered it vnto the Lorde,
17 and sayde: the Lorde forbyd that I shulde do so. Is not this the bloude of the men that wente in ieopardye of their lyues? and therfore he wolde not dryncke it. And these thinges dyd these thre myghtie men.
18 Abisai the brother of Ioab, the sonne of Saruiah, was chefe amonge the thre, and he lyfte vp hys speare agaynst thre hundred, & slue them, and had the name amonge the thre.
19 For he was nobler man then the thre and was their captayne. Howbeit he attayned not vnto thre.
20 And Banaiahu the sonne of Iehoiada (the sonne of a myghtie man) valyant in actes, of kabzeel, slue two stronge lyons, euen lyons of Moab. He went downe also, & slue a lyon in a pyt in tyme of snowe.
21 And he slue an Egypcyan, a goodly bygge man, which had a speare in his hande. But he went downe to him with a staffe, and plucked the speare out of the Egypcians hande, and slue him wt hys awne speare.
22 These thynges did Banaiahu the sonne of Iehoiada, & had the name amonge the thre worthies.
23 He was honorable amonge thirtye, but he attayned not to the (first) thre. And Dauid made him of hys councell.
24 Asahel the brother of Ioab also was one of the thirtye. Then Elhanan the sonne of Dodo of Bethlehem:
25 Samma the haronite: Elica the Harodite:
26 Helez the Paltite: Ira the sonne of Akes the Thekoite:
27 Abiezer of Anathoth: Meobnai the Husathite:
28 Zelmon an Ahohite: Maharai the Netophatite:
29 Heleb the sonne of Baanah an Netophatite: Ithai the sonne of Ribai out of an hill of the chyldren of Beniamin:
30 Banaiahu the Phiratonite: Hedai, of the ryuer of Gaas:
31 Abialbon the Arbathite: Asmaueth a Barhumite:
32 Elihaba a Saalbonite: and the sonnes of Iasen, Ionathas.
33 Samma the Hararite. Ahiam the sonne of Sarar an Hararite:
34 Eliphelet the sonne of Aasbai the sonne of a Maachathite: Eliam the sonne of Aithophel the Gilonite:
35 Hezrai the Carmelite: Paarai the Arbite:
36 Igal the sonne of Nathan of Zoba: Bani the Gadite:
37 Zelec an Amonite: Naharai a Berothyte, which was the harnesberer of Ioab the sonne of Zaruia.
38 Ira the Iethrite: Gareb the Iethrite
39 Uria the Hethite, thirtye & seuen in all.