David becomes king
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📚Then all Israel gathered together to David at Hebron, saying, “See, we are your bone and your flesh. 2 📚Also in time past, even when Saul was king, you were the one who led Israel out and brought them in; and the LORD your God said to you, ‘You will shepherd my people Israel, and you will be ruler over my people Israel.’ ” 3 📚So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron; and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before the LORD; and they anointed David king over Israel, in accordance with the word of the LORD by Samuel. David conquers Jerusalem
4 📚And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem, which is Jebus, where the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, were. 5 📚And the inhabitants of Jebus said to David, “You will not get in here!” Nevertheless David took the fortress of Zion, which is the city of David. 6 📚And David said, “Whoever strikes the Jebusites first will be chief and commander”. So Joab, the son of Zeruiah, went up first up, and became chief. 7 📚And David lived in the fortress; therefore they called it the city of David. 8 📚And he built up the city around it, from Millo all around; and Joab repaired the rest of the city. 9 📚So David became greater and greater, for the LORD of hosts was with him.
11:4-9 2 Sam 5:6-10. See notes there.⚜
David’s mighty warriors
10 📚And these are the chief of the mighty men whom David had, who used their strength with him for his kingdom and with all Israel, to make him king, in accordance with the word of the LORD concerning Israel. 11 📚And this is the list of David’s mighty men: Jashobeam 📖, a Hachmonite, the chief of the thirty; he raised his spear against three hundred who were killed by him at one time. 12 📚And after him was Eleazar, the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, who was one of the three mighty ones. 13 📚He was with David at Pasdammim; and there the Philistines were gathered together to battle, where there was a plot of ground full of barley; and the people fled from before the Philistines. 14 📚And they took their stand in the middle of that plot and defended it and struck down the Philistines; and the Lord saved them with a great deliverance.
15 📚Now three of the thirty chiefs went down to the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the army of the Philistines was camping in the valley of Rephaim. 16 📚And David was then in the stronghold, and a garrison of the Philistines was then at Bethlehem. 17 📚And David felt a longing and said, “Oh, that someone would give me a drink of water from the well of Bethlehem, that is by the gate!” 18 📚And the three broke through the army of the Philistines, and drew water from the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it and brought it to David. But David would not drink it, but poured it out to the LORD, 19 📚and said, “My God forbid this to me, that I should do this thing! Should I drink the blood of these men who have put their lives in jeopardy? For in peril of their lives they brought this”. Therefore he would not drink it. The three mighty men did these things.
20 📚And Abishai, the brother of Joab, was chief of the three; for raising his spear against three hundred, he killed them, and had a name among the three. 21 📚He was more honoured than two of the three in the second rank; for he was their captain. However, he did not attain to the first three.
22 📚Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man from Kabzeel, who had done many deeds, killed two lion-like men of Moab. Also he went down and killed a lion in a pit on a snowy day. 23 📚And he killed an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits tall; and there was a spear like a weaver’s beam in the Egyptian’s hand; and he went down to him with a staff, and tore the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand, and killed him with his own spear. 24 Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, did these things, and had a name among the three mighty men. 25 📚See, he was honoured among the thirty, but did not attain to the first three. And David set him over his guard.
26 📚Also the mighty men in the armies were Asahel, the brother of Joab, Elhanan, the son of Dodo of Bethlehem, 27 📚Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite, 28 📚Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer the Anathothite, 29 📚Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite, 30 📚Maharai the Netophathite, Heled, the son of Baanah the Netophathite, 31 📚Ithai, the son of Ribai of Gibeah, who belonged to the children of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite, 32 📚Hurai from the brooks of Gaash, Abiel the Arbathite, 33 Azmaveth the Baharumite, Eliahba the Shaalbonite, 34 📚the sons of Hashem the Gizonite, Jonathan, the son of Shage the Hararite, 35 📚Ahiam, the son of Sacar the Hararite, Eliphal, the son of Ur, 36 Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijah the Pelonite, 37 📚Hezro the Carmelite, Naarai, the son of Ezbai, 38 📚Joel the brother of Nathan, Mibhar the son of Haggeri, 39 Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Berothite, the armour bearer of Joab, the son of Zeruiah,
11:1-3 2 Sam 5:1-3. See notes there.⚜
11:10-41 2 Sam 23:8-39. See notes there.⚜
42 Adina, the son of Shiza the Reubenite, a captain of the Reubenites, and thirty with him, 43 Hanan, the son of Maachah, Joshaphat the Mithnite, 44 Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Jehiel, the sons of Hothan the Aroerite, 45 Jediael, the son of Shimri, and his brother Joha, the Tizite, 46 Eliel the Mahavite, and Jeribai and Joshaviah, the sons of Elnaam, and Ithmah the Moabite, 47 Eliel and Obed, and Jasiel the Mesobaite.
11:41-47 Uriah is last on the list in 2 Samuel chapter 23. Here several additional names are given. As days passed, the number grew.⚜