1 Estas son las últimas palabras de David. El mensaje divino de David hijo de Isaí, el mensaje divino del hombre engrandecido por Dios, el ungido por el Dios de Jacob, el maravilloso salmista de Israel: 2 “El Espíritu del Señor habló a través de mí; mi lengua dio su mensaje. 3 “El Dios de Israel habló; la Roca de Israel me dijo: ‘El que gobierna al pueblo con justicia, el que gobierna respetando a Dios, 4 es como la luz del sol de la mañana que sale en un amanecer sin nubes; como el brillo de las gotas de lluvia sobre la hierba nueva que crece de la tierra’. 5 “¿No es así mi familia con Dios? Porque él ha hecho un acuerdo eterno conmigo, detallado y con todas las partes garantizadas. Se asegurará de salvarme y de darme todo lo que quiero. 6 “Pero las personas malas son como espinas que hay que arrojar a un lado, pues no se las puede sostener con la mano. 7 La única manera de tratar con ellos es usar una herramienta de hierro o el mango de una lanza. Se queman por completo allí donde están”. 8 Estos son los nombres de los principales guerreros que apoyaron a David: Joseb-basebet, un tacmonita, líder de los Tres. Usando su lanza, una vez mató a ochocientos hombres en una sola batalla. 9 Después de él vino Eleazar, hijo de Dodai, el ahohita, uno de los Tres guerreros principales. Estaba con David cuando desafiaron a los filisteos reunidos para la batalla en Pas-damin. Los israelitas se retiraron, 10 pero Eleazar se mantuvo firme y siguió matando filisteos hasta que se le quedó la mano en la espada. El Señor los salvó concediéndoles una gran victoria. El ejército israelita regresó, pero sólo para despojar a los muertos. 11 Después de él vino Sama, hijo de Agee, el harareo. Cuando los filisteos se reunieron en Lehi, en un campo lleno de lentejas, el ejército israelita huyó de ellos, 12 pero Sama se apostó en medio del campo, lo defendió y mató a los filisteos. El Señor les dio una gran victoria. 13 En la época de la cosecha, los Tres, que formaban parte de los Treinta guerreros principales, bajaron a recibir a David cuando estaba en la cueva de Adulam. El ejército filisteo estaba acampado en el valle de Refaim. 14 En ese momento David estaba en la fortaleza, y la guarnición filistea estaba en Belén. 15 David tenía mucha sed y dijo: “¡Si tan solo alguien pudiera traerme un trago de agua del pozo que está junto a la puerta de entrada de Belén!” 16 Los tres guerreros principales rompieron las defensas filisteas, tomaron un poco de agua del pozo de la puerta de Belén y se la llevaron a David. Pero David se negó a beberla y la derramó como ofrenda al Señor. 17 “¡Señor, no me dejes hacer esto!”, dijo. “¿No es como beber la sangre de esos hombres que arriesgaron sus vidas?” Así que no la bebió. Estas son algunas de las cosas que hicieron los tres guerreros principales. 18 Abisai, hermano de Joab, era el líder del segundo Tres. Usando su lanza, una vez mató a 300 hombres, y se hizo famoso entre los Tres. 19 Era el más apreciado de los Tres y era su comandante, aunque no fue uno del grupo del primer Tres. 20 Benaía, hijo de Joiada, un fuerte guerrero de Cabseel, hizo muchas cosas sorprendentes. Mató a dos hijos de Ariel de Moab. También fue tras un león a un pozo en la nieve y lo mató. 21 En otra ocasión mató a un enorme egipcio. El egipcio tenía una lanza en la mano, pero Benaía lo atacó sólo con un garrote. Agarró la lanza de la mano del egipcio y lo mató con su propia lanza. 22 Este fue el tipo de cosas que hizo Benaía y que lo hicieron tan famoso como los tres principales guerreros. 23 Era el más apreciado de los Treinta, aunque no era uno de los Tres. David lo puso a cargo de su guardia personal. 24 Entre los Treinta estaban: Asael, hermano de Joab; Elhanan, hijo de Dodo, de Belén; 25 Sama el harorita; Elica el harodita, 26 Heles el paltita; Ira, hijo de Iques, de Tecoa; 27 Abiezer de Anatot; Mebunai el husatita; 28 Salmón el ahohita; Maharai el netofita; 29 Heleb, hijo de Baná el netofita; Itai, hijo de Ribai, de Guibeá de los benjamitas; 30 Benaía el piratonita; Hidai, de los arroyos de Gaas; 31 Abi-albón el arbateo; Azmavet el baharumita; 32 Eliahba el saalbonita; los hijos de Jasem; Jonatán, 33 hijo de Sage el hararita; Ahiam, hijo de Sarar el ararita; 34 Elifelet, hijo de Ahasbai, hijo del maacateo; Eliam, hijo de Ahitofel, de Gilo, 35 Hezro el carmelita; Paarai el arbita; 36 Igal, hijo de Natán de Soba; Bani el gadita, 37 Selec el amonita; Naharai, el berotita, que era el escudero de Joab, hijo de Servia, 38 Ira de Jatir; Gareb de Jatir, 39 y Urías el hitita, para un total de treinta y siete.
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Abi-albon
Abi-albon the Arbathite, listed among the Thirty.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 23:31; 1 Chronicles 11:32
Abiezer
Abiezer the Anathothite, listed among the Thirty.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 23:27; 1 Chronicles 11:28; 1 Chronicles 27:12
Agee
Called a Hararite and named as the father of Shammah, one of the Three mighty men.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 23:11
Ahasbai
Called a Maacathite and named as the father of Eliphelet, a member of the Thirty.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 23:34
Ahiam
Ahiam son of Sharar the Hararite, listed among the Thirty.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 23:33; 1 Chronicles 11:35
Azmaveth
Azmaveth the Barhumite, listed among the Thirty.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 23:31; 1 Chronicles 11:33
Baanah
Named as the father of Heled, one of David's mighty men.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 23:29; 1 Chronicles 11:30
Bani
Benaiah
Son of Jehoiada from Kabzeel, a man of many exploits who killed two Moabite champions, a lion in a pit and a huge Egyptian, and whom David set over his guard and the Cherethites…
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 8:18; 2 Samuel 20:23; 2 Samuel 23:20
Benaiah
Benaiah the Pirathonite, listed among the Thirty.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 23:30; 1 Chronicles 11:31; 1 Chronicles 27:14
David
The shepherd who became Israel's greatest king and a man after God's own heart.
Cited in the guide: 1 Sam. 16 - 1 Kings 2; 2 Sam. 7; 1 Chron. 2:15; Matt. 1:6
Dodo
Ahohite named as the father of Eleazar, one of the Three; a Dodai the Ahohite commanded David's second-month division (probably the same man).
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 23:9; 1 Chronicles 11:12; 1 Chronicles 27:4
Dodo
Named as the father of Elhanan of Bethlehem, one of David's mighty men.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 23:24; 1 Chronicles 11:26
Eleazar
Son of Dodo the Ahohite and one of the Three, who stood his ground with David against the Philistines at Pas-dammim until his hand stuck to his sword.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 23:9; 2 Samuel 23:10; 1 Chronicles 11:12
Elhanan
Son of Dodo of Bethlehem, listed among the Thirty.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 23:24; 1 Chronicles 11:26
Eliahba
Eliahba the Shaalbonite, listed among the Thirty.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 23:32; 1 Chronicles 11:33
Eliam
Eliam son of Ahithophel the Gilonite, listed among the Thirty.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 23:34
Elika
Elika the Harodite, listed among the Thirty.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 23:25
Eliphelet
Eliphelet son of Ahasbai the Maacathite, listed among the Thirty.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 23:34
Gareb
Gareb the Ithrite, listed among the Thirty.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 23:38; 1 Chronicles 11:40
Heled
Heled son of Baanah the Netophathite, listed among the Thirty.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 23:29; 1 Chronicles 11:30; 1 Chronicles 27:15
Helez
Helez the Paltite, listed among the Thirty.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 23:26; 1 Chronicles 11:27; 1 Chronicles 27:10
Hezro
Hezro the Carmelite, listed among the Thirty.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 23:35; 1 Chronicles 11:37
Hiddai
Hiddai from the brooks of Gaash, listed among the Thirty.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 23:30; 1 Chronicles 11:32
Igal
Igal son of Nathan of Zobah, listed among the Thirty.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 23:36
Ikkesh
Named as the father of Ira, one of David's mighty men.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 23:26; 1 Chronicles 11:28; 1 Chronicles 27:9
Ira
Ira son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, listed among the Thirty.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 23:26; 1 Chronicles 11:28; 1 Chronicles 27:9
Ira
Ira the Ithrite, listed among the Thirty.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 23:38; 1 Chronicles 11:40
Ittai
Ittai son of Ribai from Gibeah of the Benjamites, listed among the Thirty.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 23:29; 1 Chronicles 11:31
Jashen
Named in the list of the Thirty as the father of a group of mighty men (the sons of Jashen).
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 23:32; 1 Chronicles 11:34
Jashobeam
Chief of the officers of David's mighty men, who wielded his spear against three hundred men at one time. 2 Samuel 23:8 calls him Josheb-basshebeth the Tahchemonite and puts the…
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 23:8; 1 Chronicles 11:11
Jehoiada
Named as the father of Benaiah, the commander of the Cherethites and Pelethites.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 8:18; 2 Samuel 23:20; 1 Kings 1:8
Jonathan
Jonathan son of Shammah the Hararite, listed among the Thirty.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 23:32
Maharai
Maharai the Netophathite, listed among the Thirty.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 23:28; 1 Chronicles 11:30; 1 Chronicles 27:13
Naharai
Naharai the Beerothite, the armor-bearer of Joab son of Zeruiah, listed among the Thirty.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 23:37; 1 Chronicles 11:39
Nathan
Named as the father of Igal, a member of the Thirty, with Zobah named beside his name.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 23:36
Paarai
Paarai the Arbite, listed among the Thirty.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 23:35; 1 Chronicles 11:37
Ribai
Named as the father of Ithai of Gibeah of the Benjamites.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 23:29; 1 Chronicles 11:31
Shammah
Son of Agee the Hararite and one of the Three, who took his stand in a field of lentils, defended it and struck down the Philistines, and may be the Shammah the Hararite named…
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 23:11; 2 Samuel 23:12; 2 Samuel 23:33
Shammah
Shammah the Harodite, listed among the Thirty.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 23:25; 1 Chronicles 11:27
Sharar
Called a Hararite and named as the father of Ahiam, a member of the Thirty.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 23:33; 1 Chronicles 11:35
Sibbecai
Sibbecai the Hushathite, who killed Saph, one of the descendants of Rapha, in a battle with the Philistines at Gob. 1 Chronicles 11:29 lists Sibbecai where 2 Samuel 23:27 reads…
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 21:18; 2 Samuel 23:27; 1 Chronicles 11:29
Zalmon
Zalmon the Ahohite, listed among the Thirty.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 23:28; 1 Chronicles 11:29
Zelek
Zelek the Ammonite, listed among the Thirty.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 23:37; 1 Chronicles 11:39
Cross references (38)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 1 Samuel 16:12–13; Psalm 89:20; 2 Samuel 7:8–9; Psalm 78:70–71; Colossians 3:16
- 2 2 Peter 1:21; Matthew 22:43; Mark 12:36; Acts 2:25–31; Hebrews 3:7–8
- 3 Deuteronomy 32:4; Exodus 18:21; 2 Samuel 22:32; Psalm 72:2; Hebrews 1:8
- 4 Judges 5:31; Psalm 72:6; Psalm 89:36; Hosea 6:5; Malachi 4:2
- 5 Isaiah 55:3; Isaiah 9:6–7; 2 Samuel 7:14–16; Jeremiah 32:40; Psalm 89:28–29
- 6 Deuteronomy 13:13; Isaiah 33:12; Ezekiel 2:6; 2 Samuel 20:1; Genesis 3:18
- 7 Hebrews 6:8; 2 Thessalonians 2:8; 2 Thessalonians 1:8; 2 Samuel 22:8–10; Luke 19:27
- 8 1 Chronicles 11:11–47; 1 Chronicles 27:2; 1 Chronicles 27:32
- 9 1 Chronicles 27:4; 1 Chronicles 11:12–14; 1 Samuel 17:26; Numbers 23:7–8; 1 Samuel 17:10
- 10 1 Samuel 19:5; 1 Samuel 11:13; Isaiah 53:12; Joshua 10:42; Joshua 11:8
- 11 1 Chronicles 11:27; 1 Chronicles 11:13–14; 2 Samuel 23:33
- 12 Proverbs 21:31; 2 Samuel 23:10; Psalm 3:8; Psalm 44:2
- 13 2 Samuel 5:18; 1 Samuel 22:1; 1 Chronicles 14:9; Joshua 12:15; Joshua 15:35
- 14 1 Samuel 22:4–5; 1 Samuel 13:4; 1 Samuel 10:5; 1 Chronicles 12:16; 1 Samuel 22:1
- 15 John 4:14; Psalm 42:1–2; Isaiah 44:3; John 4:10; Isaiah 41:17
- 16 Genesis 35:14; 2 Corinthians 5:14; 1 Samuel 7:6; Philippians 2:17; Numbers 28:7
- 17 Leviticus 17:10; Mark 14:24; 1 Samuel 2:30; Judges 5:18; 1 Kings 21:3
- 18 2 Samuel 10:10; 2 Samuel 10:14; 1 Chronicles 11:20–21; 2 Samuel 18:2; 2 Samuel 20:10
- 19 Matthew 13:8; Matthew 13:23; 2 Samuel 23:13; 2 Samuel 23:16; 1 Chronicles 11:25
- 20 Joshua 15:21; 2 Samuel 20:23; 2 Samuel 8:18; 1 Chronicles 11:22–24; 1 Samuel 17:34–37
- 21 Colossians 2:15; 1 Chronicles 11:23; 1 Samuel 17:51
- 23 1 Chronicles 27:6; 2 Samuel 20:23; 1 Samuel 22:14; 2 Samuel 8:8
- 24 2 Samuel 2:18; 1 Chronicles 27:7; 1 Chronicles 11:26
- 25 1 Chronicles 11:27–28; Judges 7:1
- 26 2 Samuel 14:2; 1 Chronicles 27:9–10; 1 Chronicles 11:27–28
- 27 Joshua 21:18; 1 Chronicles 27:12; 1 Chronicles 11:28; 1 Chronicles 11:19
- 28 1 Chronicles 27:13; 2 Kings 25:23; 1 Chronicles 11:30
- 29 1 Chronicles 27:15; Joshua 18:28; 1 Chronicles 11:30–31
- 30 Judges 12:15; Judges 2:9; Judges 12:13; Joshua 24:30; 1 Chronicles 27:14
- 31 2 Samuel 3:16; 1 Chronicles 11:32–33
- 32 1 Chronicles 11:34
- 33 1 Chronicles 11:27; 2 Samuel 23:11; 1 Chronicles 11:35
- 34 2 Samuel 11:3; 2 Samuel 15:12; 2 Samuel 10:6; 2 Samuel 10:8; 1 Chronicles 27:33–34
- 35 1 Chronicles 11:37; Joshua 15:55
- 36 2 Samuel 8:3; 1 Chronicles 11:38
- 37 2 Samuel 4:2; 1 Chronicles 11:39; 1 Chronicles 11:37
- 38 1 Chronicles 2:53; 2 Samuel 20:26; 1 Chronicles 11:40
- 39 2 Samuel 11:3; Matthew 1:6; 2 Samuel 12:9; 1 Kings 15:5; 2 Samuel 11:6–27
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I know, too, that Esau was deceived by a longing for lentiles, and that David took blame to himself for desiring water, and that our King was tempted not by flesh but bread.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
… for Samuel and David, we have it plainly in the Books of the Kingdoms, how by the Holy Ghost they prophesied themselves, and were rulers of the prophets;--and Samuel was called the Seer; and David says distinctly, The Spirit of the Lord spake by me, and in the Psalms, And take not thy Holy Spirit from me, and again, …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
David indeed was, as we know, a holy prophet, king of Israel, son of Jesse: but because out of his seed there came for our salvation after the flesh the Lord Jesus Christ, often under that name He is figured, and David instead of Christ is in a figure set down, because of the origin of the Flesh of the …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)